Group Leaders

SCAR is very grateful to its many volunteers who help to lead our various groups and activities. Below you will see a list of these people and the groups they lead.

Please also see our Executive Committee and Delegates pages as well as the membership pages for our Geosciences, Life Sciences, and Physical Sciences Groups.

Scientific Research Programmes

INStabilities and Thresholds in ANTarctica (INSTANT) Timothy Naish – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Florence Colleoni – Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Italy
Integrated Science to Inform Antarctic and Southern Ocean Conservation (Ant-ICON) Mercedes Santos – Instituto Antártico Argentino, Argentina
Daniela Liggett – University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Near-term Variability and Prediction of the Antarctic Climate System (AntClimnow) Thomas Bracegirdle – British Antarctic Survey, UK
Ilana Wainer – University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Programme Planning Groups

Antarctic Geospace and
ATmosphere reseArch (AGATA)
Lucilla Alfonsi – Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
Nicolas Bergeot – Royal Observatory of Belgium

 

Geosciences Groups

GeoSciences Group Officers Chief Officer: Jesús Galindo-Zaldivar – Universidad de Granada, Spain
Deputy Chief Officer: Naresh C Pant – University of Delhi, India
Secretary: Laura De Santis – Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Italy
AntArchitecture Action Group (internal architecture of ice)
Robert Bingham – University of Edinburgh, UK
Antarctic Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map Project Expert Group (ADMAP) Graeme Eagles – Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
Fausto Ferraccioli – INOGS, Italy
Detlef Damaske – Germany
Antarctic Near-shore and Terrestrial Observing System Expert Group (ANTOS) Craig Cary – University of Waikato, New Zealand
Vonda Cummings – NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), New Zealand
Antarctic Permafrost, Soils and Periglacial Environments Expert Group (ANTPAS) Mauro Guglielmin – Università dell’Insubria, Italy
Antarctic Volcanism Expert Group (ANTVOLC) Adelina Geyer Traver – Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera, Spain
Alessio Di Roberto (Deputy) – INGV-Pisa, Italy
Connecting Geophysics with Geology Action Group (CGG) Joachim Jacobs – University of Bergen, Norway
Fausto Ferraccioli – INOGS, Italy
Andreas Läufer – Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany
Geodetic Infrastructure of Antarctica Expert Group (GIANT) Mirko Scheinert – Institut für Planetare Geodäsie, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Alessandro Capra – Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Geological Heritage and Geoconservation Expert Group (EG-GEOCON)
Anne Grunow – Ohio State University, USA
Cliff Atkins – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Enrique Diaz-Martinez – Geological Survey of Spain
International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean Expert Group (IBCSO) Boris Dorschel – Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
International Collaboration Effort for Improving Paleoclimate Research in the Southern Ocean (ICEPRO) Johan Etourneau – University of Bordeaux, France
Carlota Escutia – University of Granada, Spain
RINGS Action Group (ice sheet margin) Kenichi Matsuoka – Norsk Polarinstitutt, Norway

Life Sciences Groups

Life Sciences Group Officers Chief Officer: Ian McDonald – University of Waikato, New Zealand
Deputy Chief Officer: Nathalie Pattyn – Royal Military Academy, Belgium
Secretary: Byron Adams – Brigham Young University, USA
Antarctic Near-shore and Terrestrial Observing System Expert Group (ANTOS) Craig Cary – University of Waikato, New Zealand
Vonda Cummings – NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), New Zealand
Biogeochemical Exchange Processes at the Sea-Ice Interfaces Action Group (BEPSII) Jacqueline Stefels – University of Groningen, Netherlands
Jeff Bowman – Scripps Institute of Oceanography, USA
Expert Group on Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics (EG-ABI) Ben Raymond – Australian Antarcic Division, Australia
Anton van de Putte (Deputy) – Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium
Expert Group on Birds and Marine Mammals (EG-BAMM) Michelle La Rue – University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Ryan Reisinger – University of Southampton, UK
Manuela Bassoi – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Input Pathways of persistent organic pollutants to AntarCTica (ImPACT) Simonetta Corsolini – University of Siena, Italy
Zhiyong Xie – Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany
Joint Expert Group on Human Biology and Medicine (JEGHBM) Giichiro Ohno – Toukatsu Hospital, Chiba, Japan
Nathalie Pattyn (Deputy) – Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Royal Military Academy, Belgium
Matt Warner (Secretary) – British Antarctic Survey Medical Unit, UK
Plastic in Polar Environments (Plastic-AG) Ilaria Corsi – Università di Siena, Italy
Clara Manno  – British Antarctic Survey , UK
SCAR Krill Expert Group (SKEG) Bettina Meyer – Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
So Kawaguchi (Deputy) – Australian Antarctic Division, Australia
Expert Group on the Southern Ocean Continuous Plankton Recorder (SO-CPR) Kunio Takahashi – National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), Japan

