Publications by and on behalf of SCAR - Symposia

Numbered SCAR International Symposia

Biological Sciences
Earth Sciences
Glaciology
other symposia

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Antarctic Biological Sciences

Biologie Antarctique/Antarctic Biology, R Carrick, M Holdgate and J Prevost (ed). 1964. Paris, Hermann, 651 pp. [Proceedings of 1st SCAR/IUBS Symposium on Antarctic Biology, Paris, 2&endash;8 September 1962.]

Antarctic Ecology. M W Holdgate (ed). 1970. London and New York, Academic Press, 998 pp (2 volumes). [Proceedings of 2nd SCAR Symposium on Antarctic Biology, Washington 29 July &endash; 3 August 1968.]

Polar Human Biology, edited by O G Edholm and E K E Gunderson: 433 pp., 1973. London, Wm Heinemann Medical Books. (Proceedings of the SCAR/IUPS/IUBS Symposium on Human Biology and Medicine in the Antarctic, Cambridge 19-21 September 1972).

Adaptations within Antarctic Ecosystems, G A Llano (ed). 1987. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1252 pp. [Proceedings of 3rd SCAR/IUBS Symposium on Antarctic Biology, Washington 26&endash;30 August 1974.]

Antarctic Nutrient Cycles and Food Webs. W R Siegfried, P R Condy & R M Laws (ed), 1985. Berlin, etc, Springer Verlag, 700 pp. [Proceedings of the 4th SCAR/SCOR/IUBS/ IABO/SASCAR Symposium on Antarctic Biology, Wilderness, South Africa, 12-16 September 1983.]

Antarctic ecosystems: ecological change and conservation. K R Kerry and G Hempel (ed), 1990. Berlin, etc., Springer-Verlag, 427 pp. [Proceedings of the 5th SCAR Symposium on Antarctic Biology, Hobart, Australia, 29 August - 3 September 1988.]

Southern Ocean ecology: the BIOMASS perspective. S Z El-Sayed (ed). 1994. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 399 pp. [Proceedings of the BIOMASS Colloquium, Bremerhaven, Germany, September 1991.]

Antarctic communities: species, structure and survival. B Battaglia, J Valencia and D W H Walton (ed). 1997. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 464 pp. [Proceedings of the 6th SCAR Symposium on Antarctic Biology, Venice, Italy, 30 May &endash; 3 June 1994.]

Antarctic ecosystems: models for wider ecological understanding. W Davison, C Howard-Williams and P Broady (ed). 2000. Christchurch, New Zealand Natural Sciences, 334 pp. [Proceedings of the 7th SCAR Symposium on Antarctic Biology, Christchurch, New Zealand, September 1998.]

Antarctic Biology in a Global Context. Huiskes, A.H.L., W.W.C. Gieskes, J. Rozema, R.M.L. Schorno, S.M. van der
Vies, W.J. Wolff (eds), 2003. Leiden, Backhuys Publishers, XIII + 338pp. [Proceedings of the 8th SCAR International Biology Symposium 27 August - 1 September 2001, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.]

Evolution and Biodiversity in Antarctica. E Fanta, W Arntz, W Detrich and H Kawall (eds), 2007. Antarctic Science 19(2): 145 -
281, Cambridge Journals Online. [Proceedings of the 9th SCAR International Biology Symposium, 25-29 July 2005, Curitiba, Brazil.]

Antarctic Earth Sciences

Antarctic Geology, edited by R J Adie: 758 pp., 1964. Amsterdam, North Holland Publishing Co. [Proceedings of the 1st SCAR/IUGS Symposium on Antarctic Geology, Cape Town 16-21 September 1963].

Palaeoecology of Africa and of the Surrounding Islands and Antarctica, (Vol 5), edited by E M van Zinderen Bakker: 240 pp., 1969. Cape Town, A A Balkema. (Proceedings of Conference on Antarctic Quaternary Studies, Cambridge 24-27 July 1968).

Antarctic Geology and Geophysics (IUGS Series B No 1) edited by R J Adie: 876 pp., 1972, Universitetsforlaget. [Proceedings of the 2nd SCAR/IUGS Symposium on Antarctic Geology and Solid Earth Geophysics, Oslo 6-15 August 1970].

Palaeoecology of Africa and of the Surrounding Islands and Antarctica (Vol 8), edited by E M van Zinderen Bakker: 198 pp., 1973. Cape Town, A A Balkema. (Proceedings of SCAR Conference on Antarctic Quaternary Studies, Canberra 9-12 August 1972).

Circum-Antarctic Marine Geology, In: Marine Geology, 25, No 1/3, (Scientific Report No 35), edited by D E Hayes: 277 pp., 1977. Amsterdam, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co. (Proceedings of CMG/SCAR Symposium, Sydney 18-19 August 1976).

Antarctic Geoscience. C Craddock (ed), 1982. Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1172 pp. [Proceedings of the 3rd SCAR/IUGS Symposium on Antarctic Geology and Geophysics, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 22-27 August 1977.]

Antarctic Earth Science. R L Oliver, P R James & J B Jago (ed), 1983. Canberra, Australian Academy of Science and Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 697 pp. [Proceedings of the 4th SCAR/IUGS Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Adelaide, Australia, 16-20 August 1982.]

Geological evolution of Antarctica. M R A Thomson, J A Crame and J W Thomson (ed), 1991. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 722 pp. [Proceedings of the 5th SCAR/IUGS Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Cambridge, UK, 23-28 August 1987.]

Recent Progress in Antarctic Earth Science. Y Yoshida, K Kaminuma and K Shiraishi (ed). 1992. Tokyo, Terra Scientific Publishing Company, 796 pp. [Proceedings of the 6th SCAR/IUGS Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Saitama, Japan, 9&endash;13 September 1991.]

The Antarctic region: geological evolution and processes. C A Ricci (ed), 1997. Siena, Terra Antartica Publication, 1206 pp. [Proceedings of the 7th SCAR/IUGS Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Siena, Italy, 10&endash;15 September 1995.]

Antarctica at the close of a Millennium. J A Gamble, D N B Skinner & S Henrys (ed), 2002. [Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand, July 1999.]

Antarctica : contributions to global earth sciences. D K Futterer, D Damaske, G Kleinschmidt, H Miller and F Tessensohn (eds), 2006. Berlin: Springer, 477 pp. [Proceedings of the 9th SCAR/IUGS International Symposium of Antarctic Earth Sciences, Potsdam, 2003.]

Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World. Alan Cooper, Carol Raymond and the 10th ISAES Editorial Team (ed), 2007. [Online Proceedings of the 10th SCAR/IUGS International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 26 August-1 September 2007]. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1047 Version 2.0. Also available in the Book Proceedings with DVD from The National Academies Press. The publications include 11 keynote papers, 109 short research papers, 217 extended abstracts, 3 meeting and workshop reports and the symposium program book. All are available for free download in PDF format.

Antarctic Glaciology

Colloque sur la Glaciologie Antarctique/Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology (IASH Publication No 55): 162 pp., 1961. Gent-Brugge, de l'Association Internationale d'Hydrologie Scientifique. (Proceedings of the IASH/SCAR Symposium, Helsinki 25 July-6 August 1960).

International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciological Exploration (ISAGE). (IAHS Publication No 86), edited by A J Gow, C Keeler, C C Langway and W F Weeks: 543 pp., 1970. Gewntbrugge, International Association of Scientific Hydrology and Cambridge, SCAR. (Proceedings of SCAR/IASH Symposium. Hanover, United States, 3-7 September 1968).

Antarctic Glacial History and World Palaeoenvironments, edited by E M van Zinderen Bakker: 172 pp., 1978. Rotterdam, A A Balkema. (Proceedings of SCAR Symposium, Birmingham 17 August 1977).

Annals of Glaciology (vol. 3), 1982. Cambridge, International Glaciological Society, 362 pp. [Proceedings of the 3rd International Glaciological Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology, Columbus, Ohio, United States, 7-12 September 1981.] ISBN 0 9502484 4 4

Annals of Glaciology (vol. 11), 1988. Cambridge, International Glaciological Society, 229 pp. [Proceedings of the 4th International Glaciological Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology, Bremerhaven, Federal Republic of Germany, 7-11 September 1987.] ISBN 0 946417 02 4

Annals of Glaciology (vol. 20), 1994. Cambridge, International Glaciological Society, 458 pp. [Proceedings of the 5th International Glaciological Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 5-11 September 1993.] ISBN 0 946417 14 8

Annals of Glaciology (vol. 29), 1999. Cambridge, International Glaciological Society, 302 pp. [Papers from the 6th International Glaciological Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology, Lanzhou, China, 5&endash;9 September 1998.] ISBN 0 946417 24 5

Cryosphere Theme Report (April 2007)

WCRP/CliC Global Prediction of the Cryosphere (GPC) Project Workshop, October 2007 - SCAR Report 31

Other Symposia

Symposium on Antarctic Logistics: 778 pp., 1963. Washington DC, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. (Proceedings of SCAR Symposium, Boulder 13-17 August 1962).

Symposium on Antarctic Oceanography, edited by R I Currie. 268 pp., 1966. (Proceedings of the SCAR/SCOR/IAPO/IUBS Symposium, Santiago, 13-16 September 1966.

Polar Meteorology: WMO Technical Note No 87 (WMO-No 211 TP. 111): 540 pp., 1967. Geneva, World -Meteorological Organization. (Proceedings of the WMO/SCAR/ICPM Symposium, Geneva 5-9 September 1966).

Symposium on Antarctic Ice and Water Masses, edited by Sir George Deacon: 113 pp., 1971. Cambridge, SCAR. (Proceedings of SCAR Symposium, Tokyo 19 September 1970).

Antarctic Telecommunications, edited by A H Sheffield: 402 pp., 1972, Cambridge SCAR. (Proceedings of the SCAR Symposium on Technical and Scientific Problems affecting Antarctic Telecommunications, Sandejford 10-16 May 1972.

Energy Fluxes over Polar Surfaces: WMO Technical Note No 129 (WMO-No 361), edited by S Orvig: 300 pp., 1973. Geneva, World Meteorological Organization. (Proceedings of the IAMAP/IAPSO/SCAR/WMO Symposium, Moscow 3-5 August 1971).

Polar Oceans, edited by M J Dunbar: 682 pp., 1977. Calgary, Arctic Institute of North America. (Proceedings of the SCOR/SCAR Conference, Montreal, May 1974).

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, (vol. 11, No. 4), 1981. Wellington, Royal Society of New Zealand, 205 pp. [Proceedings of the SCAR Symposium on the Ross Sea, Queenstown, New Zealand, 17-18 October 1981.]

Report on the Workshop on 'Recent High Latitude Climate Change', Fairbanks, Alaska, 6-8 December 2004, by J Turner, 15 pages.

Antarctic Climate Change During the Last 50 Years, Turner et al: Int. J. Climatol. 25: 279–294 (2005), Published online 11 February 2005 in Wiley InterScience. DOI: 10.1002/joc.1130.

Report on the CliC Scientific Steering Committee meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, 6-9 November 2005, J Turner, 3 pages.

Significant warming of the Antarctic winter troposphere, Turner et al: Science 311: 1914-1917 (31 March 2006).

Report on the SCAR/CliC/ICPM Workshop on High Latitude Reanalyses, British Antarctic Survey, 10-12 April 2006, J Turner, 9 pages.

Summary Statement from the Workshop on Understanding Sea-Level Rise and Variability, June 2006, World Climate Research Programme, IOC/UNESCO, 8 pages.

Report on the CliC SSC meeting in Boulder, Colorado, 4-8 December 2006, J Turner, 2 pages.

Workshop on the Antarctic Wind Field, Turner and Abu Samah: American Meteorological Society BAMS: 721-723 (May 2007).

Observing the polar oceans during the international polar year and beyond, Summerhayes et al. Reprinted with permission from WMO Bulletin 56(4) October 2007, pp 271- 284.

Recent High Latitude Climate Change: Report on the SCAR-CliC-IASC-ICPM Workshop, October 2007 - SCAR Report 32

Recent Change in the Climate and Atmospheric Chemistry over Antarctica, Dixon et al. [ITASE Synthesis Workshop Report, September 2008]