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IPY 20 07–20 08<br />

3 To the nine members nominated in June 2003 (Rapley, Bell, Allison, Bindshadler, Chown, Duhaime, Kotlyakov, Orheim, and Zhang),<br />

five more were added in September 2003: Gino Casassa, Prem Chand Pandey, Hanne K. Petersen, Michael Kuhn and Henk Schalke<br />

– Box 2. The two latter provided liaison to IUGG and IUGS, respectively.<br />

4 Following that meeting, Sarukhanian was appointed <strong>WMO</strong> Secretary-General ‘special advisor’ on IPY, in charge of the <strong>WMO</strong><br />

planning. He held this key position for almost seven years ensuring continuity in <strong>WMO</strong> support to IPY.<br />

5 By Mary Albert, Karl Erb, Ghassam Asrat, John Calder, John Behrendt, Fae Krosmo, Kendrick Taylor, Miles McPhee, Paul Mayewski,<br />

Joseph Davila, James Morison, Bernard Coakley and others.<br />

6 Chris Rapley (PG Chair), Robin Bell (Vice-Chair), Ian Allison, Robert Bindschadler, Gino Casassa, Gérard Duhaime, Vladimir Kotlyakov,<br />

Olav Orheim, Hanne Petersen, Zhanhai Zhang, Michael Kuhn (IUGG), Vladimir Ryabinin (WCRP), Thomas Rosswall (ICSU), Leah<br />

Goldfarb (ICSU), Daniel Rodary (ICSU), Tim Moffat (Secretary) and Wolfgang Eder (UNESCO) standing in for Henk Schalke for IUGS<br />

item. Apologies: Steven Chown, Prem Pandey, Ed Sarukhanian (<strong>WMO</strong>) and Henk Schalke (IUGS).<br />

7 Qin Dahe, Director of the Chinese Meteorological Administration, was proposed to chair the group made of several disciplinary<br />

experts associated with <strong>WMO</strong> (Barry Goodison, Oystein Hov, Arni Snorrason, Stephen Pendlebury, Ivan Frolov, Geerd Hoffman,<br />

Alex Sterin and others).<br />

8 See Davila et al., 2006; 2009; Thompson et al., 2009. The full chronology of IHY, from 2002 till 2009, and the IHY Newsletter archive<br />

(2003–2009) are available at http://ihy2007.org/newsroom/newsroom.shtml. See most recent updates on the IHY at www.ihy2007.<br />

org/.<br />

9 In September 2005, the representatives of four ‘international science years’ scheduled to take place during the period 2007–<br />

2008—the IHY (J. Davila), IPY (D. Carlson), eGY (D. Baker) and IYPE (E. de Mulder)—signed a formal declaration pledging “vigorous<br />

and open communication, as well as joint activities in areas of common scientific interest, as well as in education, outreach and<br />

capacity building” (Putting the “I” in IHY, 2006).<br />

10 Reid Hall (4 Rue de Chevreuse, Paris, France) is a complex of academic facilities owned and operated by Columbia University<br />

(U.S.A.) that is located in the St. Germain des Prés district of Paris. It houses the Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid<br />

Hall in addition to various graduate and undergraduate divisions of over a dozen American universities. For over a century, Reid<br />

Hall has served as a link between the French and American academic communities.<br />

11 See minutes at http://classic.ipy.org/international/documents/.<br />

12 Participants: Chris Rapley, Robin Bell, Ian Allison, Robert Bindschadler, Gino Casassa, Gérard Duhaime, Chris Elfring, Vladimir<br />

Kotlyakov, Olav Orheim, Prem Pandey, Hanne Petersen, Michael Kuhn (IUGG), Werner Janoschek (IUGS), Ed Sarukhanian (<strong>WMO</strong>),<br />

Leah Goldfarb (ICSU), Elisabeth Merle (ICSU), Cynan Ellis-Evans (BAS) and Tim Moffat (BAS, Secretary).<br />

13 Presentations by Chris Rapley on the IPY Outline Science Plan; Vladimir Ryabinin (WCRP), Patrick Webber (IASC), Jerry Brown (IPA),<br />

Robert Dickson (ASOB), Mary Albert (U.S. IPY activities), and Jacek Jania (Polish preparations for IPY). Most of these presentations<br />

can be accessed at http://classic.ipy.org/international/presentations (as of February 25, 2010).<br />

14 Presentations by Robin Bell on the IPY Science Plan; Ed Sarukhanian on <strong>WMO</strong> and IPY; Odd Rogne on IASC and IPY; Roland Schlich<br />

on SCAR and IPY; Heinz Miller on IPY and Cryospheric studies, Stephanie Pfirman on Education and Outreach in IPY; Alan Rodger<br />

on eGY; and Andy Breen on IHY, see http://classic.ipy.org/international/presentations.<br />

15 The IPY presentations were delivered by Chris Rapley, Robin Bell, Ed Sarukhanian, Colin Summerhayes (on SCAR and IPY), Louwrens<br />

Hacquebord (IASC and IPY), Hanne Petersen (Education and Outreach in IPY) and Michael Kuhn (IGY+50), see http://classic.ipy.org/<br />

international/presentations.<br />

16 This effort to put social sciences on the IPY program was also strengthened by passionate calls from Louwrens Hacquebord and<br />

Aant Elzinga, from IASC and SCAR’s Action Group on history of Antarctic research, respectively, at the SCAR meeting in Bremen,<br />

who argued that IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong> should be called the ‘<strong>Year</strong> of the Human Dimension’ (Chapter 1.4).<br />

17 Originally ICSU-<strong>WMO</strong> considered one person as the leader of the future IPY Joint Committee. Ian Allison was approached during<br />

the SCAR Open Science Conference (July 2004) and asked if he would be prepared to chair the JC. In the following discussion,<br />

the idea of two Co-Chairs, one appointed by <strong>WMO</strong> and one by ICSU was proposed. It was enthusiastically supported by both<br />

organizations.<br />

18 C. Rapley, R. Bell, I. Allison, R. Bindschadler, G. Casassa, V. Kotlyakov, O. Orheim, H. Petersen, V. Ryabanin, L. Goldfarb, P. Pandey, E.<br />

Sarukhanian, D. Rodary, T. Moffatt (Secretary), J-P. Cadet (representing IUGS), C. Ellis-Evans (BAS) and C. Elfring (NAS). Apologies<br />

from Chown, Kuhn, Zhang, Janoschek and Schalke (IUGS).<br />

19 The selection of the future JC members, in fact, was going quietly on the sidelines of the PG-4 meeting, by a small group made of<br />

Rosswall, Rapley, Bell, Goldfarb and Sarukhanian in charge of the process.<br />

20 The document was finalized by Cynan Ellis-Evans (on behalf of the PG) and by Leah Goldfarb (for ICSU) before submission for<br />

publication at the end of October 2004.

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