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SALE closely consults with other SCAR Scientific Research Programs that have complementary research interests.
ACE is an international initiative that promotes the exchange of data and ideas between research groups focussing on the evolution of Antarctica’s climate system and ice sheet. ACE will exist to facilitate scientific exchange between the modeling and data acquisition communities for the purposes of project development and hypothesis testing. The broad outcomes of the program will be: (1) quantitative assessment of the climate and glacial history of Antarctica; (2) identification of the processes which govern Antarctic change, and those which feed back this change around the globe; (3) improvements in our technical ability to model past changes in Antarctica; and (4) precisely documented case studies of past changes, which models of future change inAntarctica can be tested against.
Evolution and Biodiversity in Antarctica
EBA (Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic: The Response of Life to Change) is an international, multidisciplinary program to explore (1) the evolutionary history of Antarctic biota, (2) how biological diversity in the Antarctic influences ecosystem function, and (3) how the biota will respond to environmental change. The purpose of EBA is to facilitate collaboration with key researchers from other disciplines through workshops and conferences, place research in the context of SCAR's new initiative on evolution and biodiversity in the Antarctic, and maximize international and multidisciplinary involvement. Using a suite of modern techniques and an interdisciplinary approach EBA will:
- Explore the evolutionary history of modern Antarctic biota
- Examine the role of Antarctic biodiversity in present-day ecosystem function
- Predict the responses to future environmental change
By integrating research in marine, terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems in a manner never before attempted, EBA will advance evolutionary and ecological science globally using model systems and organisms from the Antarctic.
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