Documents

SCAR Bulletin, No.207, July 2021

Report of the XXXVI SCAR Delegates Meeting held online, 16 March and 22-25 March 2021

SCAR Bulletin, No.208, February 2022

Report of the SCAR Delegation to ATCM XLIII and CEP XXIII Paris, France (hosted online), 14-24 June 2021

SCAR Bulletin, No.209, April 2023

Report of the XXXVII SCAR Delegates’ Meeting held in Goa, India and online, 5-7 September 2022

SCAR BULLETIN No. 21, September 1965

The Polar Record, Vol 12, No 81, p 763-73

Antarctic Geology, by T. Sorgenfrei

Proceedings o f the First International Symposium on Antarctic Geology, held in Cape Town, 16-21 September 1963

Edited by R. J. Adie, Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1964 

Discourse on science presented at symposium

Other Content:

• Catalogue of data at world data centres of the International Geophysical Year
• Exchange scientists in the Antarctic 1963-4
• International whaling commission special meeting 1965
• Stations operating in the Antarctic Winter 1965
• Changes of membership to permanent working groups

SCAR Bulletin, No.210, January 2024

Report of the SCAR Executive Committee Meeting held in Trieste, Italy and online, 15-16 September 2023

SCAR BULLETIN No 22, January 1966

Reprinted from Polar Record, Vol 13, No 82, 1966, p 397-412.

Geodetic Links in the Southern Hemisphere, by Georges R. Laclavère

Exploring geodetic links between Australia and Antarctica

Other Content:

• The International Antractic meterorological research center, Melbourne
• Meeting of the SCAR Executive Committee, New York
• SCAR glaciological centres and information exchange centres

SCAR BULLETIN No. 23, May 1966

Reprinted from Polar Record, Vol 13, No 83, 1966, p 413-428.

United States Geological Survey Mapping for the US Antarctic Research Program

by Geo D. Whitmore and Rupert B. Southard, JR

New maps for the dry valleys and a plastic relief model of the continent

Other Content:

• SCAR Executive committee list
• National committees of SCAR
• Permanent delegates to SCAR
• Permanent working groups of SCAR
• Antarctic Mapping Centres
• Exchange Scientists in the Antarctic 1964-65
• Stations operating in the Antarctic and Sub-antarctic, Winter 1966

SCAR BULLETIN. No 24, September 1966

The Polar Record, Vol 13, No 84, p 399-408 

World Meteorological Organization: Executive Committee Working Group on Antarctic Meteorology, First Session, Melbourne, 23 February to 3 March 1966

by H. R. Phillpot, SCAR Observer

Other Content:

• Programme for SCAR, SCOR, IAPO, IUBS Symposium on Antarctic Oceanorgaphy, Santiago, Chile, 13-16 September 1966
• Fourth IQSY Assembly and Symposium London, 1967
• Stations operating in the Antarctic winter, 1966
• SCAR glaciological centers
• Permanent delegates to SCAR

SCAR BULLETIN No 25 January 1967

The Polar Record, Vol 13, No 85, p 539-

Ninth Meeting of SCAR, Santiago, 20 to 24 September 1966

Includes:

• SCAR symposia publication updates and royalties
• Antarctic Treaty meeting notification
• Liasion with other international organisations
• Finance
• IAAC/IAMRE
• Working group reports
• 10th anniversary of continuous international scientific co-operation in Antarctica
• Reports and recommendations of working groups
• Recommendations and comments arising from the SCAR/SCOR/IAPO/IUBS Symposium on Antarctic Oceanography, Santiago, 13–16 September 1966
• Permanent working groups of SCAR

SCAR BULLETIN No. 26, May 1967

Reprinted from Polar Record, Vol 13, No 86, 1967, p 703-37

Report on Geodetic and Cartographic Activities 1960-65, by B. P. Lambert

Summary of the mapping activites of SCAR nations: includes maps of activity from each country

SCAR BULLETIN. No 27, September 1967

Reprinted from Polar Record, Vol 13, No. 87, 1967, pp. 584-610

Contents:

• Stations operating in the Antarctic winter, 1967
• Permanent delegates to SCAR
• Pemanent working groups of SCAR
• Exchange of scientists in the Antarctic 1966-67
• Report of 4th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting Santiago, Chile, 1966
  • Listing of specially protected areas under agreed measures for the conservation of antarctic fauna and flora
  • Fur seals to be a protected spp
  • Ross seals to be a protected spp
  • Interim guide lines for the voluntary regulation of Antarctic pelagic sealing
  • Meeting on logistics
  • Telecommunications
  • Effects of Antarctic Tourism

SCAR BULLETIN No. 28, January 1968

Reprinted from Polar Record, Vol 14, No 88, 1968, p 611-626.

