Browsing by Author "O'Neill, Tanya Ann"
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Scott Base Redevelopment CEE environmental monitoring report: Year two (December 2019 - January 2020)
(Environmental Research Institute, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2020)An understanding of the soils and the underlying permafrost surrounding Scott Base is important to detect impacts of environmental change or human activities, such as the redevelopment of Scott Base, on the unique soil ... -
Soil and permafrost in the Ross Sea Region of Antarctica: Stable or dynamic?
(Universidad de La Rioja, 2016)Soils in the Ross Sea Region of Antarctica generally comprise a surface desert pavement and a seasonally thawed active layer over permafrost. Most soils are formed on regolith such as glacial till or colluvium. Mean annual ... -
Soil physical impacts and recovery rates following human-induced disturbances in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica
(University of Waikato, 2013)With increasing visitor numbers an understanding of the impacts of human activities on Antarctic soil environments has become an important issue. The overall objective of this thesis was to investigate soil physical ... -
Soil priorities for Antarctica
(Elsevier BV, 2022)While most of Antarctica is covered by ice sheets, a small part of the continent is permanently ice-free, sometimes for millions of years, where soils developed. Ice-free regions represent about 0.44% of the total area of ... -
Visual recovery of desert pavement surfaces following impacts from vehicle and foot traffic in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)Sites of past human activity were investigated to assess the visual recovery of the desert pavement following impacts from human trampling and vehicle traffic. Visually disturbed and nearby control sites were assessed using ...
