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Vita EDO at West Frederick Middle School International Night
The Vita EDO team will be at the West Frederick Middle School International Night event, a night dedicated to the diversity of students in the community. The event will take place from 6 – 8 at Frederick High School on Thursday, April 11. All individuals are welcome to come for free! Get great international food, see entertaining concerts, and much more. Don't forget to stop by the Vita EDO booth to get some free swag and learn more about the company!


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Eric Hamber is celebrating its rich athletic history with a week of alumni tournaments in various sports for all former students from May 13th to May 16th. Dust off your Converse high-tops, dig your badminton raquet out of the garage and pull your vintage school clothing off the shelf to participate in some fun activities at your old High School.
Eric Hamber Gymnasium is dedicated to Nora McDermott and Bruce Ashdown who is coming to support these coaches and teachers on Friday. Please register for Friday on this website to get invovled with the Hamber 50th Event.
The alumni athletics week will wrap-up with adult refreshments in the cafeteria on May 17th. Join Eric Hamber's former and current teachers, staff, and students as they reminisce about the golden years of Hamber Athletics.
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It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all back to Griffin Country for the 50th Anniversary Alumni Basketball Tournament Wednesday May 15th.
Attached is the tournament schedule. Please read over the attached schedule and information. Please click here to download the schdeule.
Team Captains:
Pleas forward the schedule to all of your teammates. You are responsible for making sure they arrive to your games. This was not forwarded on to all participants. Pleas inform your fellow teammates and grads.
Each player should bring a dark and light shirt . We encourage you bring your old retro-gear (If it still fits).
Clothing: We will have some clothing for sale. Bring some cash if you are interested in picking up some retro Hamber SWAG.
MAY 5th is the final deadline for registration for the alumni basketball event.
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Apologizing is both an Art and a Science. The Science is the list of elements that when merged will form the "perfect" apology. The Art, on the other hand, deals with the surrounding components, that make an apology more relevant, effective and successful.
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DEESIDE College is holding a taster evening next Wednesday for all students interested in taking A-levels.
Parents are welcome to go along as well to meet the principal and have a tour of the college.
The sessions, from 5-8pm will allow students to sample up to five subjects.
Deeside College students have achieved an average 99% pass rate in all A-level subjects for the last five years.
Many have also successfully complete the Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate.
This offers an additional 120 UCAS points, the equivalent of an A grade at A level, which has helped many gain places in their first choice universities.
Deeside College principal, David Jones, said, "We now offer an even wider range of courses for students to consider following their GCSEs.
"This A-level Taster Evening is an ideal opportunity for students and their parents to find out whether A-levels are right for them, and the evening will also help them decide on subject options too.
"Whether it's A-levels or vocational courses, Deeside College offers a "one stop-shop" with the broadest range of options and the best inspection results in the region."
Subject tutors will be available on the evening, and Careers Wales and Student Services advisers with course information and financial advice.


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Resource articles
Reinforcing social media and cellphone policies
Key points for social medical and cellphone polices to reinforce.
Reinforcing social media and cellphone policies
Inappropriate contact through social media and unauthorized cellphone communications, such as texting, can often lead to allegations of abuse.
Laptop safety
Guidelines for protecting your laptop from theft.
Using email securely
Steps to protect your PC assets from potential harm.
Managing your organization's cyber security
Steps to manage the risks that come with the expanding opportunities technology offers.


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Savarez 540J Alliance/HT Classic HT Classical Guitar Strings, Full Set
By: Bo Hwan Wang Date Added: 12/14/2009These are great strings. They have bright sound, but they might be a little too bright for some spruce guitars (only if you prefer mellower sound like me). I saw some cedars guitars sounding great with theses strings. The strings are a little thinner and I haven't really experienced much intonation problem (some carbon fiber strings do have intonation problems).


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I feel like I'm part of three families – my dental team, my patients, and my own! And all three positive relationships greatly enhance my life in different ways. The journey just wouldn't be the same without you by my side!
In this blog, I'm going to give you a peek into my family life.
I'm married to my loving husband, Jake Betts. We met at our church's Mardi Gras party. We have five incredible children: Jacob (23), Emily and Marilyn (both are 14), Rosemary (12), and Renee (10). Three are adopted from the Philippines. All our kids are active and imaginative.
Jacob is a graduate of Marvin Ridge High School and East Carolina University. The rest of our kids go to Marvin Ridge schools too and I'm really happy that Braces By Bird is able to sponsor them!
Although it sounds cliché, each moment we spend together is truly special. I'm sure you understand as it's the same with you and your family!
We have a ball at the beach, boating, and traveling. We celebrate every holiday … and that means "pumpkin spice" anything! Actually, all holiday-themed foods make our bellies happy. Our photo album of memories keeps on growing!
I'm also lucky to have fun with them … I like watching Emily play soccer, doing art projects with Marilyn, and playing games with Renee and Rosemary! Jacob is "all grown up," and we enjoy valuable mother and son time whenever we can.
There's nothing like watching your little ones develop into young adults. It's breathtaking (and a little scary!), but being able to influence and guide them along the way is something I treasure. I'm still hoping one of them decides to be a dentist!
As you can tell, family is very important to us.
In my next blog … you'll get to meet our furry friends, Otto and Henry!


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The latest newsletter for the Clarence Valley Country Muster is available now.
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2019 Artist Lineup
We are excited to announce the Artist Lineup for the 2019 Clarence Valley Country Muster.
Be sure to come and experience the friendly atmosphere and watch the artists showcase their talents.
Check out the Artist page to find out more information about the performing artists.
2019 Headline Artist
We are excited to announce that Adam Harvey will be returning to the Clarence Valley Country Muster in 2019 as the headline artist!
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Summary: Houston based Dousic Media Group (DMG) announced that its Dousic Music Application will be available to Samsung customers through the Galaxy Store in the North America region initially and subsequently on a global basis.
Dousic is an interactive streaming and radio social platform that engages users with a diverse discovery experience. Within the Dousic community, Indie Artists and Creators can personalize and monetize their products.
Dousic's members will be able to distribute their creative content, on Samsung mobile phones.
"We went to the SXSW Austin TX convention in March this year, with a firm belief that our new Dousic Music App was an industry game changer. We were fortunate enough to showcase the App to Samsung at SXSW and we are extremely pleased to now have our App included in the Galaxy Store", stated Michael Ferguson, DMG's VP.
"We created Dousic for those Indie musicians who still believe you can't break through as an Independent. We want to destroy this myth. Our goal is to be the highest paying streaming platform currently available for Indie artists. We want to give back control to listeners of what they hear. We aim to inspire them to play, listen and support their favourite Artist(s) or just connect with friends no matter where they are globally", said Brian Moore, DMG's CEO,
"We're making it easy for users to discover Dousic via the Samsung Galaxy Store, helping Indie Artists and radio stations to expand their fanbase universally." Moore added.
Indie Artists now have a place where they can upload their songs directly onto a platform, which can be streamed and played on radio, giving them total control of their brands, as well as providing them a direct vehicle to monetize their art.
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McLaren will showcase the 570GT Commemorative Edition and the 720S at the upcoming Auto Shanghai from 19 – 28 April. The new McLaren 720S makes it first appearance in China in Performance specification, finished for the first time in a striking combination of Saros exterior paint color and Jet Black/Xenon Yellow leather interior with visible carbon fiber Monocage II structure.
The 720S also takes up a carbon fiber roof panel, rear bumper and door sills that further enhance the extreme sporting intent of McLaren's second-generation Super Series, with bonnet inlets, mirror casings, rear fender air intakes and front splitter in the same material.
At the other corner, the 570GT Commemorative Edition has been created to mark three years of McLaren sales success in China. Luxurious and refined, with a side-opening rear glass hatch offering an additional 220 liters of storage on the leather-lined Touring Deck, the 570GT is the ideal starting point for a special celebration model; designed with a focus on day-to-day usability and long distance comfort, it also provides the scintillating performance expected of a McLaren.
Pacific Blue in color, the original launch color for the GT, the three identical Commemorative Edition cars feature a Jet Black and Areia (cream) luxury Nappa leather-trimmed By McLaren Design interior. The rear luggage area of the car is finished in the same material, and carpets are color-matched in Areia. A Carbon Black leather steering wheel and Carbon Black seat belts contrast with the light leather and complement the Jet Black fascia and door trim, while additional features above the usual 570GT specification include Bowers & Wilkins 12 Speaker audio system, vehicle nose lift and a rear-view camera.
