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International Polar Year 2007–2008 - WMO

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Yoshiyuki Fujii is Director General of the National Institute of <strong>Polar</strong> Research,<br />

Japan and a climatologist with interest in changes in global climate and<br />

environment through ice core from Antarctica, Arctic and high mountains,<br />

including volcanic signals in ice cores, their effects on climate, and geochemical<br />

cycles in polar region. He has been the Head of Arctic Environment Research<br />

Center, National Institute of <strong>Polar</strong> Research (1997–2004) and the Science Adviser<br />

to the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (in<br />

2000–2006). He has worked on research projects in Antarctica, Siberia, Svalbard,<br />

Greenland, Nepal Himalyas, and Alaska. He served on the IPY Joint Committee in<br />

2005–2006 (National Institute of <strong>Polar</strong> Research, Tokyo, Japan).<br />

Grete Kaare Hovelsrud is an anthropologist and a senior researcher at the<br />

Center for <strong>International</strong> Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo (CICERO).<br />

She has worked in the Arctic for more than 25 years in a number of disciplines<br />

(quaternary geology, reindeer ecology, marine geology, and social anthropology).<br />

After a number of years as General Secretary to the North Atlantic Marine<br />

Mammal Commission, she began her research on the consequences of climate<br />

change on local communities in the Arctic. She is a member of the <strong>International</strong><br />

Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) Council, as well as the Norwegian<br />

IPY National Committee (Center for <strong>International</strong> Climate and Environmental<br />

Research, Oslo, Norway).<br />

Vladimir Kotlyakov is Professor of Geography, Director of the Institute of<br />

Geography, and also a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is<br />

polar glaciologist and geographer, and has studied icesheets, glaciers, sea ice,<br />

permafrost, and other elements of glaciology in the Arctic and the Antarctic for<br />

more than 50 years. He was a member of the Russian team during the <strong>International</strong><br />

Geophysical <strong>Year</strong> 1957–1958 and has received numerous honours and honourary<br />

degrees in Russia and from international scientific academies and geographical<br />

societies. Professor Kotlyakov is honorary President of the Russian Geographical<br />

Society (Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia).<br />

Igor Krupnik is a a cultural anthropologist and curator of Arctic ethnological<br />

collections at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Trained as physical<br />

geographer and ecological anthropologist, he conducted fieldwork in Alaska<br />

and along the Russian Arctic coast. His interests include traditional ecological<br />

knowledge, social systems, and cultural heritage of Arctic people; climate<br />

change and indigenous observations of the sea ice and ecosystem dynamics,<br />

primarily in the Western Arctic. He coordinated several projects on the impacts<br />

of climate change, preservation of cultural heritage, and ecological observations<br />

of Arctic people. He was a founding member of IASSA and served on the IASSA<br />

Council in 2004-2008 to foster IASSA’s involvement in IPY (Arctic Studies Center,<br />

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.).<br />

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