The SCAR Input Pathways of Persistent Organic Pollutants to AntarCTica (ImPACT) group was given official approval as a SCAR Action Group under Life Sciences and…

The Remote Sensing Action Group has limited funds available to support one (or more) early-career researchers working with drones in Antarctica and presenting the results…

Spring Course, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23 - 29 September 2018 Call for applicants By: Julian Gutt Experienced scientists from the SCAR/AnT-ERA community will give a short…

Announcement of Summer Field Course at Friday Harbor Laboratories, WA, USA, 15 July – 17 Aug 2018 Instructors: Craig R. Smith, University of Hawaii; Maria Vernet,…

There will be 3 AnT-ERA related sessions at Polar2018 in Davos next June. Make your choice and submit your abstract! BE-4: Climate change and ecosystems:…

Comparison of Antarctic and Arctic Ecosystems and their Functioning Proposed side meeting during Polar2018 By: Julian Gutt The SCAR Antarctic Thresholds - Ecosystem Resilience and Adaptation (AnT-ERA) research programme…

Two life sciences grants were awarded to allow young scientists to present their findings at the 12th SCAR Biology Symposium in Leuven in July 2017.…

The SCAR Expert Group ANTOS (Antarctic Near-Shore and Terrestrial Observation System) is a continent-wide biologically-focussed initiative to assess responses to environmental variability and change.  A…

By: Julian Gutt The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) announces the "First Order Draft" of its Global Assessment Report to be reviewed soon. The Intergovernmental Platform…

By: Marino Vacchi, Eva Pisano, Laura Ghigliotti A comprehensive overview of the knowledge about the ecologically important Southern Ocean midwater fish, Pleuragramma antarctica, has recently been…

Researchers aboard the Australian research vessel Investigator, operated by the Marine National Facility, departed Hobart for the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica on 14 January to…

The Remote Sensing Action Group has limited funds available to support one (or some) early-career researchers working on the impact of drones on wildlife in…

Job oportunity: PhD position (4 years) or Post‐doc position (2 years) in molecular ecology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Department of Biology, Marine Biology…

2-5 April 2017: BEPSII Meeting at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California, prior to the Gordon Research Conference on Polar Marine Science. More information is…

By: Julian Gutt The Paris Agreement was the main result of the COP21 UN climate conference in 2015. It included the ever most clearly defined…