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Change and The Polar Regions: |
Rapid
Cimate Warming Along the
West Antarctic Peninsula:
Ecosystem Response
Dr. Hugh
W. Ducklow
Director, Senior Scientist
The Ecosystems Center
Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, MA
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Ducklow is a biological oceanographer who has been studying
the dynamics of plankton foodwebs in estuaries, the coastal
ocean and the open sea since 1980. Along with a team of students
he has worked principally on microbial foodwebs and the role
of heterotrophic bacteria in the marine carbon cycle. He has
participated in oceanographic cruises in Chesapeake Bay, the
western North Atlantic Ocean, the Bermuda and Hawaii Time
Series stations, the Black Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Ross
Sea, the Southern Ocean, the Equatorial Pacific and the Great
Barrier Reef. Much of the work was done in the decade-long
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), which he led in the
late 1990s. Currently he leads the Palmer Antarctica Long
Term Ecological Research Project on the west Antarctic Peninsula
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Old
Palmer Station was established in 1965 with the current
Palmer Station occupied starting in 1967. The National
Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs in collaboration
with the Division of Environmental Biology designated
Palmer in 1990 as the first polar biome LTER site in the
Southern Hemisphere. Logistics support for all Antarctic
activity of the United States is provided by Raytheon
Polar Services. |
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Video
of Lectures for Week 11
