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AnT-ERA Members and Resources

AnT-ERA members, publications, projects, data and links of interest to the AnT-ERA community

+ Members

An official membership to AnT-ERA is not required;
everyone, who is interested is welcome to join us!

Each scientific program that would like to cooperate with or contribute to AnT-ERA can be listed on AnT-ERA's webpage, contact: Julian Gutt. To become a member of AnT-ERA's maining list visit: http://lists.scar.org/mailman/listinfo/antera

JGChief Officer: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. is a senior scientist working for the Alfred Wegener Institute, Hemholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany (AWI), and has been involved in polar science since 1984. He has contributed to a variety of international programmes in committees and via his own field research, mainly focussing on benthic systems. Recently he was the chief scientist of an interdisciplinary expedition with R/V Polarstern and PI of a project (to be continued) on the response of the marine ecosystems to the Larsen ice shelf disintegration. He is co-editor and one of the lead-authors of SCAR's ACCE report with its regular updates. He contributed to the 1st SCAR Horizon Scan and is co-editor of the SCAR Biogeographic Atlas. In addition to his scientific work at AWI, he is professor at the Oldenburg University (Germany) and lead-author of the Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). J. Gutt has published approx. 72 peer-reviewed scientific articles, 35 with 1st authorship.

 Lead investigators:

Theme 1:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Rd, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK;
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council, Via P. Castellino 111 80131 Naples, Italy,
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Brigham Young University, 685 WIDB, Provo, UT 84602, U.S.A.,
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand.
 
Theme 2:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A.,
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., National Institute of Polar Research, 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo, 190-8518, Japan,
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., NIWA, Private Bag 14-901, 301 Evans Bay Parade, Wellington, New Zealand,
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Korea Polar Research Institute, Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST), 26 Songdomirae-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 406-840, South Korea
 
Theme 3:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1000 Pope Road, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA,
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Institut de Ciències del Mar-CSIC, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, 37-49, Barcelona, 08003, Spain,
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Dirección Nacional del Antártico, Balcarce 290 (C1064AAF), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, and CONICET, Argentina* & Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski, 310, Allée des Ursulines, G5L 3A1, Rimouski, Québec, Canada, * present address: Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas, CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia, Argentina
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Institute of Marine Research, Department of Life Sciences, Apart. 3046, University of Coimbra, 3001-401 Coimbra, Portugal,
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Institut für Botanik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstr. 1, Gebäude 26.13.
 
Ex officio EASIZ chief officer: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
 
Liaison officers:
to PS SSG, especially AntClim21: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (British Antarctic Survey, BAS); to IASC: Monika Kędra (Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland); to ICED: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (BAS); to ANTOS: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; to AntEco: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. APECS representatives: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (BAS) & This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (University of Pretoria, South Africa); contact person at SCADAM: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre)
 

+ Publications

AnT-ERA documents:

AnT-ERA reports:

Outreach:

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+ Projects

Acronym

Title of project

Period

Web address

PI, name

e-mail

CO: contribution

PA: partnership
 MCM LTER

Increased Connectivity in a Polar Desert Resulting from Climate Warming: McMurdo Dry Valley LTER Program.

2011 - 2017

http://mcmlter.org

Michael Gooseff

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 CO

The role of glacial history on the structure and fuctioning of ecological communities in the Shackleton Glacier region of the Transantarctic Mountains.

2016 - 2019

Byron Adams

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CO
 ANTOS

Antarctic Near-shore and Terrestrial Obserserving Systems (SCAR action group).

2014 - 2016

http://www.scar.org/ssg/life-sciences/antos

Craig Cary

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 PA

Responses of Antarctic marine predators to environmental change: year-round tracking approach.

2016 - 2019

Akinori Takahashi

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 CO

Assessing the utility of Antarctic sponges for studying global climate change: individual to community level responses.

2015 - 2018

César Antonio Cárdenas Alarcón

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 CO

The effects of ocean acidification and warming on larval development in the Antarctic geoduck, Laternula elliptica.

2012 - 2015

Christine Bylenga

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 CO

Sub-lethal stress response of the Antarctic bivalve Laternula elliptica to ocean warming and acidification.

