Indicator: AAT-21 Station and ship person days
Data
Annual person days - Australian Antarctic stations and ships
Source: Department of the Environment and Heritage (DEH) Antarctic Division, 2000
What the data mean
The data shows significant variability in person days for most stations with a tendency for a decrease in numbers over recent years. The underlying data shows a strong seasonality reflecting more scientists being present during the warmer months.
Data Limitations
Nil known
Issues for which this is an indicator and why
Australian Antarctic Territory — Environment - Human Pressures on the environment
Potential impact on the natural environment is often proportional to the human population. Human activities can cause disruption in physical, chemical and biological systems. This indicator reveals where the greatest direct pressures related to size of the human population.
Other indicators for this issue:
- AAT-17 Types and concentrations of long range pollutants from outside Antarctica reaching Antarctica
- AAT-18 Annual tourist ship visits and tourist numbers
- AAT-19 Annual catch in tonnes of marine species harvested in Australian Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters - legal and illegal
- AAT-20 Fishing by-catch numbers and/or weight taken as bycatch
- AAT-22 Wastewater - biological oxygen demand of wastewater discharged
- AAT-23 Annual fuel usage of generator sets and boilers
- AAT-24 Annual incinerator fuel usage
- AAT-25 Annual total of fuel used by vehicles
- AAT-26 Annual total potable water consumption
- AAT-27 Volume of runoffs and pollutants/emissions from stations
- CO-16 Status of Australian fisheries
- CO-17 Change in species and trophic structure of fish species caught
- CO-19 Estimated tonnage taken by illegal fishing; estimated number of illegal boats, estimated number of individuals of threatened species taken
- CO-21 Non-target effects: Number and/or weight taken as bycatch, and change since introduction of exclusion devices
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