Documents

SCAR Bulletin, No. 52, January 1976

Polar Record, Vol 18, No 112, 1976, p 103-109

Content:

• Report of a Meeting of the SCAR Group of Specialists on Living Resources of the Southern Ocean, Cambridge, 6-8 October 1975
• Changes of Address
• Announcement of an International Symposium – International Symposium on Antarctic Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 22-27 August 1977
• Errata

SCAR Bulletin, No. 53, May 1976

Polar Record, Vol 18, No 113, 1976, p 201-232

Content:

Report of the 8th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, Oslo, 1975 – 9 – 20 June 1975

Recommendations:

• Recommendation VllI-1: Specially Protected Areas: Litchfield Island
• Recommendation VIII-2: Review of Specially Protected Areas
• Recommendation VIII-3: Sites of Special Scientific Interest
• Recommendation VIII-4: Sites of Special Scientific Interest: Interim Guidelines
• Recommendation VIII-5: Permits for Entry to Specially Protected Areas
• Recommendation VIII-6: Annual Exchanges of Information
• Recommendation VIII-7: Co-operation in Transport
• Recommendation VIII-8: Activities of States that are not Consultative Parties
• Recommendation VIII-9: Effects of Tourists and Non-Governmental Expeditions in the Antarctic Treaty Area
• Recommendation VIII-10: Antarctic Marine Living Resources
• Recommendation VIII-11: Man’s Impact on the Antarctic Environment
• Recommendation VIIl-12: Disposal of Nuclear Waste
• Recommendation VIIl-13: The Antarctic Environment
• Recommendation VIII-14: Antarctic Resources-Effects of Mineral Exploration

Other Content:

• SCAR Working Group on Solid Earth Geophysics 
• Erratum

SCAR Bulletin, No. 54, September 1976

Polar Record, Vol 18, No 114, 1976, p 317-326

Content:

• SCAR Group of Specialists on Seals, by R. M. Laws
• Seals and Birds Killed or Captured in the Antarctic Treaty Area, 1970-73, prepared by R. M. Laws and E. C. Christie on behalf of SCAR
• The Special Prepartory Meeting for the Ninth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, Paris, June/July, 1976
• The SCAR-INQUA Symposium on Antarctic Glacial Evolution and World Paleoenvironments
• Changes of Address
• Stations Operating in the Antarctic, Winter 1976

SCAR Bulletin, No. 55, January 1977

SCAR Working Group on Biology: Report of an informal meeting held in Cambridge, England, 17-18 May 1976.

Other Content:

• SCAR Working Group on Geology: Report of a meeting held in Syndey, Australia, 19-20 August 1976.
• SCAR/SCOR Group on the Living Resources of the Southern Ocean (SCOR Working Group 54): Report of a meeting held at Woods Hole, USA, 23-24 August 1976

SCAR Bulletin, No. 56, May 1977

Reprinted from Polar Record, Vol 18, No 116, 1977, p 183-207

Fourteenth Meeting of SCAR, Mendoza, Argentina, 18-23 October 1976

Content and Notes:

• Recommendation that a thirty percent increase in dues be applied from 1978 onwards
• In light of developments in Antarctic research by non-SCAR countries, the establishment of a wintering station is no longer a pre-requisite for membership
• Activities of SCAR Permanent Working Groups
• Activities of SCAR groups of specialists
• Proceesings published from the following symposia: Polar Oceans Conference (1974); SCAR/SCOR Antarctic Biology (1974); SCAR/CMG Circum-Antarctic Marine Geology (1976)
• Statement from the Polish Academy of Sciences on the intention to join membership of SCAR
• Reports from Working Groups
• Report on a Co-operative Air Transport System for Antarctica (CATSA)
• New Group of Specialists on the EIA of Mineral Resource Exploration and Exploitation in the Antarctic (EAMREA)
• Loose leaf – Announcement of the Proceedings on Adaptations within Antarctic Ecosystems

SCAR Bulletin, No. 57, September 1977

Antarctic Resources – Effects of Mineral Exploration

Initial response by SCAR, dated May 1976, to Antarctic Treaty Recommendation VIII-14 (SCAR Bulletin, No 53)

Other Content:

• Federal Republic of Germany Antarctic Expedition, 1977-78
• Organization and membership of SCAR – amendments
• Stations operating in the Antarctic, Winter 1977

SCAR Bulletin, No. 58, January 1978

Report of the 9th Antarctic Treaty Consultative meeting, London, 1977

• Recommendation IX-1:  Antarctic mineral resources – Urges governments to refrain from exploration and exploitation of mineral resouces until an agreed solution to extraction is agreed
• Recommendation IX-2: Antarctic marine living resources – Guidelines in relation to antarctic marine living resources and establishment of definitive conservation regime
• Recommendations IX- 3 to 6: Improvement of telecommunications; Cooperation in transport; Mans impact on the environments; Oil contamination

• Working group on Human Biology and Medicine: Report of the meeting held in Paris, 15-17 July 1977
• Report of the SCAR Executive Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 6-7 July 1977
• Symposium on Antarctic Glacial History and World Palaeoenvironments, 1977 – by E. M. van Zinderen Bakker
• Third Symposium on Antarctic Geology and Geophysics, 1977 – by C. Craddock

SCAR Bulletin, No. 59, May 1978

Reports from the 3rd Antarctic Geology and Geophysics Meetings, Madison, August 1977

Content:

• Report from SCAR Working Group on Solid Earth Geophysics – Madison, USA, 26 August 1977
• Report from SCAR Working Group on Geology – Madison, USA, 28-29 August 1977
• Report from the Joint Meeting of the SCAR Working Groups on Geology and Solid Earth Geophysics, – Madison, USA, 29 August 1977
• The Biomass Report: A Review

SCAR BULLETIN No. 6, September 1960

Paper: Conservation of Nature in the Antarctic – Robert Carrick

Based on a paper read at the Antarctic Symposium at Buenos Aires, 1959

Other Content

• Image of penguin and seal colonies and rabbit damage on Macquarie Island
• Updates on scientific stations in Antarctica 1960
• Exchange of foreign observers in the Antarctic, 1959-1960

SCAR Bulletin, No. 60, September 1978

Fifteenth Meeting of SCAR, Chamonix, France, 16-26 May 1978

Other Content:

• New National Members of SCAR
• Polar Oceans: A Review
• Stations Operating in the Antarctic, Winter 1978

SCAR Bulletin, No. 61, January 1979

Long-term Studies of the Global Climate System – A Report from the SCAR Working Group on Meteorology

Other Content:

• The Organization and Membership of SCAR

SCAR Bulletin, No. 62, May 1979

Report on the SCAR Working Group on Glaciology, Ottawa, Canada, August 1978

Includes:

• National activities
• International projects
• Elections
• Future Meetings 
• Recommendations

Other Content:

• SCAR group of specialists on living resources of the Southern Oceans, meetings and activities
• FRG (Federal Republic of Germany) and Poland Working Group Members

SCAR Bulletin, No. 63, September 1979

Report of the SCAR Executive Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 26-29 June 1979

Content:

• Resignation of Vice-President
• Matters arising from XV SCAR
• Groups of specialists
• Working groups
• Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting
• ICSU General Assembly, September 1978
• IUGG
• Finance
• XVI SCAR
• Executive meeting 1980

Other Content:

• Loose leaf – Order form for book ” Possible Environmental Effects of Mineral Exploration and Exploitation in Antarctica
• Stations operating in the Antarctic, Winter 1979

SCAR Bulletin, No. 64, January 1980

Report of the 10th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, Washington, USA, 1979

17 September – 5 October 1979

Approvals of recommendations of previous consultative meetings

New recommendations:

• Recommendation X-1: Antarctic resources-the question of mineral exploration and exploitation
• Recommendation X-2: Antarctic marine living resources
• Recommendation X-3: Collection of distribution of Antarctic meteorological data
• Recommendation X-4: Collection of geological specimens
• Recommendation X-5: Sites of Special Interest
• Recommendation X-6: Site of Special Scientific Interest: interim guidelines (and addition of Admirality Bay, King George Island)
• Recommendation X-7: Oil contamination of the Antarctic marine environment
• Recommendation X-8: Effects of tourists and non-governmental expeditions in the Antarctic Treaty Area
• Recommendation X-9: Tewntieth anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty
• BIOMASS Progress Report, by Sayed Z. El-Sayed
• Coastal Zone Colour Scanner (CZCS)

SCAR Bulletin, No. 65, May 1980

Paper: Gravity Determinations at Vostok, by Charles R. Bentley

Gravity connections to Vostok have been made through two routes, one from Mirny and the other from McMurdo. These ties are of general interest for gravimetric studies in Antarctica, because they provide a direct airborne link between the stations upon which two major gravita- tional networks (American and Soviet) are based. It is therefore worth examining these ties in some detail.

