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SCAR BULLETIN No. 152, January 2004
XXVIII SCAR Science Week
Bremen, Germany, 25–31 July 2004
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in the Global System
The Open Science Conference will take place at the Congress Centre, Bremen, Germany 26-28 July 2004. The Conference will be held in conjunction with the biennial meeting of SCAR`s Standing Scientific Groups (XXVIII SCAR) and the annual meeting of the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes (COMNAP XVI).
SCAR invites all scientists who are interested both in Antarctica and in the Southern Ocean to participate in the Open Science Conference in order to present their latest discoveries. It is anticipated that the results of the conference will influence the planning of SCAR`s future Antarctic research programmes.
The Antarctic is now recognised as a vital element of the Earth system with strong atmospheric, oceanic, geological and biological links to conditions in the extra-polar regions. Recent rapid climate change in the Antarctic and the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole have focused attention on the role of the continent in the global climate system and made scientists and the general public aware of possible human impact on the environment. Although the Antarctic is remote, it holds the longest ice core record of past climate available on Earth, has remarkable marine biodiversity and even, as yet unexplored lakes under the ice sheet.
The Conference will review our present understanding of the close couplings between the Antarctica, the Southern Ocean and other parts of the Earth System. Cross-disciplinary presentations are particularly welcome, as well as papers on Arctic-Antarctic linkages, requirements for new data, observational and modelling studies and activities linked to other international programmes.
The conference will consist of keynote presentations, cross-disciplinary sessions, more specialised parallel symposia and poster sessions. Oral presentations and posters are particularly welcome from students.
Papers are requested on all aspects of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean as related to the Earth System.
We particularly welcome papers on:
- Variability and change in the Antarctic Biota: molecules to ecosystems
- Pelagic predators and the Southern Ocean System
- Structure and function of Southern Ocean Ecosystems
- Evolution of the Antarctic biota
- Ecology of the Antarctic sea-ice zone
- Human responses to the Antarctic Environment
- Ocean-atmosphere interactions
- Climate history of the Antarctic
- Astronomy from the Antarctic
- Arctic-Antarctic conjugacy
- Evolution of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate and biota: the geological record
- Antarctic neotectonics and geodesy
- Growth of the Antarctic continent
- Antarctic permafrost
- Management and application of Antarctic geospatial information
- Antarctica: From data management to information portals
- Open Science Session (Geoscience, Life and Physical Science)
Abstracts of talks or posters must be submitted by 15 January 2004 via the conference website: http://www.scar28.org
XXVIII SCAR Delegates Meeting
Bremerhaven, Germany, 3-9 October 2004
The SCAR Delegates Meeting will be held at the Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung and at the Historisches / Morgenstern Museum, Bremerhaven. The duration of the meeting will ultimately be determined by the agenda and by the reports of the XXVIII SCAR Science Meeting; it may thus terminate before 9 October 2004.
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