PALMER LTER
TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR BRIEFING BOOK FOR 1994 SITE REVIEW 

I.  Introduction 					  	page 1
A.  Palmer Long-Term Ecological Research Project (LTER)   	page 1
B.  Ecosystem description:  physical environment and food web  	page 2
C.  Conceptual Model and General Approach			page 11

II.  Description of Research					page 13
A.  Remote sensing and environmental optics			page 13
B.  Microbial loop						page 17
C.  Phytoplnkton physiology, pigment abundance, primary prod.  	page 22
D.  Secondary production					page 28
E.  Seabird ecology and vertebrate predators			page 35
F.  Modeling or regionalization					page 37

III.  Relationship of research to the five core areas		page 40
Core area 1.  Pattern and control of primary production		page 40
Core area 2.  Spatial and temporal distributs. of populations 
   selected torepresent trophic structure			page 41
Core area 3.  Pattern and control of organic matter 
   accumulation in surface layers and sediments			page 44
Core area 4.  Patterns of inorganic inputs and movements of
 nutrients through soils, groundwater, and surface waters  	page 45
Core area 5.  Patterns and frequency of disturbance to the 
 research site							page 46

IV.  Data management						page 47

V.  Educational							page 52
A.  Graduate student thesis topics				page 52
B.  REU activities in years 2 and 3				page 59

VI.  Evidence of historical literature being considered and
 incorporated; intersite and network activities; leadership,
 management and organization					page 60
A.  Nature and scope section and tbl of contents from AGU vol.  page 60
B.  LTER Coordinating Commit. mtngs, All Sci. Meetings		page 64
C.  Organization						page 65
D.  International interactions					page 66

VII.  Related research projects					page 67
A.  The Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program (AMLR)  	page 67
B.  The Impacts of Tourism on Wildlife Populations at Palmer	page 68
C.  Icecolors II, 1993						page 68
D.  Energetics of adult and larval Euphausia superba (krill)  	page 69
E.  Program for International Polar Oceans Research (PIPOR)  	page 70
F.  Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) on the Antarctic 
    Marine Ecosystem: Microbiology and carbon flux		page 71

VIII. Site description, structures and facilities		page 71

IX.   Natl and internatl presentations on PAL LTER research  	page 72

X.    Literature cited						page 74

XI.   PAL LTER Publication list					page 85

XII.  Biographical sketches					page 90