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Scientific Research Programmes (SRPs) are major international scientific initiatives coordinated by SCAR, either alone or jointly with other international research bodies. It is expected that SRPs will address scientific questions that will require sustained efforts over 6-8 years. SRPs address major, priority scientific issues of global or fundamental importance, at the cutting edge of the science, that will require substantial field-work and/or observations in the Antarctic to be successful.

Scientific Research Programmes (SRPs) are transformative scientific initiatives that address compelling issues and emerging frontiers in Antarctic or Southern Ocean science of regional and global importance. SRPs are SCAR’s highest level of investment in science. SRPs advance scientific questions that are expected to require sustained efforts by international teams of scientists and researchers for six to eight years. SRPs are developed and proposed by Programme Planning Groups (PPGs) fostered by one or more Scientific Groups (SGs). A PPG develops a proposal for an SRP based on wide consultation with the community.

Winner of the inaugral SCAR Medal for Education and Communication, Professor James McClintock’s op-ed for the LA Times on ocean acidification.

This document lays out the process and procedure for the proposal of new Expert and Action groups.

A short report on the “SCAR Cross-Programme Workshop on Interactions between Biological and Environmental Processes in the Antarctic” held at the Institut de Ciències del Mar, 16-­18 September in Barcelona, Spain.  Participants came from SCAR’s AnT-ERA, AntEco and AntClim21 programmes, including the ACCE Group.

Template for the proposal of a new SCAR Expert or Action Group