SCAR initiated the Fellowship Programme in 2002. The aim is to encourage the active involvement of early career scientists in Antarctic scientific research and to build new connections and further strengthen international capacity and cooperation in Antarctic research. Since the initiation of the programme, 83 SCAR Fellowships have been awarded. Three of these fellowships were awarded jointly with our partner Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) between 2011-2015. From 2015 to 2018 a Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship was awarded annually, initially financed by funds from the Prix Biodiversité of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation awarded to SCAR.

Testimonials from past fellows are available on the archive website.

 

2022 Fellows

Christian Torres

Home: Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil
Host: University of Valparaíso, Chile

2022 Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Fellowship

Hanna Yevchun

Home: National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ukraine
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

2021 Fellows

David Vendrami 

Home: Bielefeld University, Germany
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Fernando Luis Hillebrand  

Home: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Host: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)

 

Lisa Craw 

Home: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia
Host: Swansea University, UK

 Lumi Haraguchi 

Home: Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
Host: University of Cape Town, South Africa

 

2020 Fellows

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Dalia Carolina Barragán Barrera

Home: Colombian Antarctic Program, Comisión Colombiana del Océano, Colombia
Host: Oceanográfico y Antártico de la Armada, Ecuador

Morgan Seag

Home: University of Cambridge, UK
Host: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia

Ievgeniia Prekrasna

Home: National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ukraine
Host: University of Oulu, Finland

 

Minkyoung Kim

Home: Seoul National University, South Korea
Host: Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany

 

2019 Fellows

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Masaru Kogure

Home: National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
Host: Hampton University, US

Jackson Chu 

Home: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Sarah Jackson 

Home: The Australian National University, Australia
Host: British Antarctic Survey/Cambridge University, UK

 

Andrew Corso 

Home: Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, US 
Host: CCAMLR, Australia

 

Kimberlee Baldry 

Home: Institute of Marine Science and Antarctic Studies, Australia
Host: Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, France

The improvement of Biogeochemical Argo chlorophyll-a concentration data for large-scale studies of Southern Ocean phytoplankton

 

Martina Mascioni 

Home: Department of Phycology, University of La Plata, Argentina
Host: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US

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pdf Diversity of bloom-forming phytoplankton species in Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) nearshore waters (366 KB)

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Mia Wege 

Home: Mammal Research Institute, South Africa
Host: Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, Australia

Long-term foraging strategies and their consequences to Antarctic fur seals

 

 

Mariia Pavlovska 

Home:  State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ukraine
Host: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany

Exploring the interplay of Antarctic bacterioplankton and phytoplankton by integration of biodiversity, contextual, and OMICS data

 

2018 Fellows

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Lettie Roach

Home: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 
Host: University of North Carolina, USA

  pdf The influence of nonlinear physical processes on the seasonal cycle of Antarctic sea ice  (331 KB)

  

Pamela Santibáñez

Home: Instituto Antartico Chileno, Chile
Host: Desert Research Institute, USA

Microbes within deep ice cores: Unravelling the microbial responses to climatic and ecosystem processes

 

Abhilash Nair

Home: National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, India
Host: GNS Science, New Zealand

  pdf Pleistocene-Holocene variability in ACC strength and Agulhas leakage intensity (679 KB)

 

Bruno Fusaro

Home: Instituto Antártico Argentino, Argentina
Host: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain

  pdf Molecular and epidemiological diagnosis of parasitic diseases in Pygoscelid penguins in the content of global climate change (293 KB)

 

2018 Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship

 Mónica Luján Remedios-De León

Home: University of the Republic, Uruguay
Host: The British Antarctica Survey, UK

  pdf Development of a non-native species management plan: Development of a non-native species management plan: Trichocera maculipennis (Meigen, 1818) (Diptera: Trichoceridae) on King George Island, South Shetland Islands (Meigen, 1818) (Diptera: Trichoceridae) on King George Island, South Shetland Islands (118 KB)

  

2017 Fellows

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Leena Riekkola 

Home: University of Auckland, New Zealand
Host: Marine Mammal Laboratory, NOAA, USA

  pdf Spatial analysis of humpback whale behaviour and habitat use patterns in Antarctica. (431 KB)

 

Julie Janssens

Home: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Australia
Host: Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), France

Representation of iron in a sea-ice biogeochemical model.

