index.php?ipy/content/news en IPY Copyright 2012 2012-05-21T20:06:00+00:00 http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/archiving_ipy_2007_8/ http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/archiving_ipy_2007_8/ During the last five (or more) years of planning and implementation of IPY 2007-8, many documents, correspondences, presentations, and multi-media tools have been developed that, while not raw scientific data, are a critical legacy of this historical research period. In order to learn from our experiences, and present a comprehensive account of this IPY to historians and scientists of the future, the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) and Canadian IPY Secretariat at the University of Alberta have developed a process for capture and storage of digital material. This process has been endorsed and developed with the IPY International Programme Office and Joint Committee. We hope you will participate. Lightberg Image: Rachel Hazell, Hazelldesignsbooks Who: You! Please consider taking a small amount of time to gather together critical files that document, in your view, some of the most important developments or contributions in this IPY. We are hoping for representation from the broad spectrum of IPY in order to collect a breadth of material and perspectives. This includes international, national, institutional, project, and sub-committee activities among others. What: Material could be related to everything from IPY planning and implementation to logistics and community engagement. Appropriate material includes emails, presentations, key documents, images/ video, or other digital files. All material will be publicly accessible except for those documents you wish to remain ‘closed’. These will be accessible only by individual request to SPRI, and for specific research purposes. Physical artefacts should be archived with national or institutional libraries. For information on the partner closest to you, please contact Heather Lane ( librarian@spri.cam.ac.uk). A separate process is in place for storage of scientific data through the IPY Data and Information Service (IPY-DIS). Publications should be submitted to the IPY Publications Database. How: The uploading of IPY digital archival material will be facilitated by the University of Alberta, through the IPY Digital Resource Library, IPY-DiTRL. Long- term storage and archive management will be overseen at the Scott Polar Research Institute utilising the institutional repository of the University of Cambridge, DSpace@Cambridge. Files may either be uploaded individually on the DiTRL web interface, or, for larger collections, uploaded by batch submission. For the latter, you will be asked to store your files on a CD or DVD, or transfer them by FTP to the University of Alberta for uploading. You will also be asked to complete a simple spreadsheet detailing an overview of the material. You may also choose to compress multiple files or folders into single zip files to hasten the process. Public_IPY_DiTRL_Upload_Intructions.pdf(for individual files & batch uploads) (PDF) Batch Upload Excel spreadsheet for multiple files When: We are currently looking for IPY partners who would be able to test the system with their material soon, but files can be uploaded at any time later in the year. If you are willing to participate in this project, please email the following details: - are you able to gather documents together in February or March 2009? - if not, when would you like to archive your material? - Preference for individual or batch uploading (recommended for over 20 files)? - a signed copy of this DSpace Deposit Agreement_IPY For more information on the archiving process, including uploading and security, please visit IPY-DiTRL Why: In the late 1990’s, discussions began about implementing a 4th International Polar Year in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year (renamed from the 3rd IPY). Today there are more than 50,000 participants from over 60 nations who are involved in the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-8 with over 200 endorsed projects across a broad spectrum of natural and social science disciplines. The ending of IPY is a unique opportunity to collect valuable information about the development and implementation of this IPY, which will not only be valuable to historians of the future, but also central in providing societal and political context to the many significant scientific results that we expect to emerge during the next 15 years. Little information of this kind is available from the first three IPYs, and learning from our predecessors strongly suggests that the only viable opportunity to collect and document this information is while IPY 2007-8 still has the momentum that it has today. Following consultation with the international Polar Libraries Colloquy, the IPY Joint Committee has agreed for archiving of digital and physical material, related to the development of international IPY activities and committees, to be developed and implemented by the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK. This will include physical artefacts and digital copies of IPY reports, documents, posters, presentations, and correspondence. The collection of digital material is occurring in collaboration with the University of Alberta, Canada. About the archiving partners The International Polar Year Digital Resource Library, IPY-DiTRL, is an online database containing digital media that have been submitted by IPY researchers, students and other partners. The media is generally in the form of animations, power point presentations, video and audio clips, and PDF files. This digital library is complementary to the various IPY data catalogues (e.g. www.polardata.ca) and publications databases (e.g. http://www.nisc.com/ipy). DSpace@Cambridge is the institutional repository of the University of Cambridge. The repository was established in 2003 to facilitate the deposit of digital content of a scholarly or heritage nature, allowing employees and their departments at the University to share and preserve this content in a managed environment. It is a mirror archive that contains copies of all IPY files uploaded to IPY-DiTRL. The Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), part of the University of Cambridge, is the oldest international centre for polar research. Today, it has developed to become a world-renowned centre for research and reference in a variety of fields relating to the environment, history, science and social science of the polar regions. Its library and archive provide an important repository for research resources, and support a wide range of academic disciplines. The research programmes of the Institute provide a strong core of intellectual activity focused on the Arctic and Antarctic, and in particular, ice and environmental change. 2012-05-21T20:06:00+00:00 http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_may_2010/ http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_may_2010/ Content: 1) Preparations and Promotions for Oslo Science Conference 2) Polar Information Commons 3) IPY Lessons Learned 4) APECS Update Report no. 37, May 2010 From: IPY International Programme Office To: IPY Project Coordinators cc: IPY Community Google Groups 1) Preparations and Promotions for Oslo Science Conference Distinguished speakers, awards, films, festivals, the best and most recent polar science and polar science communication - you will enjoy all this and more at the Oslo Science Conference.  Please see the web site http://www.ipy-osc.no/ for the latest news and information.  We anticipate strong media interest in the Oslo event.  The IPY media working group will ensure excellent media services at the conference venue.  To promote your activities and the conference itself, we encourage stories and press releases now, in the remaining weeks leading up to the conference.  If your research team or organization plans an event, a launch of a new service, an award, or some other announcement at Oslo, please work with us now to promote that activity through our media distribution links and on ipy.org.  We in the IPO and members of the media working group can help you craft these stories and can ensure that they get released into our science communication networks.  Please contact Dave Carlson (ipy....@gmail.com) with ideas or for more information.  2) Polar Information Commons With the Polar Information Commons (PIC, http://www.polarcommons.org/), IPY has initiated a fast and easy-to-use open data resource accessible through normal search and browse tools.  The PIC mirrors the “real” commons of the Antarctic (defined in the Antarctic Treaty) and responds to the common interests of humanity by serving as an open repository for scientific data and information about the polar regions and as a community-based infrastructure that fosters innovation and stimulates participation.  In the PIC vision, investigators expose their data to the world and share them, without restriction, through open search and broadcast protocols on the internet.  All PIC data carry a digital badge that denotes cooperation and expectations among providers and users based on open access norms and best practices. We intend to demonstrate, in a hands-on fashion, the PIC tools, processes, and systems at the Oslo Science Conference and to allow interested users to badge and submit their data within the PIC system.  PIC will serve as the centrepiece of an information commons area at Oslo, an area that will include polar graphics materials from IPO and from the Polar Unit of UNEP’s environmental information centre at GRID-Arendal, a display of the many books from the IPY Polar Books Project, complimentary copies of the new ‘Polar Science and Global Climate’ book from the IPY science communication community, and remarkable polar photographs from our frequent IPY partner Christian Morel.  Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Norway, UK, USA - many partners contribute to the PIC processes and exhibits.  Art students from the Netherlands have designed a ‘Fifth Element’ data sculpture - you will find the PIC displays under that rotating sculpture.  3) IPY Lessons Learned With funding from an ICSU grant to IASC and SCAR, APECS and IPO have started a preliminary assessment of the IPY science communication activities.  This initial one-year effort will not produce a systematic assessment of the IPY education and outreach impact, but it will assemble, in a timely manner, lists and inventories of the wide variety and mixture of IPY communication activities in order to extract some initial ‘Lessons Learned’, to identify key activities for continuation, and to develop a strategy and compile the materials for a subsequent detailed and rigorous assessment.  With this initiative, we continue to draw on the expertise and enthusiasm of the international IPY science communication committees and networks.  Please contact Jenny Baeseman (jbaese...@gmail.com) or Dave Carlson (ipy....@gmail.com) for additional information. 4) APECS Update In March, APECS launched the new APECS Working Group Programme, allowing all APECS members to come up with a project idea, find colleagues with similar interests and create a working group to make this idea into something that can help shape the future of polar research. Four working groups have been formed so far: the Acronym and Definition Database Working Group, the Mentorship Programme Working Group, the Virtual Poster Session Working Group and a working group on “Climate change answers”. For more information please visit www.apecs.is/working-groups. The Polar Policy Listserv was just established to help people from various disciplines discuss issues in political science, governance, law, international relations and all fields in between. Please visit http://apecs.is/mailing-lists for more information. The APECS Mentorship Programme is attracting more and more mentors. This programme provides a great opportunity for experienced researchers and polar professionals to connect with their early-career counterparts. It also enables APECS members to seek advice and career guidance from people in their field and broaden their international connections. For information on this initiative, and to sign up as a mentor, please visit www.apecs.is/mentors. APECS has relaunched its Field Schools Network website in an effort to share field school opportunities with APECS members. It also provides a platform to share experiences, feedback and photos from previous APECS participants for those who are considering attending a field school. More information can be found on www.apecs.is/field-schools. Successful APECS Virtual Poster Session calls were held in March and April focusing on social sciences as well as education and outreach. The next call is planned for the end of May, with glaciology as a topic. For more information about the Virtual Poster Session calls, please visit http://www.apecs.is/virtual-poster-session. The Arctic Science Summit Week 2010 in Nuuk (Greenland) in April was attended by Jenny Baeseman and Gerlis Fugmann. The flight chaos in Europe due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland turned this meeting into a very unusual experience for all participants. The mentorship from senior polar professionals to the 4 young researchers, 3 of whom were ‘stuck’ was absolutely incredible and we are very appreciative of their efforts to include us in this very important meeting. APECS, and young polar researchers everywhere, are excited about the IPY Oslo Science Conference. There are many young researcher activities planned during the event so please visit http://apecs.is/oslo2010 for updates.  2012-05-21T19:57:00+00:00 http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_april_2010/ http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_april_2010/ Content: Change in IPO Report no. 36, April 2010 From: IPY International Programme Office To: IPY Project Coordinators cc: IPY Community Google Groups Change in IPO On 31 March 2010, Nicola Munro leaves the International Programme Office for a new position in the British Antarctic Survey as Antarctic Funding Initiative and Arctic Office Administrator.  If during IPY you received a prompt and helpful response to an inquiry or a request, if you found useful information on the IPY web site, if you used the IPY databases or extracted documents from the IPY file system, then you benefited from Nicola’s work.  If you used a Polar Day flyer or any of the other IPY education and graphics products, then you shared Nicola’s enthusiasm and appreciated her devotion to quality.  If you felt, as a project coordinator or as a member of an IPY national committee or as a teacher, that this IPO maintained a consistently friendly, generous and cooperative outlook, then you enjoyed Nicola’s pervasive influence on IPY.  (If the IPO has not provided the level or quality of services listed, you can blame me.) We follow with interest and some amusement the discussions of a possible Polar Decade.  Interest because of the implicit vote of confidence in some of the activities and accomplishments of this IPY and because of a sense, shared by the IPO, of much more that we can and should do.  Amusement because some of us, Nicola included, have invested approximately a decade of effort into this one, albeit over only 5 years, and because we know that the success of this IPY derives substantially from time devoted, by the IPO and particularly by Nicola, to maintaining an active, engaged and enthusiastic volunteer workforce serving as organizers, coordinators and communicators.  