The climate, physical and biological properties of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are closely coupled to the global environment by the ocean and the atmosphere.
International, intensive field programmes aim at understanding the dynamics of Antarctica's ice sheets, ice shelves, glaciers, sea ice and the continent hidden beneath kilometres of ice.
Life scientists strive to understand the evolution and diversity of life in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean to determine how these processes have produced unique Antarctic ecosystems.
Antarctica has unique characteristics that make it a highly desirable vantage point for near-Earth, upper atmosphere, solar, astrophysical and astronomical observations.
Integrated, multi-disciplinary observations are needed to understand and predict the response of biota to changes in the Southern Ocean and on the Antarctic continent.
is a body of ICSU, the International Council for Science, and it is charged with the initiation, promotion and co-ordination of scientific research in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. SCAR also provides international, independent scientific advice to the Antarctic Treaty system and other bodies.
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5 September 2016: At the SCAR Delegates Meeting held in Malaysia from 29-30 August, a new President and Vice President were elected to the Executive Committee. Outgoing President, Prof Jerónimo López-Martínez of the Universidad Autónoma...
- read more5 September 2016: The XIIth SCAR Biology Symposium will take place around 10-14 July 2017 in Belgium. The main theme is "Scale Matters". From the small molecular scale, through population and large ecosystem scale, biological processes...
- read more31 August 2016: The latest SCAR Bulletins are now published on the website. Bulletin 195 contains the SCAR Annual Report to the Antarctic Treaty System, 2015/16. Bulletin 196 contains the Report of the SCAR Delegation to XXXIX ATCM and...
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