To further enhance the visual drama of the car, the rear bumper and wing, door skirt and front splitter and blade are carbon fiber components by McLaren Special Operations and the lightweight forged alloy wheels and exhausts are in Stealth finish.
In addition to the new 720S and the 570GT Commemorative Edition, the McLaren 570S will also be displayed on the McLaren stand. McLaren cars can be ordered in China through any of ten McLaren retailers, in Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Changsha, Tianjin, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Shenyang.
McLaren China will begin taking orders for the new McLaren 720S as Auto Shanghai commences, with the first customer cars arriving in July.


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Offering a personal service with one point of contact.
We're an established, family-owned agency committed to property management for the long haul.
Here are 10 other reasons to choose us as your property managers…
Your Property Manager Really Knows Your Property.
You have one point of contact by your assigned property manager. They do open homes through to bond inspections – it is their job to know your property inside/out and get to know your tenants too. In fact, getting to know tenants when they do a property inspection is a great first interview for any potential tenant – we make note of type of car, how the tenant presents themselves, how respectful they are, how children behave in the home and how prompt they were…
Manager Availability
We pride ourselves on being available when you need us.
No surprise fees!
Our fee structure is all inclusive and we don't charge extra for the end of financial year tax statement – that's free of charge whilst we manage property.
Strict on our Rental Arrears
We collect rent via Direct Debit to ensure ease of payment for tenant. We check daily and follow up immediately with any tenant as soon as they are 1 day in arrears.
Consistent Inspections
We conduct 4 inspections per year as part of our Management fee. That includes doing a 4 week inspection after the tenant first moves in to ensure they're settling in well and looking after your property.
We use Modern Technology
Initiatives such as our Online booking system allows potential tenants to book a viewing of your home 24/7, minimising vacancy rates. It also allows us to provide you with instantaneous feedback from the open home via email and/or SMS.
A Member of TICA
TICA is a national tenancy database for bad tenants. We're one of three agencies in Launceston that are a member, allowing us to screen any applicants from interstate that may have lied/omitted information on their rental application and have actually caused damage or not paid rent at a previous rental. This adds to our already careful tenant selection which means we've only ever been to court twice in 80 years to evict a tenant! Also we don't charge you extra to represent you in court like some agents do.
Smaller Portfolio Sizes
Our property managers care for approx. 170 properties with the support of an assistant – some larger companies have over 250 properties per PM.
We Guarantee our Service
This means if you're not happy with us, you can cancel our Management agreement without penalty.
If you want to move from another agency, we'll even look after that for you too free of charge!
Weekly Training
This ensures our PMs are knowledgeable and current with all legislation to provide you with the best advice in the industry.
If you'd like to find out more about how Woolcock Partners will remove the stress of owning a rental property,


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Welcome to Ronald Fletcher Baker LLP. We are a firm of solicitors based in London's West End, the City of London and Manchester. Established in 1984, Ronald Fletcher Baker LLP has been providing its full range of legal services nationally and internationally for over 50 years.
We know that our client's have built our reputation and as such we centre every aspect of our work on our client's experience. Foremost in achieving this are our three fundamental tenets to always be professional, responsive and competitive.
Services for you: The firm acts for mainly individuals, families, owner-managed business and corporate investors many of whom are based overseas. We work hard to understand what you want to achieve when providing advice in our specialist fields which include dispute resolution, family, property, will, trusts and probate and immigration.
Services for your business: We also represents a wide variety of national and international companies. We build long-terms relationships with our corporate clients when taking the time to understand the businesses core and strategy. Our range of specialist fields include mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, commercial disputes, commercial property, human resources, corporate immigration and intellectual property.
Our focus is to build lasting relationships by delivering effective, simplified and quality services to our clients on a transparent, personal and cost-effective basis. We are a team that are proud in our belief that we are unique in our approach; we adopt a personal yet professional approach to our clients, always accessible and ready to translate any complex legal issued into clear and understandable language.
The firm has been listed in the Legal 500 over a number of years with a large number of its lawyers being recommended. The Legal 500 says that Ronald Fletcher Baker LLP has 'excellent teams that are dynamic and result-driven; very able' and 'effective, impressive, painstaking and accurate' as well as 'pleasant to deal with; fantastic' with its lawyers being 'clever and commercial; extremely thorough and dependable' and as having 'a keen eye for the commerciality of a settlement'.


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Category Archives: Events
Tots to Teens Local Food Drive Collection Through Christmas 2017
Everyone at Tots to Teens is ready for the holidays, are you?
One of our FAVORITE things to do this time of year is to collect food for a local food pantry, making baskets, and delivering them to local families in need. If you'd like to help us and contribute non-perishables such as canned goods, we're accepting food donations up to Christmas. Bring your donations right to our office in Holmdel, NJ and we'll make sure to get it to those who need it most.
Thank you for helping us make the holidays brighter!
You Have A BIG Decision To Make On Saturday, September 27!
There's not only ONE, but TWO town celebrations happening on Saturday, September 27th: Middletown Day and Hazlet Day Fall Festival! So get ready for a full afternoon of FAMILY FUN! Tots To Teens will have a table at BOTH events, so stop by to say hi between 12pm and 6pm at:
Croyden Hall
900 Leonardville Road, Leonardo, NJ
(NO rain date)
OR stop by between 11am and 5pm at:
Veterans Memorial Park
1776 Union Avenue, Hazlet, NJ
(Rain date for this location is September 28th)
At both locations we'll be playing corn hole, giving away fun surprises including a TERRIFIC basket raffle, and don't miss our dental puppets that teach the little ones how to brush! Do you have questions about your child's dental care or braces? Just ask us, and we'll be happy to give you all the information you need.
Look forward to seeing you there!
SAVE THE DATE: September 28, 2014 Charity Cornhole Tournament At McDonagh's Pub - Keyport, NJ
Tots To Teens is so proud to be one of the sponsors supporting a Cornhole Tournament Fundraiser on September 28, 2014, to help raise money for family's touched by cancer. The tournament will be hosted at McDonagh's Pub in Keyport, NJ, and was started in memory of Linda Lowther who will be remembered by family and friends for her brave and hard fought battle with cancer before passing in 2013.
We hope you can join us to support those in our community fighting this disease. The directions and phone number for the event at McDonagh's Pub are below:
Phone: Call Forever Hope at 732-977-6655


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The Las Vegas 51s is a professional baseball team from Las Vegas, Nevada currently playing in the Minor League Baseball. The 51s were known as the Las Vegas Stars previously and at the moment; they are affiliated to the Toronto Blue Jays in the Triple-A category. The team plays in the Southern Division of the Pacific Conference in the Pacific Coast League and has been playing there since 1983.
The Las Vegas 51s derives their name from the infamous Area 51 of the US Secret Service and moreover, the insignia on the cap, showing the image of a grey alien is also derived from the belief that the base at Area 51 houses aliens.
The home stadium of the team is the Cashman Field, which has been home to the 51s since they moved to Las Vegas as the Stars in 1983. The Las Vegas 51s has had affiliations with three top teams of the Major League including the San Diego Padres, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Blue Jays. The Las Vegas 51s has won the Pacific Coast League on two occasions and it has won the division on 8 occasions in its history after making the move to Las Vegas.
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BTL Insurance - First Time landlord? What's the difference between Loss of Rent and Rent Guarantee Cover?
There's a lot for Landlords to consider when purchasing a property to let out.
Like any property you should have buildings insurance and this will be compulsory where you are having a mortgage. You will need specialist landlord insurance. If you take out normal residential buildings insurance this will not be valid in the event of a claim. If you buy a flat the buildings insurance is likely to be arranged by the landlord and you will need to ensure that this covers flats to be let to tenants and any restrictions they may have on the type of tenants you can let to.
You have to decide whether you also need Landlords Contents Insurance for any furniture, white goods, carpets/flooring or curtains which belong to you.
Then there's considering whether to select optional covers such as Accidental Damage, Malicious Damage or Theft by Tenant.
