Palmer LTER Site Flash (Jun93) - Karen Baker, PAL datamanager

The second field season from September92 to March93 was completed with
continuation of the oceanographic, krill and bird surveys.
In addition to the weekly on-station sampling, there were two major ship
cruises during which core measurements were made off the Antarctic
Peninsula. The lterjan93 cruise occupied stations on five transects.
. The ltermar93 cruise is a fall cruise which is planned once every 
six year granting period in order to cover the entire ltergrid
of ten transects providing a large scale hydrographic survey of
the region in addition to the other core measurements made during
other cruises.  Preparations are underway for a Spring cruise in August93.

The data structure underwent further organization and standardization
in order to promote more rapid documentation and data report generation.
Progress was made on further definition of dataforms and core data sets.
The online browse program work continued in parallel with implimentation
of a gopher site organization.  A new 500mbyte disk came online to replace
old hardware.  A remote campus site appletalk network was linked to
the central lter appletalk network using cayman systems gatorboxes
performing tunneling across the campus internet.  This permits
both apple file sharing of remote mac/central mac and remote mac/
central unix disks as well as the ability to print remotely on
postscript and mac printers. In addition, remote site as well as local mac 
backups are being done routinely onto an 8mm tape drive from one central 
location making use of the gatorbox to gatorbox tunneling.

Preparations have begun in order to facilitate dataset documentation 
while at sea.  Also, two unix workstations are being prepared for at 
sea use.  This will eventually permit the palmer lter database of 
information to be available in the field.