By R. M. Laws (auth.), Prof. Walter R. Siegfried, Dr. Pat R. Condy, Dr. Richard M. Laws (eds.)

It is a excitement and a different honour for me to greet the individuals, site visitors and ob­ servers of this Fourth overseas Symposium on Antarctic Biology which has followed nutrient cycles and foodstuff webs as its important topic. On behalf of the clinical Committee on Antarctic learn (SCAR) and different our bodies of the overseas Council of clinical Unions (ICSU), I bid you welcome. SCAR is happy to recognize the position of the co-sponsors for this Symposium which come with the clinical Committee on Oceanic learn (SCOR), the Interna­ tional organization of organic Oceanography (IABO), and the overseas Union of organic Sciences (IUBS). furthermore, SCAR and its co-sponsors desire to recognize the monetary help of the Council for medical and business Re­ seek (CSIR) and the dep. of delivery (DOT) of the South African govern­ ment. Nor may still we fail to remember to recognize additionally the position of the South African clinical Committee on Antarctic study (SASCAR) and one in every of its leaders and vice chairman of SCAR, Mr. Jan de Wit, in arranging this captivating venue for this Symposium.

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At Stations AG 9-11 this depleted surface layer concentration increases over a sharp gradient to a midwater maximum lying between 200 and 500 m. Below this depth the concentration falls close to the level of 15 nmol kg- 1 with a slight increase with depth. The vertical distribution shows close similarities with that of phosphate above 1000 m and silicate below this depth. Work carried out in the Pacific Ocean has shown a good correlation between Zn and silicate (Bruland 1980; Bruland et al. 1978).

Chemical data for seawater sampled at four stations in the Southern Ocean during February-March 1981 in the Atlantic-Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean Station no. 70 Marine Biological and Oceanographical Investigations in Liitzow-Holm Bay, Antarctica M. FUKUCHI, A. TANIMURA, and H. OHTSUKA 1 Summary. Routine samples of water and plankton were taken at 5 stations on fast-ice near Syowa Station (69° 00 1 S, 39° 35 1 E) in the eastern part of Liitzow-Holm Bay, Antarctica. Sampling was carried out at 2-3 week intervals during 13 months between January 1982 and January 1983, excluding February 1982.

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