A magnetic survey was carried out at the Barton Peninsula in King George Island, Antarctica. To analyze geological features in the study area, several filtering methods in 2-dimensional wavenumber domain were used. The Barton Horst associated with volcanic activities is well revealed on the low-pass filtered anomaly map. Possible existence of small volcanic plugs or, presumably, mineralized zones are apparent at northern parts and south-western part by reduction-to-the-pole and pseudo-gravity filtering. On the 1st vertical derivative and directional filtered anomaly maps, the geological boundaries on the surface are well identified, and fault strikes along E-W or NW-SE direction appeared to be mostly dominant throughout the study area. Density and susceptibility mapping were performed using the inversion method. The apparent densities of tuffaceous rocks distributed in the southern parts and those of quartz-diorite or crystal tuff in the northern parts were computed as values up to about 2.69 g/㎤ and 2.73 g/㎤, respectively, and the apparent susceptibilities of those rocks are appeared to be about 250 × 10^(-6) CGS and 1870 × 10^(-6) CGS, respectively. These results are in accordant with those of samples measured by Garrett(1990). Therefore, it is concluded that the studied area of the Barton peninsula has been influenced by crustal movement associated with active volcanism and the surface lithology is extended to the considerable depth.

This paper discusses heavy mineral assemblages, organisms and micropaleontology from the eastern beach sediments of Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, South Shetland Islands. The aims of this paper are to present preliminary results and to give clues to future research of the study and/or related areas. Heavy mineral assemblages are composed mainly of altered mineral and opaque minerals, clinopyroxenes, amphiboles and epidote. Most of the heavy minerals are derived from volcanic rocks present in Fildes Peninsula. However, relatively high content of mica suggests it might be originated not to be from volcanic rocks of Fildes Peninsula, but to be from acidic rocks present in other areas around Maxwell Bay. Cluster analysis of the data(Q-mode) using UPG method shows three facies: represented by Ardley Cove Hydrographers Cove, and the southern tip of Fildes Peninsula. Hydrographers Cove is separated from Ardley Cove by Ardley Island, and is somewhat protected from the strong wave action of Maxwell Bay. On the other hand, Ardley Cove and the southern tip of Fildes Peninsula are open to the strong wave action of Maxwell Bay. The benthic organisms of the study area is mainly consist of interstitial animals such as very small-sized polychaetes, gastropods, turbellarians and nemertines. Polychaetes are the dominant faunal group as seen in other areas of South Shetland Islands. Occurrence of Foraminifera and Ostracoda seems to reflect faunal ecology and sedimentary environment of the study area. It is recommended that a rather large sample size($gt;1 liter) be made for a quantitative study of micropaleontology and benthic ecology of the areas similar to the study area.

Natural environment and human activities in King George Island, South Shetland Islands in West Antarctica have been briefly reviewed, It is sure that human being can live a normal life in the Island, although the insufficiency in space and water resources might be a hampering factor to further human activities in the Island. It seems necessary to protect natural environment against the recent frequent visit of human beings to the Island.

The auroral observation has been started at Jang Bogo Station (JBS), Antarctica by using a visible All-sky camera (v-ASC) in 2018 to routinely monitor the aurora in association with the simultaneous observations of the ionosphere, thermosphere and magnetosphere at the station. In this article, the auroral observations are introduced with the analysis procedure to recognize the aurora from the v-ASC image data and to compute the auroral occurrences and the initial results on their spatial and temporal distributions are presented. The auroral occurrences are mostly confined to the northern horizon in the evening sector and extend to the zenith from the northwest to cover almost the entire sky disk over JBS at around 08 MLT (magnetic local time; 03 LT) and then retract to the northeast in the morning sector. At near the magnetic local noon, the occurrences are horizontally distributed in the northern sky disk, which shows the auroral occurrences in the cusp region. The results of the auroral occurrences indicate that JBS is located most of the time in the polar cap near the poleward boundary of the auroral oval in the nightside and approaches closer to the oval in the morning sector. At around 08 MLT (03 LT), JBS is located within the auroral oval and then moves away from it, finally being located in the cusp region at the magnetic local noon, which indicates that the location of JBS turns out to be ideal to investigate the variabilities of the poleward boundary of the auroral oval from long-term observations of the auroral occurrences. The future plan for the ground auroral observations near JBS is presented.

Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) installed an ionospheric sounding radar system called Vertical Incidence Pulsed Ionospheric Radar (VIPIR) at Jang Bogo Station (JBS) in 2015 in order to routinely monitor the state of the ionosphere in the auroral oval and polar cap regions. Since 2017, after two-year test operation, it has been continuously operated to produce various ionospheric parameters. In this article, we will introduce the characteristics of the JBS-VIPIR observations and possible applications of the data for the study on the polar ionosphere. The JBS-VIPIR utilizes a log periodic transmit antenna that transmits 0.5–25 MHz radio waves, and a receiving array of 8 dipole antennas. It is operated in the Dynasonde B-mode pulse scheme and utilizes the 3-D inversion program, called NeXtYZ, for the data acquisition and processing, instead of the conventional 1-D inversion procedure as used in the most of digisonde observations. The JBS-VIPIR outputs include the height profiles of the electron density, ionospheric tilts, and ion drifts with a 2-minute temporal resolution in the bottomside ionosphere. With these observations, possible research applications will be briefly described in combination with other observations for the aurora, the neutral atmosphere and the magnetosphere simultaneously conducted at JBS.

남극 벨링스하우젠 해(Bellingshausen Sea)의 동쪽 대륙붕과 대륙대에 위치한 중력코어(BS17-GC15, BS17-GC04)를 2017년 ANA07D 탐사 동안 획득하였다. 두 코어를 이용하여 벨링스하우젠 해의 해양 퇴적물 내 빙기-간빙기에 따른 점토광물의 분포와 성인을 조사하였다. 두 코어에 대해 퇴적상의 특성을 기술하고, 입도 분석, X선 회절 분석을 실시하여 점토광물의 조성 변화를 관찰하였다. 퇴적학적 특성에 따라 BS17-GC15 코어는 세 개의 퇴적상들로 구분되며 이들은 마지막 빙하기, 전이퇴적상, 간빙기 시기의 퇴적작용에 의해 형성된 것으로 보인다. BS17-GC04 코어는 하부에 빙하기저부 기원의 저탁류의 조합으로 퇴적되는 저탁류 퇴적층과 니질층이 관찰되고, 위쪽으로 올라갈수록 실트질 엽층이 나타나며 상부에서는 생물교란 흔적이 포함된 반원양성 니질층이 나타난다. 퇴적상이 변함에 따라 점토광물의 함량비도 다르게 나타난다. BS17-GC15 코어는 시기에 따라 일라이트가 평균 28.4~44.5 %로 가장 큰 변화를 보이고, 스멕타이트는 빙하기 때 평균 31.1 %에서 20 %로 감소하였다가 간빙기 때 25.1 %로 다시 증가하는 양상을 보였다. 녹니석과 카올리나이트의 합은 빙하기 때 평균 40.5 %에서 간빙기 때 30.4 %로 감소하였다. 빙하기 동안 퇴적물이 남극 반도로부터 유입되기 때문에 높은 일라이트와 녹니석 함량을 보인다. 반면, 대륙대에 위치한 BS17-GC04 코어는 빙하기 때 스멕타이트의 함량이 평균 47.2 %에서 상부로 갈수록 평균 20.6 %까지 감소하고 일라이트는 하부에서 평균 21.3 %에서 43.2 %로 증가한다. 빙하기 동안의 높은 스멕타이트 함량은 근처의 스멕타이트가 풍부한 퇴적물인 피터 1세 섬에서 퇴적물이 남극순환류에 의해 운반되었을 것으로 예상되고, 그 이후 간빙기에는 상대적으로 서쪽으로 흐르는 등수심 해류의 영향으로 동쪽의 벨링스하우젠 해의 대륙붕 퇴적물로부터 일라이트와 클로라이트가 풍부한 퇴적물이 운반되었을 것이라 예상된다.

