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SCAR Newsletter: Issue 2, April 2005
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SCAR launches Fellowship Programme 2005-2006
SCAR welcomes applications from postgraduate or post-doctoral researchers for SCAR Fellowships for the year 2005-2006. The deadline for application is May 31.
- Details and the Application form are available from www.scar.org/awards/fellowships/
Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management (JCADM)
SCAR and COMNAP have undertaken a review of the Joint SCAR/COMNAP Committee on Antarctic Data Management (JCADM)
- Information can be found at www.scar.org/researchgroups/jcadm/review.html
Progress Report on the International Polar Year 2007-2008
The 'Steering Committee' for the International Polar Year held its first meeting, in Paris, 7-9 March 2005. This was followed by an Open Consultative Forum with the wider community, to get their feedback into the process.
- Details can be found at www.scar.org/events/internationalpolaryear/progressreport/
SCAR Annual Report
A SCAR Annual Report has been prepared. It will be presented initially as an Information Paper to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Stockholm in June. A copy of that paper has been circulated to Delegates and National Committees for comment before April 15, after which the report will be available on the SCAR web page.
Germany's SCAR National Committee launches it's website
Visit the new website of Germany's SCAR National Committee at http://www.scar-iasc.de
Antarctic Climate Change in the last 50 years
Using the SCAR Physical Sciences Reference Antarctic Data for Environmental Research (READER), a climate history has been constructed for Antarctic for the past 50 years by John Turner and colleagues. It is published in the International Journal of Climatology 25 (2005) 279-294
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The publication is reproduced as a PDF downloadable document at http://www.scar.org/researchgroups/physicalscience/reader_turneretal.pdf
Announcing the launch of the ICESTAR website
Visit the ICESTAR website at www.siena.edu/physics/ICESTAR/
SCAR co-sponsors a meeting to develop a Cryosphere observing scheme
A meeting was held in Calgary (March 2-3, 2005) to document what is required for long term observations of the cryosphere. This work will be a contribution to the development of the Cryosphere Theme of the Partnership for an Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS) [The partners are the space agencies, the UN agencies and international research organisations like ICSU]. SCAR is a co-leader of this theme, along with the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) programme of the WCRP.
First Workshop on the History of Antarctic Research
The First Workshop on the History of Antarctic Research will be held from 2-3 June 2005 at the Bavarian Academy of Science in Munich, under the aegis of the SCAR Action Group on the History of Antarctic Research.
- http://www.scar.org/events/index.html#history
- Contact C. Luedecke Email: C.Luedecke@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Seasonal Forecast of Antarctic Sea Ice
- CLIVAR Exchanges no 32, vol 10, No 1 January 2005, contains on page 21 an article on the Seasonal Forecast of Antarctic Sea Ice by Dake Chen and Xiaojun Yuan go to: http://www.clivar.org/publications/publications.php
- Download the Seasonal Forecast of Antarctic Sea Ice article here
Autosub trapped under Antarctic ice shelf (from IMarEST News, Issue 23, Feb 24)
Antarctic Ice Shelf Retreats Happened Before
Multidisciplinary science opportunities for a Long-range Antarctic Research Aircraft (LARA).
A report on a meeting to develop this concept was held in Virginia 27-29 September 2004.
Antarctic Treaty Secretariat
Steve Rintoul finds Southern Ocean bottom waters have cooled
Dramatic Change in West Antarctic Ice
- From The Independent Online Edition; Dramatic change in West Antarctic ice could produce 16ft rise in sea levels
- From the BBC News website; Antarctic's ice 'melting faster'
Antarctica Iced Over When Greenhouses Gases - Not Ocean Currents - Shifted, Study Suggests
A longstanding theory that provides much of the basis for our understanding of climate change - that the mile-thick ice sheet covering Antarctica developed because of a shift in ocean currents millions of years ago - has been challenged by Purdue University scientists. 25 January 05
Forthcoming Events
Events of interest to the SCAR Community are listed at: http://www.scar.org/events/
prepared by Colin Summerhayes and Mandy Dalton, SCAR Secretariat. Please send feedback to info@scar.org
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