Scientific Highlights

  • Established the influence of ridges on hydrographic parameters in the Southwest Indian Ocean.
  • Fronts, Water masses and heat content variability in the western Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during austral summer 2004.
  • Oceanic fronts along 45°E across Antarctic Circumpolar Current during austral summer 2004
  • Assessment of sea-ice melting rates in the Antarctica from SSM/I observations
  • Oxygen isotope and salinity variations in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean
  • Established the relation between Sea water pH and planktic foraminiferal abundance.
  • Hydrographic and productivity characteristics along 45° E in the southwestern Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean.
  • The ecology of coccolithophores (including species' absolute abundance) in the water column (0–200 m) along the 45° E meridian south of Madagascar to Antarctica.
  • Stable isotope of oxygen, hydrogen isotope ratios and salinity variations of the surface Southern Indian Ocean waters.
  • Coastal upwelling in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica.
  • Effect of high level iron enrichment on potential nitrogen uptake by marine plankton in the Southern Ocean.
  • Distribution and characteristics of suspended particulate matter in the southern and Indian Oceans.
  • Effect of frontal systems on stable oxygen and carbon isotopic compositions of planktic foraminifera.
  • Microalgal studies using a submersible fluorescence probe in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica.
  • Contrasting pattern in chlorophyll a distribution within the Polar Front.
  • Surface pCO2 and its relationship with nutrients and biological production.
  • Sources and processes influencing the distribution of suspended particulate matter and its elemental chemistry.
  • Inferring microphysical processes occurring in mesoscale convective systems from radar measurements and isotopic analysis.
  • Deciphering the modern calcification depth of Globegerina bullodies in the southwestern Indian Ocean from its oxygen isotopic composition
  • Zonal variability in primary production and nitrogen uptake rates in the southwestern Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean.