Documents

SCAR Bulletin, No. 70, January 1982

Report of the SCAR Executive Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 28-30 September 1981

Highlights:

• Only two national committees were in favour of a National Programme Coordination Group as proposed at XVI
• SCAR Archives to be held at Scott Polar Research Institute
• Call from Chileans to establish a Site of Special Scientific Interest at Port Foster, Deception Island
• Updates from working groups and groups of specialists
• First meeting on the convention on the conservation of antarctic marine living resources to be held May 1982
• New National member of SCAR – German Democratic Republic (DDR) – membershsip to working groups listed
• Report on meeting of group of specialists on environmental implications of possible mineral exploration and exploitation – Lincoln, Nebraska, May 1981

SCAR Bulletin, No. 71, May 1982

Content:

• General listing of updates and amendments
• Report on the International Biomedical Expedition to the Antarctic (IBEA)
• Announcement of the 4th Symposium on Antarctic Biology – South Africa, September 1983

SCAR Bulletin, No. 72, September 1982

SCAR Working Group on Glaciology – Report of a meeting held in Columbus, Ohio, USA, 6, 8 and 10 September 1981

Including:

• National reports
• International projects
• Change of representative for USSR
• Election of secretary
• Future meetings
• Recommendations from ICSI
• Working group recommendations

Other Content: 

• Third BIOMASS Progress Report, by Sayed Z. El-Sayed
• Antarctic Geology and Geophysics: A Review – book review
• Stations operating in the Antarctic, Winter 1982

SCAR Bulletin, No. 73, January 1983

Seventeenth meeting of SCAR, Leningrad, USSR, 5 to 9 July 1982

Including:

• Activities of SCAR permanent working groups and groups of specialists
• Symposia, future symposia and major workshops
• Relations with ISCU bodies: ICSU considering setting up its own press in association with a commercial publisher
• Relations with intergovernmental organizations: Convention for Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources now in force
• Five national observers from non-SCAR nations: China, Brazil, India, Italy, Netherlands.
• Election of Dr J. Zumberge as President 1982-86
• Image of past presidents
• Report from 1st meeting of CCAMLR

SCAR Bulletin, No. 74, May 1983

Report from SCAR working group on Solid Earth Geophysics held in Adelaide, Australia, 14-16 August 1982

Other content

• Report of informal meeting of SCAR Working Group on Glaciology, July 1982
• Review – Antarctic Glaciology (Proceedings from the 3rd International Symposium)
• The Organization and Membership of SCAR

SCAR Bulletin, No. 75, September 1983

Report of the SCAR Executive Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 15-17 June 1983

Including:

• Application from Uruguay (needs to set up established Antarctic programme)
• Reports from working groups and groups of specialists
• SCAR to co-sponsor new SCOR Working Group on the General Circulation of the Southern Ocean (SCOR WG 74)
• Proposed group of Specialists on Antarctic Sea Ice
• Liaisons with ICSU and COSPAR
• UNEP/FAO Draft Plan of Action for Marine Mammals
• The International Whaling Commission proposed to SCAR and other international organizations to hold a joint workshop on whales and the Southern Ocean ecosystem
• Other news and plans

Other Content:

• Fourth BIOMASS Progress Report – by Sayed Z. El-Sayed
• SCAR Working Group on Human Biology and Medicine – Report of a meeting held in Paris, France, January 1983
• Review: Antarctic Krill
• Stations operating in the Antarctic, Winter 1983

SCAR Bulletin, No. 76, January 1984

Content:

