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Organisation of SCAR

SCAR Organisation Chart, as at April 2013

Acronym definitions

AAA Astronomy and Astrophysics from Antarctica
ABI Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics (incorporates AntaBIF and MarBIN)
ACA Antarctic Clouds and Aerosols
ACCE Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment (incorporates PCPBEA)
Acidification Southern Ocean Acidification
Acoustics Acoustics in the Marine Environment
ADMAP Antarctic Digital Magnetic Anomaly Project
AntClim21 Antarctic Climate in the 21st Century (incorporates ASPeCt and ITASE)
AntEco State of the Antarctic Ecosystem
AnT-ERA Antarctic Thresholds - Ecosystem Resilience and Adaptation
ANTPAS Antarctic Permafrost, Soils and Periglacial Environments (incorporates PPE)
ATHENA Advancing TecHnological and ENvironmental stewardship for subglacial exploration in Antarctica
BAMM Birds and Marine Mammals
CGG Connecting Geophysics with Geology
CPR Continuous Plankton Recorder
EBA Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic
ECA Environmental Contamination in Antarctica (incorporates AGAFS)
GeoHeritage Geological Heritage and Conservation
GIANT Geodetic Infrastructure of Antarctica
GRAPE / WSWF GNSS Research and Application for Polar Environment and Weather and Space Weather Forecast (incorporates GWSWF)
HB&M Human Biology and Medicine (Joint Expert Group with COMNAP)
History History Expert Group
IASC International Arctic Science Committee (partner organisation)
IBCSO International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean
ICED Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics
ICESTAR Inter-hemispheric Conjugacy Effects in Solar-Terrestrial and Aeronomy Research
IPICS International Partnership in Ice Core Sciences
ISMASS Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level
Multibeam Multibeam Bathymetric Data Acquisition
Oceans Joint SCAR/SCOR Expert Group on Oceanography (now the SOOS Scientific Steering Committee)
OpMet Operational Meteorology in the Antarctic
PACT Polar Atmospheric Chemistry at the Tropopause
PAIS Past Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics
Remote Sensing Remote Sensing methodology used to promote new research
SAVAnt Seeps And Vents Antarctica
SCADM Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management
SCAGI Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information
SCOR Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (partner organisation)
SERCE Solid Earth Response and Cryospheric Evolution
Social Sciences Social Sciences Action Group
VIA Values in Antarctica - Social Sciences Action Group