Other Content:

• Seals and Birds Killed or Captured in the Antarctic Treaty Area, 1973-75, prepared by R. M. Laws and E. C. Christie on behalf of SCAR
• Changes of Address
• Antarctic Magnetic Maps

SCAR Bulletin, No. 66, September 1980

Report of the SCAR Executive Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 14-16 May 1980

Including:

• Vice-President
• Role and function of SCAR
• SCAR structure
• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
• Title for the Antarctic marine areas
• Antarctic minerals
• Tenth Antarctic Treaty Consultative meeting
• Tonrist handbook
• Groups of specialists
• Working groups
• Reports of working groups
• ICSU
• Finance

Other Content:

• SCAR Working Group on Geodesy and Cartography – reports from meeetings and news, recommendations
• SCAR Working Group on Glaciology – meeting report, national reports, international projects, recommendations
• SCAR Working Group on Meteorology – meeting report, current activities
• SCAR Working Group on Solid Earth Geophysics – meeting report, news, national reports, activities, recommendations
• Change of national delegates
• Stations operating in the Antarctic, Winter 1980

SCAR Bulletin, No. 67, January 1981

Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

Including:

• Conference on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, Canberra, Australia, 7-20 May 1980
• Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

Other Content:

• The organization and membership of SCAR

SCAR Bulletin, No. 68, May 1981

Sixteenth Meeting of SCAR, Queenstown, NZ, 14-24 October 1980

Highlights:

• DDR (Germany) application for membership, which was given conditionally on establishment of their own national committee.
• Activites of SCAR permenant working groups and groups of specialists
• Proposal for the international study for the Antarctic plate contact zones from the Polish delegation
• Recommended that a new subsidary body, the National Programme Coordination Group be established
• Recommendation that annual national reports to SCAR be simplified
• Proceedings published from the following symposia: Antarctic Geology and Geophysics (1979); Progress in Antarctic Meterology (1979); Antarctic International Megnetosphere (1979).
• Ocean area surrounding Antarctica to be formally called the Southern Ocean (synonyms in other languages also formalised)
• Antarctic contribution to the World Climate Research Programme 
• Subcommittee Meetings held: Conservation; Biological Monitoring; Bird biology; Working party on Bird Ecology; Working group on Biology
• Announcement of the 4th Symposium on Antarctic Biology – South Africa 1983
• New specialist group: Environmental Implications of Possible Mineral Exploration in the Antarctic
• Updates from Working groups Report on SCAR working group on Geology meeting Paris July 1980
• 2nd BIOMASS Progress Report, by Sayed Z. El-Sayed

SCAR Bulletin, No. 69, September 1981

Report of the 11th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23 June – 7July 1981

• The twentieth anniversary of the entry into force of the Antarctic Treaty and the functioning of the Antarctic Treaty System
• Meeting unanimously adopted recommendations:
• • Recommendations XI-1: Antarctic mineral resources
  • Recommendations XI-2: Antarctic marine living resources
  • Recommendations XI-3: Air disaster on Mount Erebus – accident area to be declared a tomb and left in peace
• Approval of recommendations of previous consultative meetings.
• SCAR Group of Specialists on Antarctic Climate Research – Cambridge, May 1981
• Article: Future Cenozoic Research in the Ross Sea Region, by P. J. Barrett and P. N. Webb
• BIOMASS Volume II: A Review
• Announcement of 4th SCAR/IUGS Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (prev Geology and Solid Earth Geophysics) – August 1982, Adelaide
• Amendments to the organization and membership of SCAR
• Stations operating in the Antarctic, Winter 1981

SCAR BULLETIN, No. 7, January 1961

Fourth meeting of SCAR

Cambridge, 29 August to 2 September 1960

Reprinted from Polar Record, Vol. 10. No. 67, 1961, pp. 416-442

Discourse from 4th meeting, including:

• Poland not eligible for membership – no wintering party yet
• SCAR Indian Ocean Project
• SCAR & Antarctic Treaty
• Nuclear reactor installation at McMurdo
• Assessment of the progress of Antarctic research in 1959/60
• Recommendations of working groups