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SCAR September/October 2017 Newsletter

Thursday, November 2nd, 2017

  Check out SCAR’s September/October Newsletter! In this issue: SCAR NewsSCAR seeks Executive Director, Deadline extended for POLAR2018 Abstracts, Procedure for proposal of a new SCAR Group, Call for nominations for 2018 SCAR Medals, Glacial Seismology Training School, Report on IAG/SCAR-SERCE Workshop on Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, Update from the SCAR Secretariat, Final Circular available for…

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Update from the SCAR Secretariat

Wednesday, September 20th, 2017

As the Antarctic field season is getting underway, we thought it might be a good time to provide a little update on some of the ‘behind the scenes’ activities of the SCAR Secretariat. Over the past few months, a lot of work has gone into streamlining various processes in hopes of us being able to…

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60 Years of Treaty-Supported Antarctic Science

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

To mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty on 1st December 1959, SCAR is releasing a series of fact sheets and the latest SCAR Bulletin to celebrate 60 years of Treaty-Supported Antarctic Science. The successes of international scientific cooperation in the harshest environment on Earth demonstrate how nations working together can…

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Obituary: Claude Lorius (1932-2023)

Monday, April 3rd, 2023

It is with deep sadness that SCAR has learnt of the recent death of Dr Claude Lorius, a pioneering glaciologist whose research helped to prove that mankind was responsible for global warming. In 1955, responding to an advertisement on a bulletin board on the walls of the University of Besançon: “Needed: young researchers to join…

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Report on SORP activities Sept 2015 to June 2016

Saturday, August 27th, 2016

The SORP has been very active since its last panel meeting in September 2015 (access the meeting report here) with extensive participation in international research coordination and collaboration with several relevant programmes, including the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS), the Ocean Observations Panel for Climate (OOCP), the Polar Prediction Project (PPP) and the Polar Climate…

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