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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
SCAR Newsletter: Issue 18, March 2009
The newsletter is available online at:
http://www.scar.org/news/newsletters/issues2009/mar09.html
The March 2009 issue of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
(SCAR) Newsletter, Issue 18, is now available online at:
http://www.scar.org/news/newsletters/issues2009/mar09.html.
Contents include:
SCAR News
- SCAR Seeks New Executive Director;
- SCAR's Review of Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment
Available for Comment;
- SCAR's Census of Antarctic Marine Life Finds 1000 New Species;
- News from SCAR's EBA (Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic)
Program;
- News from SCAR's GeoSciences Group;
- Subglacial Antarctic Lake News from the IPY;
- ASPeCt Sea-Ice Database Application;
- CODATA and SCAR Partners In Polar Data and Information Commons;
- Webcasts of St. Petersburg Open Science Conference;
- SCAR President Makes Historic Visit to King George Island;
- SCAR Submits 10 Papers to 32nd ATCM and 12th CEP Meetings; and
- SCAR Annual Report.
Antarctic News
- Unexpected Warming Across Antarctica;
- Giant Ice Sheet Is Safe ... for Now;
- Trapped Under Ice;
- Antarctic Worms Make Antifreeze;
- The Lost World Beneath the Antarctic Ice;
- Gamburtsev Mountains Revealed;
- Russian Researchers Suspend Drilling to Subglacial Lake Vostok Until
December 2009;
- The Sea-Level Fingerprint of West Antarctic Collapse;
- Decline in Penguin Populations Due to a Predicted Decrease in Sea Ice;
- Iron Fertilization Experiment Goes Ahead;
- Updated Antarctic Chronology;
- The Response of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to Recent Climate
Change;
- New German Antarctic Station Opens;
- New Antarctic Research Station is Carbon-Free; and
- China Building Base at Dome A.
Polar News
- Record 2007 Greenland Ice Sheet Melt;
- Arctic Dipole is the Major Driver for Arctic Sea Ice Minima;
- Global Temperature - 2008 Cool, but Still 7th Warmest Since 1900; and
- Antarctic and Arctic Essay Competition.
Education and Training
- SCAR announces the launch of its 2009-10 Fellowship Program; and
- SCAR's Education and Training Links.
Film
- 365 days Under Antarctic Ice.
Awards
- 2008 SCAR Medalist Claude Lorius awarded Blue Planet Prize.
Events
- Dates for SCAR XXXI Meeting in Buenos Aires in 2010;
- SCAR Sponsors International Symposium on Glaciology; and
- Other Events.
For further information, please view the newsletter online at:
http://www.scar.org/news/newsletters/issues2009/mar09.html.