Palmer Long-Term Ecological Research (PAL-LTER)

Overview

Data Links

Cruise 92-09, November 1992, R/V Polar Duke
Cruise 93-01, January 1993, R/V Polar Duke
Cruise 93-02, March 1993, R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer
Cruise 93-07, August 1993, R/V Polar Duke
Cruise 94-01, January 1994, R/V Polar Duke
Cruise 95-01, January 1995, R/V Polar Duke
Cruise 96-01, January 1996, R/V Polar Duke
Cruise 97-01, January 1997, R/V Polar Duke
Cruise 98-01, January 1998, R/V Lawrence M. Gould
Cruise 99-01, January 1999, R/V Lawrence M. Gould
Cruise 99-06, June 1999, R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer
Cruise 00-01, January 2000, R/V Lawrence M. Gould
Cruise 01-01, January 2001, R/V Lawrence M. Gould
Cruise 01-05, September 2001, R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer
Cruise 02-01, January 2002, R/V Lawrence M. Gould
Bottom-moored Sediment Traps

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LTER Palmer Station
U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research Network (LTERnet)

PAL-LTER Winter cruise
R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer
June 1999

The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project was a multidisciplinary, multi-investigator program to investigate ecosystem dynamics in Antarctica. A central tenet of the PAL-LTER project was that the annual advance and retreat of sea ice is a major physical determinant of spatial and temporal variability and change in the antarctic marine ecosystem from total annual primary and export production to breeding success in seabirds. Numerous interrelated hypotheses were currently under investigation. PAL-LTER was one of 18 separate LTER programs around the globe with common research objectives, methods and scientific motivations.