When obtaining quotes you are also likely that you will see the following two optional covers; Loss of Rent and Rent Guarantee. Whilst the names are similar, the financial protection they offer cover different circumstances. We've summarised what these two elements of cover generally offer, and why you may choose to add them to your policy for an additional premium.
Loss of Rent
The rent received from your tenant is usually an income you rely upon or require to cover mortgage payments and its important that this comes in regularly.
Unfortunately there are many ways in which payments may not be paid. Eg, if a fire made the premises uninhabitable or it was damaged in a storm or flood, your tenants may be forced to move themselves, at least temporarily. However, Loss of Rent Insurance can help cover you in such a situation. If it is not possible for you to rent the premises because the property is uninhabitable due to an insured incident then you can make a claim for the shortfall in the rental income (subject to the policy conditions).
Rent Guarantee
No matter how carefully you vet your tenants, problems with unpaid rent can still happen. If your tenants stop paying rent then you may need to evict them, while at the same time keeping up with your monthly mortgage payments.
Rent Guarantee Insurance pays the unpaid rent while your tenants or ex-tenants are still in your property. Depending on your insurance provider you may also be covered for:-
- the costs of repossessing the property.
- Partial rent whilst (for a period set out in the policy) undertaking necessary repairs when the tenant has vacated.
(subject to the policy conditions)
You may need to check the policy as some require the policy to be taken out prior to the tenancy agreement starting if any claim within the first 90 days of the policy commencement date is to be met.
So which optional cover do I need?
If you're worried about the financial impact of lost rental income following an insured event, then consider taking out Loss of Rent cover.
If you're worried about tenants or ex-tenants not paying rent, then consider taking out Rent Guarantee cover.
If in doubt you should speak with an insurance broker.
If you are looking to buy your first property to let out or add to your existing portfolio contact us for a free no obligation quotation
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City-Level Smart Surveillance Company, Terminus, Addresses China's Aging Population
A Chinese AIoT company transformed a quiet neighbourhood of Beijing into an intelligent community backed by AI-powered surveillance systems all around the block.
In September 2017, a Chinese AIoT (Artificial Intelligence + IoT application) company transformed a quiet and idle neighbourhood of Beijing into an intelligent community backed by Artificial Intelligence powered surveillance systems all around the block.
It took one week for the company, Terminus (特斯联), to gather and collect all the necessary data about residents within the community and implement a neighbourhood-level smart surveillance system to track every one of the residents' movements, activities and potential health-related problems within the community.
"The surveillance system does not rely on physical personnel to track and control the camera system. But instead, since the system recognises every one of the residents' faces, it gives a notice to the community officer if some of the residents had some problems, such as falling down or not going out of his/her house for more than 24 hours. These notices are delivered to the officer by stating the address, name and health conditions of the resident" Xie Chao (谢超) the VP of Terminus stated.
Terminus's business model is 2B and 2G (to Government); Chinese Government and several companies are using its population and individual tracking systems for numerous application scenarios. The company have tried 2C revenue generation models as well; such as selling smart lock systems and various face recognition supported security systems for households. However, there is a considerable competition within 2C market and Terminus could not manage to be one of the outstanding ones.
However, Terminus found the success in 2G and 2B models mainly focusing on the municipalities, massive real estate and smart city projects. Xie Zhao stated that Terminus's orders have already exceeded CNY 1 billion.
Indeed; company, neighbourhood and municipality level solutions provided by Terminus are welcomed solutions in China. Based on data provided by Terminus website, the company is currently operating in 70 cities of China with 8,400 total projects.
Terminus possesses strong and tight relationships with local governments in China. Indeed, its population control, individual-based tracking, face and vehicle recognition solutions are highly implementable in various public security scenarios. However, what Terminus have done to transform the neighbourhood where seniors live in Beijing's Haidian, tells us about the future implementations and scalability of the Company's solutions.
Terminus's solutions saved a considerable number of personnel' efforts who regularly control and inspect the general conditions of the seniors living in the neighbourhood. If the Chinese scale considered, the potential economic benefit that will be coming with smarter neighbourhoods is tremendous.
China will face a severe ageing population problem within the 21st century, and there will be a necessity of transforming the entire infrastructure accordingly. Any solution that is addressing the problem in a mass scale, will likely to be adopted by the government and the municipalities in the long term.
Market capacity and service scalability of Terminus is significantly appropriate for further implementations and sizeable operational capacity increase.


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Over the course of an annual cycle, the sea ice that forms on the surface of polar oceans extends over an area of 15-22 × 106 km2. This enormous surface area ranks sea ice as one of the most expansive ecosystems on Earth, covering approximately 4.1–6.1% of the surface area of the global ocean (Arrigo, 2014). Much of this ice is found in the Southern Hemisphere, expanding in size around the continent of Antarctica from a minimum extent of 3 × 106 km2 in February to a maximum area of 19 × 106 km2 in September. Sea ice ecosystems are home to a diverse community of bacteria, archaea, microalgae, protists, and metazoan grazers within the numerous microhabitats that are formed during its lifetime.
Sea ice microbial communities grow best in microhabitats that are in close proximity to seawater nutrients and receive enough light for net microalgal photosynthesis. Microhabitats within Antarctic pack ice inhabited by ice microalgae include surface melt ponds, slush (melted or flooded snow at the surface of the ice), gap layers, internal ice, and bottom ice (Legendre et al., 1992). Surface ponds form either when snowmelt collects in discrete ponds on the surface of relatively flat ice (melt ponds) or when the ice surface is forced below the freeboard level due to ice rafting or snow loading and becomes flooded with seawater (deformation ponds). While melt ponds usually contain relatively little biomass owing to their low nutrient concentrations, deformation ponds can support high algal biomass (Garrison et al., 2003). Internal layers of relatively solid undeformed ice are generally the most inhospitable habitats for microbial life in sea ice. While these layers often receive ample light, they can be very cold with brine salinities too high for microalgal growth (Arrigo and Sullivan, 1992) and brine volumes too low for adequate nutrient exchange (Golden et al., 1998, 2007; Garrison et al., 2003). When the skeletal layer (the actively growing region at the base of growing sea ice) is present, bottom ice is often the most biologically productive sea ice habitat owing to its ubiquity, proximity to seawater nutrients, and mild temperature and salinity gradients (Grossi et al., 1987).
Sea ice communities are responsible for a small but important fraction of total primary production in Southern Ocean waters (Arrigo et al., 1997, 2008; Lizotte, 2001). They provide food for protists, ctenophores, annelids, and a variety of crustaceans, including copepods and euphausiids (Garrison and Buck, 1989; Daly, 1990; Gowing and Garrison, 1992; Guglielmo et al., 2007; Kiko et al., 2008; Caron and Gast, 2010). In particular, high krill densities have been observed beneath the ice throughout the year as they feed on microalgae within and at the base of the sea ice (Flores et al., 2011, 2012).
As the sea ice melts, the microbial community is rapidly released as a large pulse into surface waters (Grossi et al., 1987; Suzuki et al., 2001; Juul-Pedersen et al., 2008). Some of the algal cells can provide seed stock for phytoplankton blooms at the receding ice edge (Haecky et al., 1998; Mangoni et al., 2009). Much of the remaining biomass is eaten by pelagic grazers as it sinks through the water column (Brown and Belt, 2012). Ice algal food is rich in polyunsaturated and other essential fatty acids (McMahon et al., 2006; Søreide et al., 2010) that are necessary for zooplankton growth and reproduction. Uneaten ice microalgae can settle on the seafloor and are consumed by benthic invertebrates (Ratkova and Wassmann, 2005; Boetius et al., 2013). Ice microalgae are often enriched in 13C relative to pelagic phytoplankton (Rau et al., 1991) and their 13C signatures have been used to assess the proportion of sea ice microalgae in the diet of benthic invertebrates (Wing et al., 2012).
Although the number of observations of sea ice microbial communities has increased in recent years, there are still large areas around the Antarctic for which few samples are available. These include the south Pacific and south Indian oceans and the Amundsen Sea (Meiners et al., 2012). Here we present results of a study of sea ice algal biomass and physiology along a 17-station transect from the Amundsen Sea to the Ross Sea (Figure 1). The focus of the study was to assess spatial variability in ice algal biomass and determine what factors control their distributions. We were also interested in investigating how ice algal physiology varied in different microhabitats within the ice, in part to better understand how this fragile ecosystem might respond to future changes in sea ice conditions.
