TITLE:    Palmer LTER: The first profiles of marine snow aggregate abundnacce
          from Antarctica
AUTHORS:  VL Asper, AR Diercks, DM Karl
Palmer LTER Contribution No. 25

During a recent cruise to the Antarctic Peninsula area
aboard the R/V Polar Duke, we collected the first marine
snow abundance data from Antarctica (figures 1 and 2) using
the noncontact photographic profiling system developed by
Honjo et al. (1984).  These profiles show some of the highest
concentrations of aggregates ever recorded by this system, and
in general, are characterized by relatively low numbers near the 
surface, increasing abundances with depth, and maximum abundances
near the seafloor.