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18<br />

IPY 20 07–20 08<br />

Cooperation.’ The decision to extend IGY for another<br />

year under a different name was taken by ICSU, which<br />

also established a successor body to CSAGI, the Special<br />

Committee for Inter-Union Cooperation in Geophysics<br />

(SCG), with essentially the same membership. The last<br />

meeting of CSAGI (CSAGI-6) and the first meeting of<br />

SCG were held concurrently in May 1959. At that joint<br />

meeting it was proposed to establish a representative<br />

successor group, Comité <strong>International</strong>e de Géophysique<br />

(CIG), to supervise the processing and publication of<br />

IGY-IGC data. Most of the CSAGI members were then<br />

transferred to CIG. 31 The CIG of 27 members (under<br />

Fig. 1.1-10 One of six largesize<br />

IGY posters (Earth,<br />

Ocean, Space, Poles, Sun and<br />

Earth, Weather and Climate)<br />

produced by the U.S. IGY<br />

Committee for the IGY outreach<br />

program and published<br />

in its 44-page educational<br />

booklet, Planet Earth. (The<br />

Mystery with 100,000 Clues<br />

(1958) www7.nationalacademies.org/archives/IGYPlanetEarthPosters.html)<br />

the leadership of W.J.G. Beynon) and its Secretariat<br />

operated for eight more years, until December 1967.<br />

Its tasks, primarily the publication of the IGY-IGC<br />

results, were then entrusted to a small CIG Terminating<br />

Group that worked until 1970, twelve years after the<br />

official completion of IGY in 1958.<br />

CSAGI-5 Assembly in Moscow in 1958 attended<br />

by more than 400 delegates, 800 guests and 200<br />

journalists from 67 nations (Bulkeley, 2008) was the<br />

largest gathering conveyed to represent the IGY<br />

science. Later meetings were much smaller in size, like<br />

the Antarctic scientific symposium in Buenos Aires in

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