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SUMMARY:Extending our knowledge into the Past: The rescue\, reanalysis and
  accessibility of historic plankton data from the Discovery Investigations
  1925-1951 - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20100415T110000Z
DTEND:20100415T113000Z
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CONTACT:Sophie Fielding
DESCRIPTION:The Discovery Investigations were a series of cruises commissi
 oned by the Royal Society over the period 1925-1951. Originally with the a
 im of investigating whale stocks and their feeding grounds the cruises con
 stituted some of the earliest comprehensive scientific work in the Souther
 n Ocean. The investigations totalled thousands of stations involving coord
 inated sampling that contributed enormously to our understanding\, describ
 ing the Antarctic convergence and the importance of krill as food for whal
 es. Despite their significance most of the original ecological data used i
 n the synthesis of the Discovery Reports is not available to the scientifi
 c community with much of the collections having become separated and dispa
 rate over the past decades. As a result this unique data is missing from a
 ny detailed comparisons between historic and modern ecological Southern Oc
 ean analysis. \nIn collaboration with the Natural History Museum and the N
 ational Oceanography Centre\, BAS are addressing this through two main obj
 ectives:  (1) the production of a free single web based data portal\, prov
 iding the user with access to original raw data rescued from the archived 
 collections\; and (2) illustrate the value of the historic raw data by usi
 ng it to help answer important questions about Southern Ocean plankton eco
 logy. \nThis talk will explain the problems faced and how they are being o
 vercome\, along with a look at the potential scientific questions we hope 
 to help answer through this project.\n
LOCATION:British Antarctic Survey\, Room 307
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