Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) SCAR XXXI & Open Science Conference

Antarctica – Witness to the Past and Guide to the Future

Event Dates

1. SCAR Business meetings (July 30-August 2)
2. SCAR Open Science Conference (August 3-6)
3. SCAR Delegates Meeting (August 9-11)

Event Venue

Both SCAR XXXI & Open Science Conference share the same venue:
Hotel Panamericano Buenos Aires
Carlos Pellegrini 551
Buenos Aires, Argentina
www.panamericano.us/buenos_aires_business_hotel.htm

Event Website

Both SCAR XXXI & Open Science Conference share the same website:
www.dna.gov.ar/scar2010.htm
As soon as news and information related to the event is available, it will be
immediately posted on the site.

Open Science Conference Sessions

I CONNECTIVITY AND CROSS-SCALE INTERACTIONS

• 1 Electromagnetic propagation: thermosphere, mesophere and atmosphere
• 2 Coupling of the lower, middle and upper atmosphere
• 3Antarctic boundary layer: transport, air-snow exchange, aerosols and trace gases
• 4 Southern Ocean gateways and ocean-ice sheet interactions
• 5 Antarctic climate and links to the rest of the globe
• 6 Antarctic and South American climate: linking the past and present record
• 7 Data access and sharing for cutting edge science
• 8 Evolution of the Antarctic continent and the global system
• 9 Air-sea-ice interactions and shelf ocean processes
• 10 Subglacial geophysics, sediments and biota
• 11 Solar-terrestrial physics in polar regions
• 12 Magnetic studies of the Antarctic
• 13 Subglacial lakes-linkages with long-term ice-sheet behaviour
• 14 Mapping Antarctica: ADMAP, BEDMAP, and other activities
• 15 King George Island: model for interdisciplinary Anatrctic science
• Open Session - Connectivity and Cross-Scale Interactions

II TIPPING POINTS

• 16 Biodiversity, biogeochemistry and climate in the Southern Ocean
• 17 Global changes and Antarctic terrestrial biodiversity
• 18 Retrospective studies of Southern Ocean food webs: a guide to the future
• 19 Antarctic deglaciations: mechanisms, timing and character
• 20 Southern Ocean circulation and the global climate system
• 21 Earth Structure, Deformation, and Ice Sheet Evolution
• 22 Climate and ecosystem changes in the Antarctic Peninsula region
• Open Session - Tipping Points

III ECOSYSTEM HEALTH

• 23 Phylogenetics and phylogeography of Antarctic microbial ecosystems
• 24 Polar genomics, gene flow, population dynamics and adaptation
• 25 Spring-time ecosystem processes in the Antarctic sea ice zone
• 26 Top predators in Antarctic marine ecosystems
• 27 Carbon uptake and acidification in the Southern Ocean
• 28 Organisms: biogeochemical indicators of environmental change
• 29 Acoustics in the marne environment
• 30 Human biology and medicine
• 31 Cernsus of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML)
• 32 UV in Antarctica: ecosystem effects and interactions with climate change
• 33 Continuous Plankton Recording (CPR)
• 34 Evolution of Antarctic organisms
• 35Biodiversity, ecosystem function and environmental change: past, present and future
• Open Session - Ecosystem Health

IV CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

• 36 Antarctic astronomy - witness to the distant past and guide to the distant future
• 37 Decadal ocean and atmospheric variability in the southern hemisphere
• 38 Long term data from Antarctic ecosystems
• 39 Permafrost and periglacial Antarctic environments
• 40 Quaternary upper ocean stratification, sea-ice and productivity
• 41 Comparison of Antarctic ice and sediment core climate records
• 42 Antarctic climate history over the last 200 years
• 43 Modern and paleotopographic/bathymetric reconstructions: Antarctic paleoenvironments
• 44 Dynamics of Antarctic ice streams and ice shelves: processes and patterns
• 45 Antarctic snow accumulation distribution from models, measurements and remote sensing
• 46 The Antarctic ice sheet: from inception to demise: data and models
• 47 Seeps and vents in Antarctica
• 48 Quaternary Southern Ocean intermediate and deep-water circulation
• 49 History of Antarctica and scientific research
• 50 Antarctic ice shelf disintegration and rapid environmental change
• 51 Status and trends in Antarctic sea ice
• 52 Weather and climate in Antarctica
• 53 Observing Antarctica from Space
• Open Session - Continuity and Change

Call for abstracts

Participants who would like to contribute with an oral or poster presentation must submit an abstract for consideration by the International Scientific Organising Committee (ISOC).
The ISOC will determine whether the abstract should be accepted for presentation. Consideration will be based on scientific merit, relevance to the theme of the session selected and to the general theme of the meeting "Antarctica-Witness to the Past and Guide to the Future".
The presenting author should ensure that all co-authors are aware of the content of the abstract before submission. Only the abstracts of registered presenting authors will be included in the
program and in the Conference book of abstracts. Abstracts should be submitted in English and targeted at the named sessions (see Open Science Conference Sessions). Last day for electronic submission of

abstracts: April 1, 2010. Submissions should indicate whether they are for oral or poster presentation.

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