Diversity, Distribution and Relative Abundance of Marine Mammals, Penguins and Seabirds from South America to McMurdo Sound during the 2006 Transit of the Icebreaker Oden.

2006年12月中下旬，瑞典破冰船ODEN从南美沿着南大洋的季节性海冰边缘前往麦克默多站，在此期间，该项目将采用系统的距离采样方法，记录鳍足类、鲸类、海鸟和企鹅的多样性、分布和相对丰度。该项目将把呼吸空气的海洋脊椎动物动物群的生态数据与其他船载研究项目收集的生物和物理海洋学数据，以及地转流、海冰特征、海平面高度、海面温度和叶绿素浓度的遥感数据联系起来。在这次考察中收集的数据还将与以前沿着南极半岛进行的研究以及最近在别令斯豪森、阿蒙森和罗斯海不同地区进行的研究考察所得的区域生物学和海洋学数据进行比较。

This project will document the diversity, distribution and relative abundance of pinnipeds, cetaceans, seabirds, and penguins using systematic distance sampling methods during the transit of the Swedish icebreaker ODEN from South American along the seasonal sea ice edge of the Southern Ocean to McMurdo station in mid- to late December 2006. The project will correlate the ecological data for the air-breathing marine vertebrate fauna with biological and physical oceanographic data collected by other ship-based research projects, and with remotely-sensed data on geostrophic currents, sea ice characteristics, sea level height, sea-surface temperature and chlorophyll concentration. The data collected during this expedition will also be compared with regional biological and oceanographic data available from previous studies conducted along the Antarctic Peninsula and recent research expeditions to various areas in the Bellingshausen, Amundsen, and Ross Seas.