2015년 극지연구소의 로스해 지질탐사 동안 로스해와 남빙양이 접하는 대륙대 지역에 위치한 정점에서 롱코어(RS15-LC48)를 시추하였다. 이 코어에서 지난 홀로세와 플라이스토세 동안 퇴적된 해양 퇴적물을 구성하는 점토광물의 특성과 기원지를 규명하고자 퇴적물의 퇴적상, 입도분포, 점토광물의 종류와 함량비, 일라이트의 결정도 지수와 화학지수를 분석하였다. 퇴적학적 특성에 따라 크게 네 개의 퇴적단위들로 구분되며 이들은 플라이스토세부터 홀로세 시기에 걸친 여러 번의 빙하기/간빙기 퇴적작용에 의해 형성된 것으로 해석된다. 퇴적물은 주로 사질 점토와 실트질 점토, 빙하 쇄설물들로 구성되어 있다. 깊이에 따른 퇴적물의 입도 분포와 모래 입자의 함량 변화는 대자율의 변화와 매우 유사하게 나타났다. 또한 점토광물의 상대적 함량비는 전체적으로 일라이트(52.7 %)가 가장 우세하고 스멕타이트(27.7 %), 녹니석(11.0 %), 카올리나이트(8.6 %) 순서로 나타났으며, 석영, 사장석 등의 화산 활동 기원 초생광물도 함께 수반되어 나타났다. 일라이트와 녹니석 함량의 증가와 해당 깊이에서의 일라이트 결정도지수와 화학지수는 퇴적물이 주로 로스해 빙상 하부에 위치한 남극 종단산맥의 기반암으로부터 기인했음을 지시한다. 반면 스멕타이트의 함량은 다른 점토광물의 변화 양상과 반대로 나타나는데, 이는 간빙기 동안 로스해 서안의 빅토리아 랜드 연안에서 북동쪽으로 흐르는 해류에 의해 스멕타이트가 추가적으로 운반되어 퇴적된 것으로 사료된다.

Jang Bogo Station (JBS), the second Korean Antarctic research station, was established in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica (74.62°S 164.22°E) in February 2014 in order to expand the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) research capabilities. One of the main research areas at JBS is space environmental research. The goal of the research is to better understand the general characteristics of the polar region ionosphere and thermosphere and their responses to solar wind and the magnetosphere. Ground-based observations at JBS for upper atmospheric wind and temperature measurements using the Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) began in March 2014. Ionospheric radar (VIPIR) measurements have been collected since 2015 to monitor the state of the polar ionosphere for electron density height profiles, horizontal density gradients, and ion drifts. To investigate the magnetosphere and geomagnetic field variations, a search-coil magnetometer and vector magnetometer were installed in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Since JBS is positioned in an ideal location for auroral observations, we installed an auroral all-sky imager with a color sensor in January 2018 to study substorms as well as auroras. In addition to these observations, we are also operating a proton auroral imager, airglow imager, global positioning system total electron content (GPS TEC)/scintillation monitor, and neutron monitor in collaboration with other institutes. In this article, we briefly introduce the observational activities performed at JBS and the preliminary results of these observations.

남극 로스해 펜넬-이젤린 퇴의 동쪽 대륙사면에 위치한 정점 RS14-C2에서 2014년 PNRA XXIX 탐사(Rosslope II Project)동안 중력코어(RS14-GC2)를 획득하였다. 퇴적물의 기원지 추정을 위하여 대자율, 모래 입자 함량, 점토광물 조성을 분석하고 AMS 14C 연대를 측정하였다. 퇴적물은 주로 빙운쇄설물을 포함한 반원양성 사질 점토 또는 실트질 점토로 구성되어 있다. 코어의 최상부 연대는 현생 퇴적물과 홀로세 퇴적물을 지시한다. 방사성 탄소동위원소 연대와 퇴적물의 색, 대자율 및 모래입자 함량을 이용하여 코어 퇴적물을 간빙기와 빙하기 퇴적물로 구분하였다. 간빙기의 갈색퇴적물은 대자율과 모래 입자 함량이 낮은 반면에 빙하기의 회색퇴적물은 대자율과 모래 입자 함량이 높다. 코어 퇴적물의 점토광물 조성은 전체적으로 일라이트(61.8~76.7%)가 가장 우세하며, 녹니석(15.7%~21.3%), 카올리나이트(3.6%~15.4%), 그리고 스멕타이트(0.9~5.1%)의 순서로 나타나고, 간빙기와 빙하기/후빙기로 뚜렷하게 구분된다. 빙하기 동안 일라이트와 녹니석 함량이 우세한 것은 퇴적물의 기원지가 주로 로스해 빙상 하부에 위치한 남극종단산맥의 기반암을 지시하기 때문이다. 반면 빙상 후퇴에 의한 일라이트와 녹니석의 공급이 감소되어 간빙기 동안 상대적으로 스멕타이트 함량이 약간 증가하며 카올리나이트 함량은 많이 증가한다. 더불어 간빙기 동안 로스해 서안의 빅토리아랜드 연안의 맥머도 화산군에서 북동쪽으로 흐르는 해류에 의해 스멕타이트가 추가로 공급되며, 카올리나이트는 카올리나이트의 함량이 풍부한 퇴적암이 분포하는 에드워드 7세 반도에서 공급되고 대륙사면류에 의해 대륙사면으로 운반되었을 것으로 예상된다.

남극의 토양 환경에 대한 기초자료를 확보하기 위하여 킹조지섬 바톤반도에 위치한 세종기지 주변지역의 토양 성분과 토양을 구성하는 점토광물의 종류 및 분포, 조성을 규명하고자 X선 회절분석 과 습식분석(철의 산화도와 양이온 교환능 측정), 투과전자현미경-전자에너지 손실 분광분석, 전함량 분석을 실시하였다. X선 회절 분석을 실시한 결과, 스멕타이트, 일라이트, 카올리나이트, 녹니석이 주 요 점토광물로 함유되어 있으며 석영, 사장석 등의 화산활동 기원 초생광물도 함께 수반되어 나타났 다. 토양 시료의 철 산화도 분포는 대부분의 지점에서 Fe(II)이 20~40%, Fe(III)이 50% 이상 토양 입 자상에 존재하였고, 나노 스케일에서 스멕타이트를 분석했을 때 광물 구조 내 Fe(III)/ΣFe이 약 57% 로 분석되어 전체 토양의 철 산화도와 유사한 결과를 보였다. 양이온 교환능은 전반적으로 100-300 meq/kg 범위였으며, 시료 채취지점에 따른 유의미한 차이는 보이지 않았다. 전체 토양의 전함량 분석 결과, 광물의 주 구성 원소(Mg, K, Na, Al, Fe)는 지점에 따른 차이를 보이고 있는 반면, 중금속 원소 (Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Mn)는 지점별로 유사하게 나타났다. 이러한 결과들은 토양을 구성하는 기반암이 기 본 원소 분포에 영향을 줄 수 있음을 보여준다. 따라서 본 연구 결과는 남극 지표 토양환경과 토양 내 점토광물에 대한 기초자료 확보에 있어서 많은 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.

In December 2015, we have installed neutron monitors at the Jang Bogo station in Antarctica. The Jang Bogo station is the second science station which is located at the coast (74° 37.4´S, 164° 13.7´E) of Terra Nova Bay in Northern Victoria Land of Antarctica. A neutron monitor is an instrument to detect neutrons from secondary cosmic rays collided by the atmosphere. The installation of neutron monitor at Jang Bogo station is a part of transferred mission for neutron monitor at McMurdo station of USA. Among 18 tubes of 18-NM64 neutron monitor, we have completed relocation of 6 tubes and the rest will be transferred in December 2017. Currently, comparison of data from the neutron monitors of both two stations is under way and there is a good agreement between the data. The neutron monitors at Jang Bogo station will be quite useful to study the space weather when the installation is completed.

Two mini neutron monitors are installed at Concordia research station (Dome C, Central Antarctica, 75°06'S, 123°23'E, 3,233 m.a.s.l.). The site has unique properties ideal for cosmic ray measurements, especially for the detection of solar energetic particles: very low cutoff rigidity < 0.01 GV, high elevation and poleward asymptotic acceptance cones pointing to geographical latitudes > 75°S. The instruments consist of a standard neutron monitor and a "bare" (lead-free) neutron monitor. The instrument operation started in mid-January 2015. The barometric correction coefficients were computed for the period from 1 February to 31 July 2015. Several interesting events, including two notable Forbush decreases on 17 March 2015 and 22 June 2015, and a solar particle event of 29 October 2015 were registered. The data sets are available at cosmicrays.oulu.fi and nmdb.eu.

Since the operation of the King Sejong Station (KSS) started in Antarctic Peninsula in 1989, there have been continuous efforts to perform the observation for the upper atmosphere. The observations during the initial period of the station include Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) and Michelson Interferometer for the mesosphere and thermosphere, which are no longer in operation. In 2002, in collaboration with York University, Canada, the Spectral Airglow Temperature Imager (SATI) was installed to observe the temperature in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region and it has still been producing the mesopause temperature data until present. The observation was extended by installing the meteor radar in 2007 to observe the neutral winds and temperature in the MLT region during the day and night in collaboration with Chungnam National University. We also installed the all sky camera in 2008 to observe the wave structures in the MLT region. All these observations are utilized to study on the physical characteristics of the MLT region and also on the wave phenomena such as the tide and gravity wave in the upper atmosphere over KSS that is well known for the strong gravity wave activity. In this article, brief introductions for the currently operating instruments at KSS will be presented with their applications for the study of the upper atmosphere.

Enzymatic biodiesel using lipase Novozyme-435 instead of using chemical catalyst was studied in this paper for cost reduction, increase of production efficiency and environment friendly product in this paper. In this paper the standard of biodiesel quality was met by using enzyme. The optimal reaction condition of methanol/waste oil molar ratio was 3, which 1 mol of methanol was injected at initial reaction. Then, each of 1 mol of methanol was injected at 4 hours of interval. Other reaction condition was like as follows : Reaction temperature, reaction time, agitation speed and amount of lipase were 55oC, 24 hours, 400 rpm, and 6wt%, respectively.

Suspended and sinking particles were collected during ODP Leg 119 to the Indian Ocean sector of the Antarctic Ocean. Field work was carried out at four sampling sites in Prydz Bay. Two of these sites were located in the Outer Bay, and two in the Inner Bay. At the four locations, a total of ten deployments of a sediment trap array were made. The concentrations of carotenoids both in suspended and sinking particulate matter in Prydz Bay were analyzed using HPLC. Fucoxanthin was the dominant carotenoid pigments both in suspended and sinking particles. The present study also indicates that 19'-hexanoyoxyfucoxanthin-containing prymesiophytes (Phaeocystis spp.) was abundant in the study area. The flux rates of carotenoids were generally highest at 50 m, and approximately double the flux rates at deeper horizons, however, at Inner Bay sites, the mean flux rates of carotenoids were greatest at 200 m, and 3 times greater than that of 50 m. Such anomalous high fluxes at 200 m imply that grazers were locally abundant between 100 m and 200 m at these sites close to land, and this hypothesis is supported by visual evidence of lots of fecal pellets in the 200 m trap. Integrates standing stocks versus sinking pigments data support that particulate material in Prydz Bay was not recycled rapidly.

Suspended and sinking particles were collected in austral summer during ODP Leg 119 to the Indian Ocean sector of the Antarctic Ocean. Field work was carried out at four sampling sites in Prydz Bay. Two of these sites were located in the Outer Bay, and two in the Inner Bay. At the four locations, a total of ten deployments of a sediment trap array were made. The concentrations of chlorophylls and their degradation products both in suspended and sinking particulate matter in Prydz Bay were analyzed using HPLC. Chlorophylls a and c were the dominant algal pigments both in suspended and sinking particles. Because of the abundance of fecal pellets at Site 740, the mean fluxes at 200 m averaged 6 fold greater than that at 50 m. This implies that a dense swarm of zooplankters, presumably large copepods and/or salps, may "feed and excrete" mainly in between 100-200 m depths at this site, closest to land in Prydz Bay. Interestingly, The flux of phaeophorbide a was generally similar in magnitude to that of chlorophyll a throughout the study areas. This is an evidence that materials escaping from near-surface regions in austral summer derive mainly from the gazing of zooplankters. "New production" from sediment-trapped CHL pigment fluxes in Prydz Bay was estimated using f-ratio of 0.15, ranging from 520 to 1,605 μgC m-2 day-1.

Mineral composition and chemistry of the clay minerals in the three cores from the continental shelves of South Shetland Islands (NCS09) and Anberse Island (GC98-2), and from the fjord of King George Island (A10-01) were determined by X-ray diffraction and electron microprobe analysis in search of the distributions and origin of the clay minerals in the Antarctic marine sediments. Smectite content is relatively high in NCS09 regardless of core depths (av. 8.3%), but low in GC98-2 (1.1%). In Al0-01, smectite content is higher in the upper section than in the lower section. Kaolinite was not detected from all the cores in this study Yellow to yellowish green clay granules were commonly scattered in the sediments of NCS09 cores. The clays contain 16.97% and 2.53% Fe2O3와 K2O. Average structural formula of the clay indicates ferrian beidellite . The (Fe, K)-rich smectite of NSC09 must have been derived from relatively young basaltic volcanics altered by reaction with seawater near Shetland Islands by glacial erosion or eolian process related to volcanic eruption. GC98-2 nearer to Antarctic continent is very low in smectite content. In A10-01, the lower diamicton was deposited from the glacial erosion of smectite-free ancient volcanics in the interior of King George Island, while the upper section was derived from the smectite-bearing terrestrial debris and eolian materials after retreat of glaciers in Marian Cove