The Palmer Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) study area is located to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula extending South and North of the Palmer Basin from onshore to several hundred kilometers off shore. Palmer Station is one of the three United States research stations located in Antarctica. It is on Anvers Island midway down the Antarctic Peninsula at latitude 64.7 South, longitude 64.0 West.
The Palmer LTER studies a polar marine biome with research focused on the Antarctic pelagic marine ecosystem, including sea ice habitats, regional oceanography and terrestrial nesting sites of seabird predators. The Palmer LTER is one of more than 26 LTER research sites located throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Tahiti; each focused on a specific ecosystem, that together constitute the LTER Network.
News from Palmer LTER
Lightning Talk on Palmer LTER Science
PAL PI Dr. Oscar Schofield recently gave a lightning talk on the current status of…
Palmer penguins featured on WHYY’s The Pulse
In April, the podcast series The Pulse from WHYY in Philadelphia featured an episode about…
New Paper: Remote sensing of sea surface glacial meltwater on the Antarctic Peninsula shelf
As the glaciers in Antarctica and especially along the West Antarctic Peninsula melt, it is…
New Paper: Influence of seasonally varying sea-ice concentration and subsurface ocean heat on sea-ice thickness and sea-ice seasonality for a ‘warm-shelf’ region in Antarctica
Do you love 1-D ocean-sea ice models? Then check out the latest paper by Ben,…
New Paper: Krill body size drives particulate organic carbon export in West Antarctica
This week’s issue of Nature includes a new article from PAL LTER team members Rebecca…
New Paper: Depth drives the distribution of microbial ecological functions in the coastal western Antarctic Peninsula
Congrats to Avishek Dutta and the team for their recent paper in Frontiers in Microbiology….
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