Current and Past Fellows

SCAR initiated the Fellowship Programme in 2002. The aim is to encourage the active involvement of early career scientists in Antarctic scientific research and to build new connections and further strengthen international capacity and cooperation in Antarctic research. Since the initiation of the programme, 83 SCAR Fellowships have been awarded. Three of these fellowships were awarded jointly with our partner Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) between 2011-2015. From 2015 to 2018 a Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship was awarded annually, initially financed by funds from the Prix Biodiversité of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation awarded to SCAR.

Testimonials from past fellows are available on the archive website.

Masaru Kogure

Home: National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
Host: Hampton University, US

Jackson Chu

Home: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Sarah Jackson

Home: The Australian National University, Australia
Host: British Antarctic Survey/Cambridge University, UK

Andrew Corso

Home: Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, US
Host: CCAMLR, Australia

Kimberlee Baldry

Home: Institute of Marine Science and Antarctic Studies, Australia
Host: Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, France

The improvement of Biogeochemical Argo chlorophyll-a concentration data for large-scale studies of Southern Ocean phytoplankton

Martina Mascioni

Home: Department of Phycology, University of La Plata, Argentina
Host: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US
Diversity of bloom-forming phytoplankton species in Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) nearshore waters

Mia Wege

Home: Mammal Research Institute, South Africa
Host: Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, Australia

Long-term foraging strategies and their consequences to Antarctic fur seals

Mariia Pavlovska

Home:  State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ukraine
Host: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany

Exploring the interplay of Antarctic bacterioplankton and phytoplankton by integration of biodiversity, contextual, and OMICS data

2018 Fellows

Lettie Roach

Home: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Host: University of North Carolina, USA

The influence of nonlinear physical processes on the seasonal cycle of Antarctic sea ice 

Pamela Santibáñez

Home: Instituto Antartico Chileno, Chile
Host: Desert Research Institute, USA

Microbes within deep ice cores: Unravelling the microbial responses to climatic and ecosystem processes

Abhilash Nair

Home: National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, India
Host: GNS Science, New Zealand

Pleistocene-Holocene variability in ACC strength and Agulhas leakage intensity

Bruno Fusaro

Home: Instituto Antártico Argentino, Argentina
Host: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain

Molecular and epidemiological diagnosis of parasitic diseases in Pygoscelid penguins in the content of global climate change

2018 Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship

 Mónica Luján Remedios-De León

Home: University of the Republic, Uruguay
Host: The British Antarctica Survey, UK

Development of a non-native species management plan: Development of a non-native species management plan: Trichocera maculipennis (Meigen, 1818) (Diptera: Trichoceridae) on King George Island, South Shetland Islands (Meigen, 1818) (Diptera: Trichoceridae) on King George Island, South Shetland Islands

2017 Fellows

Leena Riekkola

Home: University of Auckland, New Zealand
Host: Marine Mammal Laboratory, NOAA, USA

Spatial analysis of humpback whale behaviour and habitat use patterns in Antarctica.

Julie Janssens

Home: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Australia
Host: Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), France

Representation of iron in a sea-ice biogeochemical model.

Hanne Nielsen

Home: University of Tasmania, Australia
Host: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Framing Antarctica as Fragile: Tracing the evolution of media narratives about the far south (1945 – 2015).

Antonio Aguera Garcia

Home: Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Host: University of Otago, New Zealand

Transgenerational Plasticity (TGP) and acclimation in a keystone Polar Invertebrate in response to a warmer more acidic Antarctic.

Filip Hrbáček

Home: Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Host: Insubria University, Italy

Effect of vegetation cover on active layer thermal regime in climatically contrasted environments of Antarctica.

2017 Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship

Shramik Patil

Home: The National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), India
Host: UPMC-CNRS Station Biologique de Roscoff, France

Response of Southern Indian Ocean coccolithophores to climate change: evidence from laboratory culture experiments.

2016 Fellows

Lavenia Ratnarajah

Home: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia
Host: Laboratoire d’Océanographie Microbienne, France

Effects of natural iron fertilisation by baleen whales on the microbial community in the Southern Ocean

Jilda Caccavo

Home: University of Padua, Italy
Host: Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, France

Trophic dynamics and nutritional condition of Pleuragramma antarctica in the Weddell Sea, as related to population genetic structure

Ryan Reisinger

Home: Zoology Department, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

Marine Top Predator Habitat Use around the Sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands 

2016 Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship

Graeme Clark

Home: The University of New South Wales, Australia
Host: McGill University, Canada

The final frontier: protecting Antarctica from invasive species

2015 Fellows

Christine Dow

Home: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

Analysis of Antarctic subglacial hydrological development in Aurora Basin using aerogeophysical data and numerical modeling

Jennifer Newall

Home: University of Stockholm, Sweden
Host: Bremen University, Germany

MAGIC-DML – integrating ice sheet modeling and field studies

Sebastian Rosier

Home: British Antarctic Survey, UK
Host: Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Satellite observation and model intercomparison of tidal processes in ice-sheet grounding zones

2015 Prince Albert II of Monaco Fellowship

Rowan Trebilco

Home: ACE-CRC, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Host: (1) Collecte Localisation Satellite, Ramonville-Saint-Agne and (2) Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France

New models for understanding the role of mesopelagic fishes and squid in Southern Ocean ecosystems