A Polar Decade on that scale will need Nicola and several of her clones. Thank you and good luck, my dear friend and partner! Dave C. 2012-05-21T19:55:00+00:00 http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_march_2010/ http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_march_2010/ Content: 1) Oslo Science Conference 2) Polar Week - 15 to 19 March 2010 3) IPY Publications Database 4) IPY International Field School in Svalbard, 21 June to 9 July 2010 5) Call for proposals for International Teams in Space Science 6) APECS Update Report no. 35, March 2010 From: IPY International Programme Office To: IPY Project Coordinators cc: IPY Community Google Groups 1) Oslo Science Conference All persons who submitted abstracts should have received a response.  Next, please register and make hotel reservations as soon as possible to obtain the most favourable rates.  FRESH INFORMATION AT http://www.ipy-osc.no/. 2) March Polar Week Please join us for the final polar science event coordinated by this IPO!  The Polar Week will occur from the 15th to 19th March 2010 and will focus on ‘What Happens at the Poles Affects Us All’. We offer several classroom activities to choose from, including activities looking at the effects of pollution in the Arctic and the ways that penguins reunite within large loud colonies.  If you participated in one of the previous Polar Days, please join this event again to help us show the extent and enthusiasm of the IPY networks.  For more information, please visit the March Polar Week web pages: http://72.10.52.63/index.php?ipy/detail/march_polar_week/ In conjunction with polar week, there will be various public lectures taking place across the world - stay tuned to the International Public Lecture webpage at: http://www.ipy.org/hidden/item/2324 for one happening near you and don’t forget to launch your virtual balloons to show your participation! We encourage as many local and regional activities as possible during this week.  If you would like to contribute, or if you have any links and resources or educational activities you think would be suitable for this week, please contact Nicola Munro (i...@bas.ac.uk).  And, send us your stories and pictures from the week so we can highlight these on the IPY website! 3) IPY Publications Database As part of the IPY Data and Information Service, the International Polar Year Publications Database (IPYPD) prepares, stores and disseminates metadata (references, abstracts and indexing terms) describing publications that have resulted from, or that are about, this International Polar Year 2007-2008 and the three previous IPYs.  According to the IPY Data and Scholarly Publications Policies, all of us should report our IPY publications to the Publications Database.  By reporting our publications, we ensure that those publications become widely searchable and cited in the PD, as well as, depending on the publication’s subject and geographic scope, in the Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology, the Antarctic Bibliography, and other relevant and accessible databases. The process works very easily.  We simply copy and paste standard publication information (for example, from your CV) into an email, and then send it to one of three topical addresses.  Acknowledgement of receipt, sorting, and identification of duplicates all occur among the database partners, without further effort on our part.  The Publications Database coordination effort will continue for at least a decade after this IPY.  It provides an important component of the legacy of this IPY.  It currently holds 2900 entries! For more information, see: http://www.nisc.com/ipy or http://ipydis.org/index.html. 4) IPY International Field School in Svalbard, 21 June to 9 July 2010 Following the exciting success of the 2009 IPY Field School, the University Centre in Svalbard, in partnership with APECS and with support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the University of the Arctic, and IPY Norway, announces another International Field School opportunity for 2010.  This 3-week course will focus on environmental change in the Arctic and Antarctic through lectures and field excursions in Svalbard, Norway.  The course will cover topics on Glaciology, Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography, Marine/Terrestrial Biology, Permafrost, and the Human Dimension in Polar Regions.  There are some travel grants available for those that need financial assistance. For more information about the 2010 Field School, see: http://unis.no.  The deadline for applications occurs on 8 April 2010. You can hear a presentation of the 2009 IPY Field School in session T6-3 at the Oslo IPY conference.  We expect 6 or more students from the 2009 School to attend the Oslo conference. 5) Call for proposals for International Teams in Space Science The International Space Science Institute supports groups of scientists involved in Space Research to work together in an efficient and flexible format of several subsequent meetings, during which data are analysed and compared with theories and models. This call is open to scientists of any nationality active in research in Space Sciences or Earth Sciences using space data.  IPY researchers should take advantage of this opportunity to find support for further international research and collaboration.  For more information, contact Dr. Maurizio Falanga, Science Program Manager, at mfala...@issibern.ch or on +41 31 631 4893. 6) APECS Update We are delighted to announce that APECS launched a mentorship programme in February.  Since its inception, APECS has aimed to provide a continuum of knowledge in polar research and foster interactions between APECS members and experienced polar researchers and professionals.  We would like to thank all of you who have already participated in an APECS event by giving guidance to early-career researchers.  As an extension of the mentor panels that APECS already runs at major conferences, the mentorship program now involves the creation of an online database of mentors who are willing to share their knowledge with talented early-career researchers.  For more information, and to sign up as a mentor, please visit www.apecs.is/mentors. APECS had its first very successful Virtual Poster Session call this month with two posters being presented and discussed.  Two successful mentor panels were held at the International Glaciological Conference “Ice and Climate Change: a View from the South” in Valdivia, Chile and at the 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland, USA.  More events are being planned for the International Polar Week in March. APECS, and young polar researchers everywhere, are excited about the IPY Open Science Conference in Oslo.  400 stipends have been awarded and accepted.  We have also sent out notifications to the participants of the APECS Career Development workshop which will be held prior to the conference.  We are particularly grateful to the Research Council of Norway for the stipend support and funding the other APECS activities and to several groups for funding the travel of these young researchers: the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), the European Polar Board / European Science Foundation, the Canadian IPY Federal Programme Office, the International Arctic Research Centre in Alaska together with the US NSF, and several IPY National Committees who have agreed to fund their young researchers travel from India, Japan, Austria and hopefully a few more (thanks to Nicola at the IPY IPO for making this happen!). More information on the progress of organising early-career researcher activities in conjunction with the IPY-OSC can be found at www.apecs.is/oslo2010.  