XIII. Radioactive Materials

Section XIII of the 2004-2005 season plans lists the radioactive materials to be used and provides information regarding their form, nuclide, site, and specific use.

PROJECT	NUCLIDE	FORM	SITE	USE
BG-232-O	3H	3H – Water	R/V Laurence M. Gould	Foraging Ecology of Crabeater Seals
BG-235-O	3H 14 C	3H – Thymidine 14C – Sodium Bicarbonate	R/V Laurence M. Gould	Winter Distribution and Activities of Sea Ice Microbial Communities in the Western Antarctic Peninsula Region
BG-246-O	14C	14C – Sodium Bicarbonate	R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer	Winter Ecology of Larval Krill: Quantifying Their Interaction With The Pack Ice Habitat
BP-016-O	14C	14C - Sodium Bicarbonate	Palmer Station, R/V Laurence M. Gould	Palmer, Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research Project: Climate Migration, Ecological Response, and Teleconnections in an Ice-Dominated Environment (Phytoplankton Group)
BP-045-O	3H	3H – Water	Palmer Station R/V Laurence M. Gould	Palmer, Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research Project: Climate Migration, Ecological Response, and Teleconnections in an Ice-Dominated Environment
BO-179-O	3H	3H - Leucine	Palmer Station	Gene Expression in Extreme Environments: Extending Microarray Technology to Understand Life at its Limits. Field Season 2002-2003
BO-001-O	14C	14C - Sodium Bicarbonate	McMurdo Station	Function and Chemical Nature of Ice-active Substances Associated with Sea Ice Diatoms
BO-005-O	14C 3H	14C – Sodium Bicarbonate 3H- Leucine	McMurdo Station	Antifreeze Proteins in Antarctic Fishes
BO-006-O	14C 3H 35S	14C - Alanine 14C - Leucine 14C - ATP 3H - Uridine 3H - Lysine 35S - Methionine	McMurdo Station	Energetics of Protein Metabolism During Development of Antarctic Echinoderms
BO-047-O	14C	14C – Sodium Bicarbonate	McMurdo Station, US Coast Guard Polar Sea	Interannual Variability in the Antarctic Ross Sea: Nutrient Fields and Seasonal Productivity II
BO-134-O	35S	35S – Amino Acid Mixture	McMurdo Station	Evolutionary Loss of Heat Shock Response In Antarctic Fishes
BM-042-P	14C 3H	14C – Bicarbonate/ Carbonate 3H - Thymidine	McMurdo Station/Dry Valleys	The Role of Natural Legacy on Ecosystem Function and Structure in a Polar Desert
BM-042-W	14C	14C - Sodium Bicarbonate	McMurdo Station	McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER
OO-257-O	63Ni	63Ni - Foil or Plated source	South Pole Station	South Pole Monitoring for Climatic Change: U.S. Department of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (Source is inside an electron capture detector of a gas chromatograph)