SCAR-COMNAP Combined Fellowship

Inka Koch

Home: University of Otago, New Zealand
Host: University of Texas Institute of Geophysics, USA

Detecting marine ice internal layers and thickness in an Antarctic ice shelf with airborne ice penetrating radar

Jennifer Lee

Home: Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Identification of glacial refugia in Antarctica

Nuncio Murukesh

Home: National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, India
Host: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, USA

The link between tropical Indian Ocean processes, Indian Ocean Dipole(IOD), and sea-ice

Stefano Picotti

Home: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (INOGS), Italy
Host: Pennsylvania State University, USA

Ice properties and basal conditions inferred from seismic data acquired on two fast-flowing ice streams (West Antarctica)

Odile Volonterio

Home: Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

The Antarctic-Magellan connection: Diversity and biogeography of interstitial turbellarians in the Scotia Arc
Links to resulting papers:
– Volonterio et al (2013)
– Volonterio & Brewin (2014)

2008 Fellows

Wendy (Wilhelmina) Clavano

Home: University of Alberta, Canada
Host: Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Retrieving snow thickness over land and sea ice by improving ground penetrating radar data processing

Nicholas Demetras

Home: University of Waikato, New Zealand
Host: Colorado State University, USA

The role of biotic and abiotic factors in determining the distribution of soil nematode communities in an Antarctic Dry Valley system

Marina Verducci

Home: University of Siena, Italy
Host: Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften (IFM-GEOMAR), Germany

Middle Miocene Southern Ocean climatic and paleoceanographic evolution and Antarctic cryosphere expansion

SCAR/IPF/IAI/UNEP 6CI Fellowship (funded by IPF)

Ramón Hegedüs

Home: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Host: Lund University, Sweden

The role of polarized skylight in animal navigation and foraging in Antarctica

2007 Fellows

Igino Coco

Home: Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI), Italy
Host: Dartmouth College, USA

The role of abrupt solar wind dynamic pressure variations on the polar ionosphere dynamics

Stefanie Kaiser

Home: University of Hamburg Zoological Museum, Germany
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Quantification of Southern Ocean biodiversity in space: richness and distribution of Isopoda (Crustacea, Malacostraca)in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen

Delphine Lannuzel

Home: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Host: ACE-CRC, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

The role of iron as a micro-nutrient to the Antarctica sea zone algal

Glen Phillips

Home: University of Newcastle, Australia
Host: Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Germany

Structural controls and timing of upper crustal deformation within the Lambert Basin: Contribution to geodynamic, ice-sheet and mass balance models of the Mesozoic-Tertiary evolution of East Antarctica

2006 Fellows

Olaf Eisen

Home: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
Host: British Antarctic Survey, UK

Reconstructing Antarctic ice sheet history from internal layering, as a contribution to SCAR’s ACE and AGCS programmes

Resulting paper:
Drews, R., Martín, C., Steinhage, D. and Eisen, O., Characterizing the glaciological conditions at Halvfarryggen ice dome, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, J. Glaciology, Volume 59(213), 201, 9–20, 03/2013; doi:10.3189/2013JoG12J134

Nobue Kasamatsu

Home: National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

Krill, dimethyl sulphide and climate change: a contribution to SCAR’s EBA, ACE and AGCS programmes

Stephanie Konfal

Home: Byrd Polar Research Center, USA
Host: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Antarctic Neotectonics, as a contribution to SCAR’s ANTEC programme

Victoria Metcalf

Home: University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Host: Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Fat transport in Antarctic fish: a contribution to the EBA programme

Barbara Villoslada

Home: Cordoba University, Argentina
Host: University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Paleo-atmospheric circulation, as a contribution to the ACE programme

2005 Fellows

Narelle Baker

Home: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Host: University of Bristol, UK

The evolution of the Ross Ice Shelf as a contribution to SCAR’s ACE programme

Simone Brandao

Home: University of Hamburg, Germany
Host: Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Science

A molecular study of Antarctic ostracods as a contribution to SCAR’s EBA programme

Veronica Fuentes

Home: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Host: Institute Sciences de la Mer at Rimouski, Canada

Nutrients and the ecosystem as a contribution to SCAR’s EBA and AGCS programmes

David Schneider

Home: University of Washington, USA
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

Using ice cores to determine proxies for the Southern Annular Mode, as a contribution to SCAR’s AGCS programme

2003-04 Asturias Fellows

Elanor M Bell

Home: University of Potsdam, Germany
Host: Australian Antarctic Division

The diversity and tropho-dynamics of mixotrophic protests in Antarctic coastal waters

Steven Boger

Home: University of Melbourne, Australia
Host: Universität Bremen, Germany

Mesozoic evolution of the Lambert Graben, Mac.Robertson Land

Barbara Delmonte

Home: University of Siena, Italy
Host: LGGE, Université Joseph Fourier, France

Millennial and secular periodicities in Antarctic atmospheric circulation during the Holocene

Cai Minghong

Home: Polar Research Institute of China
Host: ACE-CRC, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Ice shelf – ocean interaction at the Amery Ice Shelf, Mac.Robertson Land

Cristina Sobrino

Home: Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía, Spain
Host: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, USA

Phytoplankton photosynthetic kinetics of damage and repair in vertically mixed Antarctic waters