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3rd APECS International Online Conference 2017

Organizers of the 3rd Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) International Online Conference 2017 announce a call for abstract submissions. This year's theme is entitled, "Outside the Box: Encouraging alternative solutions for undertaking and communicating polar research." This conference will be held online on 20 March 2017.

SCAR 2016 Open Science Conference

The registration is now open for the SCAR 2016 Open Science Conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 22-26 August 2016. This conference will focus on Antarctica in the Global Earth System: From the Poles to the Tropics and how the changes that we are currently seeing in Antarctica will affect the rest of the world.

Meeting website: www.scar2016.com

Southern Ocean community comment on the Year of Polar Prediction Implementation Plan

The Southern Ocean community comment on the Year of Polar Prediction Implementation Plan is now available online. The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS), the CLIVAR-CliC-SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP), and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) contributed to this report.

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