TITLE:    Palmer LTER: Dissolved silicic acid-nitrate relationships during
          austral autumn 1993
AUTHOR:   Terrence Houlihan and David M Karl
Palmer LTER Contribution #26
ANJ 1993  V28(5) pg 219-221

The study of biogeochemical processes in representative antarctic marine
ecosystems is a high-priority scientific objective of the U.S. Joint Global
Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) program (Anderson 1993).  Carbon and bioelement
(especially silica) fluxes in the Southern Ocean are significant on global
scales but are, at present, poorly constrained due to undersampling.
Consequently, we are unable to construct accurate coupled
physical-biogeochemical models and to predict the response of the Southern
Ocean to global environmental change.