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IPY 20 07–20 08<br />

Notes<br />

1 Andreev et al., 2007; Bell, 2008; ICSU PG, 2004; IOC, 2004; Stirling, 2007; Summerhayes, 2008; Tsaturov et al., 2005.<br />

2 Unfortunately, no traces of that correspondence have yet been recovered.<br />

3 In their memoirs about ‘early IPY years,’ Robin Bell, Robert Bindschadler, Chris Elfring, Chris Rapley, Jörn Thiede independently<br />

alluded to the longing for a major innovative and unifying program in polar research that was common around 1998–2000.<br />

4 Several people instrumental to the eGY, such as Paul Berkman, Mark Parsons, Alan Roger, were also active in IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong>.<br />

5 At that time, Chilingarov was the Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma (lower chamber of the Russian Parliament). Some<br />

Russian sources (Andreev et al., 2007:97; Khronika, 2007) erroneously cite 25 October 2002 as the date of Chilngarov’s statement in<br />

Brussels.<br />

6 Report on the Brussels workshop was published online by Stanley Morris, Director of the IPSC (Institute of the Protection and<br />

Security of the Citizen) under the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. It was posted on the website of the<br />

Arctic Council, Senior Arctic Officials (http://arctic-council.npolar.no/Meetings/SAO/2001%20Es/11_3sao.pdf). It also marked the<br />

first intervention of Stanley Morris and his Institute of the Protection and Security of the Citizen in the Russian IPY process. The IPSC<br />

has no stake in polar research, as its activities are focused primarily on external security, agriculture, maritime affairs and nuclear<br />

safeguards (http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/activities.php?id=1).<br />

7 Chilingarov’s letter was addressed to Barry McSweeney, Director-General, DG Joint Research Center; Guy Legras, Director-General,<br />

DG External Relations; Francois Lamoreux, Director-General, Transport and Energy; Jean-Froncois Verstrynge, DG Environment;<br />

and Achilleas Mitsos, Director-General, DG Research (copy in Russian, with English translation in Chris Rapley’s files).<br />

8 The first IPY-related website was launched by the IHY group at http://ipy.gsfc.nasa.gov and http://ihy.gsfc.nasa.gov in early 2002<br />

and by early 2003 several other IPY-focused websites were running, such as www.nationalacademies.org/prb/ipy, www.eoss.org/<br />

igy.htm, www.polarcom.gc.ca/polaryear.htm, and a Russian IPY site at www.polarf.ru.<br />

9 Later in 2002, Rapley was also tasked to be the liaison in the IPY planning for the European <strong>Polar</strong> Board (EPB) then chaired by<br />

Thiede. The idea was to have some key advocates representing several organizations participating in the same process, something<br />

that the IGY planners (e.g. Chapman, Berkner, and others) used very successfully in their early process.<br />

10 Fae Korsmo, Robert Bindschadler, Phil Smith and Stephanie Pfirman.<br />

11 The joint ACSYS-CliC Steering Group was established in 2000 “to formulate and guide the ACSYS observational and modeling<br />

programs for determining Arctic climate processes and realistic representation of the Arctic region in global climate models” – see<br />

http://acsys.npolar.no/introduction/impplan/tor.php#SSG.<br />

12 This was perhaps the earliest known reference to having two organizations, ICSU and <strong>WMO</strong>, as prospective supporters of the<br />

IPY. It came naturally from ACSYS/CliC, which is a joint venture launched by ICSU, <strong>WMO</strong>, and Intergovernmental Oceanographic<br />

Commission (IOC).<br />

13 The original is in the ICSU Archives. A shorter version of the proposal was posted in September 2003 on SCAR website – see: www.<br />

scar.org/ipy/approachworkplan.html.<br />

14 See English copy: www.ipy-api.ca/english/documents/e_int_russian_ipy_concept.pdf.<br />

15 In fact, the draft text for inclusion in the 14th <strong>WMO</strong> Congress agenda was submitted on 11 April 2003, that is two weeks prior to the<br />

official endorsement of the IPY proposal by the Russian Academy of Sciences.<br />

16 In the next few weeks, the information on the <strong>WMO</strong> approval of the Russian proposal was systematically disseminated out of the<br />

IPSC office in Ispra to the polar scientists and agency officials worldwide. Various copies of the <strong>WMO</strong> documents were later posted<br />

on various websites, e.g. www.ipy-api.ca/english/documents/e_int_declaration_from_un.pdf.<br />

17 Chris Rapley (Chair, U.K.), Robin Bell (Vice-Chair, U.S.A.), Ian Allison (Australia), Robert Bindshadler (U.S.A.), Steve Chown (South<br />

Africa), Gérard Duhaime (Canada), Vladimir Kotlyakov (Russia), Olav Orheim (Norway), Zhanghai Zhan (China), an appropriate<br />

representative of India and of Latin America, nominees (one each) of IUGS and IUGG, and Science Programme Leaders as these are<br />

appointed (5-6 envisaged).<br />

18 It should be noted that SCAR is an Interdisciplinary body of ICSU and IASC is ICSU’s Associate member. IUGG and IGUS are Members<br />

as is the U.S. National Academies (in this case represented by the PRB).<br />

19 The idea of the truly ‘modern’ character of this IPY was raised in many early presentations (Berkman, 2003) and is specifically<br />

addressed in Elzinga (2009), Korsmo (2010), and Stirling (2007).

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