SCAR is very grateful to its many volunteers who help to lead our various groups and activities. Below you will see a list of these people and the groups they lead.
Please also see our Executive Committee and Delegates pages as well as the membership pages for our Geosciences, Life Sciences, and Physical Sciences Groups.
| INStabilities and Thresholds in ANTarctica (INSTANT) | Timothy Naish – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Florence Colleoni – Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Italy |
| Integrated Science to Inform Antarctic and Southern Ocean Conservation (Ant-ICON) | Jilda Caccavo – Pierre-Simon Laplace laboratories Daniela Liggett – University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
| Near-term Variability and Prediction of the Antarctic Climate System (AntClimnow) | Rachel Cavanagh – BAS, UK Clare Eayrs – KOPRI, South Korea |
| Antarctic Geospace and Atmosphere Research (AGATA) | Lucilla Alfonsi – Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy Wojciech Miloch – University of Oslo, Norway |
| Changes in Circumpolar Antarctic Gradients in Ecosystems (C-CAGE) | Huw Griffiths – BAS, UK |
| Antarctic Geological Evolution (AGE PPG) | tbc tbc |
| GeoSciences Group Officers | Chief Officer: Jesús Galindo-Zaldivar – Universidad de Granada, Spain Deputy Chief Officer: Naresh C Pant – University of Delhi, India Secretary: Laura De Santis – Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Italy |
| AntArchitecture Action Group (internal architecture of ice) |
Robert Bingham – University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Antarctic Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map Project Expert Group (ADMAP) | Graeme Eagles – Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany Fausto Ferraccioli – INOGS, Italy Detlef Damaske – Germany |
| Antarctic Near-shore and Terrestrial Observing System Expert Group (ANTOS) | Vonda Cummings – NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), New Zealand |
| Antarctic Permafrost, Soils and Periglacial Environments Expert Group (ANTPAS) | Mauro Guglielmin – Università dell’Insubria, Italy |
| Antarctic Volcanism Expert Group (ANTVOLC) | Adelina Geyer Traver – Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera, Spain Max Van Wyk de Vries (Deputy) – University of Cambridge, UK |
| Geodetic Infrastructure of Antarctica Expert Group (GIANT) | Mirko Scheinert – Institut für Planetare Geodäsie, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Alessandro Capra – Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy |
| Geological Heritage and Geoconservation Expert Group (EG-GEOCON) |
Anne Grunow – Ohio State University, USA Cliff Atkins – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Enrique Diaz-Martinez – Geological Survey of Spain |
| Groundwater AG | Rogier Westerhoff – GNS Science, New Zealand |
| International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean Expert Group (IBCSO) | Boris Dorschel – Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany |
| International Collaboration Effort for Improving Paleoclimate Research in the Southern Ocean (ICEPRO) | Johan Etourneau – University of Bordeaux, France Carlota Escutia – University of Granada, Spain |
| RINGS Action Group (ice sheet margin) | Kenichi Matsuoka – Norsk Polarinstitutt, Norway |
| Life Sciences Group Officers | Chief Officer: Ian McDonald – University of Waikato, New Zealand Deputy Chief Officer: Nathalie Pattyn – Royal Military Academy, Belgium Secretary: Byron Adams – Brigham Young University, USA |
| Antarctic Near-shore and Terrestrial Observing System Expert Group (ANTOS) | Vonda Cummings – NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), New Zealand |
| Biogeochemical Exchange Processes at the Sea-Ice Interfaces Action Group (BEPSII) | Jacqueline Stefels – University of Groningen, Netherlands Jeff Bowman – Scripps Institute of Oceanography, USA |
| Antarctic Wildlife Health Network Action Group (AWHN-AG) | Meagan Dewar – Federation University Australia, Australia |
| Expert Group on Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics (EG-ABI) | Ben Raymond – Australian Antarctic Division, Australia Anton van de Putte (Deputy) – Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium |
| Expert Group on Birds and Marine Mammals (EG-BAMM) | Michelle La Rue – University of Canterbury, New Zealand Ryan Reisinger – University of Southampton, UK Manuela Bassoi – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil |
| Groundwater AG | Rogier Westerhoff – GNS Science, New Zealand |
| Input Pathways of persistent organic pollutants to AntarCTica (ImPACT) | Simonetta Corsolini – University of Siena, Italy Zhiyong Xie – Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany |
| Joint Expert Group on Human Biology and Medicine (JEGHBM) | Giichiro Ohno – Hokkaido Teuri clinic, Japan Nathalie Pattyn (Deputy) – Research Unit Viper Royal Military Academy, Belgium Matt Warner (Secretary) – British Antarctic Survey Medical Unit, UK |
| Plastic in Polar Environments (Plastic-EG) | Ilaria Corsi – Università di Siena, Italy Clara Manno – British Antarctic Survey , UK |
| SCARFISH AG | Cassandra Brooks – University of Colorado, USA Jilda Caccavo – Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace, France |
