The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research is pleased to announce the 2024 SCAR Fellowship recipients. For this round we will be awarding five Fellowships in total.
SCAR would like to thank the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation for their continued support. In 2024, as in 2023, additional funding is being provided by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation through the Polar Initiative.
We also acknowledge the support from the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) through the Sejong Fellowship. The Fellowship supports recipients from under-represented groups in the SCAR community.
Congratulations to the 2024 SCAR Fellows!
The SCAR Fellowship Programme is designed to encourage the active involvement of early-career researchers in furthering our understanding of Antarctica. This year, a total of 62 applications were received for the SCAR early-career Fellowships, which offer awards of up to US$15,000 each.
The details for each of this year’s Fellows are listed below:
Amilcar Juarez from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, who will visit the University of Tasmania, Australia, for his project entitled –
Geodetic constraints on tidal anelasticity in the Antarctic Peninsula
Robbie Mallett from UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, who will visit the Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Canada, for his project entitled –
Isotopic evolution of a simulated Antarctic sea ice flooding event
Shradha Agarwal from the University of Tasmania, Australia, who will visit the University of Groningen, Netherlands, for her project entitled –
A Cultural Lens framework for fostering pro-environmental behaviour in Antarctic tourists
Sejong Fellowship
Byeong-Hoon Kim from the Korea Polar Research Institute, Republic of Korea, who will visit the British Antarctic Survey, UK, for his project entitled –
Refining CMIP6 Antarctic surface mass balance models using ice core records
Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Fellowship
Laura Dalman from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia, who will visit UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, for her project entitled –
Shedding light on Antarctic ice algae in a changing climate
For the 2024 Fellowships we received 62 applications with the following breakdown by gender, region and discipline:
SCAR has been offering scientific fellowships to early career scientists since 2003. The Fellowships support the scientific goals of SCAR, enabling the early career researchers to join a project team from another country, opening up new opportunities and often creating research partnerships that last many years and over many Antarctic research seasons.
Since launching the scientific fellowships to early career scientists, 89 SCAR Fellowships have been awarded.
Applications for the 2025 SCAR Fellowships will open later this year.