Samples were collected from the Swedish icebreaker Oden along a roughly zonal transect extending from approximately 100°W to 166°E (Figure 1). Sea ice was sampled between 16 December 2010 and 10 January 2011 by deployment of personnel directly onto the ice pack. Sea ice samples were obtained using a SIPRE corer (0.076 m interior diameter). Ice cores longer than 0.2 m were sectioned at 0.1 to 0.2 m intervals and each segment was placed in individual labeled polyethylene bags. Slush and surface ponds were sampled by scooping a known volume into 4 L dark polyethelene containers and processed immediately upon return to the ship.
All sea ice samples were stored in a thermally insulated cooler until they could be processed. Once onboard (within 1 h of collection) a sufficient quantity of 0.2 µm-filtered seawater was added to each ice core section to maintain salinity > 28 (to minimize osmotic shock to the microbial community), and the samples were allowed to melt in the dark (< 24 hr) prior to further analysis. No seawater was added to surface pond or slush samples. The exact quantity of seawater added to the ice sections was recorded so that concentrations of solutes could be corrected to their undiluted values. Comparison of stored samples with samples that were processed immediately after collection showed that there was little change in physiology or pigment composition resulting from this treatment. Water column samples were collected from 1–2 m below the bottom of the ice using a bilge pump.
Before drilling ice cores, snow thickness was measured by inserting a ruler through the snow to the snow/ice interface. At least four holes (usually spaced 1 m apart) were drilled at each sea ice station for determination of sea ice thickness. A tape measure attached to the center of a brass rod was inserted into each hole, and the tape was pulled tight until the brass rod held securely to the bottom sea ice surface. The thickness was then read off the tape measure at the snow/ice interface. The mean ice and snow thickness for each station was calculated by averaging the thickness at all core locations at that station.
The temperature of each ice core section was measured by inserting the tip of a digital temperature probe (Corning Science Products) approximately 0.01 m into the ice. The reading was taken after the temperature had stabilized (ca. 10 s). Sea ice salinity for each core section was measured using a refractometer (accuracy 1 ppt) after ice core sections had melted and were corrected for seawater dilution.
Samples for fluorometric analysis of chlorophyll a (Chl a) were filtered onto 25 mm Whatman GF/F filters (nominal pore size 0.7 µm), placed in 5 mL of 90% acetone, and extracted in the dark at 3ºC for 24 hrs. Chl a was measured fluorometrically (Holm-Hansen et al., 1965) using a Turner 10-AU fluorometer (Turner Designs, Inc.). The fluorometer was calibrated using a pure Chl a standard (Sigma). For samples of relatively high biomass, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis of pigment composition, including chlorophylls, phaeopigments, and carotenoids, was performed using the method of Wright et al. (1991) as described in DiTullio and Smith (1996).
Fluorometric Chl a concentrations generally exceed those measured by HPLC by ∼ 50%. Because we only conducted HPLC analyses on a subset of the total samples, all Chl a concentrations reported here were measured fluorometrically. Pigment ratios, however, were determined from HPLC data.
Particulate organic carbon (POC) and nitrogen (PON) samples were collected by filtering water onto pre-combusted (450°C for 4 hrs) 25 mm Whatman GF/F filters. Filter blanks were produced by passing ∼50 ml of 0.2 µm filtered seawater through a GF/F. All filters were then immediately dried at 60°C and stored dry until analysis. Prior to analysis, samples and blanks were fumed with concentrated HCl, dried at 60°C and packed into tin capsules (Costech Analytical Technologies, Inc.) for elemental analysis on a Elementar Vario EL Cube (Elementar Analysensysteme GmbH, Hanau, Germany) interfaced to a PDZ Europa 20–20 isotope ratio mass spectrometer (Sercon Ltd., Cheshire, UK). Standards included peach leaves and glutamic acid. The stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes of POC and PON in high biomass samples were simultaneously measured using the elemental analyzer and mass spectrometer system. Isotopic compositions were calibrated against the NBS-21 and IAEA-N1 standards that were run before and after each set of analyses. Isotopic reproducibility was on the order of 0.11‰.
Photosynthesis versus irradiance (P-E) relationships for microalgae released from their sea ice matrix were determined using a modification of the 14C-bicarbonate technique of Lewis and Smith (1983) as described by Arrigo et al. (2010a). Microalgae were inoculated with 0.925 MBq 14C-bicarbonate and each 2 ml aliquot was exposed to one of 20 irradiances ranging from <1 to >500 µmol photons m2 s-1 for one hour at 0.0±0.5°C. The DIC concentration used to calculate C-uptake rates was measured as described in Tortell et al. (2012). The photosynthetic parameters P*m (maximum photosynthetic rate, mg C mg-1 Chl a hr-1) and α* (photosynthetic efficiency, mg C mg-1 Chl a hr-1 (µmol photons m-2 s-1) -1) were calculated by normalizing uptake rates to fluorometric Chl a concentration; values were estimated from a fit of P-E data to the equation of Platt et al. (1980). The photoacclimation index (Ek, µmol photons m-2 s-1) was calculated as P*m/α*.
The particle absorption coefficient (ap) from 300 to 800 nm was determined spectrophotometrically (Perkin Elmer Lambda 18 with a RSA-PE-18 integrating sphere) on fresh samples by collecting particles onto a 25 mm filter (Whatman GF/F) and measuring its optical density relative to a blank reference filter. Spectral absorption coefficients were calculated as described in Mitchell (1990). Following measurement of ap, sample filters were extracted in 90% methanol and re-measured to yield detrital absorption (ad). Microalgal absorption (aph) was determined by difference as aph = ap – ad. Chl a-specific microalgal absorption (aph*) was calculated as aph/Chl a, where Chl a was determined fluorometrically.
Although light levels within and beneath the ice were not measured during this project, the potential light environment for each microhabitat was characterized by calculating a light index based on the amount of overlying sea ice and snow. Because snow attenuates light approximately 10-fold higher than sea ice, a simple metric was produced wherein the light index was set to 1/(10 · snow thickness + ice thickness). For interior communities, only the amount of ice above the community (rather than total ice thickness) was used in the calculation. Based on this simple metric, microhabitats were classified from high to low light as surface pond, slush, high light interior ice, low light interior ice, bottom ice, under-ice high light, and under-ice low light.
Snow thickness varied considerably throughout the study region, averaging 0.30 ± 0.24 m. Snow cover along our transect ranged from virtually snow free conditions in a few locations to snow cover as thick as 0.82 m (Table 1). In general, snow was thickest along the eastern section of the transect, averaging 0.42 ± 0.22 m, and much thinner to the west of 130°W (0.08 ± 0.07 m). There was no apparent relationship between ice thickness and snow thickness for the stations we sampled. Six of the 17 stations sampled (2, 3, 27, 30, 31, and 41) had slush layers between the snow and ice. These stations had the thickest snow cover, suggesting that slush formation was primarily due to surface flooding as the thick snow cover forced the surface of the ice below freeboard.
|Snow depth
|Ice depth
|Depth of maximum biomass
|Chl a
|(°E or °W)
|(mg m-2)
|(mg m-2)
|(mg m-2)
|16 Dec 2010
|4.3 (1.5)
|17 Dec 2010
|-0.91 (0.27)
|4.2 (2.5)
|18 Dec 2010
|-1.35 (0.55)
|4.3 (1.7)
|19 Dec 2010
|-1.27 (0.24)
|7.7 (2.8)
|20 Dec 2010
|-1.92 (0.25)
|8.4 (1.4)
|21 Dec 2010
|-1.23 (0.23)
|8.0 (1.3)
|24 Dec 2010
|-1.30 (0.18)
|4.7 (2.7)
|26 Dec 2010
|-1.58 (0.21)
|4.5 (1.9)
|27 Dec 2010
|-1.43 (0.07)
|5.2 (1.8)
|29 Dec 2010
|-1.29 (0.06)
|4.7 (0.9)
|30 Dec 2010
|-1.60 (0.13)
|4.9 (1.0)
|2 Jan 2011
|-0.23 (0.13)
|3.6 (1.5)
|3 Jan 2011
|-1.10 (0.16)
|3.3 (1.6)
|4 Jan 2011
|-0.87 (0.40)
|3.7 (1.0)
|6 Jan 2011
|-1.64 (0.37)
|4.9 (1.2)
|8 Jan 2011
|-4.50 (0.61)
|3.9 (2.1)
|10 Jan 2011
|-1.58 (0.39)
|3.8 (1.7)
Most of the sea ice sampled during this study was first year ice that ranged in thickness from 0.65 m to 2.26 m (Table 1) and averaged 1.47 ± 0.76 m. The lone exception was at station 42, located along the eastern side of the Ross Ice Shelf, where multiyear ice nearly 4 m thick was observed. Ice thickness increased from 0.66 m along the northern ice edge (station 1) to 1.31 m at the interior of the pack (station 4), in conjunction with the increase in sea ice concentration (Figure 1). However, within the interior of the ice pack, there was no apparent spatial pattern in sea ice thickness distribution.
