Research Activities

Radon as a proxy for subglacial and groundwater input into the Taylor Valley lakes.

Assessing breeding population genetic structure of Adelie penguins occurring west of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Population genetic structure and gene flow of Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) breeding throughout the western Antarctic Peninsula

Phylogeography of lysianassoid amphipods in the Southern Ocean: investigating the missing link of Eastern Antarctica.

Have we so far only seen the tip of the iceberg? Exploring species diversity and distribution of the giant amphipod Eurythenes

Temperature effects on genetic diversity of cyanobacterial mats from Adelaide Island, Antarctica.

Diversity of toxin and non-toxin containing cyanobacterial mats of meltwater ponds on the Antarctic Peninsula: a pyrosequencing approach

Understanding processes of marine ice formation at the southern McMurdo Ice Shelf.

Marine ice recycling at the southern McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Growth and ageing in Adelie penguin chicks facing different environmental conditions.

Feeding strategies and mechanisms of behavioural and physiological adaptations of penguins to climatic variability: their limitation and impact on population dynamics.

Population genetic assessment of Antarctic krill.

Glacial melting effects on the coastal meiobenthic community at Potter Cove, King George Island: the effect of food availability on meiobenthos respiration and feeding selectivity.

The glacial history of the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet.

Using molecular techniques to study diet in penguins.

Minimising the limitations of using dietary analysis to assess foodweb changes by combining multiple techniques

Antarctic meoplankton identification: a combined molecular and morphological approach.

The meroplankton community of the oceanic Ross Sea during late summer

Provenance of aeolian dust deposited in McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea.

The origin of lithogenic sediment in the south-western Ross Sea and implications for iron fertilization

Feather corticosterone as a measure of post-migratory stress physiology and links to breeding fate.

Costs of reproduction and carry-over effects in breeding albatrosses

Variation in heat shock responses on marine invertebrates of sub-Antarctic Marion Island:effects of acclimation temperature and methodology.

Effects of temperature on heat-shock responses and survival of two species of marine invertebrates from sub-Antarctic Marion Island

West Antarctic Peninsula fjords: benthic community structure and function in climate sensitive systems.

Deep-sea sponges as sediment traps:archiving carbon export using zinc isotopes in spicules.

Silicon isotopes in Antarctic sponges: an interlaboratory comparison

Influence of primary productivity and carbon export on dissolved oxygen in the Ross Shelf sea.

Dissolved oxygen dynamics during a phytoplankton bloom in the Ross Sea polynya

Integration of morphological and molecular techniques to facilitate accurate identification of Southern Ocean brittle stars.

Observations of the ophiuroids from the West Antarctic sector of the Southern Ocean

Sources and the fate of organic carbon in chemosynthetic and other Southern Ocean benthic ecosystems.