 

Hanne Nielsen

Home: University of Tasmania, Australia
Host: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

pdf Framing Antarctica as Fragile: Tracing the evolution of media narratives about the far south (1945 – 2015). (351 KB)

 

Antonio Aguera Garcia

Home: Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Host: University of Otago, New Zealand

Transgenerational Plasticity (TGP) and acclimation in a keystone Polar Invertebrate in response to a warmer more acidic Antarctic.

 

Filip Hrbáček

Home: Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Host: Insubria University, Italy

  pdf Effect of vegetation cover on active layer thermal regime in climatically contrasted environments of Antarctica. (121 KB)

 

2017 Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship

Shramik Patil 

Home: The National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), India
Host: UPMC-CNRS Station Biologique de Roscoff, France

pdf Response of Southern Indian Ocean coccolithophores to climate change: evidence from laboratory culture experiments. (168 KB)

 

 

2016 Fellows

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Lavenia Ratnarajah 

Home: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia
Host: Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne, France

pdf Effects of natural iron fertilisation by baleen whales on the microbial community in the Southern Ocean (183 KB)

 

 

Jilda Caccavo

Home: University of Padua, Italy
Host: Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, France

Trophic dynamics and nutritional condition of Pleuragramma antarctica in the Weddell Sea, as related to population genetic structure


 

 

Ryan Reisinger

Home: Zoology Department, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
Host: Australian Antarctic Division 

pdf Marine Top Predator Habitat Use around the Sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands  (164 KB)

 

 

 

2016 Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship

Graeme Clark 

Home: The University of New South Wales, Australia
Host: McGill University, Canada

The final frontier: protecting Antarctica from invasive species 

 

 

 

2015 Fellows

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Christine Dow

Home: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

  pdf Analysis of Antarctic subglacial hydrological development in Aurora Basin using aerogeophysical data and numerical modeling (226 KB)

  

 

Jennifer Newall

Home: University of Stockholm, Sweden
Host: Bremen University, Germany

MAGIC-DML – integrating ice sheet modeling and field studies

 

 

Sebastian Rosier

Home: British Antarctic Survey, UK
Host: Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

pdf Satellite observation and model intercomparison of tidal processes in ice-sheet grounding zones (1.27 MB)

 

2015 Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship

Rowan Trebilco

Home: ACE-CRC, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Host: (1) Collecte Localisation Satellite, Ramonville-Saint-Agne and (2) Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France

pdf New models for understanding the role of mesopelagic fishes and squid in Southern Ocean ecosystems (252 KB)

 

SCAR-COMNAP Combined Fellowship

Inka Koch 

Home: University of Otago, New Zealand
Host: University of Texas Institute of Geophysics, USA

Detecting marine ice internal layers and thickness in an Antarctic ice shelf with airborne ice penetrating radar

 

 

2014 Fellows

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Jaimie Cleeland

Home: IMAS, University of Tasmania, Australia
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

pdf Bottom-up and top-down influences on demographic parameters of Southern Ocean albatrosses (1.72 MB)

 

Manoj M.C

Home: Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, India
Host: Kochi University, Japan

  pdf Biomarker based reconstruction of Late Quaternary Palaeoceanographic conditions in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean (601 KB)

 

Camila Negrão Signori

Home: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Host: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

  pdf Microbial diversity across environmental gradients in the Southern Ocean: a spatial, temporal and vertical approach considering the climate changes (218 KB)

Links to resulting papers and output:
- Signori et al (2017)
- Presentation at the OSC Kuala Lumpur (2016)
- Award 1st Place Oral Presentation "South American Region" at OSC Kuala Lumpur (2016) 

 

Fiona Shanhun 

Home: Lincoln University, New Zealand
Host: St Francis Xavier University, Canada

Constraining baseline activities of Dry Valley terrestrial ecosystems: partitioning biotic and abiotic components of soil CO₂ fluxes

 

2013 Fellows

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Paula Casanovas

Home: University of Maryland, USA
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

  pdf Mapping lichen richness on the Antarctic Peninsula using remote sensing and photographic documentation by citizen scientists (61 KB)

Links to resulting papers:
- Poster presented at Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society Conference (RSPSoc14)
- RSPSoc14 Proceedings Paper
- Casanovas et al, Polar Research 2015, 34, 25633

 

Bella Duncan

Home: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Host: University of Birmingham, UK

  pdf Miocene and Pliocene Antarctic climate history from a continental perspective: Climate reconstructions using molecular and isotopic biomarker proxies (85 KB)

 

Luis Huckstadt

Home: University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Host: IMAS, University of Tasmania, Australia

pdf Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Datasets (RAATD): Large-scale habitat use by pack-ice seals (254 KB)

 

Reny Tyson

Home: Duke University, USA
Host: IMAS, University of Tasmania, Australia

pdf Estimating the physiology of Antarctic krill predators: a Bayesian approach (482 KB)

 

 SCAR-COMNAP Combined Fellowship

Luis Rodriguez Pertierra

Home: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

pdf Niche modelling as a tool for invasive risk assessment of vascular plants in terrestrial Antarctica (707 KB)

 

 

2012 Fellows

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Bethan Davies

Home: Aberystwyth University, UK
Host: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

pdf Understanding Holocene glacier dynamics in the NE Antarctic Peninsula, and projection of future glacier behaviour under a warming climate (73 KB)

Links to resulting papers:
- Davies et al (2014)
- Davies & Glasser (2014)

 

Elizabeth Shadwick

Home: ACE-CRC, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Host: Duke University, USA

pdf Net community production and its regulating factors in the Australian Sector of the Southern Ocean (577 KB)

Link to resulting paper:
- Shadwick et al (2014)

 

Megumu Tsujimoto

Home: National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

pdf Is the reproductive strategy of Antarctic flowering plants changing in response to climate change? (70 KB)

Link to resulting paper:
- Tsujimoto et al (2014)

 

SCAR-COMNAP Combined Fellowship

Jenson V. George

Home: National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, India
Host: GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany

pdf Influence of small scale mixing on the primary productivity and water mass formation in the Southern Ocean (373 KB)

 

2011 Fellows

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Runa Antony

Home: National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, India
Host: Louisiana State University, USA

pdf Implication of microbial processes for modifying gas records in Polar ice cores (369 KB)

 

Natalia Tilinina

Home: P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Host: University of East Anglia, UK

pdf Antarctic "missing" mesoscale cyclones representation in new reanalyses comparing to the satellite imagery (362 KB)

 

David Velázquez

Home: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Host: Montana State University, USA

pdf Planktonic-benthic coupling in Lake Bonney (McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica) (71 KB)

 

2010 Fellows

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Sze Ling Ho

Home: Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
Host: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

pdf Development of organic sea surface temperature proxy, TEX₈₆ for application in the polar region (71 KB)

 

Sunil Kumar Shukla

Home: National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, India
Host: University of Bordeaux, France

pdf Diatom-based Paleoclimate Inferences from Antarctic to Subtropical Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean (285 KB)

 

Ernesto Molina Balari

Home: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Host: Instituto Antarctico Chileno, Chile

Bio-optical properties of Antarctic sea-ice algae

 

Francisca Vermeulen

Home: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Host: University of Tromsø, Norway

pdf Particulate carbon and biogenic silica in sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic (40 KB)

 

2009 Fellows

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Jennifer Lee

Home: Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

pdf Identification of glacial refugia in Antarctica (98 KB)

 

Nuncio Murukesh

Home: National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, India
Host: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, USA

pdf The link between tropical Indian Ocean processes, Indian Ocean Dipole(IOD), and sea-ice (673 KB)

 

Stefano Picotti

Home: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (INOGS), Italy
Host: Pennsylvania State University, USA

pdf Ice properties and basal conditions inferred from seismic data acquired on two fast-flowing ice streams (West Antarctica) (872 KB)

 

Odile Volonterio

Home: Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

pdf The Antarctic-Magellan connection: Diversity and biogeography of interstitial turbellarians in the Scotia Arc (872 KB)
 

Links to resulting papers:
- Volonterio et al (2013)
- Volonterio & Brewin (2014)

 

2008 Fellows

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Wendy (Wilhelmina) Clavano

Home: University of Alberta, Canada
Host: Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

pdf Retrieving snow thickness over land and sea ice by improving ground penetrating radar data processing (889 KB)

 

Nicholas Demetras

Home: University of Waikato, New Zealand
Host: Colorado State University, USA

pdf The role of biotic and abiotic factors in determining the distribution of soil nematode communities in an Antarctic Dry Valley system (234 KB)

 

