HR: 10:25h
AN: ED32B-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Promoting Post-Graduate Collaboration in the IPY
AU: * Drobot, S
AF: University of Colorado, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research Box 431, Boulder, CO 80309-0431 United States
AB: The International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 will be a hallmark scientific effort between scientists and nations around the world. It will be an intense, coordinated campaign of polar observations, research, and analysis that will be multidisciplinary in scope and international in participation. The IPY 2007-2008 follows in the tradition of three international science endeavors during the last 125 years (IPY 1882-1883; IPY 1932-1933; IGY 157-1958), when nations around the world united to advance scientific discovery in ways that single countries or scientists could not do alone. Each of these seminal events led to discoveries that have fashioned modern Earth and space science as we know it today. The National Academies' Polar Research Board formed the U.S. National Committee (USNC) for the IPY (http://us-ipy.org) to facilitate and coordinate IPY planning in the United States and develop an initial report outlining some U.S. interests in the IPY. This report noted that programs in education and outreach should be developed for IPY that build on the inherent public interest of the polar regions and provide a broad lay audience with a deeper understanding of the polar regions. The IPY also should develop the next generation of scientists, engineers, and leaders and include underrepresented groups and minorities, and also provide mechanisms for individuals, early-career researchers and small teams to contribute to the IPY. This presentation briefly highlights some of the education ideas for the IPY, and focuses specifically on the development of post-graduate mechanisms for the IPY modeled after the highly successful Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research (DISCCRS).
UR: http://us-ipy.org
DE: 9310 Antarctica
DE: 9315 Arctic region
DE: 6630 Workforce
DE: 0850 Geoscience education research
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting