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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) in the
International Polar Year 2007-2008
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
SCAR’s Advisory Committee on the
IPY 2007-2008
• Advise SCAR on the IPY science and implementation plan
• Promote SCAR programs in the IPY
• Work to achieve IPY objectives
• Monitor IPY’s progress.
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
SCAR Scientific Research Programs
• Antarctica and the Global Climate System (AGCS)
• Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE)
• Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (EBA)
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
SCAR Scientific Research Programs
• Interhemispheric Conjugacy Effects in Solar-Terrestrial and Aeronomy Research (ICESTAR)
• Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments (SALE)
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Antarctica and the Global Climate System (AGCS)
USE:• Ice cores, satellite data, global and regional climate
models and meteorological and oceanic data
TO ASSESS:• The role of ocean-atmosphere coupling and ENSO
in Antarctic climate• Recent climate variability• Future regional climate change for the next 100
years• The influence of Antarctic climate change on
conditions elsewhere
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
AGCS In the IPY 2007-2008
• Test Models and High Latitude Climate Signal Transfer Functions
• Carry-out Bi-polar Shallow Ice Drilling Program
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE)
• Study climate change and glacial history;
• Model paleo-climate changes and predict future change
• Improve coupled ice sheet/climate/ocean/sediment models
• Study heat and freshwater exchanges via polar ocean gateways.
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
ACE in the IPY 2007-2008
• Model Mid-Miocene climate shift and Pleistocene warm periods
• Model Trans-Antarctic Mountains and East Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution
• Collaborate with SHALDRILL
and ANDRILL
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Evolution and Biodiversity in the
Antarctic (EBA)
• Examine evolutionary history and adaptations
• Establish gene flow and population dynamics.
• Document organismal, ecosystems and diversity patterns
• Study environmental change, biodiversity and ecosystem function.
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
EBA in the IPY 2007-2008
• Circum-Antarctic Census of Marine Life
• Marine Biodiversity Information Network (MARBIN)
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments (SALE)
• Understand the formation and evolution of subglacial environments
• Determine the origins, evolution, and biochemistry of life in SALE
• Retrieve the paleo-climate history recorded in subglacial sediments
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
SALE in the IPY 2007-2008
• Address Technological and Environmental Stewardship Issues
• Continue Geophysical surveys
• Initial exploration of Selected Sites (Lake Ellsworth)
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Multiple Exploration Targets
Lake Vostok
Lake Ellsworth
Dome CDome C
New Survey Site
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Interhemispheric Conjugacy Effects in Solar-Terrestrial and
Aeronomy Research (ICESTAR)
• Solar-terrestrial physics and polar aeronomy research
• Share polar region and near-Earth space data using Grid Technology
• Study solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions and solar forcing at high latitudes
• Understand upper atmosphere polar systems
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
ICESTAR in the
IPY 2007-2008
• Deploy geo-space observatories in the northern and southern regions.
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
in the International Polar Year 2007-2008
SALE
ICESTAR EBA
AGCS
ACE
SCAR
EDUCATION
OUTREACH