IASC Member Countries and their national IASC Adhering Bodies are presented below in order of the year they joined the IASC:

CountryCurrent national IASC Adhering BodyYear of joining IASC
Canada Polar Knowledge Canada 1990
Denmark Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science 1990
Finland Council of Finnish Academies 1990
Iceland RANNÍS, The Icelandic Centre for Research 1990
Norway Research Council of Norway 1990
Russia Russian Academy of Sciences 1990
Sweden Swedish Research Council (Polar Secretariat) 1990
United States US Polar Research Board of the US National Academies 1990
France National Center for Scientific Research - CNRS 1991
Germany German Research Foundation 1991
Japan Science Council of Japan National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) 1991
The Netherlands Dutch Research Council 1991
Poland Polish Academy of Sciences Committee on Polar Research 1991
United Kingdom Natural Environment Research Council 1991
Switzerland Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research 1994
China Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration (CAA) 1996
Italy National Research Council of Italy 1997
Republic of Korea Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) 2002
Spain Spanish Polar Committee 2009
Czech Republic Centre for Polar Ecology, University of South Bohemia 2012
India National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) 2012
Austria Austrian Polar Research Institute (APRI) 2014
Portugal Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology 2015
Belgium Belgian National Committee on Antarctic Research (BNCAR) 2022
Türkiye TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center Polar Research Institute 2025

 



 

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