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.
Scientific Research Programmes
| INStabilities and Thresholds in ANTarctica (INSTANT) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Italy |
| Integrated Science to Inform Antarctic and Southern Ocean Conservation (Ant-ICON) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Instituto Antártico Argentino, Argentina This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
| Near-term Variability and Prediction of the Antarctic Climate System (AntClimnow) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - British Antarctic Survey, UK This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.- University of Sao Paulo, Brazil |
Programme Planning Groups
| Antarctic Geospace and ATmosphere reseArch (AGATA) |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Royal Observatory of Belgium |
Geosciences Groups
| GeoSciences Group Officers | Chief Officer: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Universidad de Granada, Spain Deputy Chief Officer: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - University of Delhi, India Secretary: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Italy |
| AntArchitecture Action Group (internal architecture of ice) |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Antarctic Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map Project Expert Group (ADMAP) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - INOGS, Italy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Germany |
| Antarctic Near-shore and Terrestrial Observing System Expert Group (ANTOS) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - University of Waikato, New Zealand This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), New Zealand |
| Antarctic Permafrost, Soils and Periglacial Environments Expert Group (ANTPAS) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Università dell'Insubria, Italy |
| Antarctic Volcanism Expert Group (ANTVOLC) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera, Spain This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Deputy) - INGV-Pisa, Italy |
| Connecting Geophysics with Geology Action Group (CGG) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - University of Bergen, Norway This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - INOGS, Italy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany |
| Geodetic Infrastructure of Antarctica Expert Group (GIANT) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Institut für Planetare Geodäsie, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy |
| Geological Heritage and Geoconservation Expert Group (EG-GEOCON) |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Ohio State University, USA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Geological Survey of Spain |
| International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean Expert Group (IBCSO) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany |
| International Collaboration Effort for Improving Paleoclimate Research in the Southern Ocean (ICEPRO) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - University of Bordeaux, France This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - University of Granada, Spain |
| RINGS Action Group (ice sheet margin) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Norsk Polarinstitutt, Norway |
Life Sciences Groups
Physical Sciences Groups
Humanities and Social Sciences Groups
| Standing Committee on the Humanities and Social Sciences (SC-HASS) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - University of Tasmania, Australia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - University of Stavanger, Norway and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
| Action Group on Intrinsic Value in Antarctica (AGIVA) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Dr Rupert Summerson (Australia), Dr Alfonso Donoso (Chile) and Ms Yousra Makanse (Netherlands) |
| Antarctic Tourism Action Group (Ant-TAG) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Hanne Nielsen, Daniela Cajiao, Yu-Fai Leung and Gabriela Roldan |
| Action Group on Public Engagement with Antarctic Research (PEAR) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - University of Tasmania, Australia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - University of Tasmania, Australia |
| Policy-Law-Science Nexus Action Group (PoLSciNex AG) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Universidad de Chile, Chile This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Kobe University, Japan |
Standing Committees
Other SCAR Groups
| Astronomy and Astrophysics from Antarctica (AAA) Expert Group | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), USA |
| BEDMAP3 (topographical model of Antarctica) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - British Antarctic Survey, UK |
| Capacity Building, Education and Training (CBET) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - TÜBİTAK MRC Polar Research Institute (KARE), Türkiye |
| Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Action Group | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Instituto Antártico Argentino, Argentina This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.- Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace, France Pilvi Muschitiello - British Antarctic Survey, UK |
| Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics (ICED) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Eugene Murphy, Nadine Johnstone and Rachel Cavanagh, British Antarctic Survey, UK |
| Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) | Eileen Hofmann - Old Dominion University, USA Sian Henley - University of Edinburgh, UK |