• Fifth Special Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, Canberra, Australia, 12 September 1983
  • Held the day before the 12th Antarctic Treaty meeting to consider membership of India and Brazil – membership was approved
• Report of the twelth Antarctic Consultative Meeting, Canberra, 1983
  • Noted that Malaysia, Antigua and Barbuda were to raise Antarctica at the 38th session of the UN general assembly, p7
  • New Site of Special Scientific Interest – South Bay, Doumer Island, Palmer Archipelago – Management Plan
  • Recommendation XII-1:  The collection and distribution of Antarctic meteorological data
  • Recommendation XII-2:  Antarctic telecommunications
  • Recommendation XII-3: Man’s Impact on the Antarctic environment
  • Recommendation XII-4:  Man’s impact on the Antarctic environment: code of conduct on waste disposal
  • Recommendation XII-5:  Sites of Special Interest
  • Recommendation XII-6:  Operation of the Antarctic Treaty System
  • Recommendation XII-7:  Historic sites and monuments
  • Recommendation XII-8:  SCAR assistance to Consultative Parties
• Stations operating in the Antarctic, Winter 1983

SCAR Bulletin, No. 77, May 1984

Biological Research in the Antarctic – new draft statement

Update to previous programme included in the SCAR manual, 1972 

Other Content:

• Article: Southern Ocean Drilling Report, by D. H. Elliot
• SCAR Working Group on Geology – Report of meetings held in Adelaide 15-20 August 1982
• SCAR Working Group on Geology and Solid Earth Geophysics – Minutes of joint meetings held in Adelaide, Australia, August 1982 – Informally proposed almalgamation was rejected, but close co-operation and communication will continue
• SCAR Working Group on Solid Earth Geophysics – Minutes of an informal meeting held in Hamburg, 22 August 1983
• SCAR Working Group on Glaciology – Report of a formal meeting held in Hamburg, FRG, 22, 23 and 25 August 1983
• SCAR Working Group on Meterology – Report of a meeting held jointly with ICPM in Hamburg, 15 August 1983
• SCAR Group of Specialists on Seals – Report of a meeting held in Pretoria, South Africa, 7-8 September 1983
• New SCAR Group of Specialists on Antarctic Sea Ice announced

SCAR Bulletin, No. 78, September 1984

The Organisation and Membership of SCAR

Other Content:

• Stations Operating in the Antarcic, Winter 1984

SCAR Bulletin, No. 79, January 1985

Eighteenth Meeting of SCAR, Bremerhaven, FRG, 1-5 October 1984

Highlights:

• Membership for India and Brazil agreed
• Application for membership from China
• Proposal from Uruguay for a summer station welcomed. Encouraged Uruguay to not establish it on King George Island
• Updates from Working Groups and Specialists
• Proceedings to be published from symposia: Antarcitc Logistics (1982); Antarctic Earth Science (1982); Polar Meterology and Climate (1983); 4th Symposium on Antarctic Biology (1983); International Biomedical Expedition to Antarctica (1984); Space Observations for Climate Studies (1984)
• Updated Publications Policy
• Relations with ICSU and other organizations of ICSU 
• SCAR responses to Antarctic Treaty Recommendations XII-2,3,4,5
• Progress report on SCAR Group of Specialists on Southern Ocean Ecosystems and Their Living Resources

Appendices in SCAR Bulletin 80 and SCAR Bulletin 81.

SCAR BULLETIN, No. 8, May 1961

Conservation of Nature in Antarctica

Reprinted from Polar Record, Vol. 10, No. 68, 1961, pp. 532-544

Includes:

• Suggested form of measures to promote conservation of nature in the Antarctic
• Wildlife protection in Antarctica
• Preservation of wildlife
• Definitions
• Authorization for collection flora and fauna
• Scientific investigations recommended by SCAR Stations and transport operating in the Antarctic 1960-61
• ERRATA, SCAR Bulletin No. 7

SCAR Bulletin, No. 80, May 1985

Appendices: Working Group Reports
The following appendices form part of the report of the 18th Meeting (SCAR-XVIII), which appeared in SCAR Bulletin 79 (January 1985).

