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July 8. Joint SCAR-IASC Open Science Conference, “<strong>Polar</strong><br />

Research - Arctic and Antarctic Perspectives in the <strong>International</strong><br />

<strong>Polar</strong> <strong>Year</strong>,” St Petersburg, Russia (8–11 July)<br />

July 9. 2nd Meeting of the IPY Oslo Open Science Conference<br />

Steering Committee in conjunction with the SCAR-IASC IPY<br />

Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia<br />

July 14. “<strong>International</strong> <strong>Polar</strong> <strong>Year</strong>: Science, Technology,<br />

Engineering, and Mathematics - <strong>Polar</strong> Connections, teacher<br />

opportunity,” conference at the University of Massachusetts<br />

Amherst (Amherst, U.S.A., 14–18 July) to promote the teaching<br />

of science concepts and processes related to polar regions<br />

July 18. IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong> featured at Euroscience Open Forum<br />

2008, Barcelona, Spain<br />

August 22. 6th <strong>International</strong> Congress of Arctic Social Sciences,<br />

Nuuk, Greenland (22–26 August), with the theme ‘Opportunities<br />

and Challenges for Social Sciences in the <strong>International</strong> <strong>Polar</strong><br />

<strong>Year</strong> <strong>2007–2008</strong>’<br />

September 8. <strong>WMO</strong>/WCRP/IPY Workshop on Climate Information<br />

and Prediction Services in <strong>Polar</strong> Regions, St-Petersburg, Russia<br />

(8-11 September)<br />

September 15. IPY Media Working Group Meeting, ICSU, Paris<br />

September 20. <strong>International</strong> philatelic event related to IPY<br />

<strong>2007–2008</strong> at the Austria Center in Vienna, Austria; the event<br />

proposed by Michelle Bachelet, the president of Chile, calls<br />

attention to polar science and environmental impact of global<br />

warming<br />

September 24. <strong>International</strong> <strong>Polar</strong> Day: ‘People,’ featuring social<br />

and human science research in IPY launched out of Canada<br />

national IPY office<br />

October 8. <strong>International</strong> conference, “Human Dimensions in the<br />

Circumpolar Arctic,” Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, under the<br />

auspices of IPY (8–10 October)<br />

October 14. Third IPY Workshop on Sustained Arctic Observing<br />

Network (SAON), Helsinki, Finland (14-17 October)<br />

October 19. IPY Presentation at the ICSU General Assembly,<br />

Maputo, Mozambique (19–24 October)<br />

October 5. Third IPY fatality (construction worker), due to a fire<br />

at the Russian Antarctic Progress station<br />

October 20. A tractor falls into crevasse near the Russian<br />

Antarctic Mirnyi station; fourth fatality during IPY<br />

November 4. First <strong>International</strong> Symposium on Arctic Research<br />

(ISAR-1): Drastic Change under the Global Warming, in Miraikan,<br />

Tokyo, Japan (4–6 November) organized by IASC and CliC<br />

Subcommittee of the Science Council of Japan in conjunction<br />

with IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong><br />

November 7. 3rd Meeting of the IPY Oslo Open Science<br />

Conference Steering Committee in Oslo, Norway<br />

November 9. Conference “The Arctic: observing the<br />

environmental changes and facing their challenges” reviews<br />

some preliminary scientific results of IPY and components of IPY<br />

legacy, Monte-Carlo, Monaco (9-10 November)<br />

November 10. <strong>International</strong> conference “Fifty years after<br />

IGY – Modern Information Technologies and Earth and Solar<br />

Sciences,” Tsukaba, Japan<br />

December 3. IPY Legacy Workshop: Sustaining Project<br />

Contributions to <strong>WMO</strong> Global Cryosphere Watch and the Global<br />

Earth Observations System of Systems, <strong>WMO</strong>, Geneva, (3–5<br />

December)<br />

December 4. <strong>International</strong> <strong>Polar</strong> Day: ‘Above the Poles’<br />

(astronomy, meteorology, atmospheric sciences) launched by<br />

the IPO<br />

December 15. IPY Sessions and exhibit at the AGU Fall Meeting,<br />

San Francisco, U.S.A. (15–19 December)<br />

2009<br />

January 25. HAIS Meeting, Cambridge, U.K. (25–26 January)<br />

February 3. 4th Meeting of the Space Task Group of the IPY<br />

Subcommittee on Observations, <strong>WMO</strong>, Geneva (3–4 February)<br />

February 23. IPY Education and Outreach Subcommittee<br />

meeting, <strong>WMO</strong>, Geneva (23–24 February)<br />

February 23. APECS Executive Council Meeting, <strong>WMO</strong>, Geneva<br />

(23–25 February)<br />

February 23. 8th meeting of the ICSU-<strong>WMO</strong> Joint Committee for<br />

IPY (JC-8), <strong>WMO</strong>, Geneva (23–25 February)<br />

February 24. Opening of the special IPY photographic exhibit<br />

“Our <strong>Polar</strong> Heritage” sponsored by the UN and Government of<br />

Canada, Palais des Nations, Geneva<br />

February 25. Joint <strong>WMO</strong>-ICSU ‘IPY ceremony’ at the <strong>WMO</strong><br />

Secretariat in Geneva in conjunction with the release of The<br />

State of <strong>Polar</strong> Research (Allison et al., 2009) prepared by the Joint<br />

Committee<br />

a P P e n d I C e s 685

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