The SCAR Social Sciences Action Group has recently been granted Expert Group status within SCAR.
At the SCAR delegates meeting in Auckland in August 2014, an application was made to elevate the status of the group from an action group to an expert group, based on previous activities and records. That application was positively received by delegates, and the decision has been made to recognize our group as an Expert Group. This will broaden the scope of the projects we can work on.
At the SSAG Business meeting in Auckland, the valuable input of Humanities colleagues was also recognised. As such, the former acronym of SSAG (Social Sciences Action Group) has been replaced by HASSEG (Humanities and Social Sciences Expert Group). We look forward to collaborating on many more Antarctic projects in future.