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Notes<br />

1 The field of the social science and humanities research in IPY has been covered in earlier overviews (Hoveslrud and Krupnik, 2006;<br />

Krupnik, 2008, 2009; Hovelsrud and Helgeson, 2006) and at several meetings, particularly at the 6th <strong>International</strong> Congress of<br />

Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS-6) in Nuuk in 2008.<br />

2 Additional information can be found on the websites and in publications generated by individual projects.<br />

3 For example, the newly released U.S. Arctic Research agenda (2010) features ‘Indigenous Languages, Cultures, and Identities’ (also<br />

‘Arctic Human Health’) among its five central themes.<br />

4 Unlike their colleagues in physical and natural sciences, polar social researchers and indigenous organizations had little experience<br />

in running major international projects that crossed the boundaries of several Arctic nations and covered large sections of the<br />

circumpolar zone. The Study of the Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLICA), started in 1998 and completed as IPY project (no. 386),<br />

was the only coordinated international social survey in six Arctic nations (Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the U.S.)<br />

prior to IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong>.<br />

5 The nations most active in IPY social research, both in terms of internationally coordinated projects and their participants, were<br />

Canada, Norway, U.S.A., Denmark/Greenland, Iceland, Russia and Sweden, with the substantial participation by scientists from<br />

Germany, U.K., Finland and the Netherlands. Individual researchers from Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Poland, Australia, Argentina and<br />

New Zealand were active in certain projects. Little or no social research was, reportedly, conducted during IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong> in China,<br />

Korea, Japan, India, Chile, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and other nations with substantial IPY activities in other fields.<br />

6 Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark/Greenland, Finland, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Russia, United Kingdom,<br />

and U.S.A.<br />

7 The overall number of endorsed international projects associated with the social sciences and the humanities at the onset of IPY<br />

was around 60 (Hovelsrud and Krupnik, 2006), including 16 projects in ‘Education and Outreach.’ Overall, those 60 proposals made<br />

an amazingly high score of about 28% of the total IPY effort. The ‘full proposal’ database (http://classic.ipy.org) featured a total of<br />

83 proposals under the listing of ‘People,’ of which 54 can be reasonably attributed to the social and humanities field.<br />

8 See earlier analysis of a larger sample of endorsed IPY projects in Hovelsrud and Krupnik (2006), Hovelsrud and Helgeson (2006)<br />

and Krupnik (2006, 2008, 2009).<br />

9 Funding for BOREAS was coordinated by the European Science Foundation and came as contributions from Canada, Denmark,<br />

Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the U.S.A. Associated project partners were based in Belgium, France,<br />

Germany, Russia, Switzerland and the U.K. Though the overall amount of funding may look modest to the natural scientists, it was<br />

the biggest program ever funded for humanities research in the Arctic.<br />

10 The discussion about a special statement on ‘ethical guidelines’ for IPY research to be issued by the Joint Committee was started<br />

at the JC-3 meeting in Cambridge in April 2006 and continued at the JC-4 and JC-5 meetings (in September 2006 and 2007,<br />

respectively). A draft of the ‘Ethical guidelines’ for IPY research was prepared by Igor Krupnik in November 2006; it was finally<br />

approved by the JC and posted on the main IPY website in May 2007 (Appendix 8).<br />

11 The IPY Conference in St. Petersburg (2008) featured a special theme, “People and Resources at the Poles,” with eight sessions on<br />

social/human projects in IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong> that included more than 100 oral and poster presentations (www.scar-iasc-ipy2008.org/).<br />

The Oslo Science Conference in June 2010, similarly had a special theme titled “Human Dimensions of Change: Health, Society and<br />

Resources” with six thematic areas featuring more than 350 presentations (http://ipy-osc.no/theme/4).<br />

12 Recent Google search for ‘Human dimensions’ generates about 5.5 M references (May 2010)

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