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title: "SCAR Expert Group on Birds and Marine Mammals meets this week in BA"
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# SCAR Expert Group on Birds and Marine Mammals meets this week in BA

The SCAR Expert Group on Birds and Marine Mammals (EG-BAMM) meets next week in Buenos Aires, Argentina as part of the meeting of the Standing Scientific Group on Life Sciences ([SSG-LS](http://www.scar.org/researchgroups/lifescience/)) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research ([SCAR](http://www.scar.org/)). 

 The Chief Officer of EB-BAMM is Mark Hindell (Australia) and its Secretary is Jan Ropert-Coudert (France) who together work with nine members from seven other countries.  EB-BAMM was established by amalgamating the former SCAR Groups of Experts on Birds and on Seals with a new Terms of Reference ([click here](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/scar-expert-group-to-include-acap-species-in-a-vertebrate-tracking-data-base)).

  The [annual report](http://www.scar.org/researchgroups/lifescience/meetings/2010meeting/LSSSG-10_Doc06_EG-BAMM.pdf) (since July 2009) of the recently constituted Expert Group may be accessed on the SCAR web site.![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/W/White_chinned_Petrel_by_Ben Phalan.jpg "Displaying White-chinned Petrels.  Photograph by Ben Phalan")

  It is hoped to bring a report of the 2010 meeting's deliberations in due course.

  *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 29 July 2010*