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XXVIII SCAR Delegates Agenda 4.3 Paper 14
(ADMAP); Age, Growth & Evolution of Antarctica (AGEANT); Permafrost and
GSSG products, as well as direct links to ANTEC, ACE and SALE. The site now
contains more than 300 pages. The increase in content and GSSG membership (ie. the
amalgamation of WG-GGI and WG-Geoscience at SCAR XXVII) has meant there
has also been a large increase in the traffic for the new GSSG site. On average the site
now receives more than 25 000 unique visitors per year – more than 3 times what is
was before XXVII SCAR.See Appendix 1 for a more comprehensive listing of
statistics.
2. Amalgamate existing web resources (such as the ANTEC site) into the new site
Done. The ANTEC was relocated to Ohio State University, where it is now hosted
with a new URL – http://www.antec.scar.org
3. Maintain listservers
Five listservers (‘geosci-l’, 'gig-l', 'giant-l', 'antec-l' and ‘admap-l’) were established
and maintained throughout the reporting period. Currently there are 134 subscribers to
the 'geosci-l' list, 49 subscribers to the 'giant-l' list, 101 subscribers to the 'antec-l' list,
39 subscribers to the ‘gig-l’ list and 31 subscribers to the ‘admap-l’ list. All GSSG
members have a registered email address and there would be approximately 2
messages per week that are distributed through the 'geosci-l' list. It seems as though it
has not been utilised to its full potential during this report period – and perhaps that is
a reflection of the COG Chairman not working full-time on SCAR and COG matters.
4. Maintain the list of contacts for the exchange of map, chart and geographic
publications
Maintained to the best of the Chairman’s ability. Notification from members of
updated details is appreciated.
5. Maintain the list of distributors of Antarctic maps
Maintained to the best of the Chairman’s ability. Notification from members of
updated details is appreciated.
2. Publications
Project Leader: Chairman
Collaborators: GSSG Executive Group, Programme Group Chair, Programme Planning
Group Chairs, Expert Group Chair, Action Group Chairs and Project Coordinators.
Goal: To publicise GSSG activities.
Activities:
1. Publications
• Develop a bibliography of key GSSG papers
• Encourage Action Groups and Projects to publish their work in a timely manner
Publications by GSSG members or those of interest to GSSG members (and details of
which have been received by the COG Chairman) have been put onto the web site.
In addition to these publications there have been 6 GSSG newsletters – ‘GeoReach’ -
over the reporting period – www.geoscience.scar.org/action<strong>group</strong>s/cog/ - available in
both HTML and PDF versions.
The Marine Acoustics Report, first published in 2002 and then updated in 2003 has
been accessed a total of 13 402 times from the period 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2004.
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