2012-05-21T19:53:00+00:00 http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_february_2010/ http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_february_2010/ 1) Oslo Science Conference 2) Teacher’s workshop in Oslo 3) Polar Week - 15 to 19 March 2010 4) APECS Update Report no. 34, February 2010 From: IPY International Programme Office To: IPY Project Coordinators cc: IPY Community Google Groups 1) Oslo Science Conference The IPY Oslo Science Conference attracted more than 2500 abstracts, with strong interest in all six Themes.  Now the conveners and the Theme committees, supported by the Conference Secretariat and Steering Committee, work to develop a detailed programme and to respond as quickly as possible to everyone who submitted an abstract.  Approximately 25% of the abstracts came from early career scientists.  In that surprising and very positive response we can detect the energy and effectiveness of the APECS networks (see item 4, below), and we can anticipate a vibrant influence on the entire Conference.  If the number and breadth of abstracts represents a very strong step towards the first IPY goal (to “make major advances in polar knowledge and understanding"), then the wide international interest from early career scientists represents an exciting indicator of success on the third IPY goal (to “inspire a new generation of polar scientists and engineers").  The Conference venue has abundant space for side meetings and for business meetings of the various polar organisations, generally at no extra cost but available only on a first-requested, first-served basis.  Please make your needs and plans known as soon as possible, to: a...@rcn.no (Mr. Asgeir Knudsen). PLEASE NOTE: EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSES ON 8 MARCH 2010.  2) Teacher’s workshop in Oslo The IPY Oslo Science Conference also attracted more than 200 applications for a Polar Teachers Conference organized for the weekend before the Science Conference.  These teachers will develop and share ideas and skills to meet their goal of “learning how to use polar science in your classroom”.  The enthusiastic international interest in the Teachers Conference represents an encouraging contribution to the fourth IPY goal (to “elicit keen interest and participation from polar residents, schoolchildren, the general public and decision-makers worldwide").  3) Polar Week - 15 to 19 March 2010 The final Polar Week, of this IPY and from this IPO, will occur in mid March.  As a reminder, a Polar Week simply represents a collection of Polar Day activities that have grown too large, too exuberant, and too widespread to fit within the confines of one 24 hour period.  For this Polar Week, we continue the theme ‘What Happens at the Poles Affects Us All’ with lectures, classroom activities, and virtual balloon launches.  We also use this Polar Week to highlight materials from the new book ‘Polar Science and Global Climate, An International Resource for Education and Outreach’ and to promote the science and education and outreach activities of the Oslo Science Conference.  For more information, contact: Nicola Munro (i...@bas.ac.uk).  4) APECS Update The biggest news this month was the incredible response we received for the IPY Oslo Science Conference Stipend Programme - over 850 applicants!  This will keep us busy for a while, but shows the high level of enthusiasm and excitement for polar research in the younger generation of researchers. We would like to encourage all IPY National Programmes to consider contributing to the travel support of their young researchers. In other APECS news, .  In early December 2009, the IPY International Early Career Researcher Symposium was held in Victoria, BC, Canada and attracted more than 75 participants and 20 mentors from 14 different countries. .  Another successful APECS Mentor Panel was held at the AGU in December and several others are planned in the coming months, including at the International Glaciological Conference “Ice and Climate Change: a View from the South” in Valdivia, Chile. .  The APECS Antarctic Field School was held in January with 15 students and lecturers. .  The APECS Virtual Poster Session attracted a large number of new contributions during the last month and plans are underway for a first Virtual Poster Session call in early February. .  There are also activities going on in the National Committees of APECS. o On January 20 APECS Sweden organized a career day at Stockholm University. o APECS is also happy to announce the establishment of our newest national committee, APECS Polska. For more information on these activities and more, visit www.apecs.is. Thanks to grants from the Research Council of Norway (RCN) through collaborations with the University of Tromsø (UiT) and the Norwegian Polar Institute (NP) as well as the Tromsø Kommune’s RDA programme to support the development of a permanent sustainable funding plan for APECS, the APECS Directorate is able to continue operations in 2010 and 2011. This is great news for our organization and we wish to thank the funders for their support and for helping us shape the future of polar research!  2012-05-21T19:52:00+00:00 http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_january_2010/ http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_january_2010/ Content: 1) Oslo! 2) Changes in IPO Report no. 33, January 2010 From: IPY International Programme Office To: IPY Project Coordinators cc: IPY Community Google Groups 1) Oslo We urge the IPY community to respond quickly and enthusiastically to the upcoming opportunities and deadlines for the IPY Oslo Science Conference, 8-12 June 2010. Abstract deadline - 20 January 2010 ALL INFORMATION AT http://www.ipy-osc.no/ For IPY Participants - We believe the list of sessions provides a home for almost any IPY research topic.  We have a review process in place to ensure that every abstract gets prompt, careful and fair evaluation. For IPY Projects - You have great science to share, but also great outreach stories to tell.  Every project should highlight its outreach activities by submitting abstracts to Theme 6, in addition to submitting science abstracts. For early career scientists - The conference has generous support options for early career scientists! For teachers - The conference has a workshop and stipends for you! For filmmakers - The conference has opened a Polar Cinema for polar films and television documentaries.  ALL INFORMATION AT http://www.ipy-osc.no/ The best polar science in a great location - please join us! 2) Changes in IPO We welcome Nicola Munro back to action in the IPO.  Nicola will take primary responsibility for education, for the March 2010 polar week, and for concluding activities by the IPY National Committees and Projects.  Melissa Deets will continue in the IPO, with primary responsibility for the web site and for the IPO Oslo preparations.  We will undertake several other wrap-up activities together, including archiving our collections of IPY records and materials.  We welcome your questions or suggestions.  2012-05-21T19:51:00+00:00 http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_december_2009/ http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_december_2009/ Content: 1. Oslo Science Conference, 8-12 June 2010 2. IPO at AGU Fall Meeting 3. IPY EOC update 4. APECS Update 5. IPO during December 2009 Report no. 32, December 2009 From: IPY International Programme Office To: IPY Project Coordinators cc: IPY Community Google Groups 1. Oslo Science Conference, 8-12 June 2010 The programme has come out, the web site now accepts abstracts, we have a venue, a time, and a challenge - to make the Oslo Science Conference one of the most interdisciplinary and international events in science, where we celebrate, with all partners, the remarkable achievements of this IPY, where we share, explore and exchange the richness of IPY data, and where we chart the future of polar research and meet and encourage the people who will shape it. Polar science of all flavors, young scientists in abundance, teachers and journalists intermixed, films, food, fun, free access to the city of Oslo - plan to join us in June 2010. For fresh information you can share with your research and education networks, see: http://www.ipy-osc.no/. Abstract submission deadlines for science and teachers’ conferences are January 20, 2010. 2. IPO at AGU Fall Meeting We have an AGU Union IPY poster session (U11C - Monday morning) on Education and Outreach - come see a few glimpses of the array of IPY activities and how they point the way toward environmental literacy. We have an IPY-focused science session, posters (C43C) on Thursday afternoon and presentations (C53B) on Friday afternoon. In the days, hours and sessions between those opening and closing IPY events you will find an overwhelming abundance of polar science. For some assistance, or for a respite, visit us at the IPY exhibit (booth 309) - we will have access to the Oslo 2010 registration systems, some working examples of the Polar Information Commons process, final (?) copies of the IPY chart, and free copies of the popular two-sided Arctic-Antarctic maps. AGU will also show the Tara video, beautiful ice, atmosphere and ocean footage from the remarkable drift across the Arctic during IPY, on Sunday evening and again on Tuesday evening. 3. IPY EOC update * Polar Resource Book- Content review and final editing touches are almost completed. We thank all of those who contributed to the scientific and education review of the PRB content; your efforts have helped us turn made this into a richer resource. Design work is scheduled for the month of December and the final product is due to the publishers early in the new year. A huge thank you to all the book editors who have kept this process moving at a remarkable pace. We cannot wait for the release of the book in Oslo! * Polar Weeks- please watch the IPO website for updates on March Polar Week developments. A new link will be added to the cover page this week. If you have any projects or events you would like to plan for March please contact Melissa Deets at ipy...@bas.ac.uk * IPO Blogs- remember if you have an IPY story to tell please share it with IPO and we will post it on our blog. 4. APECS Update APECS has been busy again in November! View a full report of activities from Feb-Oct 2009 at: http://apecs.is/images/stories/files/reports/apecs_report_oct2009.pdf Learn about the Priorities for the APECS Organization for 2009-2010 at: http://apecs.is/images/stories/files/reports/apecs_2009-2010_prioriti… The IPY International Early Career Researcher Symposium will be held 4-8 December in Victoria, BC, Canada. Check out the great line up of mentors and participants at: http://www.apecs.is/Victoria09 Upcoming APECS Mentor Panels and other meetings: * 27 Nov - UK Polar Network Day * 3 Dec - Luncheon Dialog at the Antarctic Treaty Summit * 15 Dec - AGU Mentor Panel * 1-4 Feb - Jokkmokk Winter Conference * 2 Feb - Mentor Panel at VICC, Valdivia, Chile Planning for Early Career Scientists activities at the IPY Oslo Conference is also underway. To learn more about the early career activities, including travel support provided by IASC, visit www.apecs.is/oslo2010 . Be sure to also check out the new videos posted - or share yours! http://apecs.is/multi-media/videos We also have a lot of great discussions happening in the Polar Literature Discussion: http://apecs.is/literature As always, we encourage anyone with an open position to post it on the APECS website at www.apecs.is/jobs. If you have any other great opportunities to share with the members, just send an email to APECSi...@gmail.com 5. IPO during December 2009 This month we send enormous and affectionate thanks to two great IPO partners: Karen Edwards in Edmonton, Canada, and Odd Rogne in Oslo, Norway. Odd has provided advice and assistance, formal and informal but always generous, to the IPO for nearly four years! One can recognize his helpful roles in the SAON (Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks) and HAIS (Heads of Arctic and Antarctic IPY Secretariats) processes. He will retire (for the final time, I hear) from the Research Council of Norway but continue to consult for the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) and for the Oslo 2010 conference. Karen has carried the IPO EOC load for the past 6 months, after carrying many loads within the Canadian IPY Secretariat for nearly 4 years. Polar weeks, polar books, polar EOC committee - all of these would have come to a stop without Karen’s skillful and enthusiastic efforts. Now Karen will resume progress on her PhD programme, having carried the IPO EOC team since June. Thanks, Karen! Dave and Melissa will support IPO activities at AGU through the week of 14 to 18 December. We ask your patience as the IPO maintains very limited activity level for the remainder of December. We expect Dave, Melissa and Nicola to resume high-level duties and rapid-responses in early January 2010.  2012-05-21T19:50:00+00:00 http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_november_2009/ http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_november_2009/ Content: 1.  Oslo Science Conference, 8-12 June 2010 2.  IPO at AGU Fall Meeting 3.  Seventh Meeting of the Heads of Arctic and Antarctic IPY Secretariats (HAIS-7) 4.  APECS Update 5.  IPY Education and Outreach update Report no. 31, November 2009 From:  IPY International Programme Office To:  IPY Project Coordinators cc:  IPY Community Google Groups 1.  Oslo Science Conference, 8-12 June 2010 Full programme, Second Circular and Call for Abstracts now available @ www.ipy-osc.no. A timely and auspicious gathering of the full polar community to celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of this IPY, to display and explore the richness of IPY data, and to chart future directions for polar and global science.  A polar festival in the city, a programme for international teachers, a film festival, a barbecue at the Fram Museum, polar exhibits, awards, the IPY closing ceremony, and an exciting and interconnected science programme - one of the most important events of this IPY. Notable Features: Breadth - The Oslo Science Conference will include a broad mix of researchers, from anthropology to astronomy, genomics to glaciology, psychology to physiology, and ecology to economics.  International - More than 30 IPY national committees, 19 countries produced new polar research funding, participants from more than 60 countries.  All member nations of the Arctic Council (8) and of the Antarctic Treaty system (28) play key roles.  Diversity - Visionary data managers, international networks of science educators, members of northern communities, a vigorous association of young polar scientists, exhibition designers and filmmakers - all these partners in IPY’s success will join the Oslo Science Conference. Urgency - Disappearing snow and ice, world-wide impacts of the polar changes, and the vulnerabilities of northern cultures and communities - these compelling issues remain prominent and timely to the international press and to global citizens. 2.  IPO at AGU Fall Meeting In partnership with the Office of Polar Programs of the USA National Science Foundation, the IPY International Programme Office will again operate a booth and exhibit at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, 14 to 18 December 2009.  We will highlight the Oslo 2010 Science Conference, APECS, and the Polar Information Commons.  We try to keep our exhibit and materials as ‘digital’ as possible, but if IPY National Programs or IPY Projects have high-quality printed materials to share, especially those with fine polar images and illustrations suitable for teachers or the general public, we welcome the opportunity to display and distribute such materials.  We find that language does not represent an insuperable barrier: last year the very nice summary reports from Denmark, in Danish, proved very popular!  We ask you to ship such materials directly to the AGU conference warehouse; please contact Melissa Deets for information - ipy...@bas.ac.uk.  3.  Seventh Meeting of the Heads of Arctic and Antarctic IPY Secretariats (HAIS-7) Heads of Arctic and Antarctic IPY Secretariats met 16 October 2009 in Oslo, Norway.  Part of the meeting was held jointly with the IASC/SCAR Bipolar Action Group (BipAG) as IASC and SCAR are expected to carry IPY legacies forward.  The IPY legacies both at national and international level have been a concern and continuing issue at all recent HAIS meetings. The joint meeting agreed on a number of recommendations which you can study at: http://classic.ipy.org/national At this web site, you also will find the HAIS-7 Minutes and a selection of agenda papers. 4.  APECS Report A new group of enthusiastic and committed early-career polar researchers have been elected to lead APECS during 2009-2010.  Serving on the Executive Committee 2009-2010 will be:  Francisco Fernandoy (Chile/Germany), Gerlis Fugmann (Germany), Daniela Liggett (New Zealand), Kate Sinclair (New Zealand) and Alexandra Taylor (Sweden/Canada).  Gerlis Fugmann has been elected APECS President for 2009-2010.  Please visit our website at www.apecs.is/leadership to get more information on all new Executive Committee members. We are excited to report that we are currently working on a “Polar and Cryosphere Mentor Database” that will be released in the next couple of months and that will allow supportive and productive mentor-relationships between senior scientists and early-career researchers to be established.  Since its inception, APECS activities have aimed to help provide a continuum of knowledge in polar and cryospheric research.  We are very grateful to the many senior researchers and professionals that have served as mentors for our many activities.  In an effort to assure a broad representation of mentors at our events, and to help young researchers around the globe develop relationships with senior mentors, APECS is creating a database of those people willing to serve as mentors to young researchers in a variety of ways.  This may include meeting students at conferences, answering email enquiries and providing general career guidance for young scientists.  Information on this new initiative will be released on our website (www.apecs.is) soon, so please keep visiting our website updates. As is our tradition, APECS is planning several meetings and events over the coming year.  The IPY International Early Career Researcher Symposium in December 2009 in Victoria, Canada, an APECS luncheon dialogue at the Antarctic Treaty Summit also in December 2009 in Washington, D.C., the APECS activities at the IPY Oslo Science Conference in June 2010 in Oslo, Norway or events organized by our National Committees like a Polar Careers’ day in January 2010 and a Mentor Panel at the international glaciological conference VICC-2010 in Chile organized by APECS Sweden and Chile, respectively, are just a few examples of a long list of exciting events that we are planning.  Please visit www.apecs.is/events for opportunities to get involved. 5.  IPY Education and Outreach Update EOC sub-committee - held successful meeting in Edmonton at the end of October where they further developed plans for the education, outreach and communication portions of the Oslo science conference including an associated teachers’ conference; began planning for the next Polar Week; and discussed documenting and sustaining global IPY EOC activities. The Polar Resource Book - is in the final stages of review, editing, and design as the editors prepare for final submission to the publishers at the end of December. The Polar Resource Book will be officially released at the Oslo 2010 science conference and will serve as a focal resource for the associated teachers’ conference. March 2010 Polar Week - is scheduled for March 15-19, 2010 and will focus on the same theme of ‘What Happens at the Poles Affects Us All’. This Polar Week will be the last major IPY specific event before the Oslo conference and we encourage all our IPY partners to begin thinking now about what type of activities they may be able to host. Further details for the March Polar Week will be available before the end of the year. If you have any questions about EOC activities please feel free to contact Karen Edwards at karen.edwa...@ualberta.ca.  2012-05-21T19:49:00+00:00 http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_october_2009/ http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_october_2009/ Content: 1. Oslo Science Conference, 8-12 June 2010 2. Polar Week Underway! 3. Polar Information Commons 4. Canadian Workshops and Conferences 5. APECS Update Report no. 30, October 2009 From: IPY International Programme Office To: IPY Project Coordinators cc: IPY Community Google Groups 1. Oslo Science Conference, 8-12 June 2010 A timely and auspicious gathering of the full polar community to celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of this IPY, to display and explore the richness of IPY data, and to chart future directions for polar and global science.  A polar festival in the city, a programme for international teachers, a film festival, a barbecue at the Fram Museum, polar exhibits, awards, the IPY closing ceremony, and an exciting and interconnected science programme - one of the most important events of this IPY. Notable Features: Breadth - The Oslo Science Conference will include a broad mix of researchers, from anthropology to astronomy, genomics to glaciology, psychology to physiology, and ecology to economics. International - More than 30 IPY national committees, 19 countries produced new polar research funding, participants from more than 60 countries.  All member nations of the Arctic Council (8) and of the Antarctic Treaty system (28) play key roles. Diversity - Visionary data managers, international networks of science educators, members of northern communities, a vigorous association of young polar scientists, exhibition designers and filmmakers - all these partners in IPY’s success will join the Oslo Science Conference. Urgency - Disappearing snow and ice, world-wide impacts of the polar changes, and the vulnerabilities of northern cultures and communities - these compelling issues remain prominent and timely to the international press and to global citizens. Programme and Second Circular now available @ www.ipy-osc.no/section/1245938774.04 2. Polar Week Underway! Happy Polar Week and we hope you are celebrating the wonder of the polar regions wherever this message reaches you. We wanted to provide you with an update on the activities that are happening around the globe this week: * Launch a virtual balloon: There are already celebrations marked in Malaysia, Denmark, Brazil, US, Alaska, China and Canada! Postings are welcome from all of those hosting public talks, participating in classroom activities or surfing our website. We want to fill the map by the end of the week so launch your balloon today! * Post a blog of your activity: Take a picture, send us a story, and help fill our blog with Polar Week activity. Anyone who has a Polar Week story to share please send it to Melissa @ ipy...@bas.ac.uk. We’d love to hear from you. * ANYONE can join a discussion of the future of the Arctic: Students have the opportunity to participate in an in-class role play exercise to begin to understand the complexity of the situation in the Arctic and the conflicts of interest between economic, environmental and social issues. Listeners can hear classes around the globe share their concerns about the future of the Arctic by listening live OR blogging their own questions to a panel of experts who will respond to class presentations and answer student questions. Event Host: CKLB radio in Yellowknife, Canada (www.ncsnwt.com) Event Date: Thursday October 8th Event Time: 9AM MDT (1500 UTC) Access: Listen live @ www. (archives are also available) OR send your questions to CKLB blog at www.ncsnwt.com/blog-detail/34/Ends_of_the_Earth.html Information: For more details please visit October Polar Week Page * Join real-time live event with PolarTREC teacher, Cristina Galvan and the University of Wyoming scientists led by Dr. Merav Ben-David. The team is currently studying polar bear response to sea ice loss in the Arctic Ocean. This event is free, open to the public, Participants will have a chance to ask questions and chat with others during the presentation. Event Host: ARCUS through the PolarTREC program. Event Date: 8 October 2009 Event Time: 7:30 am Alaska Daylight Time (5:30 am HST, 8:30 am PDT, 9:30 am MDT, 10:30 am CDT, 11:30 am EDT) Registration: To register for the event and to receive instructions on how to join, go to: http://www.polartrec.com/live-from-ipy/overview For more information about the science expedition, please Ms. Galvan’s journals at: http://www.polartrec.com/polar-bear-response-to-sea-ice-loss * Your feedback is needed! The editors and authors of the Polar Resource Book are interested in your feedback on the five activities that we have chosen from Polar Science and Global Climate. We have prepared a set of five questions that you can answer for any of the resources and that will help us to respond to the specific requirements of our future readers. The form for feedback can be found at http://72.10.52.63/index.php?ipy/detail/october_polar_week/ 3. Polar Information Commons (PIC) Assume you measure sea ice thickness from buoys.  Assume you have buoys in both the Arctic and Antarctic, providing data monthly during the hemispheric winter.  You agree to the IPY data sharing policies, but you face practical data management problems: requirements to provide your data to Arctic and Antarctic data centres and to your national data centre.  You face multiple portals, different formats, and a substantial work load to meet your data commitments and responsibilities.  We have a solution to propose - a Polar Information Commons! You can (soon) share data through PIC.  In our vision, once you have labelled your data with a PIC ‘badge’, requesting data centres will recognise your data and download (and preserve!) it, keeping you and the data centres happy.  Perhaps, one of those data centres will pick up your PIC-labelled thickness data, add it to remotely sensed thickness data and their standard sea ice extent products and produce, again with a PIC label that recognises your original PIC label, an ice volume product - just what you would have wanted.  You and fellow researchers get that product through direct services of the data centre, but the centre also ‘leaks’ snippets of that back into the network with a PIC label to attract and inform other customers.  Meanwhile, when a colleague searches the PIC for ice thickness data to match with his or her radar data, they find and use your Antarctic thickness data.  You get a paper together, everyone’s contribution gets acknowledged, and the PIC data continues to circulate for additional, perhaps un-anticipated uses. If this sounds ideal, please learn more at www.polarcommons.org. 4. Canadian Workshops and Conferences As part of its national support for the IPO and for continuing IPY activities, Canada has and will support two meetings of IPY sub-committees and an IPY-focused student conference during October.  An IPY Data Management meeting occurred in Ottawa last week; they focussed on tasks and cooperation to complete an inventory of IPY data and on the Polar Information Commons (above).  They intend to issue a ‘Status of Polar Data’ report.  The Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) held a student conference in Whitehorse, Yukon, focused on IPY legacies in research and communities; many partners, including the IPO, helped that become a widely international meeting.  The breadth of IPY science and the enthusiasm and talent of young polar scientists came through loud and clear.  APECS organised a friendly pre-conference workshop where we talked about polar presentations, polar organisations, and polar data.  Put yourself in the shoes of an undergraduate student giving your first-ever presentation in a language not your own - that symbolised to me the commitments these students make to international communication and cooperation.  At the end of the month, the IPY Education and Outreach committee will meet in Edmonton, Alberta. 5. Update from APECS APECS is in the process of electing the 2009-2010 Executive Committee, visit www.apecs.is/excom to see the great candidates. The Virtual Poster Session and the Literature Discussion are moving along and have loads of great new submissions, check them out at www.apecs.is/research. There are several upcoming meetings and events, visit www.apecs.is/events for your opportunities to get involved. We are also excited to report the IPY Oslo Science Conference will be a great place for all young polar researchers to be. APECS will be having a 2-day career development workshop prior to the meeting, a speed-dating/networking event with senior mentors, and a lounge open to young researchers to relax during the meeting or chat with mentors. In addition, there will be awards for outstanding posters and oral presentations, an online job connections website, and an interview room to use during the conference. There will be a large number of stipends to help young researchers attend this meeting which include lodging, 1/2 price registration, most meals, local transportation, and entrance to all conference social activities. We also have APECS members on every one of the 6 conference theme committees and the overall steering committee. For each session, one of the 3 conveners/ chairs will be an early career researcher. So as you can see, the IPY Oslo Conference will be a great meeting for all of you to attend; not only to meet each other, but to make connections to mentors, educators and the senior research community. More information on the application process and deadlines for these activities will be forthcoming. For more information, keep your eyes on www.apecs.is/oslo2010. As always, we encourage anyone with an open position to post it on the APECS website at www.apecs.is/jobs. If you have any other great opportunities to share with the members, just send an email to APECSi...@gmail.com.  2012-05-21T19:47:00+00:00 http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_september_2009/ http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ipy_report_september_2009/ Content: 1. IPO Activities 2. IPY Reports 3. October Polar Week (Oct 5-9) 4. APECS update 5. Upcoming IPY meetings and AGU sessions 6. Update from Oslo 2010 Planning Process 7. Call for new stories and blogs for ipy.org Report no. 29, September 2009 From: IPY International Programme Office To: IPY Project Coordinators cc: IPY Community Google Groups 1. IPO Activities While many researchers, particularly in North America, continue their IPY activities, Dave and Melissa in Cambridge, Karen in Edmonton, plus IPY partners in Norway, Germany, Australia, the UK and the USA, all work busily to coordinate and arrange IPY activities (see Polar Week and Olso 2010, below), to gather from hundreds of contributers materials for books and reports, to arrange IPY sessions and events at important international conferences, and to thank all the IPY supporters.  