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Standing Scientific Group on Life Sciences (SSG-LS)

• Archive: SSG-LS website pre-2006
  

SCAR's 10th International Antarctic Biology Symposium Plan

The first circular for this meeting, which takes place in Sapporo, Japan, on 26-31 July 2009, is now available. This is the first time this prestigious symposium has been held in Asia. For details please visit the symposium website. Deadline for abstract submission is early January 2009. Student and early career scientists within 5 years of Ph.D completion can apply for a discount registration fee.

XXX SCAR SSG Meeting, 5-7 July 2008, St Petersburg, Russia

• Report of SSG-LS Meeting

• Other meeting papers
• List of Attendees at the Meeting (updated 17 November 2008)

People in SCAR Life Sciences

• Officers' and Members' Contact details
  

Code of Conduct for Fieldwork

• Environmental Code of Conduct for Terrestrial Scientific Field Research in Antarctica

Recommendations from Life Sciences

• New External Recommendations from SSG-LS in 2006

Reports & Articles

• SCAR-MarBIN contribution to SCAR Report, 2007
• Report on a Workshop on Terrestrial Biodiversity in the Antarctic - Microbial, Macroscopic, Indigenous and Alien (co-funded by SCAR, NRF and CIB; Stellenbosch, South Africa, 18-20 October 2006)
  
• Life Sciences Report to XXIX SCAR, July 2006

Action Groups

• Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML)
• SCAR-MarBIN - the Antarctic Marine Biodiversity Information Network
• Action Group on Antarctic Fuel Spills (AGAFS)
• Cold Seeps and Hydrothermal Mounds (CSHM) (Cross SSGs Group)
• Prediction of Changes in the Physical and Biological Environment of the Antarctic (PCPBEA) (Cross SSGs Group)
• King George Island Science Coordination Group (cross-SSGs initiative) Contact: Colin Summerhayes (cps32@cam.ac.uk)

Expert Groups

• Human Biology and Medicine
• Birds and Marine Mammals
  Incorporating the former Birds and Seals Groups
• Continuous Plankton Recorder Research (CPR)

Scientific Research Programmes within SSG-LS

• Subglacial Antarctic Lake Exploration (SALE)

• Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (EBA)

  • EBA Newsletters

    • Issue 2 (October 2008)

    • Issue 1 (March 2008)

  • Report on Antarctic Gradients Invited Workshop under SCAR's EBA Scientific Research Programme, held 19-21 May 2008 at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK

  • EBA data portal

Data and Information Services

• Antarctic Biodiversity Database
• SCAR-MarBIN - the Antarctic Marine Biodiversity Information Network
  • SCAR-MarBIN data portal
• GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• OBIS - Ocean Biogeographic Information System. MarBIN is the Antarctic node for OBIS.

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Partnerships and Links

ACAP - Advisory Committee to the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP is a multilateral agreement which seeks to conserve albatrosses and petrels by coordinating international activity to mitigate known threats to albatross and petrel populations.

• ACAP website

SCAR provides an Observer to the annual ACAP meeting. In 2008 it will be Dr Jeroen Creuwels (University of Amsterdam Zoological Museum).

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CCAMLR - Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

• CCAMLR website
• Report of SCAR Observer on the XXVI CCAMLR Meeting, by Graham Hosie
• SCAR Report to XXVI CCAMLR by Graham Hosie
• Report of SCAR Observer on the XXV CCAMLR Meeting, by Graham Hosie
• SCAR Report to XXV CCAMLR by Graham Hosie
• Report of SCAR Observer on the XXIV CCAMLR Meeting, by Graham Hosie
• SCAR Report to XXIV CCAMLR by Graham Hosie
• Report on XXIII CCAMLR by Edith Fanta

The SCAR link for CCAMLR is Dr Graham Hosie, Australian Antarctic Division (Graham.Hosie@aad.gov.au)

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