Due to our sampling in early summer, the ice pack was largely isothermal and near the freezing point of seawater at the time of sampling, with the vertically-averaged ice core temperature at all but one station ranging from –0.23°C to –1.92°C (Table 1). The single exception was at the multiyear ice station 42 where the vertically-averaged temperature of this extremely thick ice was substantially colder at –4.50°C. The skeletal layer was generally but not always present.
The bulk salinity of sea ice sampled during our study averaged 5.07 ± 1.61, with significantly higher salinity on the eastern portion of the transect. East of 130°W, bulk salinity averaged 5.70 ± 1.66, while to the west, bulk salinity averaged only 3.90 ± 0.54. There was no significant relationship between mean bulk sea ice salinity and either temperature, snow thickness, or sea ice thickness at a given station.
The salinity of surface ponds, which were generally less than 0.2 m deep, averaged 20.0 ± 2.8. Slush layers were approximately 0.05 m thick with a mean bulk salinity of 26.3 ± 7.3. These relatively high salinities compared to bulk sea ice salinity suggest that seawater was infiltrating the surface of the ice, due either to surface flooding or percolation through the ice. Temperatures of both melt ponds and slush layers were just above the freezing point.
Depth-integrated Chl a biomass in sea ice ranged from 1.80 to 72.2 mg m-2 during our study, averaging 17.3 ± 17.8 mg m-2 (Table 1). The highest values were concentrated in the region of the Amundsen Sea between 113°W and 118°W (Figure 1, Table 1). Interestingly, depth-integrated Chl a was significantly positively correlated with snow depth (Figure 2a) but not with the ratio of snow depth:ice thickness (not shown), with the four stations with the highest algal biomass also having the thickest snow cover (Table 1). Thicker snow was also associated with the depth of the microalgal biomass maximum that was nearer the sea ice surface (Table 1). There was no apparent relationship between sea ice thickness and Chl a biomass (Figure 2b).
The mean depth-integrated POC within the sea ice during our study was 2041 ± 687 mg m-2. Total POC varied from 822 mg m-2 in the thin ice at the northern ice edge to 3211 mg m-2 in the interior of the pack at station 4 (Table 1), which also had the highest depth-integrated Chl a concentration. POC was positively, but non-linearly, correlated with Chl a (Figure 3a), rising rapidly at Chl a values below 20 mg m-2 and then rising more slowly at higher levels of Chl a. Unlike Chl a, depth-integrated POC exhibited no statistically significant relationship with either snow depth (Figure 2c) or ice thickness (Figure 2d).
The depth-integrated POC/Chl a ratio averaged 214.1 ± 191 (g:g) throughout the study region. Values ranged from 44.5 at station 4, where the ice algal bloom was most intense, to 852 at station 43, which had very low Chl a accumulation despite a moderate amount of POC. The POC/Chl a ratio was significantly negatively correlated with snow depth (Figure 2e) but exhibited no apparent relationship with sea ice thickness (Figure 2f).
Depth-integrated PON averaged 266 ± 151 mg m-2 in our study area, ranging from 97.1 mg m-2 at the northern ice edge to 599 mg m-2 at station 4 within the interior of the ice pack (Table 1). Depth-integrated PON was highly correlated with POC (Figure 3b), with the POC/PON ratio averaging 8.72 ± 2.76 within our study region. Like Chl a, PON was positively correlated with snow depth but exhibited no statistically significant relationship with ice thickness. Because of the positive correlation between snow depth and PON, the POC/PON ratio was significantly negatively correlated with snow depth (Figure 2g) and exhibited no relationship with ice thickness (Figure 2h).
Many assays used to characterize algal physiology require an ample supply of algal biomass to produce a measurable biological signal. Because algal biomass is often heterogeneously distributed within an individual sea ice core, we could best measure algal pigments and physiological properties on those sections of each ice core that had a sufficient amount of algal biomass. Therefore, the values reported below do not reflect averages over the entire core, but are indicative of values in microhabitats where ice microalgae were most prevalent. In descending order of incident light intensity (estimated as described in the methods), the microhabitats sampled in this study include surface pond, slush, high light interior ice, low light interior ice, bottom ice, under-ice high light, and under-ice low light. The stations used to quantify algal pigment ratios and physiology in each microhabitat are given in Table 2.
|Chl a
|Fuco:Chl a
|(DD + DT):Chl a
|19-Hex:Chl a
|(mg m-3)
|(mg -3)
|Surface pond
|31.1, 32, 33
|105.0 (115.9)
|6.37 (8.15)
|0.191 (0.155)
|0.301 (0.094)
|0.198 (0.187)
|Surface slush
|1, 2, 27, 30, 31, 41
|19.5 (24.5)
|1.33 (3.79)
|0.404 (0.247)
|0.150 (0.042)
|0.277 (0.088)
|High light interior ice
|1, 3, 5, 10, 31, 31.1, 33, 41
|34.1 (45.7)
|0.83 (1.16)
|0.405 (0.402)
|0.039 (0)
|0.189 (0.218)
|Low light interior ice
|4, 20, 25, 27
|111.2 (127.2)
|4.35 (6.79)
|0.670 (0.142)
|0.074 (0.051)
|0.092 (0.060)
|Bottom ice
|2, 30, 32
|31.5 (22.6)
|1.74 (1.91)
|0.836 (0.211)
|0.081 (0.047)
|0.014 (0.019)
|Under-ice water, high light
|10, 30, 32, 33
|2.5 (4.1)
|0.21 (0.09)
|0.344 (0.090)
|0.069 (0.049)
|Under-ice water, low light
|25, 27, 31
|2.2 (2.6)
|0.36 (0.28)
|0.453 (0.122)
|0.076 (0.018)
|0.053 (0.036)
The concentration of Chl a associated with microalgal blooms in sea ice microhabitats was greatest in deformation ponds (105 ± 116 mg m-3) and within the low light interior ice (111 ± 127 mg m-3) (Table 2). Surprisingly, Chl a concentrations were substantially lower in the bottom ice and in slush associated with surface flooding (20–30 mg Chl a m-3), two habitats that typically support high microalgal biomass. Maximum Chl a concentrations in sea ice were more than 40-fold higher than Chl a concentrations measured in the under-ice water (2.2–2.5 mg m-3). The concentrations of both phaeopigments (fluorometry) and the sum of Chl a allomer and epimer, chlorophyllide a, monovinyl-chlorophyllide a, pheophorbide a and pheophytin a (HPLC) in sea ice habitats were generally 2–8% of Chl a concentrations, indicating that little degradation of Chl a had taken place by the time of sampling.
Fucoxanthin (Fuco), a photosynthetic accessory pigment associated primarily with diatoms in sea ice, varied markedly within the various microhabitats when normalized by Chl a concentration (Table 2). Consistent with the role of fucoxanthin in light harvesting, the Fuco/Chl a ratio was highest in low light environments such as the bottom ice and low light interior ice (Table 2). The lowest Fuco/Chl a ratios were measured in deformation ponds and in high light under-ice environments.
The concentration of the xanthophyll cycle pigments diatoxanthin (DT) and diadinoxanthin (DD), which are used by microalgae for photoprotection against excessive irradiance, were also measured in the sea ice (Table 2). In contrast to the photosynthetic pigment fucoxanthin, the ratio (g:g) of DD+DT to Chl a was greatly elevated in the environments with the highest light levels, including deformation ponds (0.30) and slush layers (0.15). Interior ice and bottom ice, as well as at the under-ice water column, all exhibited relatively low (DD + DT)/Chl a ratios ranging from 0.04 to 0.08 (Table 2).
