| On December 2001 the Argentinean Naval Service of Research and Development participated in the LMG01-9 expedition to Antarctic Peninsula, which was part of the Antarctic Program of the National Science Foundation of the USA for 2001. The inclusion of a SENID researcher, in the role of scientific national observer, on board the icebreaker R/V Lawrence M. Gould enabled our institute access to additional at-sea measurements. The main purposes of the expedition were primarily focused in two research projects from foreign institutes which were out of the scope of local interests. However, in-situ measurements led also to valuable information on temperature, salinity, bathymetry, vectorial current velocity obtained with an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler... |
