The United States Antarctic Research Report to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR): Number 32 - 1990 (1991)
Chapter: Permits and Rationale for Entry into SPAs and SSSIs
Permits and Rationale for Entry into Specially Protected Areas (Spas) and Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs)
Investigator(s) | Dates | Area(s) Entered | Rationale |
Polly A. Penhale | 3/1/89-3/1/90 | SPA No. 17 (Litchfield Island) | To document and assess the effects of the Bahia Paraiso fuel spill on plant and animal populations |
William R. Fraser | 11/15/89-3/15/90 | SPA No. 17 (Litchfield Island) | To assess the impacts of the Bahia Paraiso fuel spill on penguins and other seabirds breeding on the island |
Paul K. Dayton James P. Barry | 11/1/89-12/31/89 | SSSI No. 1 (Cape Royds) | To conduct surveys of the mud bottom habitat at Horseshoe Bay, search for rare samples of algae, and collect water samples |
Albert F. Bennett Zoe A. Eppley | 12/10/89-1/30/90 | SSSI No. 14 (Harmony Point, Nelson Island) | To collect sheathbill eggs to study behavioral and physiological adaptation to cold |
Jonathan H. Berg | 11/1/89-2/28/90 | SSSI No. 3 (Barwick Valley) SSSI No. 12 (Taylor Valley) SSSI No. 18 (White Island) SSSI No. 19 (Linnaeus Terrace), SPA No. 5 (Beaufort Island), SPA No. 7 (Cape Hallett) | To collect samples of the lower crust and mantle included in the volcanic rocks in these sites |
Investigator(s) | Dates | Area(s) Entered | Rationale |
David F. Parmalee Jean M. Parmalee | 11/15/89-2/15/90 | SPA No. 17 (Litchfield Island) | To locate and release previously banded birds, do additional banding, and collect salvageable specimens found dead and a few live specimens |
Anne M. Grunow | 12/1/89-1/1/90 | SSSI No. 6 (Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island) | To collect paleomagnetic cores (Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous) to better understand the position of the Antarctic Peninsula during the opening of the Weddell Sea and motion away from South America |
Lowell E. Starr Alan R. Stevens | 11/1/89-1/26/90 | SSSI No. 2 (Arrival Heights, Ross Island), SPA No. 5 (Beaufort Island, Ross Sea), SPA No. 7 (Cape Hallett, Victoria Land) | Geodetic surveying |
Mark D. Kurz | 12/4/89-1/20/91 | SSSI No. 1 (Cape Royds), SSSI No. 4 (Cape Crozier), SSSI No. 19 (Linnaeus Terrace) | To collect rock samples to develop a new method of dating and using cosmic ray-produced nuclides in the rocks |
Stephen L. Burns (National Geographic Society) | 12/15/89-2/15/90 | SSSI No. 8 (Western Shore Admiralty Bay, King George Island), SPA No. 17 (Litchfield Island), SSSI No. 32 (Cape Shirreff) | To take photographs |