Meeting of the SCAR Executive Committee, Cambridge, 24-26 July 1967

Contents:

• Liason between SCAR working groups and relevant associations
• SCAR representation on the Committee of Water Research (COWAR)
• Groups of specialists announced for first time: Human adaptability; bird banding; quarternary studies; seal stocks; deep core studies; ice shelf studies; antarctic convergence; park ice zone; bottom water; benthos; mechanical problems affecting communications; use of space vehicles; communications
• Annals of the IGY published
• 1968 Meetings
• International Antarctic Meterological Research Centre still going strong!
• Antarctic Treaty – SCAR meeting and Treaty meeting too close, reccommendations not able to be prepared in time
• Antarctic Oceanography Symposium proceedings published end 1967
• Finance
• Second symposium on Antarctic Geology suggested
• SCAR to attend UN conference of standardization of geographical names
• SCAR working group on logistics (SCARLOG) report July 1967
• ICSU Abstracting Board Meeting – London 1967
• Exchange scientists in the Antarctic 1966-67

SCAR Bulletin. No. 29, May 1968

Reprinted from Polar Record, Vol 14, No 88, 1968, p 627-636

International Antarctic Meteorological Research Centre (IAMRC): Progress Report

• Formerly IAAC now IAMRC
• Concentrates entierly on meteorological research with analysis now conducted by World Center of the World Weather Watch

Other Content:

• International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciological Exploration – call for papers – Sept 1968
• SCAR Meetings during 1968
• SCAR Executive Committee
• National Committees of SCAR
• Permanent Delegates to SCAR
• Permanent Working Groups of SCAR

SCAR BULLETIN, No. 3, September 1959

Reprinted from Polar Record, Vol. 9, No. 63, 1959, pp. 589-608

Third meeting of SCAR held in Canberra, 2 – 6 March 1959

General discourse of the 3rd Meeting including:

• Programme for 1960 from all member countries
• Application from Poland to SCAR approved
• Scientific investigations recommended by SCAR
• Scientific stations in Antarctica, 1959 (omitted from S.C.A.R. Bulletin No. 2)
• Symposium on Antarctic Meteorology, Melbourne, 1959

SCAR BULLETIN. No 30, September 1968

Reprinted from Polar Record, Vol 14, No 90, 1968, p 637-670.

Tenth Meeting of SCAR, Tokyo, 10-15 June 1968

Including:

• SCAR Constitution – officers of special and scientific committees to be appointed for periods of 4 years
• SCAR working groups updates and reports
• SCAR Groups of Specialists updates and reports: Communications to merge with Logistics and fate of Use of Space Vehicles group uncertain
• Relations with other ICSU bodies
• Relations with intergovernmental bodies
• Symposia
• Reports and recommendations of Working Groups
• SCAR Working Groups and Groups of Specialists: procedures for calling meetings
• Permanent SCAR recommendations in the field of logistics, including recommendations that each nation nominate someone to SCARLOG
• Specific logistic problems related to the execution of the present and future programmes in the Antarctic
• Article: Official organizations for scientific co-operation in the Antarctic before the IGY 1957-58, by R. N. M. Panzarini
• Stations operating in the Antarctic, winter 1968

SCAR BULLETIN. No 31, January 1969

Reprinted from Polar Record, Vol 14, No 91, 1969, p 571-577

Joint Meeting of Working Groups on Geology and Geophysics, Tokyo, 1968

by Dr R. W. WILLETT, Chairman, Working Group on Geology

Both working group meetings were held at the 10th SCAR Meeting and portion of SCAR week was set aside for them.

Other Content:

• SCAR/IUBS/SCIBP Symposium on Antarctic Ecology – SPRI, Cambridge, August 1968 – session review
• National Committees of SCAR – amendments
• Permanent Delegates to SCAR – amendments
• Permanent Working Groups of SCAR – amendments
• Exchange scientists in the Antarctic 1967-68

SCAR BULLETIN No 32, May 1969

Reprinted from Polar Record, Vol 14, No 92, 1969, p 741-765

Second SCAR Symposium on Antarctic Biology, 1968

29 July – 3 August 1968

Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, UK

• 14 sessions
• Academic Press Ltd to publish proceedings

Other Content:

• Article – The development of biological research in the Antarctic, by M. W. Holdgate
• Reports on national activites
• SCAR Working Group on Biology Meeting, 1968
• Proposed revision of the’Interim Guidelines for the Voluntary Regulation of Antarctic Pelagic Sealing’
• The Conservation Programme of the International Biological Programme (IBP), by E. M. Nicholson – sub committee announced
• Stations operating in the Antarctic winter 1969
• Permanent Working Groups of SCAR – amendments

SCAR BULLETIN. No 33, September 1969

Reprinted from Polar Record, Vol 14, No 93, 1969, p 915-938

New Techniques and Current and Future Needs in Polar Research, by George A. Llano

Review of techniques, including submersibles and satellite techniques

Other Content:

• SCAR Working Groups on Biology: National Reports (read at the Second SCAR Symposium on Antarctic Biology, 1968)
• SCAR Working Group on Upper Atmosphere Physics. Meeting – Tokyo, June 1968. Considering a change of name to include space physics.
• Call for SCAR/IUGS Symposium on Antarctic Geology and Solid Earth Geophysics – Oslo 1970
• Call for IAGC Symposium on Hydrochemistry and Biogeochemistry – Tokyo 1970
• Call for Joint Oceanographic Assembly – Tokyo 1970