Progress and future program of REGAL (Research on Ecology and Geohistory of Antarctic Lakes) Project

• Main Authors: Satoshi Imura, Sakae Kudoh, Tadashi Bando, Shuji Ohtani, Kojii Seto, Syuhei Ban, Hiroshi Kanda
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 2003
• Subjects: geo; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Syowa Station; Antarc*; SCAR; Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15094/00009264; https://doaj.org/article/3aff208d2aff4801bebcab541242aa1a

As part of the RiSCC (Regional Sensitivity to Climate Change in Antarctic Terrestrial and Limnetic Ecosystems) program sponsored by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), the REGAL (Research on Ecology and Geohistory on Antarctic Lakes) project has been conducted around the Syowa Station area. The first period of the program (REGAL-I) was promoted from 1994/1995 to 2000/2001, aiming to understand the structure and history of the Antarctic lake ecosystem. The progress of REGAL-I is summarized preparatory to drawing up the plan of REGAL-II from 2003/2004 to 2004/2005.