Finally, the photosynthetic accessory pigment 19′-hexanoyloxyfucoxanthin (19-Hex), which has been confirmed microscopically to be an effective marker pigment in the Southern Ocean to identify Phaeocystis antarctica in both the water column and the sea ice (Arrigo et al., 1999, 2002, 2003), also varied considerably with sea ice habitat (Table 2). The 19-Hex/Chl a ratio (g:g) was highest in microhabitats within the upper ice, such as deformation ponds, slush layers, and high light interior ice, and lowest in bottom ice. This vertical pattern suggests that Phaeocystis antarctica grows best in regions of the ice that receive the most light.
POC concentrations ranged from an average of 1354 ± 869 mg m-3 in ice algal blooms associated with bottom ice to 9304 ± 5811 mg m-3 in ice algal blooms associated with deformation ponds (Table 3). These values are 13–90-fold higher than POC concentrations measured in the under-ice water column. PON showed a similar vertical distribution, with bloom concentrations being greatest in both low light interior ice (1179 mg m-3) and deformation ponds (1032 mg m-3) and lowest in bottom ice (210 mg m-3). Like both Chl a and POC, bloom values for PON in sea ice were substantially higher (6 to 33-fold) than in the under-ice water column.
|(mg m-3)
|(mg m-3)
|Surface pond
|9304 (5811)
|-14.3 (1.6)
|1032 (528.0)
|3.44 (1.11)
|Surface slush
|1921 (1501)
|-19.2 (2.6)
|280.7 (224.0)
|2.57 (1.41)
|High light interior ice
|2674 (2085)
|-21.8 (2.3)
|290.7 (178.3)
|1.66 (2.02)
|Low light interior ice
|6442 (7641)
|-19.3 (1.3)
|1179 (1169)
|1.16 (1.45)
|Bottom ice
|1354 (869)
|-20.9 (1.8)
|210.1 (111.2)
|2.13 (0.59)
|Under-ice, high light
|64.6 (7.8)
|-22.4 (2.3)
|27.2 (22.0)
|-1.86 (1.28)
|Under-ice, low light
|139.0 (120.6)
|-20.3 (4.8)
|43.9 (24.0)
|0.54 (1.58)
POC/PON ratios in sea ice algal blooms ranged from 5.5 to 9.2 (Table 3) and tended to be higher in high light environments located closer to the sea ice surface (e.g., surface pond, slush, and high light interior). Values in sea ice were much greater than those measured in the under-ice water column (POC/PON = 2.4–3.2).
δ13C of particulate matter in sea ice ranged from -21.8 to -14.3 ‰. 13C enrichment of POC was significantly positively correlated with POC concentration (Figure 4), indicating higher levels of enrichment at higher levels of ice algal biomass. There was no such correlation between δ15N of particulate matter and algal biomass, although 15N was significantly enriched in sea ice environments compared to the under-ice water column (Table 3).
Maximum light-saturated photosynthetic rates (P*m) among the sea ice microhabitats were greatest in the slush layers, bottom ice, and deformation ponds and lowest in interior ice (Table 4). Maximum values for P*m in sea ice were not as high as those measured in the under-ice water column, the latter of which were also more highly variable. Photosynthetic efficiency (α*) was highest in the bottom ice, exceeding values in other sea ice habitats by a factor of 3–10. Values for α* in both the high light and low light interior ice were by far the lowest of any habitat sampled. The photoacclimation parameter Ek varied from 20 to 96 µmol photons m-2 s-1 and was highest in habitats nearer the sea ice surface and declined with depth within the ice (Table 4). The highest values for Ek in the sea ice were greater than the highest values measured in the under-ice water column.
|Blue:Red peak
|MAA peak
|Surface pond
|1.02 (0.17)
|0.016 (0.005)
|66.9 (23.9)
|2.39 (0.19)
|0.145 (0.073)
|Surface slush
|1.68 (1.66)
|0.017 (0.014)
|95.8 (58.4)
|2.06 (0.27)
|0.070 (0.053)
|High light interior ice
|0.07 (0.04)
|0.003 (0.003)
|27.7 (21.2)
|1.90 (0.40)
|0.032 (0.013)
|Low light interior ice
|0.23 (0.14)
|0.007 (0.006)
|36.7 (8.7)
|1.58 (0.02)
|0.029 (0.014)
|Bottom ice
|2.02 (0.46)
|0.019 (0.020)
|Under-ice, high light
|3.19 (2.93)
|0.039 (0.032)
|78.7 (28.5)
|2.43 (0.46)
|0.032 (0.013)
|Under-ice, low light
|0.60 (0.35)
|0.013 (0.007)
|44.7 (20.6)
|2.19 (0.27)
|0.029 (0.014)
The ratio of the magnitude of the algal absorption peaks at blue (e.g., 443 nm) and red (e.g., 676 nm) wavelengths provides an indication of the level of pigment packaging, which increases with larger microalgal cell size and higher intracellular Chl a concentration (Morel and Bricaud, 1981). Lower blue/red absorption ratios indicate a greater level of pigment packaging (Figure 5a, Table 4). Within the sea ice, blue/red absorption ratios were lowest in the interior ice and highest in the surface communities (slush and deformation ponds), with values very similar to those measured in the under-ice water column (Table 4). Interestingly, the blue/red ratio in the bottom ice fell between these two extremes.
Absorption peaks at ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths varied markedly within the sea ice (Table 4), suggesting differential production of mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) by the microbial community. MAA absorption was generally low in bottom ice and in both low light and high light interior ice communities, ranging from approximately 0.02–0.03 m2 mg-1 Chl a (Figure 5b, Table 4). In surface slush layers, MAA absorption was 3–4-fold higher than elsewhere in the ice, averaging 0.070 ± 0.053 m2 mg-1 Chl a. The highest MAA absorption values were measured in deformation ponds (Figure 5c), which exceeded values in the slush layer by a factor of two and values elsewhere in the ice by nearly a factor of five (Table 4).
The mean microalgal biomass in sea ice within our study region (17.3 ± 17.8 mg Chl a m-2), which consisted primarily of stations sampled in the Amundsen Sea during summer, was comparable to the circumpolar summer mean (12.9 ± 16.5 mg Chl a m-2) calculated from historical data in the Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate (ASPeCt)-Bio database (Meiners et al., 2012). Like the ASPeCt-Bio database, peak Chl a biomass during our study was distributed in microhabitats throughout the ice column. However, in the AntarcASPeCt – Biology (ASPeCt-Bio) database, surface, internal, and bottom microhabitats contained approximately equal fractions of total depth-integrated Chl a. This pattern contrasts with our study in which bottom communities were well developed in only 18% of the stations sampled, while surface and interior ice communities were well developed at 53% and 71% of stations, respectively (some stations had multiple communities so the percentages sum to > 100%). In this respect, vertical distributions of Chl a observed in our study share a greater similarity with those measured in the Ross Sea, where surface and interior communities also were relatively more abundant than bottom communities (Meiners et al., 2012). It is possible that, because the Amundsen Sea is aggregated with the Bellingshausen Sea in the ASPeCt-Bio database, the vertical distributions of Chl a are being skewed by the large number of samples near the Antarctic Peninsula, which may differ from those in the Amundsen and Ross Seas. In addition, the ASPeCt-Bio database includes data from all months of the year, while our study was conducted in summer, so some temporal bias may have been introduced in the comparison.
Snow depth appears critical in determining both the depth-integrated Chl a (higher with deeper snow) and distribution (dominance of slush communities in deeper snow) of ice microalgae. This observation is almost certainly a reflection of the impact of snow loading on nutrient availability via surface flooding rather than its impact on light availability, since more snow leads to reduced light levels (Perovich, 1990; Arrigo et al., 1997; Saenz and Arrigo, 2012). Low snow and a high freeboard means that the greatest nutrients can be found down at the ice/water interface, while heavy snow depresses the freeboard and causes flooding/nutrient renewal near the ice surface. Such surface flooding occurs over 15–30% of the ice pack in Antarctica (Wadhams et al., 1987).
