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International Polar Year 2007-08

1. International Polar Year website: www.classic.ipy.org

2. IPY IPO Newsletters:

   • IPY Nov 2006

3. IPY 2007-08 Preparation Phase

4. SCAR Papers relevant to IPY

5. IPY Data Management

6. "Scope of Science for the International Polar Year"

7. Related programme: International Year of Planet Earth (2007-2009)

8. The First International Polar Year

   • Scientific Work of the Second Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition, 1872-4
     © Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
   • Fundamental Principles of Scientific Arctic Investigation, by Charles Weyprecht, 1875
   • Programme of Work of an International Polar Expedition, by Comte Wilczek and Carl Weyprecht, 1877

9. SCAR and the IPYs over the years

   • International Collaboration in Antarctica - the IPYs, IGY and SCAR, with acknowledgements to Polar Record

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IPY Proposals approved in April 2006

• Next steps in the evolving shape of the programme - November 2005
• List of approved Antarctic or Bipolar proposals - updated April 2006
• Honeycomb chart of accepted proposals
• Proposed Activities

Press Release

• International Council for Science Launches International Polar Year 2007-2008, an Endeavor of Historical Proportions

Director of the International Polar Year 2007-2008 Programme Office

• In May 2005 Dr David Carlson began as the Director of the IPY International Programme Office located in Cambridge, UK

SCAR News on the IPY

• Tour of IPY in Google Earth can find at: http://www.earthslot.org/ipy/

• Launch of the International Polar Year (IPY), 2007-2008:

  It's official: The International Polar Year 2007-2008 will be launched on 1 March 2007 at the "Palais de la Découverte", a famous science museum in central Paris. A press conference is being organized for the event by IPY's co-sponsors, ICSU and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and the IPY Programme Office in Cambridge. The event will take place in conjunction with the IPY Joint-Committee meeting being held on 28 February and 2 March. More than a dozen countries are also planning national launch events on or around 1 March and an international IPY group is working hard to stimulate activities in schools and science centres around the globe.

• The Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH) has designed a web page with information and media news about IPY in Spanish (IPY=API in Spanish: Año Polar Internacional): http://www.inach.cl/api/medios.htm

• Report from the IPY Consultative Forum in Hobart, Tasmania, 8 July 2006

• In association with the XXIX SCAR meeting in Hobart, on July 8 the International Polar Year Steering Committee held an IPY Consultative Forum to introduce the wider community to the goals and activities of the IPY and the progress being made, and to give the community an opportunity to ask questions about plans and progress and involvement.

• Hydrographers make plea for IPY scientists to collect more detailed bathymetric information, especially around the Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetlands to improve the safety of navigation.
• Progress Report for SCAR
• SCAR nominated to participate on new International Polar Year Joint Committee for planning and coordination of the International Polar Year
• Call for Expression of Intent for the IPY

Example of National Approaches

• Unites States National Committee Vision Report
• Unites States National Committee Report Summary

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Photographs from the IPY Joint Committee Meeting and Dinner, 4-5 July 2008 in St Petersburg, Russia

IPY JC Meeting (left to right): T de Bruin, O Rogne, N Munro, M Beland, I Allison, C Summerhayes, K Alverson, T Mohr, D Carlson, G Hovelsrud, J Lopez and R Bell.	IPY JC Meeting (left to right): T de Bruin, O Rogne, N Munro, M Beland, I Allison, C Summerhayes, AARI technician, T Mohr, K Iverson, J Lopez and R Bell.
IPY JC Meeting (left to right): T Yamanouchi, R Salmon, M Beland, O Rogne, N Munro, I Allison (obscured), K Alverson (holding paper), AARI technician, T Mohn (obscured), D Carlson, G Hovelsrud, H Odmark (obscured), J Lopez, R Bell, V Kotlyakov, E Sarukhanian, C Rapley (back of head) and, against the wall, K Iverson.	IPY JC Meeting (left to right): against wall, M Pauls and S Zicus; foreground D Carlson, H Odmark (obscured), G Hovelsrud, J Lopez, R Bell, E Sarukhanian, P Cutler, C Rapley, T Yamanouchi, K Daniel, R Salmon, O Rogne, N Munro, I Allison, unknown (obscured) and K Alverson.
IPY JC Dinner (left to right): S Zicus, J Lopez, M Pauls, O Orheim, N Munro, E Sarukhanian, D Carlson and C Summerhayes.	IPY JC Dinner (left to right): J Lopez, M Pauls, S Zicus and K Alverson (obscured).
IPY JC Dinner (left to right): O Orheim, E Sarukhanian, D Carlson and C Summerhayes.	IPY JC Dinner (left to right): O Orheim, N Munro (obscured) E Sarukhanian and D Carlson.
IPY JC: E Sarukhanian, V Kotlyakov and S Lopez.	IPY JC: E Sarukhanian and V Kotlyakov.