Table 1
AOSB Meetings
1984
01 Bremerhaven, Germany
in Potsdam (2006) and Hanover (2007) and the re-
1984
02 Ottawa, ON, Canada
structuring of IASC in the light of a recent review
1985
03 Washington, DC, USA
and strategy report (see Chapter 1.4) the AOSB
1986
04 Oslo, Norway
was merged with IASC in 2009 – despite some
1986
05 Helsinki, Finland
reluctance by AOSB members. Under IASC, AOSB
1987
06 Dartmouth, NS, Canada
became the Marine WG of IASC. Three years after
1987
07 Santander, Spain
the merger, most agree that bringing AOSB into the
1989
08 Washington, DC, USA
IASC family was a worthwhile effort which has led
1990
09 Cambridge, UK
to better coordination between research disciplines
1991
10 Copenhagen, Denmark
through cross-cutting initiatives involving the ma-
1992
11 St. John´s, NFLD, Canada
rine sector and a steady source of funding for plan-
1993
12 Seattle, WA, USA
ning and coordination activities.
1994
13 Scheveningen / The Hague, NL
1995
14 Bremerhaven, Germany
1996
15 Helsinki, Finland
1997
16 Sopot, Poland
1998
17 Oslo, Norway
1999
18 Tokyo, Japan
2000
19 Cambridge, UK (ASSW)
2001
20 Iqaluit, NU, Canada (ASSW)
2002
21 Groningen, NL, (ASSW)
2003
22 Kiruna, Sweden (ASSW)
2004
23 Reykjavik, Iceland (ASSW)
2005
24 Kunming, China (ASSW)
2006
25 Potsdam, Germany (ASSW)
2007
26 Hanover, Germany (ASSW)
2008
27 Syktyvkar, Russia (ASSW)
2009
28 Bergen, Norway (ASSW)
4.5
Bi-Polar Cooperation
Colin P. Summerhayes, Odd Rogne,
Volker Rachold and Mike D. Sparrow
Reviewer: Karin Lochte
When Jörn Thiede, the Director of Germany´s Alfred
Wegener Institute for Marine and Polar Science, was
both President of SCAR (2002-2006) and a national representative to IASC, he persuaded SCAR´s Executive Committee (EXCOM) to agree at its meeting in Brest in July 2003 that SCAR should seek to
have a formal representative at IASC meetings with
Since 2010, AOSB is the Marine WG of IASC,
which meets at the ASSW (see Chapter 2.9).
a reciprocal invitation for IASC to be represented
at SCAR meetings. The rationale was that IASC´s
establishment in 1999 of the ASSW was providing
opportunities for coordination, collaboration and
cooperation in all areas of Arctic science, and some
of that science was complementary to that taking
and helped finance the participation of early career
place in the Antarctic – particularly where bipolar
scientists in the earliest phases of ART, a flagship
topics like glaciology and climatic studies were con-
program of AOSB (and now IASC) which is led entire-
cerned. There were bound to be some benefits from
ly by early career scientists.
pooling resources. Although the topic was revisited
at SCAR´s EXCOM meeting in Bremerhaven in Jan-
Starting with the ASSW in Kunming (2005) AOSB,
as part of its strategy, sought to strengthen its
pied with SCAR´s reorganization, and with planning
relationships with other ASSW organizations, espe-
for the first SCAR Open Science Conference due to
cially – but not only – with IASC. Further discussions
90
uary 2004, the SCAR Secretariat´s time was occu-
take place in Bremen in July 2004.
04 Cooperation with Other Organizations