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International Polar Year 2007–2008 - WMO

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IPY 20 07–20 08<br />

Portugal, Russia, Spain, and U.K. – at JC-5 (March 2007); from India, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Ukraine, U.K., Sweden, U.S.A.<br />

and Portugal – at JC-6 (October 2007).<br />

18 Reports from major supporting organizations, such as ICSU, <strong>WMO</strong>, the Arctic Council, ATCM, SCAR, IASC, IOC, etc. were presented<br />

at almost every JC meeting by the respective ex officio JC members from these organizations.<br />

19 The theme of the SCAR/IASC Open Science Conference (8-11 July) was “<strong>Polar</strong> Research – Arctic and Antarctic Perspectives in the<br />

<strong>International</strong> <strong>Polar</strong> <strong>Year</strong>”.<br />

20 While recognizing that some IPY-related research began prior to March 2007 and some continued beyond March 2009, the ‘end’ of<br />

the IPY observational period.<br />

21 Historians will be certainly looking for those ‘debates and disagreements’ as the clues to the dynamics within the JC and<br />

among its members. Among some of the most controversial and heated issues debated were: the level of representation of the<br />

intergovernmental bodies, such as Arctic Council and ATCM (at JC-1); the role of the Eurasian ‘sub-office’ (JC-2); the demand for IPY<br />

‘ethical principles’ and the role of private sponsorship (JC-3); the prospective role of IASC and SCAR as caretakers of the legacy of<br />

IPY (JC-6); the low compliance of IPY projects with the established Data Policy (JC-6, JC-7, and JC-8); and of course, the type and the<br />

focus of the final summary report to be produced by the JC at the end of its term (JC-8).

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