These results are consistent with model results that demonstrate the importance of snow loading and surface flooding to the development and maintenance of high algal biomass in surface communities (Saenz and Arrigo, 2012; Saenz and Arrigo, in press). However, our results for the Amundsen Sea contrast with previous observations from the Ross Sea, which showed higher microalgal biomass at lower snow thicknesses (Arrigo et al., 2003). The difference between the two studies is likely explained by the lower snow accumulation in the Ross Sea, which rarely exceeded 0.1 m (Arrigo et al., 2003) and was unlikely to depress the surface of the ice below freeboard and cause surface flooding. In contrast, flooded sea ice in the Amundsen Sea during our study had snow accumulations of 0.3–0.8 m (Table 1) and well developed slush and surface pond communities associated with relatively high salinities, indicative of flooding. Thus, snow accumulation appears to be detrimental to algal growth due to light attenuation (as demonstrated in the Ross Sea) until it becomes sufficiently heavy to cause flooding, at which point the detrimental effect of reduced light would be more than compensated for by the advantage of nutrient renewal. Concurrent measurements of nutrient resupply and microalgal parameters would confirm this scenario.
Our results support previous observations showing that microalgal biomass in the ice is much greater and more highly concentrated than in the under-ice water column below (Garrison et al., 1990; Legendre et al., 1992; Arrigo et al., 2003). As a result, microhabitats within sea ice represent an important food source during those times of year when pelagic production is still low. Given the seasonal importance of sea ice biology, factors that control the amount of biomass within the ice can have a profound impact on other parts of the marine ecosystem (Arrigo et al., 2010b). For example, models predict that in the future there will be increased precipitation in the Southern Ocean resulting in greater snow cover on sea ice (e.g., Sarmiento et al., 1998). Our results suggest that such a change in forcing could increase the amount of algal biomass within the ice by enhancing nutrient supplies via surface flooding. This effect might be especially important in places like the Ross Sea where snow depths are currently too low to promote surface flooding.
The photosynthetic rates of sea ice microalgae are controlled by a combination of sea ice temperature, brine salinity, and light and nutrient availability (Arrigo and Sullivan, 1992). At the time of our study, the sea ice was almost isothermal, so differences in sea ice temperature and brine salinity were likely having little impact on the spatial variability of sea ice microalgal physiological state. Therefore, the differences in elemental composition, pigment content, and photosynthetic parameters that we observed for sea ice microalgae were likely driven almost exclusively by vertical and horizontal gradients in light or nutrient availability.
For example, the POC/Chl a ratio in sea ice was lower at stations with a thicker snow cover (Figure 2e), indicative of microalgae increasing their cellular pigment concentrations in an effort to harvest more of the available light (Moisan and Mitchell, 1999; Kropuenske et al., 2009). Although the magnitude of these ratios suggests that the samples contained some detritus, complicating a possible physiological interpretation, the non-linear relationship observed between POC and Chl a is consistent with a photoacclimation response to reduced light levels (Figure 3a). As microalgal biomass (e.g., POC) increased, light availability was reduced due to self-shading, and the microalgae increased their cellular Chl a concentration to compensate. Consequently, the amount of additional Chl a necessary to sustain net photosynthesis at high biomass was higher than would have been necessary in the absence of microalgal self-shading.
While the observed POC/Chl a ratio in our study likely reflects acclimation to light availability, the variation in the POC/PON ratio with snow depth (Figure 2g) is also consistent with a microalgal response to nutrient availability. While it is true that the decreasing POC/PON ratio with increasing snow depth is consistent with an enhancement of N-rich photosystems by microalgae growing at reduced light levels (Klausmeier et al., 2004), the magnitude of the POC/PON ratio at low snow thicknesses (> 10) is very high relative to the ratio expected for N-replete cells (5–7). This finding suggests that the microalgal community growing beneath a thin cover of snow also may have been nutrient-stressed due to a lack of surface flooding.
Our other pigment data also provide strong evidence of acclimation by microalgae to the different light regimes associated with various microhabitats within the sea ice. Enhanced pigment packaging is manifested as a flattening of the algal absorption spectrum (i.e., lower blue/red peak ratios) as more light is absorbed by a microalgal cell, either due to a larger cell size or a greater amount of pigment per cell (Morel and Bricaud, 1981). The degree of pigment packaging was low in surface pond and slush communities and greatest in interior ice (Table 4), suggesting that microalgae growing in these low light environments either were larger or had higher pigment content than algae growing nearer the sea ice surface. A higher pigment content per cell is supported by the vertical distribution of the ratio of the photosynthetic accessory pigment fucoxanthin to Chl a, which showed a clear increase with depth within the ice (Table 2). Interestingly, pigment packaging was also low in the under-ice water column beneath the ice. Because this environment would be expected to experience relatively low light, the small amount of packaging could be the result of this pelagic community being dominated by smaller sized cells than are usually found in sea ice (Gradinger and Ikävalko, 1998; Riaux-Gobin et al., 2011).
Like pigment concentration, the types of pigments present in various sea ice microhabitats also reflect acclimation to different light environments. The xanthophyll cycle is used by many microalgal species to protect themselves from excessive irradiance. For sea ice microalgae, the xanthophyll cycle consists of enzymatic de-epoxidation of the carotenoid pigment DD to DT, the latter of which thermally dissipates excess energy (Olaizola and Yamamoto, 1994; Demmig-Adams and Adams, 2006; Goss et al. 2006). This photoprotective mechanism is particularly important for microalgae that get mixed periodically into surface waters (Alderkamp et al., 2013) or that live in the upper reaches of the sea ice. In our study, by far the highest (DD+DT)/Chl a ratios were measured in deformation ponds and surface slush layers, habitats that can be subjected to very high light levels throughout the 24-hour day. Xanthophyll cycle pigments were also found in microalgae within interior and bottom microhabitats within the ice and in the under-ice water column, but at much reduced concentrations relative to near-surface communities. This vertical pattern demonstrates clearly that microalgae living near the sea ice surface were using xanthophyll cycling as a mechanism to withstand excessive irradiance. However, it should be noted that even the lowest (DD + DT)/Chl a ratios measured in the sea ice during our study were 3-fold higher than values measured previously in ice-free waters of the Amundsen Sea (Alderkamp et al., 2013).
Like xanthophyll pigment concentrations, absorption of UV radiation by MAAs was very high in surface ice communities (pond and slush) and declined with depth within the ice (Table 2). Production of MAAs by microalgae can be photoinduced by elevated levels of UVB (280–320 nm) radiation, and to a lesser extent by UVA (320–400 nm) and visible (400–700 nm) radiation (Hannach and Sigleo, 1998; Klisch and Häder, 2001; Sinha et al., 2001), although the relative response to UVB, UVA, and visible radiation varies by algal taxa (Riegger and Robinson, 1997; Moisan and Mitchell, 2001). Algae produce at least nine different MAAs whose spectral absorption peak ranges from 310 nm to 386 nm (Riegger and Robinson, 1997). The vertical pattern of MAA absorption observed in ice during our study, which was only high in near surface samples, suggests that UV radiation was attenuated rapidly within the snow and ice and was not an important factor influencing rates of microalgal growth within the ice interior and sea ice bottom. The heterogeneous vertical distributions of both MAAs and xanthophyll cycle pigments demonstrate that, while sea ice is generally considered to be a low light habitat, microalgae living there must be able to acclimate to a wide range of light intensities.
The variations in photosynthetic parameters in the different sea ice microhabitats also demonstrate microalgal acclimation to both light and nutrient levels. Although both P*m and α* can vary as a function of either light or nutrient availability, in our study nutrient availability seemed to be the dominant controlling variable. Both P*m and α* were higher in the under-ice water column than in the ice, a likely reflection of greater nutrient availability (although we cannot rule out differences in phytoplankton species composition). This conclusion also is consistent with the vertical patterns observed within the ice, with both P*m and α* being higher in flooded surface communities and at the bottom of the ice (where nutrient concentrations would be high) than within the sea ice interior (Table 4). If light had been the controlling variable, P*m would have declined and α* would have increased with depth within the ice, a pattern contrary to our observations.
