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Notes from the SCAR President, number 11 (29 May 2009)
Ongoing Initiatives, Reviews, Nominations and Cooperation
Colleagues,
SCAR activity continues at a brisk pace on a number of fronts and the Secretariat and I have been very busy on your behalf!
This note briefly updates on-going initiatives and asks for assistance with reviews, nominations, and other actions. If you have any questions about how to participate please contact the Secretariat and guidance will be provided.
Major reports under review and widely circulated for comment - Comments being accepted
- Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment (ACCE) - final report
- Data and Information Management Strategy (DIMS) - draft report
Nominations and Searches:
- SCAR Executive Director - applications being accepted, nominations welcomed
- Martha T. Muse Prize Selection Committee - members being solicited (self-nominations allowed). The actual Prize nomination process will open shortly.
- The 2010 SCAR Open Science Conference International Scientific Organizing Committee - is being formed - let us know of your interests in assisting with planning for next year's meetings.
Updates:
- SCAR 2009 External Review Report to be finished in June 2009
- Subglacial Aquatic Environment Code of Conduct - draft to be considered by EX Com in August 2009
- SCAR power point templates A new set will be available shortly (we are assembling a general use presentation that will be available on the web site).
- Karin Lochte's XXXII ATCM SCAR Science Lecture is now available on the web site
- The VP for Finance (Ad Huiskes) and the Secretariat (Mike Sparrow) have been working diligently on understandable and improved financial reports and regularizing the Secretariat compensation and evaluation scheme to make SCAR fully compliant with UK Charity law.
Presidential Travel (next few months):
- Visit the Bulgarian National Committee in Sofia - June 2009
- Attend SCAR SALE meeting in Brussels - June 2009
- Visit Korean National Program in Incheon- July 2009
- Attend the SCAR X Biology Symposium in Sapporo, Japan - July 2009
- Attend SCAR Ex Com and present keynote to COMNAP meetings in Punta Arenas, Chile August 2009
- Inspect 2010 SCAR meeting venue, Buenos Aires, Argentina August 2009
- (Tentative) Visit the Uruguay Antarctic Institute in Montevideo, Uruguay August 2009
- (Tentative) Attend ACE Symposium and meet with the Spanish national committee in Grenada, Spain - September 2009
Finally, SCAR is attempting to reinvigorate our partnership with COMNAP. The SCAR ATCM Team met with COMNAP administration at the XXXII ATCM in April 2009. To this end, we will make two presentations at the upcoming COMNAP meetings in Punta Arenas in August of this year - one on Future Directions in Antarctic Science and one on cooperation on King George Island. Click on the links to view copies of the reports provided to COMNAP that support these presentations. As always any comments, concerns, issues or ideas are welcomed as you review these two important documents. It would be extremely useful if you discuss these papers and the concepts presented with your National Program Operators prior to the COMNAP meeting. Any feedback would assist the SCAR team in preparing for Punta Arenas.
I am sure I am forgetting a number of other important items but this will keep you busy for now! As always do not hesitate to contact me for any reason. I hope to see each of you soon somewhere around the world!
Chuck K.
President of SCAR
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