Most of these continuing activities, and in particular the activities of the IPY data management and education and outreach committees, depend on volunteer enthusiams and national contributions.  We thank Canada, in particular, for its support of meetings of the IPY data and outreach committees over the next two months.  We thank the UK, the USA, Norway, Sweden, Spain, and the Netherlands for their continuing support to the IPO. 2. IPY Reports We solicit reports from IPY Projects and from IPY National Committees. Each IPY Project should submit a summary report, and each IPY National Committee should submit a national summary report.  Several Projects and National Committees have already submitted reports, or have alerted the IPO to summary, assessment and report processes underway.  We hope that Project and National reports arrive by March 2010.  All printed materials sent to IPO will become cataloged and archived as part of the permanent collection at Scott Polar Research Institute.  All digital materials (film, presentations, digital reports, image collections, html documents) will go into the digital library system at the University of Alberta and, from there, also into the permanent collection at Scott Polar.  We have provided guidance on how to upload these materials in several previous reports.  Use the Archiving link on ipy.org.  For more information about reports and report contents, please see the August IPY report. 3. October Polar Week (Oct 5-9) October Polar Week (October 5-9th) is fast approaching and we are currently developing an activity flyer for release and soliciting international partnerships with schools, youth, museums, science centers and community clubs to host IPY activities during the week. The theme for this Polar Week is What Happens at the Poles Affects Us All and has four main goals: * To expand the IPY global networks of motivated and enthused educators; * To raise the visibility of polar issues and polar organizations; * To enhance the development of polar science educational materials; and * To develop long-term education and outreach partnerships for polar science. Please keep your eye on the IPO website http://72.10.52.63/index.php?ipy/detail/october_polar_week/ for details as they develop. If you have any events planned during October Polar Week and would like to connect to the international IPY community please contact Karen Edwards directly @ karen.edwa...@ualberta.ca This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . 4. Update from APECS * Registration is now open for the IPY International Early Career Researcher Symposium in Victoria, BC, Canada in December. Visit www.apecs.is/victoria09 for more information. The workshop is funded in part by the Canadian Federal IPY Program and we are looking for other organizations to help sponsor coffee-breaks and the icebreaker - contact Jenny Baeseman at jbaese...@gmail.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you are interested. * APECS recently launched the Polar Literature Discussion Forum where you can chat about the latest articles in your field or from your field site. The APECS Virtual Poster Session project is also open, so those of you with posters just taking up space on your hard drive, put them to use by contributing to the Virtual Poster Session. APECS is also coordinating an International Polar Lecture Series to be held at campuses around the world during the next IPY Polar Week 4-9 October, more information to come shortly. * APECS, together with the University of the Arctic, UNIS and IPY Norway hosted the first IPY Polar Field School in the Arctic this summer. Read all the great blogs contributed by the students, watch the video, meet the participants and look at the great things they learned in Svalbard at http://www.apecs.is/svalbard2009. 5. Upcoming IPY meetings and AGU sessions September 29 - October 1: International IPY Data Management meeting in Ottawa, Ontario (CANADA) to allow data managers / coordinators to report and assess what has been achieved over the last two years and to discuss challenges and opportunities regarding the stewardship of data collected during the International Polar Year.  For more information see: http://classic.ipy.org/start/index.php/forums/viewthread/116/ or contact Scott Tomlinson (Scott.Tomlin...@ainc-inac.gc.caThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Mark Parsons (parso...@nsidc.orgThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). October 2 to 5, 2009: Communities of Change - Building an IPY Legacy, 9th ACUNS International Student Conference on Northern Studies and Polar Regions, Yukon College - Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.  See http://www.communitiesofchange.ca. October 26-28: IPY EOC Committee will meet in Canada to review and stimulate progress on the new Polar Resource Book, to plan for the March Polar Week and Oslo 2010, and to develop long-term plans and partnerships for polar EOC activities.  Contact Karen Edwards (karen.edwa...@ualberta.caThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Dave Carlson (ipy....@gmail.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) for more details. December 4 to 8: IPY International Early Career Researcher Symposium in Victoria, BC, Canada - see APECS update, above. December 14 to 18, 2009: AGU Fall Meeting- We have a Union Session on Education and Outreach: U15 - ‘Toward Environmental Literacy with Examples from IPY’ and an IPY session in the Cryosphere Section: C24 - ‘The International Polar Year’.  We know that IPY participants can submit abstracts to a wide range of polar and cryosphere sessions at AGU, but we hope you will consider submitting some of your best work to these IPY sessions.  In the Cryosphere IPY session we can often feature a much wider range of topics than one gets in a specialty session.  In the Union session we can show the amazing variety and quality of IPY education and outreach activities.  For both sessions, but particularly for the Union session, the more good abstracts we get, the better chance we have of obtaining oral presentation sessions at favourable times. 6. Update from Oslo 2010 Planning Process The next OSC steering committee meeting is planned for September 17th in Oslo. Updates on the planning process include: * A preliminary programme is available on the website: http://www.ipy-osc.no/article/2009/1246203426.73 * Planning continues for an associated Polar Festival and Polar Cinema. * The participation of teachers and indigenous partners remains an important priority, and a good opportunity for prominent national, corporate or institutional support. Please keep watching the website as the program continues to evolve. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Dave Carlson (ipy....@gmail.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Kristen Ulstein (k...@forskningsradet.noThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). 7. Call for new stories and blogs for ipy.org We continue to feature fresh IPY research and polar news on ipy.org.  If you have IPY research or outreach programs underway, or have an IPY story to share, please contact Dave Carlson (ipy....@gmail.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Karen Edwards (karen.edwa...@ualberta.caThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).  2012-05-21T19:46:00+00:00