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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:

Reports of SSG Chief Officers Meetings

Cross-SSG Linkages Workshops

1^st Cross-SSG Linkages Workshop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands - November 2005

2^nd Cross-SSG Linkages Workshop in Rome, Italy - November 2006

photo of participants of the 2nd cross SSGs meeting

The photograph shows attendees at the Rome workshop, November 2006.

3^rd Cross-SSG Linkages Workshop in Modena, Italy - February 2009

Attendees at the 3rd Cross-SSG Linkages Workshop in Modena, February 2009

The photograph shows attendees at the Modena workshop, February 2009.

^{From left to right: John Turner, Kathy Conlan, Roberto Cervellati, Guido di Prisco, John Storey, Carlota

Escutia, Kim Finney, Alessandro Capra, Toni Meloni, Carlo Barbante, Colin Summerhayes, Maurizio Candidi,

Dominic Hodgson, Chuck Kennicutt and Annika Seppälä.}

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.

Data and Information Management

The management of Data and Information on behalf of SCAR's scientific community is carried out by the Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM), the Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SC-AGI) and the SCAR Marine Biodiversity Information Network (SCAR-MarBIN).

SCADM and SCAGI hold their first joint meeting, Trippenhuis, Amsterdam, 6-10 September 2009


^{(L to R) SCAGI Chief Officer Henk Brolsma, SCADM Deputy Chief Officer Helen Campbell, and SCADM Chief Officer Kim Finney, listening to the representative of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Martijn Los.}	^{SCADM-SCAGI meeting participants; with Kim Finney,} ^{SCADM Chief Officer, in the left foreground.}

Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM)

SCADM is responsible for the Antarctic Data Directory System, centred on:

Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SC-AGI)

SC-AGI was 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

At the SC-AGI Meeting in Amsterdam, September 2009, Certificates of Appreciation were presented to Roberto Cervellati and Chiara Ramorino for their long service to SC-AGI and, in particular, their extensive work on the compilation of the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica since its inception in 1992. The certificates were presented by Henk Brolsma, Chief Officer of SC-AGI.

^{Roberto Cervellati holding his Certificate of Appreciation, with Henk Brolsma.}	^{Chiara Ramorino, with Henk Brolsma, after receiving her Certificate of Appreciation.}

SCAR Marine Biodiversity Information Network (SCAR-MarBIN)

The SCAR-MarBIN project is the data management component of the Circum Antarctic Census of Marine Life (CAML).
- SCAR-MarBIN data portal

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

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Standing Scientific Groups

Reports of SSG Chief Officers Meetings

Cross-SSG Linkages Workshops

1st Cross-SSG Linkages Workshop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands - November 2005

2nd Cross-SSG Linkages Workshop in Rome, Italy - November 2006

3rd Cross-SSG Linkages Workshop in Modena, Italy - February 2009

Scientific Research Programmes (SRPs)

Data and Information Management

SCADM and SCAGI hold their first joint meeting, Trippenhuis, Amsterdam, 6-10 September 2009

Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM)

Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SC-AGI)

SCAR Marine Biodiversity Information Network (SCAR-MarBIN)

1^st Cross-SSG Linkages Workshop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands - November 2005

2^nd Cross-SSG Linkages Workshop in Rome, Italy - November 2006

3^rd Cross-SSG Linkages Workshop in Modena, Italy - February 2009