Palmer Station Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) R/V Polar Duke Annual Cruise Data, January/February 1997

Data was collected during the Austral summer LTER time-series R/V Polar Duke cruise. The cruise was cruise carried out in several sections with repeated sampling of inshore stations, gridline 500, spatial transect line 550, gridline 600, pickets 3.7 and 10km, zodiacs, high density grid HD1 twice, gridlines 400, 300, spatial transect gridline 250, gridline 200, Marguerite Bay and Tickle Passage sampling, station visits to British Rothera and Ukranian Vernadski, as well as Inshore South/Darbel Bay and Crystal Sound, transect and North/Grandidier and Lemaire sampling. The LTER worked with an NSF funded educational program "Live from Antarctica" filming crew onboard and participated in a broadcast.