| Summary: | Progress Code: completed Purpose CAML Documents includes: early documents in the project's timeline; Expression of Intent for the 2007-2009 International Polar Year (Project #83) and thank you letters from IPY and IUCN; selected powerpoint presentations given at CAML meetings, showing the status of the project; reports to the funding agency (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation); the CAML Science Statement; list of the CAML Scientific Steering Committee members, and associated colleagues and invited experts during the project; and year-by-year calendars of CAML activities. The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Project Archive is a collection of scanned documents, maps, videos, and other related material that comprise the organisation and management documentation associated with a major research project of international significance. CAML measured the distribution and abundance of life in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica so that future impacts of climate change and human activities can be better understood. CAML coordinated the largest-ever survey of the Southern Ocean with 18 voyages in Antarctic waters, and inventoried over 16,000 marine species with hundreds new to science, provided DNA barcodes for 1,500 species, and has so far produced more than 600 scientific publications. CAML is a key activity of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR); a subproject of the Census of Marine Life (CoML); and was a major initiative of the 2007-2009 International Polar Year (IPY).
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