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2010<br />

January 21. 7th Meeting of the IPY Oslo Science Conference<br />

Steering Committee, Oslo, Norway<br />

February 15. Initial Meeting of the Montreal 2012 Conference<br />

Steering Committee, Ottawa, Canada<br />

March 12. 8th Meeting of the IPY Oslo Science Conference<br />

Steering Committee, Oslo, Norway<br />

March 16. “State of the Arctic” Conference in Miami, U.S.A., with<br />

several IPY-related sessions (16–19 March)<br />

March 22. IPY Data Subcommittee meeting in Paris (22 – 24<br />

March)<br />

April 9. 1st Meeting of the Montreal 2012 Conference Steering<br />

Committee, Oslo, Norway (9–10 April)<br />

April 15. Arctic Science Summit Week 2010, Nuuk, Greenland<br />

(15–19 April), with several sessions discussing first results of the<br />

IPY activities<br />

May 7. Last issue of the IPY Monthly Report (no.37) released by<br />

the IPO<br />

June 6. <strong>International</strong> Teachers Conference and APECS Workshop,<br />

Oslo, Norway (6–7 June); <strong>Polar</strong> Science and Global Climate: An<br />

<strong>International</strong> Resource to Education and Outreach teachers’<br />

sourcebook produced by the IPY EOC Subcommittee (Kaiser et<br />

al. 2010) released<br />

June 7. 9th and final Meeting of the ICSU-<strong>WMO</strong> Joint Committee<br />

for IPY (JC-9), Oslo, Norway<br />

June 8. IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong> Oslo Science Conference with over 2300<br />

participants, Oslo, Norway (8–12 June)<br />

June 9. Joint AC-ATCM workshop, ‘The Legacy of the <strong>International</strong><br />

<strong>Polar</strong> <strong>Year</strong>’ during the IPY Open Science Conference, Oslo,<br />

Norway<br />

June 9. 2nd Meeting of the Montreal 2012 Conference Steering<br />

Committee in conjunction with the IPY Oslo Conference<br />

June 10. 6th Meeting of the Space Task Group (STG) of the IPY<br />

Subcommittee on Observations, Oslo, Norway recommends to<br />

reconstitute STG as a <strong>Polar</strong> Space Task Group<br />

June 12. Official closing of IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong> at the Plenary session<br />

of the IPY Open Science Conference in Oslo; the outline of JC IPY<br />

summary report presented to the IPY community<br />

June 14. 62nd session of the <strong>WMO</strong> Executive Council express<br />

its deep appreciation to <strong>WMO</strong>/ICSU Joint Committee for IPY, its<br />

Subcommittees, the IPY <strong>International</strong> Programme Office, and<br />

to thousands IPY participants for successful completion of IPY<br />

<strong>2007–2008</strong><br />

June 30. ICSU-<strong>WMO</strong> Joint Committee for IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong> officially<br />

completes its tenure.<br />

As agreed at JC-9, Co-editors of JC IPY Summary continue<br />

preparation of the Summary<br />

July 27. Chair’s Report from the AC-ATCM joint workshop on the<br />

legacy of the <strong>International</strong> <strong>Polar</strong> <strong>Year</strong> (June 10, 2010) published<br />

online<br />

August 1. XXXI SCAR Meeting and 4th Open Science Conference,<br />

“Antarctica – witness to the past and guide to the future”,<br />

Buenos Aires, Argentina (1–11 August), with several papers on<br />

progress in IPY projects<br />

September 16. 3rd Meeting of the Montreal 2012 Conference<br />

Steering Committee, Montreal, Canada<br />

September 30. The closure of the IPY <strong>International</strong> Programme<br />

Office; work on the JC IPY Summary continues<br />

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