Volume 4, Number 3, Winter 1996 Antarctic Zooplankton: A look
into the future Luiz F. L. Fernandes Antarctic Slope Front
Water: In the transition zone between the ocean and shelf
regions of the Antarctic Seong Joong Kim Ocean heat transport
across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current A look into the future
Luiz F.L. Fernandes Everything started on a trip to the Southern
Ocean in the Austral Summer of 1992. There we went-John Wormuth,
Marilyn Yeager and I-with a ton of equipment on board NOAA's R/V
Surveyor as a part of the United States Antarctic Marine Living
Resources Program. This program was designed to test whether or
not the distribution of krill is affected by both physical and
biological aspects of their habitats, and if krill predators
respond to changes in the availability of their food. One of our
objectives within this program was to use our net system, the
Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System
(MOCNESS), to obtain information not only on krill, but also on
the other zooplankt