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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) in the International Polar Year

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research SCARs Advisory Committee on the IPY Advise SCAR on the IPY science and implementation plan Promote SCAR programs in the IPY Work to achieve IPY objectives Monitor IPYs progress.

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research SCAR Scientific Research Programs Antarctica and the Global Climate System (AGCS) Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE) Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (EBA)

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research SCAR Scientific Research Programs Interhemispheric Conjugacy Effects in Solar-Terrestrial and Aeronomy Research (ICESTAR) Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments (SALE)

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research 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

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research AGCS In the IPY Test Models and High Latitude Climate Signal Transfer Functions Carry-out Bi-polar Shallow Ice Drilling Program

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE) Study climate change and glacial history; Model paleo-climate changes and predict future change Improve coupled ice sheet/climate/ocean/sedim ent models Study heat and freshwater exchanges via polar ocean gateways.

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research ACE in the IPY Model Mid-Miocene climate shift and Pleistocene warm periods Model Trans-Antarctic Mountains and East Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution Collaborate with SHALDRILL and ANDRILL

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research 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.

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research EBA in the IPY Circum-Antarctic Census of Marine Life Marine Biodiversity Information Network (MARBIN)

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research 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

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research SALE in the IPY Address Technological and Environmental Stewardship Issues Continue Geophysical surveys Initial exploration of Selected Sites (Lake Ellsworth)

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Multiple Exploration Targets Lake Vostok Lake Ellsworth Dome C New Survey Site

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research 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

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research ICESTAR in the IPY 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 EDUCATION OUTREACH