SCAR runs some joint initiatives in collaboration with its strategic partners, enabling broader international, multidisciplinary collaborations.
Co-sponsored programmes
Antarctic Monitoring Assessment Programme (AnMAP)
The principal function of AnMAP is to facilitate sufficient and reliable chemical observation data from the Antarctic region, in order to advise international chemical policy. AnMAP has been co-developed with the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), will be hosted by Griffith University, and is a UN Ocean Decade Project. AnMAP was a founding objective of the SCAR ImPACT group, and the two SCAR bodies will work closely to facilitate standardised, quality-assured, continuous chemical observation data is generated and synthesised for policy.
Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean (ICED) Programme
ICED is an international multidisciplinary programme launched in response to the increasing need to develop integrated circumpolar analyses of Southern Ocean climate and ecosystem dynamics. The ICED vision is to develop a coordinated circumpolar approach to better understand climate interactions in the Southern Ocean, the implications for ecosystem dynamics, the impacts on biogeochemical cycles, and the development of sustainable management procedures.
The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS)
The SOOS mission is to facilitate the sustained collection and delivery of essential observations of the Southern Ocean to all stakeholders, through the design, advocacy, and implementation of cost-effective observing and data delivery systems. Working towards the overall vision for “sustained observations of dynamics and change of the physics, chemistry, biology and geology of the Southern Ocean system should be readily accessible to provide a foundation for enabling the international scientific community to advance understanding of the Southern Ocean and for managers to address critical societal challenges”.