HR: 13:40h
AN: ED13A-01    [Abstracts]
TI: IPY EOC USA: U.S. Education, Outreach and Communication Efforts for the International Polar Year 2007-2008
AU: * McCaffrey, M S
EM: mark.mccaffrey@colorado.edu
AF: University of Colorado at Boulder- CIRES, UCB 449, Boulder, CO 80309, United States
AU: Pfirman, S
EM: spfirman@barnard.edu
AF: Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, United States
AB: As an international collaborative effort involving scientific organizations and scientists from over 60 nations to study the polar regions and their global linkages during an intensive observation period running from 2007 to 2009, the International Polar Year (IPY) is recognized as a unique and timely opportunity to communicate to broad audiences the dynamics of polar regions and their global connections. The overall international effort to develop specific education, outreach and communication (EOC) strategies and foster a broad community supporting IPY activities has benefitted from the planning of the U.S. Polar Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, and from workshops funded and organized by the U.S. National Science Foundation, NOAA, Columbia University and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). This paper will examine the history of these efforts, the challenges the community has faced in pursuing the opportunities, and the successes to date of the diverse array of programs and projects aimed at communicating the "who, what, where, how, when and why" of IPY activities to diverse, non-technical audiences.
DE: 0700 CRYOSPHERE (4540)
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0810 Post-secondary education
DE: 1600 GLOBAL CHANGE
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting