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
High-resolution atmospheric and glaciological modelling for the South Shetland Islands on the northern Antarctic Peninsula
María Piotto
Home: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Host: University of Oviedo, Spain
HMSC-Antar: A quantitative approach to infer the ecological processes
Victoria Nuviala
Home: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Host: Western Sydney University, Australia
Mapping Memories. An Architectural Biography of Antarctica
James Brean
Home: University of Birmingham, UK
Host: Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Spain
NPF-POLAR: Particle formation mechanisms around the Antarctic Peninsula
2022 Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Fellowship
Hanna Yevchun
Home: National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ukraine
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK
Remotely detecting and mapping biodiversity in Antarctica using VHR satellite and UAV data
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)
Spectral linear mixing model applied to data from passive microwave radiometers for sea ice thickness mapping in the Weddell Sea
Lisa Craw
Home: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia
Host: Swansea University, UK
The Geodynamic Ice-shelf Suture-zone Model (GlzMo): quantifying the influence of suture zones on the structural itnegrity of a large Antarctic ice shelf
Lumi Haraguchi
Home: Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
Host: University of Cape Town, South Africa
The influence of nano-flagellate functional types on carbon and nitrogen cycling across the Southern Ocean
Natalia Gimena Rosciano
Home: Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos (CESIMAR), Argentina
Host: Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, USA
Using triple stable isotope analysis to quantify the trophic niches of sympatric Pygoscelis penguin species with differing responses to environmental change.
2020 Fellows
Dalia Carolina Barragán Barrera
Home: Colombian Antarctic Program, Comisión Colombiana del Océano, Colombia
Host: Oceanográfico y Antártico de la Armada, Ecuador
Assessing population genetic status and mercury bioaccumulation of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula
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
Exploring beneficial role of endophytic bacteria for survival of Deschampsia antarctica in arid Antarctic environments using culture based and OMICS-techniques
Minkyoung Kim
Home: Seoul National University, South Korea
Host: Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
Reconstruction of polynya development in the western Amundsen Shelf Embayment since the last deglaciation using IPSO25
2019 Fellows
Masaru Kogure
Home: National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
Host: Hampton University, US
Impact of change in Antarctic gravity waves due to climate change on the atmosphere
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
Development of the 17O-excess paleoproxy: insights from a high-resolution Antarctic Peninsula core
Andrew Corso
Home: Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, US
Host: CCAMLR, Australia
A larval fish bycatch guide for the Antarctic krill fishery
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
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
Lettie Roach
Home: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Host: University of North Carolina, USA
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
2018 Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship
Mónica Luján Remedios-De León
Home: University of the Republic, Uruguay
Host: The British Antarctica Survey, UK
2017 Fellows
Leena Riekkola
Home: University of Auckland, New Zealand
Host: Marine Mammal Laboratory, NOAA, USA
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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
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
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
2016 Fellows
Lavenia Ratnarajah
Home: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia
Host: Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne, France
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
Christine Dow
Home: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Host: Australian Antarctic Division
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
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
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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
Jaimie Cleeland
Home: IMAS, University of Tasmania, Australia
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK
Manoj M.C
Home: Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, India
Host: Kochi University, Japan
Camila Negrão Signori
Home: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Host: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
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
Paula Casanovas
Home: University of Maryland, USA
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK
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
Luis Huckstadt
Home: University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Host: IMAS, University of Tasmania, Australia
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
2012 Fellows
Bethan Davies
Home: Aberystwyth University, UK
Host: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Links to resulting papers:
- Davies et al (2014)
- Davies & Glasser (2014)
Elizabeth Shadwick
Home: ACE-CRC, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Host: Duke University, USA
Link to resulting paper:
- Shadwick et al (2014)
Megumu Tsujimoto
Home: National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK
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
2011 Fellows
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
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
Sze Ling Ho
Home: Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
Host: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Sunil Kumar Shukla
Home: National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, India
Host: University of Bordeaux, France
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
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
Odile Volonterio
Home: Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK
Links to resulting papers:
- Volonterio et al (2013)
- Volonterio & Brewin (2014)
2008 Fellows
Wendy (Wilhelmina) Clavano
Home: University of Alberta, Canada
Host: Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Nicholas Demetras
Home: University of Waikato, New Zealand
Host: Colorado State University, USA
Marina Verducci
Home: University of Siena, Italy
Host: Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften (IFM-GEOMAR), Germany
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
Igino Coco
Home: Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI), Italy
Host: Dartmouth College, USA
Stefanie Kaiser
Home: University of Hamburg Zoological Museum, Germany
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK
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
2006 Fellows
Olaf Eisen
Home: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK
Nobue Kasamatsu
Home: National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
Host: Australian Antarctic Division
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
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
2003-04 Asturias Fellows
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
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