Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) in the International Polar Year 2007-2008.

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) in the

International Polar Year 2007-2008

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

SCAR’s Advisory Committee on the

IPY 2007-2008

• Advise SCAR on the IPY science and implementation plan

• Promote SCAR programs in the IPY

• Work to achieve IPY objectives

• Monitor IPY’s progress.

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SCAR Scientific Research Programs

• Antarctica and the Global Climate System (AGCS)

• Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE)

• Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (EBA)

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SCAR Scientific Research Programs

• Interhemispheric Conjugacy Effects in Solar-Terrestrial and Aeronomy Research (ICESTAR)

• Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments (SALE)

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Antarctica and the Global Climate System (AGCS)

USE:• Ice cores, satellite data, global and regional climate

models and meteorological and oceanic data

TO ASSESS:• The role of ocean-atmosphere coupling and ENSO

in Antarctic climate• Recent climate variability• Future regional climate change for the next 100

years• The influence of Antarctic climate change on

conditions elsewhere

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AGCS In the IPY 2007-2008

• Test Models and High Latitude Climate Signal Transfer Functions

• Carry-out Bi-polar Shallow Ice Drilling Program

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Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE)

• Study climate change and glacial history;

• Model paleo-climate changes and predict future change

• Improve coupled ice sheet/climate/ocean/sediment models

• Study heat and freshwater exchanges via polar ocean gateways.

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ACE in the IPY 2007-2008

• Model Mid-Miocene climate shift and Pleistocene warm periods

• Model Trans-Antarctic Mountains and East Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution

• Collaborate with SHALDRILL

and ANDRILL

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Evolution and Biodiversity in the

Antarctic (EBA)

• Examine evolutionary history and adaptations

• Establish gene flow and population dynamics.

• Document organismal, ecosystems and diversity patterns

• Study environmental change, biodiversity and ecosystem function.

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EBA in the IPY 2007-2008

• Circum-Antarctic Census of Marine Life

• Marine Biodiversity Information Network (MARBIN)

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Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments (SALE)

• Understand the formation and evolution of subglacial environments

• Determine the origins, evolution, and biochemistry of life in SALE

• Retrieve the paleo-climate history recorded in subglacial sediments

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SALE in the IPY 2007-2008

• Address Technological and Environmental Stewardship Issues

• Continue Geophysical surveys

• Initial exploration of Selected Sites (Lake Ellsworth)

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Multiple Exploration Targets

Lake Vostok

Lake Ellsworth

Dome CDome C

New Survey Site

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Interhemispheric Conjugacy Effects in Solar-Terrestrial and

Aeronomy Research (ICESTAR)

• Solar-terrestrial physics and polar aeronomy research

• Share polar region and near-Earth space data using Grid Technology

• Study solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions and solar forcing at high latitudes

• Understand upper atmosphere polar systems

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ICESTAR in the

IPY 2007-2008

• Deploy geo-space observatories in the northern and southern regions.

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

in the International Polar Year 2007-2008

SALE

ICESTAR EBA

AGCS

ACE

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