Interestingly, while both P*m and α* measured in sea ice indicate a system in which photosynthetic activity is most likely controlled by nutrient availability, the photoacclimation parameter (Ek) shows that light levels are also important. Because Ek is calculated as P*m/α*, it reflects a balance between the dark and light reactions of photosynthesis (Cullen, 1990). Because it is advantageous to maintain an optimal balance between light harvesting machinery and carbon fixation machinery, Ek often reflects the mean light history experienced by microalgal cells. The relationship between light history and Ek is apparent in our dataset as a progressive decrease in Ek with depth within the ice. Ek was highest in deformation ponds where light levels were highest and, unlike both P*m and α*, was lowest at the bottom of the ice where light levels were lowest. Ironically, the maintenance of this balance between Ek and light history in the bottom ice community would be made possible by abundant nutrients. Although P*m was relatively high in this microhabitat (Table 4), α* was even higher (relative to other microhabitats). Maintaining such a high photosynthetic efficiency (e.g., α*) when light is low requires a large pigment bed capable of harvesting additional photons and transferring them to the reaction centers, the synthesis of which requires a sufficiently large nutrient supply. Because nutrients were likely to be relatively high in the bottom community due to its proximity to seawater, microalgae growing there could elevate their photosynthetic efficiency far above that of internal communities (where light was also low). These high values for α* are what allowed bottom communities to reduce their Ek values to match their low light environment. Thus, we conclude that the balance between light and nutrients was critical in shaping sea ice microalgal metabolism in the Amundsen Sea during our study.
Although greater nutrient availability likely explains the higher biomass and more active microalgal physiology we observed in some microhabitats, there was also evidence that these high biomass microenvironments may have depleted their resources. We observed a statistically significant relationship between POC and the δ13C of POC in sea ice (Figure 4), which is likely the result of depletion of dissolved inorganic carbon by extremely high accumulations of ice algal biomass and consequent enrichment of the inorganic carbon pool (Rau et al., 1991; Kennedy et al., 2002; Arrigo et al., 2003). This relationship is similar to that observed in bottom ice in the Beaufort Sea region of the Arctic Ocean (Pineault et al., 2013), although both our POC and δ13C values were higher, indicating greater depletion of inorganic carbon by a larger algal community. Although there was no significant relationship between PON concentration and the δ15N of PON in sea ice, δ15N of particulate matter was significantly enriched in sea ice environments compared to the under-ice water column. Enrichment could be due to the presence of heterotrophs in sea ice (DeNiro and Epstein, 1981; Teranes and Bernasconi, 2000), but it is most likely due to NO3 being nearly depleted in ice cores such that both light and heavy isotopes of N were assimilated (while in the under-ice water column, mostly the light NO3 was utilized, Berg et al. 2011). This level of nutrient depletion was possible because, unlike the water column where iron (Fe) concentrations are insufficient to support complete NO3 drawdown by microalgae, microbial communities in the sea ice have enough Fe to more efficiently utilize the available macronutrients (Edwards and Sedwick, 2001). Thus, the biological pump associated with sea ice in the Southern Ocean is likely to be more efficient (but not stronger) than that of the water column, even on productive continental shelves. Given the more complete utilization of NO3 in ice relative to the water column, it might be worth exploring whether δ15N of PON in sediments can be used as a proxy for the presence of sea ice in a given area.
Finally, we were surprised to find a relatively large proportion of the pigment 19-Hex in sea ice microhabitats exposed to high light. 19-Hex is a marker pigment for Phaeocystis antarctica, a colonial prymnesiophyte that forms dense blooms in open waters on Antarctic continental shelves (Arrigo et al., 1999). Although this species has been observed previously in newly formed sea ice (Arrigo et al., 2003), and can tolerate prolonged darkness and freezing (Tang et al., 2009), the results of this study are the first to imply that it was physiologically active in the upper layers of sea ice in late spring/early summer. Its presence in recently flooded sea ice may indicate that it was introduced to the ice relatively recently and was able to grow there because of its ability to withstand high light levels. P. antarctica has an active xanthophyll cycle and is capable of efficiently repairing photodamage incurred during periods of high light stress (Kropuenske et al., 2009, 2010), allowing it to outcompete other species under highly variable light conditions (Arrigo et al., 2010a). It also is able to regulate its MAA content to protect itself from excessive radiation, including UV (Riegger and Robinson, 1997). Because the release from the sea ice into surface waters can expose microalgae to high radiation levels, high MAA content and enhanced xanthophyll cycle pigment concentrations may pre-acclimate P. antarctica to survive the transition from the sea ice to the water column as the sea ice melts in spring. In this way, we suggest that high xanthophyll cycle pigment and MAA content may facilitate the role that sea ice algae play in seeding ice-edge phytoplankton blooms and thereby structuring phytoplankton communities.
All of the data used in this study are included in Tables 1–4 of this manuscript.
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Contributed to conception and design: KRA
Contributed to acquisition of data: ZWB, MMM
Contributed to analysis and interpretation of data: KRA, ZWB, MMM
Drafted and revised the article: KRA
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The authors have no competing interests, as defined by Elementa, that might be perceived to influence the research presented in this manuscript.
The research was supported by a National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs grant to KR Arrigo (ANT-0838872).
We thank the captain and crew of the Swedish icebreaker Oden as well as S. Ackley and Katrina Abrahamsson (and their research teams) for their assistance during the cruise.
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Diseases that transmit from animals to human beings are called Zoonotic diseases and 70% of all emerging diseases that affect humans are zoonotic in nature. In India, occurrence of Rabies is prevalent and accounts for more than 90% of all zoonotic cases reported in the country. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates around 1.75 million dog bite cases every year causing around 59,000 deaths worldwide each year with majority of cases (95%) taking place in Africa and Asia. A 2015 study, published in peer-reviewed PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases estimates about 20,800 rabies deaths every year in India - the highest in the world at 36% of total deaths due to rabies.
The economic cost of dog mediated rabies has been estimated to be $ 8.6 billion. The high incidence of rabies in India is due to large uncontrolled stray dog population in India. Stray dogs account for nearly 80% of the canine population in India. There are several reasons for the high incidence including poor vaccination. Prophylaxis through vaccination is the most cost-effective intervention to reduce incidence of disease. Several countries have been able to reduce the number of rabies related human deaths through vaccination of dogs.
On the occasion of World Zoonosis Day, Dr.K. Anand Kumar, Managing Director, Indian Immunologicals Limited said, "IIL is truly a One Health company, playing a significant role in providing cost effective tools for the control of various zoonotic diseases in the country including the dreaded Rabies. Working with various other stake holders including the common public, IIL is determined to eradicate disease."
"IIL wishes to spread the message that preventive vaccination is a proven and cost-effective means to minimize incidence of zoonotic diseases. Effective implementation of Swachh Bharat programme and preventive vaccination would vastly improve the health status of the country," added Dr. Prasanna Deshpande, Deputy Managing Director, Indian Immunologicals Limited.
In addition to Rabies, other Zoonotic diseases such as Brucellosis, Leptospirosis, Swine Flu, Porcine Cysticercosis, Nipah, Zika etc. also affect human beings. Awareness, accurate diagnosis, improvement in sanitary conditions, prophylactic vaccination are all measures that need to be taken to restrain/eradicate spread.
Indian Immunologicals Limited (a subsidiary company of National Dairy Development Board) is leading biologicals manufacturer. Through extensive research, the company has delivered affordable vaccines for the consumers in India. IIL continues to be a leading manufacturer of animal rabies vaccine (Raksharab) and human rabies vaccine (Abhayrab) in the country. IIL's CYSVAX is the world's first vaccine for Porcine Cysticercosis in Pigs. Cysticercosis is a very important zoonotic disease and it is understood that it is a prime cause of epilepsy in humans. Vaccinating Pigs against Porcine Cysticercosis can help significantly reduce the incidence of epilepsy in humans.


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Is it better to seek a mortgage from a neighborhood bank or a mortgage broker?
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I would honestly recommend you shop both. Both of those options have their own benefits. If you go to a bank you might save a little on the fees that are associated with a mortgage. However, you most likely only hear their interest rate, as with a mortgage broker, you will most likely be provided with multiple options for interest rates. But you may pay a little more in fees. It all depends on what fits your current needs. I hope this helped you out.
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contact both on the same day and use the same parameters ...ask for some quotes / proposals and then compare and contrast the numbers and the service you receive and then make a decision
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