Polar Expo Poster Abstracts SCAR and IASC have a wide range of members, activities, and partners. These SCAR and/or IASC affiliated groups are being given the opportunity to share their work with the broader community at Polar2018, beyond the scientific program of the conference. Accordingly, upon request, each of these groups has been allocated a poster as part of our “PolarExpo.” Posters will be hung during the business meetings and Open Science Conference at Polar2018. This document provides the titles, abstracts, and contact points for each of the posters being presented. ISBN: 978-0-948277-57-3 Table of Contents Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................................... 2 AECO - Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators ................................................................... 5 Antarctic Biodiversity Portal ............................................................................................................................. 5 Antarctic Climate Change in the 21st Century (AntClim21) ................................................................. 6 Antarctic Sea ice Processes and Climate (ASPeCt) .................................................................................... 6 Antarctic Seismic Data Library System (SDLS) .......................................................................................... 7 AntEco ......................................................................................................................................................................... 7 AntVolc........................................................................................................................................................................ 8 Arctic and Antarctic science highlights from the UK research community .................................... 8 Arctic Vegetation Archive, Classification, and Map................................................................................... 9 Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS)........................................................................... 10 CliC, the Climate and Cryosphere Project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) .................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Comité Nacional SCAR ....................................................................................................................................... 11 Cutting barriers in snow knowledge ........................................................................................................... 11 Czech Polar Research Infrastructure ........................................................................................................... 12 ESSO-National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, India ............................................. 13 Expert Group on Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics (EG-ABi) ......................................................... 14 Forum of Arctic Reseach Operators (FARO) ............................................................................................. 14 French National Committee for Arctic and Antarctic Research (CNFRA) .................................... 15 German National Committee SCAR/IASC .................................................................................................. 16 GIANT ....................................................................................................................................................................... 16 GRAPE (GNSS Research and Application for Polar Environment) .................................................. 17 Herbivory Network ............................................................................................................................................. 18 History of Antarctic Research Expert Group ............................................................................................ 18 IASC Atmosphere Working Group ................................................................................................................ 19 IASC Cryosphere Working Group .................................................................................................................. 20 IASC Marine Working Group ........................................................................................................................... 21 IASC Social & Human Working Group ......................................................................................................... 22 IASC Terrestrial Working Group ................................................................................................................... 23 IASC Cross-Cutting Activities .......................................................................................................................... 23 IASC Fellowship Program................................................................................................................................. 24 2 IASC Medal ............................................................................................................................................................. 24 IASC Secretariat .................................................................................................................................................... 24 IASSA Working Group Gender in the Arctic .............................................................................................. 25 ICOMOS:IPHC (International Committe on Monuments and Sites: International Polar Heritage Committee) .......................................................................................................................................... 26 Implementation of a Wind Turbine in Antarctica .................................................................................. 27 Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics (ICED) ......................................................................... 28 International Association of Cryospheric Sciences ................................................................................ 29 International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBCSO) ................................................... 29 International Permafrost Association (IPA) ............................................................................................. 30 International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) ................................................................................. 30 International Union of Gedesy and Geophysics ...................................................................................... 31 International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) ................................................................................ 31 ISAES 2019 ............................................................................................................................................................. 32 ISIRA (International Science Initiative in the Russian Arctic) .......................................................... 32 JEGHBM ................................................................................................................................................................... 33 Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) .................................................................................................... 34 Operational Meteorology in the Antarctic Expert Group .................................................................... 35 PACES ....................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Pacific Arctic Group ............................................................................................................................................ 36 Polar Knowledge Canada .................................................................................................................................. 37 PolarTREC - Teachers & Researchers Exploring and Collaborating ............................................... 37 Polish Polar Research ........................................................................................................................................ 38 Portuguese National Antarctic Committee................................................................................................ 38 Quantarctica .......................................................................................................................................................... 39 Rapid Arctic Transitions due to Infrastructure and Climate ............................................................. 40 SCAR 2020 Hobart Meetings ........................................................................................................................... 40 SCAR 60th Anniversary ..................................................................................................................................... 41 SCAR Capacity Building Education and Training Committee ............................................................ 42 SCAR Fellow: Jilda Alicia Caccavo ................................................................................................................. 43 SCAR Fellow: Ryan Reisinger .........................................................................................................................