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Fig. 1.4-2. SCAR<br />

Executive Committee<br />

meeting in Brest,<br />

France, 11-15 July<br />

2003. EX COM<br />

members (left to<br />

right): Bob Rutford,<br />

Roland Schlich, Chris<br />

Rapley, Peter Clarkson<br />

(SCAR Executive<br />

Director), Jörn Thiede,<br />

SCAR President,<br />

(Howard-Williams<br />

is not visible and<br />

Jerónimo López-<br />

Martínez is taking<br />

the photograph) with<br />

the heads of SCAR<br />

subsidiary bodies,<br />

Chuck Kennicutt,<br />

Alessandro Capra,<br />

and John Turner.<br />

(Photo, Jerónimo López-<br />

Martínez)<br />

72<br />

IPY 20 07–20 08<br />

studies. There was general support for the proposal<br />

and a small group was established (under the leadership<br />

of Heinz Miller) to consider how the plans could<br />

be best elaborated and advanced, and to prepare a report<br />

to the SCAR Executive Committee at its meeting<br />

in July 2003. Delegates supported the proposal for an<br />

IPY program to celebrate the 50th anniversary of IGY<br />

and it was suggested that enquiries should be made<br />

to ICSU and IUGG. Chris Rapley agreed to follow up<br />

this proposal.<br />

Following SCAR’s well-received presentation at the<br />

ATCM meeting in June 2003, the SCAR Executive Committee<br />

met in Brest, France on 11-15 July, 2003 (Fig.1.4-<br />

2). By that time, the ICSU Planning Group was already<br />

established, with Rapley as a Chair (Chapter 1.3). The<br />

Executive Committee welcomed this news, but noted<br />

that the lead time was short for such a major initiative<br />

and that much work needed to be done. The Committee<br />

recognized that IPY would also coincide with the<br />

50th Anniversary of SCAR and agreed that the proposed<br />

role of SCAR in IPY should be emphasized. As<br />

part of SCAR participation in IPY, it was recommended<br />

that SCAR inform the ICSU PG and National Antarctic<br />

Committees that it recommends that research on subglacial<br />

environment should be a major component of<br />

the ‘scientific frontiers’ theme in IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong>. Also,<br />

on 11 July, 2003 the SCAR and COMNAP Executive<br />

Committees met in Brest and discussed the current<br />

state of preparation for IPY.<br />

At the SCAR meeting in Bremerhaven, Germany<br />

(21 January, 2004), following an update presentation<br />

by C. Rapley, the SCAR Executive Committee (EXCOM)<br />

strongly endorsed the active involvement of SCAR<br />

in the IPY planning process. By that time, there were<br />

ten members on the ICSU IPY Planning Group (PG),<br />

who were active in SCAR – C. Rapley, R. Bell, I. Allison,<br />

R. Bindschadler, G. Cassassa, S. Chown, V. Kotlyakov,<br />

O. Orheim, P. Pandey and Z. Zhang (in June 2004,<br />

Allison agreed to be the official SCAR representative<br />

on the PG). EXCOM tasked the new SCAR Executive<br />

Director (Colin Summerhayes) with representing SCAR<br />

interests in the IPY planning to maximize SCAR’s role<br />

in implementing Antarctic components of IPY. As a<br />

first step, an IPY web page was created on the SCAR<br />

web site (Fig. 1.4-3); this was eventually linked to the<br />

main IPY website. Summerhayes attended the IPY<br />

Open Forum in Paris on 31 March, 2004 and made a<br />

presentation that explored the role that SCAR and its<br />

programs might play in making IPY a success. SCAR<br />

saw itself as a vehicle for enhancing achievement of<br />

the goals of IPY through providing ready access to<br />

Antarctic Treaty Parties and to the extensive network

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