News and Updates from the SCAR Lifesciences Groups
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The SCAR Input Pathways of Persistent Organic Pollutants to AntarCTica (ImPACT) group was given official approval as a SCAR Action Group under Life Sciences and…
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Limited funding available to support early-career researchers to attend POLAR2018 in Davos
09 Mar 2018The Remote Sensing Action Group has limited funds available to support one (or more) early-career researchers working with drones in Antarctica and presenting the results… -
Biological Processes in Antarctic Ecosystems
07 Sep 2017Spring Course, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23 - 29 September 2018 Call for applicants By: Julian Gutt Experienced scientists from the SCAR/AnT-ERA community will give a short… -
Fjord Ecosystems and Climate Change
07 Sep 2017Announcement of Summer Field Course at Friday Harbor Laboratories, WA, USA, 15 July – 17 Aug 2018 Instructors: Craig R. Smith, University of Hawaii; Maria Vernet,… -
AnT-ERA Polar2018 Sessions
07 Sep 2017There will be 3 AnT-ERA related sessions at Polar2018 in Davos next June. Make your choice and submit your abstract! BE-4: Climate change and ecosystems:… -
An AnT-ERA and IASC Marine WG Side Meeting
06 Sep 2017Comparison of Antarctic and Arctic Ecosystems and their Functioning Proposed side meeting during Polar2018 By: Julian Gutt The SCAR Antarctic Thresholds - Ecosystem Resilience and Adaptation (AnT-ERA) research programme… -
Two life sciences grants were awarded to allow young scientists to present their findings at the 12th SCAR Biology Symposium in Leuven in July 2017.…
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The SCAR Expert Group ANTOS (Antarctic Near-Shore and Terrestrial Observation System) is a continent-wide biologically-focussed initiative to assess responses to environmental variability and change. A…
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Reviewers wanted!
07 Jun 2017By: Julian Gutt The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) announces the "First Order Draft" of its Global Assessment Report to be reviewed soon. The Intergovernmental Platform… -
Review of Antarctic silverfish published!
06 Jun 2017By: Marino Vacchi, Eva Pisano, Laura Ghigliotti A comprehensive overview of the knowledge about the ecologically important Southern Ocean midwater fish, Pleuragramma antarctica, has recently been… -
Researchers aboard the Australian research vessel Investigator, operated by the Marine National Facility, departed Hobart for the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica on 14 January to…
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Limited funding available to support early-career researchers to attend the 2017 Biology Symposium
01 Feb 2017The Remote Sensing Action Group has limited funds available to support one (or some) early-career researchers working on the impact of drones on wildlife in… -
PhD Position available in Belgium
01 Feb 2017Job oportunity: PhD position (4 years) or Post‐doc position (2 years) in molecular ecology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Department of Biology, Marine Biology… -
BEPSII Meeting April 2017
01 Jan 20172-5 April 2017: BEPSII Meeting at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California, prior to the Gordon Research Conference on Polar Marine Science. More information is… -
Scientist's Opinion
24 Dec 2016By: Julian Gutt The Paris Agreement was the main result of the COP21 UN climate conference in 2015. It included the ever most clearly defined…
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