Other Symposia

Here you will find the details and associated publications of symposia organised by SCAR or contributed to by SCAR representatives.


International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) Synthesis Workshop 2008

September 2-5, 2008, Castine, Maine, USA


SCAR-CliC-IASC-ICPM Workshop 2007

22-24 October 2007, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, USA.


WCRP/CliC Global Prediction of the Cryosphere (GPC) Project Workshop 2007

8-9 October 2007, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK


CliC Scientific Steering Group Meeting 2006

4-8 December 2006, Boulder, Colorado

Scientific Steering Group meeting of the World Climate Research Programme’s Cryosphere and Climate (CliC) Project


Workshop on Understanding Sea-level Rise and Variability 2006

6-9 June 2006, Paris, France

Organized by the World Climate Research Programme and hosted by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO in Paris.


SCAR/CliC/ICPM Workshop on High Latitude Reanalyses 2006

10-12 April 2006British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK


Antarctic Wind Field Workshop 2006

13–15 March 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


CliC Scientific Steering Group Meeting 2005

6-9 November 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark

Scientific Steering Group meeting of the World Climate Research Programme’s Cryosphere and Climate (CliC) Project


Workshop on Recent High Latitude Climate Change 2004

6-8 December 2004, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA


6th International Glaciological Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology 1998

5-9 September 1998, Lanzhou, China

  • Proceedings and papers in: Annals of Glaciology (vol. 29), 1999. Cambridge, International Glaciological Society, 302 pp. ISBN 0 946417 24 5

5th International Glaciological Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology 1993

5-11 September 1993, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Proceedings and papers in: Annals of Glaciology (vol. 20), 1994. Cambridge, International Glaciological Society, 458 pp. ISBN 0 946417 14 8

BIOMASS Colloquium 1991

September 1991, Bremerhaven, Germany

  • Proceedings of the Colloquium – Southern Ocean ecology: the BIOMASS perspective. El-Sayed, S. Z. (ed). 1994. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 399 pp.

4th International Glaciological Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology 1987

7-11 September 1987, Bremerhaven, Federal Republic of Germany

  • Proceedings and papers in: Annals of Glaciology (vol. 11), 1988. Cambridge, International Glaciological Society, 229 pp. ISBN 0 946417 02 4

SCAR Symposium on the Ross Sea 1981

17-18 October 1981, Queenstown, New Zealand

  • Proceedings of the SCAR Symposium on the Ross SeaJournal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, (vol. 11, No. 4), 1981. Wellington, Royal Society of New Zealand, 205 pp.

3rd International Glaciological Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology 1981

7-12 September 1981, Columbus, Ohio, USA

  • Proceedings and papers in: Annals of Glaciology (vol. 3), 1982. Cambridge, International Glaciological Society, 362 pp. ISBN 0 9502484 4 4

SCAR Symposium on Antarctic Glacial History and World Palaeoenvironments 1977

17 August 1977, Birmingham, England

  • Antarctic Glacial History and World Palaeoenvironments, edited by E M van Zinderen Bakker: 172 pp., 1978. Rotterdam, A A Balkema.

CMG/SCAR Symposium on Marine Geology 1976

18-19 August 1976, Sydney, Australia

  • Proceedings of the Symposium – Circum-Antarctic Marine Geology, In: Marine Geology, 25, No 1/3, (Scientific Report No 35), edited by D E Hayes: 277 pp., 1977. Amsterdam, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co.

SCOR/SCAR Polar Oceans Conference 1974

May 1974, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  • Polar Oceans, edited by M J Dunbar. Proceedings of the Polar Oceans Conference held at McGill University, Montreal, May, 1974. 681 pp., 1977. Calgary, Arctic Institute of North America.

SCAR/IUPS/IUBS Symposium on Human Biology and Medicine in the Antarctic 1972

19-21 September 1972, Cambridge, UK

  • Proceedings of the Symposium – Polar Human Biology. Edholm, O. G. and Gunderson, E. K. E. (eds), 1973. London, Wm Heinemann Medical Books. 433 pp.

Conference on Antarctic Quaternary Studies 1972

9-12 August 1972, Canberra, Australia

  • Proceedings of the Conference – Palaeoecology of Africa and of the Surrounding Islands and Antarctica (Vol 8), edited by E M van Zinderen Bakker: 198 pp., 1973. Cape Town, A A Balkema.

SCAR Symposium on Technical and Scientific Problems affecting Antarctic Telecommunications 1972

10-16 May 1972, Sandejford, Norway

  • Antarctic Telecommunications, edited by A H Sheffield: 402 pp., 1972, Cambridge SCAR.

IAMAP/IAPSO/SCAR/WMO Symposium 1971

3-5 August 1971, Moscow, Russia

  • Energy Fluxes over Polar Surfaces: WMO Technical Note No 129 (WMO-No 361), edited by S Orvig: 300 pp., 1973. Geneva, World Meteorological Organization.

SCAR Symposium on Antarctic Ice and Water Masses 1970

19 September 1970, Tokyo, Japan

  • Symposium on Antarctic Ice and Water Masses, edited by Sir George Deacon: 113 pp., 1971. Cambridge, SCAR.

SCAR/IASH Symposium on Antarctic Glaciological Exploration 1968

3-7 September 1968, Hanover, United States

  • International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciological Exploration (ISAGE). (IAHS Publication No 86), edited by A J Gow, C Keeler, C C Langway and W F Weeks: 543 pp., 1970. Gewntbrugge, International Association of Scientific Hydrology and Cambridge, SCAR.

Conference on Antarctic Quaternary Studies 1968

24-27 July 1968, Cambridge, UK

  • Proceedings of the Conference – Palaeoecology of Africa and of the Surrounding Islands and Antarctica, (Vol 5), edited by E M van Zinderen Bakker: 240 pp., 1969. Cape Town, A A Balkema.

SCAR/SCOR/IAPO/IUBS Symposium on Antarctic Oceanography 1966

13-16 September 1966, Santiago, Chile

  • Symposium on Antarctic Oceanography, edited by R I Currie. 268 pp., 1966.

WMO/SCAR/ICPM Symposium on Polar Meteorology 1966

5-9 September 1966, Geneva, Switzerland

  • Polar Meteorology: WMO Technical Note No 87 (WMO-No 211 TP. 111): 540 pp., 1967. Geneva, World Meteorological Organization.

SCAR Symposium on Antarctic Logistics 1962

13-17 August 1962, Boulder, Colorado, USA

  • Symposium on Antarctic Logistics: 778 pp., 1963. Washington DC, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council.

IASH/SCAR Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology 1960

25 July-6 August 1960, Helsinki, Finland

  • Colloque sur la Glaciologie Antarctique/Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology (IASH Publication No 55): 162 pp., 1961. Gent-Brugge, de l’Association Internationale d’Hydrologie Scientifique.