SCAR Open Science Conference:
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in the Global System
Bremen, Germany
26-28 July 2004
For further information please go to: http://www.scar28.org
Abstract deadline is Thursday, 15 January 2004
For the first time since its foundation in 1958, the Scientific
Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) will be holding an open
international and interdisciplinary scientific conference on "Antarctica
and the Southern Ocean in the Global System". The Open Science
Conference is a flagship activity of SCAR and will be held in
conjunction with the biennial meeting of SCAR's scientific groups
(XXVIII SCAR) and the annual meeting of the Council of Managers of
National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP XVI).
SCAR invites all scientists who are interested both in Antarctica and in
the Southern Ocean to participate in the Open Science Conference in
order to present their latest discoveries. It is anticipated that the
results of the conference will influence the planning of SCAR's future
Antarctic research programs.
Oral and poster presentations are invited for the following topics:
- Variability and change in the Antarctic Biota: molecules to ecosystems
- Pelagic predators and the Southern Ocean System
- Structure and function of Southern Ocean Ecosystems
- Evolution of the Antarctic biota
- Ecology of the Antarctic sea-ice zone
- Human responses to the Antarctic Environment
- Ocean-atmosphere interactions
- Climate history of the Antarctic
- Astronomy from the Antarctic
- Arctic-Antarctic conjugacy
- Evolution of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate and biota:
the geological record
- Antarctic neotectonics and geodesy
- Growth of the Antarctic continent
- Antarctic permafrost
- Management and application of Antarctic geospatial information
- eAntarctica: From data management to information portals
- Open Science Session (Geoscience, Life and Physical Science)
Abstract deadline is Thursday, 15 January 2004
For more information contact:
XXVIII SCAR and COMNAP XVI Meeting Secretariat
Martina Kunz-Pirrung
Manfred Reinke or
Elena Tschertkova
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Columbusstraße
27568 Bremerhaven Germany
Tel: +49-471-4831-1358
Fax: +49-471-4831-1102
Email: secretary [at] scar28.org
or go to: http://www.scar28.org