| SCAR Krill Expert Group (SKEG) | Bettina Meyer – Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany So Kawaguchi (Deputy) – Australian Antarctic Division, Australia |
Vonda Cummings – NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), New Zealand
| Physical Sciences Group Officers | Chief Officer: Takuji Nakamura – National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), Japan Deputy Chief Officer: Adriana María Gulisano – Instituto Antártico Argentino, Argentina Secretary: Wojciech Miloch – University of Oslo, Norway |
| AntArchitecture Action Group (internal architecture of ice) |
Robert Bingham – University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Antarctic Clouds and Aerosols Action Group (ACA) | Tom Lachlan-Cope – British Antarctic Survey, UK |
| Antarctic Near-shore and Terrestrial Observing System Expert Group (ANTOS) | Vonda Cummings – NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), New Zealand |
| Antarctic Sea-ice Processes and Climate Expert Group (ASPeCt) | Marilyn Raphael – UCLA Department of Geography, USA Petra Heil – Australian Antarctic Division, Australia |
| Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes Expert Group (FRISP) | Elin Darelius – Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Norway |
| Groundwater AG | Rogier Westerhoff – GNS Science, New Zealand |
| Input Pathways of persistent organic pollutants to AntarCTica (ImPACT) | Simonetta Corsolini – University of Siena, Italy Zhiyong Xie – Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany |
| International Partnership in Ice Core Sciences Expert Group (IPICS) | Tas van Ommen – University of Tasmania, Australia Hubertus Fischer – University of Bern, Switzerland |
| Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level Expert Group (ISMASS) | Heiko Goelzer – NORCE Norwegian Research Centre Frank Pattyn – Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
| Operational Meteorology in the Antarctic Expert Group (OpMet) | Steve Colwell – British Antarctic Survey, UK |
| Paleoclimate Records from the Antarctic Margin and Southern Ocean (PRAMSO) | Carlota Escutia – Universidad de Granada, Spain Richard Levy – GNS Science, New Zealand |
| RINGS Action Group (ice sheet margin) | Kenichi Matsuoka – Norsk Polarinstitutt, Norway |
| CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel Expert Group (SORP) | Ariaan Purich – Monash University, Australia Carolina Dufour – McGill University, Canada |
| Tropical Antarctic Teleconnections Action Group (TATE) | Sheeba Chenoli – University of Malaya, Malaysia |
| Standing Committee on the Humanities and Social Sciences (SC-HASS) | Hanne Nielsen – University of Tasmania, Australia Peder Roberts – University of Stavanger, Norway and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
| Action Group on Intrinsic Value in Antarctica (AGIVA) | AGIVA Team – Dr Rupert Summerson (Australia), Dr Alfonso Donoso (Chile) and Ms Yousra Makanse (Netherlands) |
| Antarctic Tourism Action Group (Ant-TAG) | Ant-TAG Team – Hanne Nielsen, Daniela Cajiao, Yu-Fai Leung and Gabriela Roldan |
| Action Group on Public Engagement with Antarctic Research (PEAR) | Elizabeth Leane – University of Tasmania, Australia Katie Marx – University of Tasmania, Australia |
| Policy-Law-Science Nexus Action Group (PoLSciNex AG) | Luis Valentín Ferrada – Universidad de Chile, Chile Akiho Shibata – Kobe University, Japan |
| Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM) | Johnathan Kool – Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia Anne Treasure (Joint Deputy) – SAPRI, South Africa Franke Nitsche (Joint Deputy) – Columbia University, USA |
| Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI) | Songtao Ai – Chinese Antarctic Centre of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, China Louise Ireland – British Antarctic Survey, UK |
| Standing Committee on the Antarctic Treaty System (SCATS) | Cassandra Brooks – University of Colorado, USA |
| Standing Committee on Finance | Jefferson Simões – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil Marcelo Leppe – Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH), Chile Mike Bentley – Durham University, UK |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics from Antarctica (AAA) Expert Group | Jim Madsen – Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), USA |
| BEDMAP3 (topographical model of Antarctica) | Peter Fretwell – British Antarctic Survey, UK |
| Capacity Building, Education and Training (CBET) | Burcu Özsoy – TÜBİTAK MRC Polar Research Institute (KARE), Türkiye |
| Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Action Group | Adriana María Gulisano – Instituto Antártico Argentino, Argentina Jilda Caccavo– Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace, France |
| Antarctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AnMAP) | Susan Bengtson Nash – Griffith University, Australia |
| Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics (ICED) | ICED Team Alyce Hancock – University of Tasmania, Australia Sian Henley – University of Edinburgh, UK Irene Schloss – CONICET, Argentina |
| Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) | Nadine Johnston – BAS, UK Emma Cavan – Imperial College London, UK Stuart Corney – University of Tasmania Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, Australia |
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