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Immediate report of Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition 1988-89: VUWAE 33

Future Research

Future Research

Part of our program submitted for the 1989/90 season is to repeat this study at a site towards the mouth of Granite Harbor away from the influence of the Mackay Glacier. Measurement of bottom current velocities and water column sediment flux will help us to quantify the sediment contribution flowing into the inner basin of Granite Harbour from the Ross Sea. This seasons results have proven the value of collecting data with automatically recording instruments in the Antarctic. We intend to continue recording tidal data at Cape Roberts. The ability of the tide gauge to record data throughout the year is still to be proven but we anticipate that some refurbishing and modification of the tide gauge will be necessary next season to achieve the goals of measuring long term tidal change from the continent in this area of the Ross Sea.