The SCAR Open Science Conference 2024 “Antarctic Science: Crossroads for a New Hope” was held in Pucón, Chile from 19-23 August 2024. The conference featured a comprehensive programme of plenary lectures, mini-symposia, parallel sessions, panel discussions, posters and various opportunities for social activities and excursions in and around beautiful Pucón.
The Open Science Conference, established over 20 years ago, has in many ways become the premier activity of SCAR that supports its mission to promote and facilitate international Antarctic and Southern Ocean science. These biennial meetings have become fertile ground for the exchange of the latest and highest profile Antarctic research outcomes and a place where future collaborations are born.
The conference was planned as an in-person conference with limited hybrid facilities. The opening and closing ceremony, plenary lectures and mini-symposia were live-streamed. The Business Meetings (17-18 & 24-25 August) and Delegates Meeting were be hybrid. The Science Group Business Meetings (21 August), poster and parallel sessions were held in-person only.
All information about the conference is available from www.scar2024.org.
