chat sessions

Several convenors of parallel sessions for the cancelled Hobart meeting will be running text-based chat sessions as part of SCAR 2020 Online.  Details will follow soon.

A number of text-based discussions will run based around themes of sessions planned for the cancelled OSC in Hobart. Details of how to join will be provided via the OnAir event portal. The session dates and themes are as indicated below.

Thursday, August 6 - 9:00 - 11:00am (UTC) - Text Based Discussion 1

  • Session 22: The Role of Fish on the Southern Ocean
  •  Session 42: Current challenges in Antarctic medicine: the link between spaceflight and polar practice. Health and well-being off the grid: how adaptation to spaceflight is related to Antarctic deployments and vice versa.

Thursday, August 6 - 1:00 - 3:00pm (UTC) - Text Based Discussion 2

  • Session 10: Climate-ice-ocean dynamics of Antarctica's coast and ice shelves 
  • Session 32: Genomic insights into past and present Antarctic Biodiversity

Thursday, August 6 - 11:00pm - 1:00am (UTC) - Text Based Discussion 3

  •  Session 15: Ice sheet-solid earth interactions: GIA, landscape evolution and geothermal heat flux.
  •  Session 35: The changing face of Antarctic tourism