• Appendix 1. Working Group on Biology, including the Fourth Antarctic Biology Symposium, Wilderness, September 1983
• Appendix 2. See SCAR Bulletin 81
• Appendix 3. Working Group on Glaciology – Report of an informal meeting held in Bremerhaven, FRG 26-28 September 1984
• Appendix 4. Working Group on Human Biology and Medicine -Report of a meeting held in Anchorage, Alaska 17 May 1984
• Appendix 5. Working Group on Logistics – Report of a meeting at Brernerhaven, FRG, 24-28 September 1984
• Appendix 6. Working Group on Upper Atmosphere Physics – Report of a meeting at Bremerhaven, FRG, 28 September 1984
• Appendix 7. SCAR Groups of Specialists on Antarctic Sea Ice and Antarctic Climate Research – Report of a joint meeting, Bremerhaven, 1-5 October 1984
• Appendix 8. Report of the Finance Committee

SCAR Bulletin, No. 81, September 1985

The following appendix forms part of the report of the 18th Meeting (SCAR- XVIII), which appeared in SCAR Bulletin 79 (January 1985). Other appendices and reports appeared in SCAR Bulletin 80 (May 1985).

Appendix 2. Working Group on Geodesy and Cartography –  Report of a meeting held in Perth, Australia, 8 August 1984

Other Content:

• Joint IUCN/SCAR Symposium on the Scientific Requirements for Antarctic Conservation – Bonn, April 1985, by W. Nigel Bonner
• BIOMASS Data Centre established
• New SCAR publications
• Stations Operating in the Antarcitc, Winter 1985

SCAR Bulletin, No. 82, January 1986

Report of the SCAR Executive Meeting, Teton Village, USA, 17-19 August 1985

Highlights:

• Unable to consider the application from China further at this stage as awaiting statement on activities
• Associate Membership category of membership approved
• Review of Antarctic Science 
• Symposia, Workshops
• SCAR declined to join the International Union of Circumpolar Health
• Interest established for an International Geosphere Biosphere Programme: Global Change (IGBP)
• SCAR Group of Specialists on Antarctic Sea Ice – Report of a meeting in Honolulu, 9-11 August 1985 (Appendix 1)
• SCAR Group of Specialists on Antarctic Climate Research – Report of an informal meeting in Honolulu, August 1985 (Appendix 2)

Other Content:

• SCAR Group of Specialists on Southern Ocean Ecosystems and Their Living Resources – Annual Report 1984-85
• Antarctica: Isotopic Dates

SCAR Bulletin, No. 83, May 1986

Report of the 13th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, 1985

7 – 18 October 1985

Meeting approved the following recommendations:

• Recommendation XIII-1: Operation of the Antartic Treaty System: Information
• Recommendation XIII-2: Operation of the Antarctic Treaty System: overview
• Recommendation XIII-3: Exchange of information in accordance with the Antarctic Treaty: annual exchanges
• Recommendation XIII-4: Man’s impact on the Antarctic environment: code of conduct for Antarctic expeditions and station activities: waste disposal
• Recommendation XIII-5: Man’s impact on the Antarctic environment: additional protective arrangements
• Recommendation XIII-6: Facilitation of scientific research: sitting of stations
• Recommendation XIII-7: Facilitation of scientific research: Sites of Special Scientific Interest: interim guidelines extension of designation
• Recommendation XIII-8: Facilitation of scientific research: Sites of Special Scientific Interest: interim guidelines: additional sites (see Annex)
• Recommendation XIII-9: Facilitation of scientific research: Sites of Special Scientific Interest: interim guidelines: SSS! No I: Cape Royds, Ross Island: Amendment to management plan
• Recommendation XIII-10: Specially Protected Areas: North Coronation Island, South Orkney Islands
• Recommendation XIII-11: Specially Protected Areas: Lagotellerie Island, Marguerite Bay
• Recommendation XIII-12: Specially Protected Areas: ‘New College Valley’, Caughley Beach, Cape Bird, Ross Island
• Recommendation XIII-13: Specially Protected Area No 7: Cape Hallett, Victoria Land: extension of boundaries
• Recommendation XIII-14: Specially Protected Areas: interim guidelines
• Recommendation XIII-15: Matters relating to the appointment of observers at consultative meetings
• Recommendation XIII-16: Historic sites and monuments