2013 - 2015

Sonja Hempel

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 CO
vERSO

Ecosystem Responses to global change: a multiscale approach in the Southern Ocean.

2013 -2018

www.versoproject.be

Bruno Danis

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 CO

Under the weather: warming and acidification effects under the ice in Antarctica.

2013 - 2016

Vonda Cummings,

Drew Lohrer

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 CO
CEPH

The role of Cephalopods in the Southern Ocean food webs.

2014 - 2018

Jose Xavier

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 PA
Education PROPOLAR

Education of the Portuguese Polar Program.

2014 - 2018

Jose Xavier

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 PA
TROPHIC INTERACTIONS

Trophic interactions working group of SCAR EGBAMM

2014 - 2018

Jose Xavier

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 PA
ALBATROSS

Food and feeding ecology of Southern Ocean albatrosses.

2014 - 2018

Jose Xavier

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 PA
ECOWED

Pelagic-benthic coupling in the Antarctic climate modulator: ecological reactions to climate change in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

2013 - 2015

Enrique Isla

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 PA
MinIce

Modelling of population sizes and spatial distribution of minke whales in Antarctic sea-ice based on shipboard and aerial survey data.

2014 -2015

Helena Herr

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 CO

Microbial ecology of hypolithic communities in Antarctic Dry Valley desert soils.

2002 - date

www.up.ac.za/CMEG

Don Cowan

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 PA

Stress response and adaptation mechanisms in Antarctic soil microorganisms.

2009 - date

www.up.ac.za/CMEG

Don Cowan

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 PA

Metaviromics of Antarctic edaphic habitats.

2013 - date

www.up.ac.za/CMEG

Don Cowan

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 PA

Behavioural and physiological responses of penguins to variability in Antarctic marine environment.

2014 - 2016

Akinori Takahashi

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 CO

Foraging ecology of chinstrap and gentoo penguins at King George Island.

2014 - 2016

Nobuo Kokubun

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 PA
MarBio

Marine organisms in cold environments: Biochemical adaptations and biotechnological applications.

Cinzia Verde

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 CO
APEH

Degradation of oxidized protein in Antarctic fish.

2014 - 2016

Ennio Cocca

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 CO

Response to environmental stress and infections in Antarctic fish.

http://www.ibp.cnr.it/research/maria-rosaria-coscia

Maria Rosaria Coscia

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 CO
A-Cold

Antarctic organisms: Cold-adaption mechanism and it's application.

2014 - 2016

http://antagen.polar.re.kr/

Hyun Park

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 PA

 Additional nominations are welcome!

+ Data

Information on AnT-ERA data coming soon.

+ Links

 

Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility, ANTABIF

Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment (SCAR advisory group), ACCE

Antarctic Environments Portal, AEP

Antarctic Climate Change in the 21st Century (SCAR scientific research program), AntClim21

Antarctic Near-shore and Terrestrial Observing System (SCAR action group), ANTOS

Association of Polar Early Career Scientists, APECS

Antarctic Treaty System, ATS

Biogeochemical Exchange Process at Sea-Ice Interfaces (SCOR working group), BEPSII

Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean

Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Resources, CCAMLR

Census of Antarctic Marine Life, CAML

Committee for Environmental Protection (Antarctic Treaty), CEP

Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs, COMNAP

Expert Group an Birds and Marine Mammals (SCAR expert group), EGBAMM

EU-Polarnet

European Polar Board, EPB

Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF

Global Ocean Observing System, GOOS

International Council for Science, ICSU

Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics (SCAR co-sponsored group), ICED

Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services (UN); IPBES

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN), IPCC

International Whaling Commission, IWC

International Arctic Science Committee, IASC

Polar EducatorsInternational, IPE

National Center for Biotechnology Information Sequence Read Archive, NCBI SRA

Past Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics (SCAR scientific research program), PAIS

PANGAEA (ICSU world data system)

Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, SCOR

Southern Ocean Observing System, SOOS

State of the Antarctic Ecosystem (SCAR scientific research program), AntEco

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,

                  Conference of the Parties 21, Paris, 2015

United Nations World Ocean Assessment

World Register of Marine Species, WoRMS