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IPY 20 07–20 08<br />

lished under IPO auspices, and launched at the IPY Oslo<br />

Science Conference in June 2010. It was created to ensure<br />

that efforts catalyzed by IPY will continue to inspire<br />

educators, students and emerging polar researchers<br />

into the next generation. It received support from wide<br />

ranging parts of the IPY community. The book includes<br />

29 reviewed and tested classroom activities, produced<br />

from hundreds of international contributions.<br />

IPO stimulation and support of an IPY<br />

volunteer community<br />

IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong> depended to a large extent on<br />

volunteer efforts, by busy people working additionally<br />

to their regular professional careers. Volunteers<br />

included most members of the Joint Committee,<br />

members of the IPY Data Management and EOC<br />

Subcommittees, all IPY project coordinators (a few of<br />

them received administrative support from their IPY<br />

National Committees), all the planners and translators<br />

for the <strong>Polar</strong> Day events, all the young scientists<br />

committing time to APECS, and the contributors to<br />

many other IPY activities. The effectiveness of many of<br />

these activities, particularly education and outreach,<br />

was sustained by IPO efforts to recruit and support<br />

a volunteer community. IPO endeavoured to cover<br />

practical communication costs, to find funding for<br />

critical face-to-face meetings, to keep the groups<br />

activities and accomplishments visible and prominent<br />

within IPY, and to provide mentorship. Effort by IPO<br />

in fostering and supporting an active, engaged and<br />

enthusiastic volunteer workforce serving as both<br />

project coordinators and science communicators was<br />

a key element in the success of IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong>.<br />

IPO made wide use of modern, affordable and<br />

accessible communication tools to connect and<br />

support the international volunteer workforce and<br />

to reach the public. With partners, they tested and<br />

evaluated state-of-the-art audio-conferencing, videoconferencing,<br />

web-conferencing, web portals, on-line<br />

discussions, streamed video and internet radio. They<br />

used Google Earth, YouTube, Google Groups and<br />

Documents, Gmail, Skype and Facebook. The ipy.org<br />

web site used a flexible content management system<br />

Box 3 Meetings and conferences attended by the Director of IPO in developing the IPY legacy:<br />

March 2009 to July 2010<br />

Mar 2009 - Nordic Council of Ministers, Prime Ministers, Iceland;<br />

Gordon Conference on <strong>Polar</strong> Oceans, Barga,<br />

Italy; France-Germany Science Forum, Paris; Institute<br />

of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)<br />

Data Engineering, Shanghai.<br />

Apr 2009 - XXXII ATCM, Baltimore (including IPY data,<br />

Joint ATCM & AC <strong>Polar</strong> Information Commons<br />

meeting; EGU, Vienna.<br />

May 2009 - U.S. Senate Arctic Hearing, Washington DC; PRB<br />

production meetings, London<br />

Jun 2009 - UN Framework Convention on Climate Change<br />

(FCCC), Bonn; IPY OSC planning, Oslo; IOC, Paris;<br />

IPY/APECS summer school, Svalbard.<br />

Jul 2009 - UNEP, London.<br />

Sep 2009 - World Climate Conference, Geneva; IPY Data<br />

Management, Ottawa.<br />

Oct 2009 - Association of Canadian Universities for Northern<br />

Studies (ACUNS), Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada;<br />

Presentations to public and schools, Yukon, Canada;<br />

<strong>WMO</strong> EC Panel of Experts on <strong>Polar</strong> Obser-<br />

vations, Research and Services (PORS), meeting,<br />

Ottawa, Canada; IPY EOC meeting, Edmonton,<br />

Canada.<br />

Nov 2009 - DAMOCLES General Assembly, Brussels; <strong>WMO</strong><br />

Commission for Atmospheric Sciences, Korea.<br />

Dec 2009 - APECS Workshop, Victoria, Canada; Arctic Net<br />

Conference, Victoria, Canada; AGU (multiple<br />

events and sessions including AGU - IPY exhibit),<br />

San Francisco.<br />

Jan 2010 - Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme<br />

(AMAP) review, Oslo; IPY OSC planning, Oslo.<br />

Feb 2010 - Preliminary planning for 2012 IPY science meeting,<br />

Ottawa; Canadian Early IPY Results Conference,<br />

Ottawa.<br />

May 2010 - Canadian National Research Council, Ottawa;<br />

American <strong>Polar</strong> Society, Boulder.<br />

Jun 2010 - UN FCCC, Bonn; Teachers workshop, Oslo; APECS<br />

workshop, Oslo; JC-9, Oslo; IPY OSC, Oslo.<br />

Jul 2010 - IPY/APECS summer school, Svalbard; EuroScience<br />

Open Forum 2010, Italy.

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