Marina Verducci

Home: University of Siena, Italy
Host: Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften (IFM-GEOMAR), Germany

pdf Middle Miocene Southern Ocean climatic and paleoceanographic evolution and Antarctic cryosphere expansion (152 KB)

 

SCAR/IPF/IAI/UNEP 6CI Fellowship (funded by IPF)

Ramón Hegedüs

Home: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Host: Lund University, Sweden

pdf The role of polarized skylight in animal navigation and foraging in Antarctica (143 KB)

 

2007 Fellows

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Igino Coco

Home: Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI), Italy
Host: Dartmouth College, USA

pdf The role of abrupt solar wind dynamic pressure variations on the polar ionosphere dynamics (72 KB)

 

Stefanie Kaiser

Home: University of Hamburg Zoological Museum, Germany
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

pdf Quantification of Southern Ocean biodiversity in space: richness and distribution of Isopoda (Crustacea, Malacostraca)in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen (20 KB)

 

Delphine Lannuzel

Home: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Host: ACE-CRC, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

pdf The role of iron as a micro-nutrient to the Antarctica sea zone algal (307 KB)

 

Glen Phillips

Home: University of Newcastle, Australia
Host: Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Germany

pdf Structural controls and timing of upper crustal deformation within the Lambert Basin: Contribution to geodynamic, ice-sheet and mass balance models of the Mesozoic-Tertiary evolution of East Antarctica (141 KB)

 

2006 Fellows

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Olaf Eisen

Home: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

pdf Reconstructing Antarctic ice sheet history from internal layering, as a contribution to SCAR's ACE and AGCS programmes (20 KB)

Resulting paper:
Drews, R., Martín, C., Steinhage, D. and Eisen, O., Characterizing the glaciological conditions at Halvfarryggen ice dome, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, J. Glaciology, Volume 59(213), 201, 9–20, 03/2013; doi:10.3189/2013JoG12J134

 

Nobue Kasamatsu

Home: National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

pdf Krill, dimethyl sulphide and climate change: a contribution to SCAR's EBA, ACE and AGCS programmes (71 KB)

 

Stephanie Konfal

Home: Byrd Polar Research Center, USA
Host: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

pdf Antarctic Neotectonics, as a contribution to SCAR's ANTEC programme (60 KB)

 

Victoria Metcalf

Home: University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Host: Northeastern University, Boston, USA

pdf Fat transport in Antarctic fish: a contribution to the EBA programme (437 KB)

 

Barbara Villoslada

Home: Cordoba University, Argentina
Host: University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Paleo-atmospheric circulation, as a contribution to the ACE programme

 

2005 Fellows

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Narelle Baker

Home: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Host: University of Bristol, UK

pdf The evolution of the Ross Ice Shelf as a contribution to SCAR's ACE programme (73 KB)

 

Simone Brandao

Home: University of Hamburg, Germany
Host: Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Science

pdf A molecular study of Antarctic ostracods as a contribution to SCAR's EBA programme (126 KB)

 

Veronica Fuentes

Home: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Host: Institute Sciences de la Mer at Rimouski, Canada

pdf Nutrients and the ecosystem as a contribution to SCAR's EBA and AGCS programmes (76 KB)

 

David Schneider

Home: University of Washington, USA
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

pdf Using ice cores to determine proxies for the Southern Annular Mode, as a contribution to SCAR's AGCS programme (81 KB)

 

2003-04 Asturias Fellows

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Elanor M Bell

Home: University of Potsdam, Germany
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

pdf The diversity and tropho-dynamics of mixotrophic protests in Antarctic coastal waters (110 KB)

 

Steven Boger

Home: University of Melbourne, Australia
Host: Universität Bremen, Germany

pdf Mesozoic evolution of the Lambert Graben, Mac.Robertson Land (127 KB)

 

Barbara Delmonte

Home: University of Siena, Italy
Host: LGGE, Université Joseph Fourier, France

pdf Millennial and secular periodicities in Antarctic atmospheric circulation during the Holocene (314 KB)

 

Cai Minghong

Home: Polar Research Institute of China
Host: ACE-CRC, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

pdf Ice shelf - ocean interaction at the Amery Ice Shelf, Mac.Robertson Land (384 KB)

 

Cristina Sobrino

Home: Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía, Spain
Host: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, USA

pdf Phytoplankton photosynthetic kinetics of damage and repair in vertically mixed Antarctic waters (300 KB)