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TI: A New Phase of Exploration and Understanding: Planning for The International Polar Year - 2007/2008
AU: * Bell, R E
EM: robinb@ldeo.columbia.edu
AF: ICSU IPY 4 Planning Group, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AU: Rapley, C
EM: c.rapley@bas.ac.uk
AF: ICSU IPY 4 Planning Group, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, CB3 0ET United Kingdom
AU: Elfring, C
EM: celfring@nas.edu
AF: Polar Research Board, National Academies of Science, Washington, DC 20001 United States
AU: Allison, I
AF: Australian Anartic Division & Antarctic CRC, PO Box 252-80 Hobart, Tasmania, 7001 Australia
AU: Bindschadler, R
EM: Robert.A.Bindschadler@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 971, Bldg. 33, Rm. A218, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Chown, S
EM: slchown@sun.ac.za
AF: Department of Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, Matieland, 7602 South Africa
AU: Duhaime, G
EM: gerard.duhaime@fss.ulaval.ca
AF: GETIC, Universite Laval, Quebec, G1K 7P4 Canada
AU: Kotlyakov, V
EM: igras@igras.geonet.ru
AF: Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetny Street 29, Moscow, 109017 Russian Federation
AU: Orheim, O
EM: orheim@npolar.no
AF: Norsk Polarinstitutt, Polarmiljosenteret, Tromso, N-9296 Norway
AU: Zhang, Z
EM: zhangzhanhai@263.net.cn
AF: Polar Research Institute of China, 451 Jinqiao Rd., Shanghai Pudong, 200129 China
AU: Kuhn, M
EM: Michael.Kuhn@uibk.ac.at
AF: Institute of Meteorology & Geophysics, Innrain 52, Innsbruck, A-6020 Australia
AU: Schalke, H
EM: henkscha@worldonline.nl
AF: IUGS-UNESCO Division of Earth Sciences Joint Program Project, Starkenborglaan 10, BM Oegstgeest, 2341 Netherlands
AU: Pandey, P
EM: pcpandey@ncaor.org
AF: National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Department of Ocean Development Govt. of India, Vasco de Gama, Goa, 403804 India
AU: Petersen, H K
EM: hkp@dpc.dk
AF: Danish Polar Center, Strandgade 100H, Copenhagen K, DK-1401 Denmark
AU: Casassa, G
EM: gcasassa@cecs.cl
AF: Centro de Estudios Cientificos, Avenida Arturo Prat 514 Casilla, Vildivia, 1469 Chile
AB: Planning is underway to hold an International Polar Year in 2007-2008. IPY 2007-2008 stands to be a significant research opportunity to further our understanding of polar regions and polar processes. The International Polar Year has the potential to capture the public's imagination and convey the crucial role that the polar regions play in global systems. IPY 2007-2008 is envisioned to be an intense, international campaign of coordinated polar observations and analysis, which will be bipolar in focus, multidisciplinary in scope, and truly international in participation. The vision is for many nations to work together to gain holistic insights into planetary processes, targeted at exploring and increasing our understanding of the poles and their roles in the global system. The concept of an International Polar Year 2007 - 2008 has been endorsed and advanced by a broad range of global and polar research groups. Earlier this year, the International Council for Science (ICSU) formed an International Polar Year Planning Group (IPY-PG) which met for the first time at the end of July. The Planning Group discussed ways to create an open process that encourages broad input from the international community. The Planning Group began to describe the desired goals of IPY 2007-2008, which should address compelling science issues through multi-national programs, enable scientific programs which would not otherwise occur, attract and develop the next generation of polar scientists, and engage the public. The Planning Group has identified three overarching themes that we hope can serve as the foundation for IPY 2007-2008: Exploring the Earth's Icy Domains, Decoding the Role of the Poles in Global Change Understanding Polar Processes. The Planning Group envisions focused research activities under each of these major themes. For example, a program to explore the sub-ice environment of East Antarctica would fit under the theme Exploring the Earth's Icy Domains, a program of Integrated Polar Observing Networks including environmental instrumentation would fit under Decoding the Role of the Poles in Global Change, and a collaborative effort to study the stability of the cryosphere would fit under Understanding Polar Processes.
DE: 5416 Glaciation
DE: 9310 Antarctica
SC: Cryosphere [C]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting