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Science & Data

• Standing Scientific Groups (SSG)
• Scientific Research Programmes (SRP)
• Data
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• Membership of SCAR Subsidiary Bodies (as at 21 November 2008)
• Science Partnerships

Standing Scientific Groups

SCAR's Standing Scientific Groups are responsible for:

• Sharing information on disciplinary scientific research being conducted by national Antarctic programmes;
• Identifying research areas or fields where current research is lacking;
• Coordinating proposals for future research by national Antarctic programmes to achieve maximum scientific and logistic effectiveness;
• Identifying research areas or fields that might be best investigated by a SCAR Scientific Research Programme and establishing Scientific Programme Planning Groups to develop formal proposals to the Executive Committee;
• Establishing Action and Expert Groups to address specific research topics within the discipline.

The three Standing Scientific Groups are:

• Standing Scientific Group on GeoSciences
• Standing Scientific Group on Life Sciences
• Standing Scientific Group on Physical Sciences

Reports of SSG Chief Officers Meetings

Cross-SSG Linkages Meetings

• Report from the Cross-SSG Chief Officers Meeting in Rome, Italy, November 2006
  • 2nd Cross-SSG Linkages workshop website

• Report from the Cross-SSG Chief Officers Meeting in Amsterdam, November 2005
  • Selected Presentations from the Cross-SSG Meeting in Amsterdam, November 2005

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Scientific Research Programmes (SRPs)

The main focus of SCAR's international scientific coordination is on five Scientific Research Programmes.
If you wish to contribute to any one of these programmes please get in touch with the Chief Officers of SRPs or contact SCAR Secretariat.

• Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE)
• Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments (SALE)
• Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (EBA)
  • EBA data portal
• Antarctica and the Global Climate System (AGCS)
• Interhemispheric Conjugacy Effects in Solar-Terrestrial and Aeronomy Research (ICESTAR)

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Data and Information Management

The management of Data and Information on behalf of SCAR's scientific community is carried out by:

• The Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management (JCADM), is a joint committee of SCAR and the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes (COMNAP). JCADM is responsible for the Antarctic Data Directory System, centred on:
  • The Antarctic Master Directory (AMD) and
  • The National Antarctic Data Centres (NADCs).

• The Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SC-AGI) established in 2006. Please see list of SC-AGI Members. SC-AGI is responsible for several initiatives:
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD)
  • Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
    
  • Antarctic Map Catalogue
  • King George Island GIS
• The SCAR-MarBIN project (SCAR Marine Biodiversity Information Network) is the data management component of the Circum Antarctic Census of Marine Life (CAML).
  • SCAR-MarBIN data portal