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EOC activities. The first face-to-face meeting was held<br />

in January 2006 in Paris and was attended by the two<br />

Co-Chairs, (Jennifer Pink and Margarete Pauls), David<br />

Carlson, and two committee members (Lars Kullerud<br />

and Jean De Pomereu). While several other members<br />

of the Subcommittee managed ad hoc face-to-face<br />

meetings at venues of opportunity, most of the committee<br />

work during this period was conducted via<br />

conference calls.<br />

During the period from January to June 2006,<br />

the Subcommittee reviewed 52 EOC proposals<br />

resulting from the 31 January 2006 deadline on Call<br />

for Proposals. A web design team was formed as part<br />

of the Subcommittee to develop a concept, a set of<br />

functions and prototype for the IPY website. Another<br />

team assumed responsibility of developing consistent<br />

media briefing materials for each IPY project. During<br />

this period, Rhian Salmon was hired as the Education<br />

Outreach Coordinator, a position that would work<br />

closely with the Subcommittee (Chapter 1.6).<br />

The first meeting of the full EOC Subcommittee<br />

took place from 19-21 October 2006 in Bremerhaven,<br />

Germany with funding from the Alfred Wegner<br />

Institute and the British Antarctic Survey. During the<br />

meeting the group produced an Action Plan based<br />

on the goals and audiences envisioned in the IPY<br />

Framework document.<br />

In this plan, they identified key messages and<br />

audiences, as well as organizations and communities<br />

who could become potential partners and<br />

collaborators. Based on the key question, ‘Why are<br />

the polar regions and polar research important to all<br />

people on Earth’, the Subcommittee suggested specific<br />

internationally-coordinated actions they felt could<br />

maximize the public impact of IPY.<br />

After the Bremerhaven meeting, most of the Subcommittee<br />

work was carried out by conference calls<br />

and email contact, although there were also several<br />

face-to-face meetings that were sponsored by various<br />

IPY partners. These included meetings in Cambridge,<br />

U.K. (June 2007), Strasbourg, France (March 2008, Fig.<br />

4.1-1), Geneva, Switzerland (February 2009) and Edmonton,<br />

Alberta, Canada (October 2009). These meetings<br />

were critical for maintaining enthusiasm among<br />

the Subcommittee members and for allowing extended<br />

time for reflection, review and planning for future<br />

events. Selected members of the working groups also<br />

Box 3 EOC Subcommittee<br />

2007<br />

Margarete Pauls, Germany (Co-Chair)<br />

Sandra Zicus, Australia (Co-Chair)<br />

Linda Capper, U.K.<br />

Jean de Pomereu, France<br />

Edith Fanta, Brazil<br />

Rachel Hazell, U.K.<br />

Louise Huffman, U.S.A.<br />

Tove Kolset, Norway<br />

Lars Kullerud, Norway<br />

Linda Mackey, Canada<br />

Mark McCaffrey, U.S.A.<br />

Birgit Kleist Pedersen, Greenland<br />

Rodion Sulyandziga, Russia<br />

Patricia Virtue, Australia<br />

2009<br />

Official members:<br />

Margarete Pauls, Germany<br />

Sandra Zicus, Australia<br />

Miriam Almeida, Brazil<br />

Rashmi Asthana, India<br />

Jean de Pomereu, France/Belgium<br />

Geoff Green, Canada<br />

Rachel Hazell, U.K.<br />

Louise Huffman, U.S.A.<br />

Tove Kolset, Norway<br />

Lars Kullerud, Norway<br />

René Malherbe, Netherlands<br />

Liz Murphy, Australia<br />

Khadijah Abdul Rahman Sinclair, Malaysia<br />

Elena Sparrow, U.S.A.<br />

Ex officio:<br />

Kristen Ulstein, Norway<br />

Jenny Baeseman, Norway (APECS)<br />

Dave Carlson, U.K. (IPY IPO)<br />

Karen Edwards, Canada (Canadian IPY Secretariat)<br />

Jacinta Legg, France (ICSU)<br />

Jerónimo López-Martínez, Spain (JC)<br />

Nicola Munro, U.K. (IPY IPO)<br />

Mélianie Raymond, Denmark (APECS EOC)<br />

Rhian Salmon, U.K. (IPY IPO)<br />

Carine Van Maele, Switzerland (<strong>WMO</strong>)<br />

P u b l I C P r o g r a m s a n d e d u C a t I o n 483

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