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Standing Committee on the Antarctic Treaty System (SC-ATS)
SCAR is one of three official observers to the Antarctic Treaty and has provided independent scientific advice to the Treaty since it was ratified in 1961. This Committee (SC-ATS) provides scientific representation at the meetings of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) and the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings (ATCM), organises and prepares the scientific advice requested by the Antarctic Treaty System and briefs SCAR Officers and Committees on Treaty deliberations.
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Papers submitted by SCAR to ATCM and CEP meetings
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SCAR's Internal Reports of Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings
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SCAR Presentations to the ATCM ('The SCAR Lecture')
Members of the Standing Committee on the Antarctic Treaty System
| Prof Steven Chown (Australia) - Chief Officer | steven.chown@monash.edu |
| Dr Kevin Hughes (UK) - Deputy Chief Officer | kehu@bas.ac.uk |
| Prof Mahlon (Chuck) Kennicutt (USA) | m-kennicutt@tamu.edu |
| Prof Jerónimo López-Martínez (Spain) | jeronimo.lopez@uam.es |
| Dr Sergio Marenssi (Argentina) | smarenssi@dna.gov.ar |
| Dr Mike Sparrow (Secretariat) | mds68@cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Mark Hindell (Australia) - SCAR-CCAMLR Liaison | Mark.Hindell@utas.edu.au |
| Dr Phil O'Brien (Australia) - SSG-GS Representative | phil.obrien.ant@gmail.com |
SCAR's Role in the Antarctic Treaty System
SCAR submitted a paper to the XXXII ATCM, held in Baltimore in 2009, which set out its role in the Antarctic Treaty system:
Scientific Advice
- Provision of scientific advice to the Antarctic Treaty parties
- Scientific advice to CCAMLR
- Checklists for supply chain managers of National Antarctic Programmes for the reduction in risk of transfer of non-native species (a joint SCAR/COMNAP document, November 2010)
- Major SCAR Inputs to the Antarctic Treaty System up to 2006 (based on SCAR Report 29)
- Summary of Ten Years of SCAR-CEP Interactions, 1998-2008
Action Group on SCAR and the ATS in the 21st Century (AG-SATC) 2008
The Action Group on SCAR and the ATS in the 21st Century (AG-SATC) was set up in February 2008 with the aim of improving the nature and timeliness of the advice that SCAR provides to the Treaty System, and to provide the SCAR Executive with alternative approaches to managing SCAR's advisory role to the ATS. It held a meeting at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, UK in May 2008, and reported to the XXX SCAR Delegates Meeting in Moscow, Russia in July 2008.
- Information about AG-SATC
- Report to XXX SCAR Delegates Meeting on the AG-SATC meeting held in Cambridge, 2008
Following on from the recommendations of AG-SATC, SCAR submitted the paper to XXXII ATCM (2009) on its role in the Antarctic Treaty System.
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