Radioactive Materials-1999-00 Plans
 

Section XIII of the 1999-00 season plans lists the radioactive materials to be used and provides information regarding their form, nuclide, site, and specific use.


PROJECT

NUCLIDE

FORM

SITE

USE

BO-004-O

14C

3H

14C - bicarbonate

3H - Leucine Thymidine

McMurdo Station

Metabolic studies of microscopic algae in permanent ice and snow

BP-016-O

14C

14C - Sodium bicarbonate

Palmer Station;

R/V LAURENCE M. GOULD

Palmer Station/LM GOULD:  LTER on the Antarctic Marine Ecosystem:  An Ice Dominated Environment - Phytoplankton Ecology Component

BO-025-O

14C

3H

14C - Bicarbonate

3H - Thymidine

McMurdo Station/Dry Valleys

McMurdo Dry Valleys:  A Cold Desert Ecosystem

BM-042-O

14C

14C - Sodium bicarbonate

McMurdo Station

Investigations of Dry Valley Soil Nematodes

BM-042-P

14C

14C - Bicarbonate

McMurdo Station/Dry Valleys

 

McMurdo Dry Valleys:  A Cold Desert Ecosystem

BO-044-O

14C

3H

14C - Sodium Bicarbonate

3H - Thymidine

3H - Leucine

3H - Acetate

3H - Amino Acid Mix

McMurdo Station/Dry Valleys

Metabolic studies microbial communities in the permanent ice covers on lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys

BP-046-O

3H

14C

3H - Leucine

14C - Sodium Bicarbonate

 

R/V LAURENCE M. GOULD; R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER

LTER:  Microbiology and carbon flux

BO-200-O

3H

14C

3H - Leucine

3H - Thymidine

3H - Uridine

14C - Bicarbonate

Palmer Station

Determination of bacteria plankton response to UV radiation in the Weddell Sea and Palmer Station LTER grid.

OO-257-O

63Ni

63Ni - Foil or Plated source

South Pole Station

South Pole Monitoring for Climatic Change:

U.S. Department of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory  (Source is inside an electron capture detector of a gas chromatograph)

BO-267-O

3H

 

3H - Water

 

Cape Shirreff; Livingston Island

To determine the energetic costs and benefits of different foraging patterns of South Shetland Antarctic fur seals off of Cape Shirreff and Livingston Island

BO-301-O

35S

14C

32P

33P

3H

35S - Methionine

14C - Amino Acids

32P - Nucleic Acids

33P - Nucleic Acids

3H - Amino Acid

McMurdo Station

Metabolic studies of various Antarctic organisms

BO-310-O

3H

3H - Thymidine

McMurdo Station

Determination of Dry Valley Lake Organisms

BO-313-O

35S

35S - Sulfur

R/V LAURENCE M. GOULD

Determination of Southern Ocean Sulfate Bacteria

SGS-NZ

192Ir

192Ir - Iridium

         Sealed Source

McMurdo Station

Fuel Tank Weld Testing

 

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