[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 100 (Tuesday, May 24, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30203-30204]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-12658]
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Notice of Permit Applications Received Under the Antarctic
Conservation Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-541)
AGENCY: National Science Foundation.
ACTION: Notice of Permit Applications Received under the Antarctic
Conservation Act of 1978, Public Law 95-541.
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SUMMARY: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish
notice of permit applications received to conduct activities regulated
under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published
regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Act at Title 45 Part 670
of the Code of Federal Regulations. This is the required notice of
permit applications received.
DATES: Interested parties are invited to submit written data, comments,
or views with respect to this permit application by June 23, 2011 This
application may be inspected by interested parties at the Permit
Office, address below.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to Permit Office, Room 755,
Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson
Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nadene G. Kennedy at the above address
or (703) 292-7405.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Science Foundation, as directed
by the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-541), as amended
by the Antarctic Science, Tourism and Conservation Act of 1996, has
developed regulations for the establishment of a permit system for
various activities in Antarctica and designation of certain animals and
certain geographic areas a requiring special protection. The
regulations establish such a permit system to designate Antarctic
Specially Protected Areas.
The applications received are as follows:
1. Applicant: Jonathan Thom, Space Science and Engineering Center,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1225 W. Dayton Street, Madison, WI
53706.
Permit Application No. 2012-002.
Activity for Which Permit is Requested: Enter an Antarctic
Specially Protected Area. The applicant plans to enter Cape Hallett
(ASPA 106) to consolidate the two automatic weather stations
(AWS) currently deployed into one station. The two existing stations
will be removed and replaced with one new station. The new AWS will be
installed on a tripod support and will include standard meteorological
instrumentation (wind, pressure, solar radiation, temperature and
relative humidity).
Location: Cape Hallett--ASPA 106.
Dates: November 2, 2011 to January 31, 2012.
1. Applicant: Jo-Ann Mellish, Alaska SeaLife Center, 301 Railway
Avenue, Seward, AK 99664-1329.
Permit Application No. 2012-003.
Activity for Which Permit is Requested: Take and Enter an Antarctic
Specially Protected Area. The applicant plans capture up to a total of
40 Weddell seals (weaned pups through non-pregnant adults) over a two-
year period to collect morphometric measurements, including weighing,
collect blood samples and blubber samples. In addition, a telemetry
pack will be glued to the fur in the mid-dorsal region to record diving
depth, swim speed, ambient temperature and light levels, stomach
temperature, heat flux and skin temperature. Also a stroke frequency
sensor will be glued to the base of the tail. The glued instruments
will be retrieved after approximately a week. Should an instrumented
animal haul out in at Cape Royds (ASPA 121), they will attempt
to usher the animal outside the ASPA before retrieving the instruments.
Despite being an essential physiological component of homoeothermic
life in polar regions, little is known about the energetic requirements
for thermoregulation in
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either air or water for high-latitude seals. Utilizing a two-part study
including a hypothesis-driven field experiment and an objective driven
model component, the applicant will quantify these costs for the
Weddell seal under both ambient air and water conditions. The wide
range of body size (80 kg pups-450 kg adults) and condition (10-45%
total body fat) of these seals makes them an ideal model polar species
to investigate both physiological costs and limitations of
thermoregulation as a function of body mass and isolative properties.
Location: Delbrige Islands, Turtle Rock, Hutton Cliffs, the Erebus
glacier tongue, Turks Head, other suitable areas in McMurdo Sound, and
Cape Royds (ASPA 121).
Dates: October 2, 2011 to January 31, 2013.
Nadene G. Kennedy,
Permit Officer, Office of Polar Programs.
[FR Doc. 2011-12658 Filed 5-23-11; 8:45 am]
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