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Photo: Mike Fedak
• Jan/Feb 2004
• 2 temperature only SRDLs
• 7 prototype SRDL-CTDs
SOUTH GEORGIA DEPLOYMENTS
Temperature sections of seals tagged at Kerguelen, crossing ACC en route to Antarctica
Kerguelen
Elaine McDonagh
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
SR1b - has been occupied annually since 1993 (except for 2 years)
Secure funding until 2012 (except in 2008/2009 season)
A21 section - secure funding - planned for February 2009
CTD, LADCP, oxygen, nutrients, transient tracers, carbon
A10 repeat - secure funding - planned for March 2009
Southern Ocean Box
Box inverse methods
circulation on the boundaries gives estimates of flux divergences and mixing
Brazil Current mooring array
Proposal for funding to be submitted on July 1st
Temperature profiles from
seals tagged at South Georgia
South Africa
South Georgia
Photo: Mike Fedak
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Mike Fedak, Lars Boehme, Martin Biuw (Sea Mammal Research Unit)Mike Fedak, Lars Boehme, Martin Biuw (Sea Mammal Research Unit)
Mike Meredith (BAS).Mike Meredith (BAS).
And the seals don’t mind a bit…..!
Macquarie Island
Heard/Kerguelen
South Georgia
Near-circumpolar distribution of seal trips