Other Content:

• Forthcoming SCAR Symposia

SCAR Bulletin, No. 84, September 1986

Working Group on Glaciology Draft Report of a meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, 25 August 1985

Other Content:

• Recent SCAR and BIOMASS Publications
• Stations Operating in the Antarctic, Winter 1986

SCAR Bulletin, No. 85, January 1987

Nineteenth Meeting of SCAR, San Diego, California, USA
23 to 27 June 1986

Highlights:

• Recommendations from previous meetings discussed – in particular remote sensing applications and activites
• Membership of SCAR – Associate Membership category of SCAR agreed to be desirable. Changes to the SCAR Constitution and Rules of Procedure required
• Reports recieved from WG and Specialist groups
• SCAR publications – changeing to A4 format
• Relations with ICSU bodies
• Relations with intergovernmental bodies, including responses to Antarctic Treaty Recommendations: IIV-4, XIII-5, XIII-6
• International Union for the Conservation of Nature – SCAR thanked for work with IUCN Election of Dr C. Loirus as President 1986 -1990
• SCAR Constitution updates including new guidelines for membership: Full member; Associate member; Union member
• Finance Report
• Appendix I: SCAR Constitution
• Appendix 2: Recent SCAR Symposia

Other Content:

• Report of Finance Committee
• Summary Report of the Meeting of the SCAR Working Group on Biology
• Summary of Reports of Meetings of the SCAR Working Group on Upper Atmosphere Physics
• Annual Report from BIOMASS Executive Committee for the Period September 1985 to August 1986
• ISCCP Workshop on Polar Clouds, 19-21August1986, held at the National Institute for Polar Research in Tokyo, Japan
• New SCAR Publication

SCAR Bulletin, No. 86, May 1987

Southern Ocean Drilling: The South Atlantic and Indian Ocean Sectors, by D. H. Elliot

Extensive description of work conducted since Jan 1985

Other Content:

• Seals and Birds Killed or Captured in the Antarctic, 1975-85, prepared on behalf of SCAR by R. M. Laws and R. M. Harris
• New SCAR Publications

SCAR Bulletin, No. 87, September 1987

Report of the SCAR Executive Meeting, Grenoble, France, 1-3 July 1987

• Associate Members: Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Peru, Uruguay. Republic of Korea has so far not accepted.
• Updates from Working Groups and Groups of Specialists
• Ad hoc groups/panels of experts set up for: Waste Disposal, Additional Protective Arrangements and Environmental Data Management
• SCAR Rules of Procedure, changes on schedule for XX SCAR Meeting
• Update on SCAR involvement with other ICSU bodies
• United Nations: ‘Question of Antarctica’ still on the agenda for UN General Assemblies
• Special meeting of the SCAR Executive in Paris from 29-31 March 1988 to be arranged due to the rise in science in Antarcitca and increasing need to consider environmental issues
• Twentieth meeting of SCAR, Hobart, Australia, 5 to 16 September 1988
• Report from Meeting of Managers of National Antarctic Programs
• Principles of protection of the environment recommended by SCAR
• Stations operating in the Antarctic, Winter 1987

SCAR Bulletin, No. 88, January 1988

SCAR Working Groups on Geology and Solid Earth Geophysics Joint Workshops, San Diego, USA, June 1986

Including:

• Workshop on Antarctic Cenozoic Palaeoenvironments, SanDiego, California, 18 June 1986
• Workshop on Antarctic Crustal Structure, 17 June 1986
• Satellite Imagery in the Antarctic Region

Other Content:

SCAR Working Group on Logistics Meeting at Boulder, Colorado, USA, June 1987

• Summary Report of a Working Group Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 8-10 June 1987