A new publication, "Antarctic Biology: Scale Matters", has been published by the open access scientific journal Frontiers. The special issue highlights the outcomes of 20 papers…

In a rapidly changing world, we need to know which areas of our planet warrant particular protection from existing, developing and forthcoming threats. This is…

The Remote Sensing Action Group has limited funds available to support travel for early career scientists planning to attend SCAR2020. This will be available for…

The SCAR Action Group Remote Sensing of Birds and Animals and the SOOS working group Censusing Animal Populations from Space (CAPS) will have a meeting…

A study contributing to the goals of the ImPACT Action Group (Input Pathways of persistent organic pollutants to AntarCTica) shows that seabird colonies are relevant…

Lessons from the Poles: Remote living, working and healthcare in the poles, and Antarctica as the ultimate space analogue A 3 day symposium hosted by…

ImPACT would like to announce travel support for PhD students planning to attend SCAR2020. Travel grants will be for a maximum sum of $2,000USD towards travel and…

ANTOS will hold a workshop in conjunction with the SCAR 2020 Open Science Conference in Hobart.  The workshop will take place on Sunday 2nd August…

AnT-ERA offers the opportunity to apply for travel support for early-career researchers (ECRs) to attend SCAR2020. The grant will be a maximum of $2,000 USD to…

Antarctica is the least invaded continent on the planet: inhospitable, remote and geographically isolated from the rest of the world by the swirling westerly winds…

A new collaboration between Federation University Australia, the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) and the University of Western Australia will begin studying the health of Antarctic…

Sian Henley is compiling an Antarctic fast-ice nutrient database along with Francois Fripiat, Klaus Meiners, Stefano Cozzi and Martin Vancoppenolle, within the framework of the…

In September 2019 the SCAR Expert Group on Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics (EG-ABI) partnered with the rOpenSci project and Antarctic Biodiversity Portal to organise a short…

Capacity building is a core part of SCAR's activities. One way in which capacity building is carried out is through enabling Early-Career Researchers (ECRs) to…

Twenty-four biologists from twelve countries met on 24-27 June 2019 at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, to identify the most important scientific findings of the…