CEDAR email: Last chance to submit your abstract to the SCAR OSC - Deadline 28 February

Thu Feb 26 08:43:39 MST 2026

Dear Colleagues,

The call for abstract to the SCAR Open Science Conference is going to close!
Submit the abstract NOW! The abstract submission deadline is 28 February.
https://scar2026.org/

SCAR Open Science Conference is a flagship conference of SCAR, and it is a largest interndisciplinary conference related to Antarctic research. It is organized every second year and time SCAR OSC will take place in Oslo, Norway, in August 2026.

AGATA has a dedicated scientific session:

S2: From atmosphere to geospace: coupling between spheres and interhemispheric (a)symmetries at the poles

The dynamics of the polar atmosphere is subject to forcing frombelow and above. At high geomagnetic latitudes it is directlyconnected to geospace. Thus also geomagnetic activity directlyimpacts the processes in the high-latitude atmosphere. Thecomplexity of the coupling between neutral and ionisedatmospheric species, between different atmospheric spheres, andto the solar wind and outer space makes the polar atmosphere aunique region, which eventually can also impact the globalatmosphere. Collaborative, interdisciplinary, and multi-instrumental approach to study the polar atmosphere is aprerequisite for understanding these processes in detail.Understanding means also better modeling to support spaceweather applications and to contribute to identify theanthropogenic and natural sources in the assessment of climatechange. In this context Antarctica is the ideal natural lab to set upcollaborative efforts, also in the interhemispheric perspectiveconsidering the Arctic atmosphere to understand the differencesand similarities between the polar regions and their role for theglobal atmospheric processes.We invite contributions from atmospheric and space sciences, aswell as from geodesy, astronomy, and other fields which cancontribute to a better understanding of the processes in the polaratmosphere in Antarctica, but also globally. Recent findings,review of existing and ongoing initiatives, studies based onground-based, airborne and satellite measurements, as well asmodels are invited. Both regional and case studies in Antarctica,as well as larger studies in the interhemispheric and globalperspective are welcome.

There are other sessions relevant for our community, such as:

S1: Safeguarding Antarctica’s Dark and Quiet Skies: Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Cross-Regime Collaboration with Outer Space

S3: Polar Meteorology and Atmospheric Processes: Weather, Water Cycle, Snow, Clouds, Radiation, Gravity Waves

Are you a student or an Early Career Researcher? Apply for the AGATA travel support! The applications portal for the SCAR OSC is open until 16 March (UTC) https://scar2026.org/travel-grants

Looking forward to seeing you in Oslo!
All the best
AGATA Team

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/cedar_email/attachments/20260226/158b33f6/attachment-0001.htm>