Physical Sciences Groups

Physical Sciences Group Officers Chief Officer: Takuji Nakamura – National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), Japan
Deputy Chief Officer: Adriana María Gulisano – Instituto Antártico Argentino, Argentina
Secretary: Wojciech Miloch – University of Oslo, Norway
AntArchitecture Action Group (internal architecture of ice)
Robert Bingham – University of Edinburgh, UK
Antarctic Clouds and Aerosols Action Group (ACA) Tom Lachlan-Cope – British Antarctic Survey, UK
ANtarctic Gravity Wave Instrument Network (ANGWIN) Tracy Moffat-Griffin – British Antarctic Survey, UK
Antarctic Near-shore and Terrestrial Observing System Expert Group (ANTOS) Craig Cary – University of Waikato, New Zealand
Vonda Cummings – NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), New Zealand
Antarctic Sea-ice Processes and Climate Expert Group (ASPeCt) Marilyn Raphael – UCLA Department of Geography, USA
Earth Observation Action Group (EOAG) Anna Hogg – University of Leeds, UK
Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes Expert Group (FRISP) Elin Darelius – Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Norway
Input Pathways of persistent organic pollutants to AntarCTica (ImPACT) Simonetta Corsolini – University of Siena, Italy
Zhiyong Xie – Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany
International Partnership in Ice Core Sciences Expert Group (IPICS) Tas van Ommen – University of Tasmania, Australia
Hubertus Fischer – University of Bern, Switzerland
Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level Expert Group (ISMASS) Heiko Goelzer – NORCE Norwegian Research Centre
Frank Pattyn – Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Operational Meteorology in the Antarctic Expert Group (OpMet) Steve Colwell – British Antarctic Survey, UK
Paleoclimate Records from the Antarctic Margin and Southern Ocean (PRAMSO) Carlota Escutia – Universidad de Granada, Spain
Richard Levy – GNS Science, New Zealand
RINGS Action Group (ice sheet margin) Kenichi Matsuoka – Norsk Polarinstitutt, Norway
CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel Expert Group (SORP) Torge Martin – GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Germany
Ariaan Purich – Monash University, Australia
Tropical Antarctic Teleconnections Action Group (TATE) Sheeba Chenoli – University of Malaya, Malaysia

Humanities and Social Sciences Groups

Standing Committee on the Humanities and Social Sciences (SC-HASS)  Hanne Nielsen – University of Tasmania, Australia
Peder Roberts – University of Stavanger, Norway and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Action Group on Intrinsic Value in Antarctica (AGIVA) AGIVA Team – Dr Rupert Summerson (Australia), Dr Alfonso Donoso (Chile) and Ms Yousra Makanse (Netherlands)
Antarctic Tourism Action Group (Ant-TAG) Ant-TAG Team – Hanne Nielsen, Daniela Cajiao, Yu-Fai Leung and Gabriela Roldan
Action Group on Public Engagement with Antarctic Research (PEAR) Elizabeth Leane – University of Tasmania, Australia
Katie Marx – University of Tasmania, Australia
Policy-Law-Science Nexus Action Group (PoLSciNex AG) Luis Valentín Ferrada – Universidad de Chile, Chile
Akiho Shibata – Kobe University, Japan

Standing Committees

Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM) Johnathan Kool – Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
Helen Peat (Joint Deputy) – British Antarctic Survey, UK
Franke Nitsche (Joint Deputy) – Columbia University, USA
Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI) Li Fei – Chinese Antarctic Centre of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, China
Louise Ireland – British Antarctic Survey, UK
Standing Committee on the Antarctic Treaty System (SCATS) Susie Grant – British Antarctic Survey, UK
Standing Committee on Finance Jefferson Simões – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
Marcelo Leppe – Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH), Chile
Mike Bentley – Durham University, UK

Other SCAR Groups

Astronomy and Astrophysics from Antarctica (AAA) Expert Group Jim Madsen – Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), USA
BEDMAP3 (topographical model of Antarctica) Peter Fretwell – British Antarctic Survey, UK
Capacity Building, Education and Training (CBET) Burcu Özsoy – TÜBİTAK MRC Polar Research Institute (KARE), Türkiye
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Action Group Adriana María Gulisano – Instituto Antártico Argentino, Argentina
Jilda Caccavo– Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace, France
Pilvi Saarikoski – British Antarctic Survey, UK
Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics (ICED) ICED Team – Eugene Murphy, Nadine Johnstone and Rachel Cavanagh, British Antarctic Survey, UK
Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Eileen Hofmann – Old Dominion University, USA
Sian Henley – University of Edinburgh, UK