Physics
Scientific paper
May 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agusm.u23a..01r&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2004, abstract #U23A-01
Physics
6300 Policy Sciences, 6600 Public Issues, 6620 Science Policy
Scientific paper
Planning is underway for an International Polar Year in 2007-2008. (IPY 2007/8) which will be a significant research opportunity to further our understanding of polar regions and polar processes. The International Polar Year has the potential to capture the public's imagination and convey the crucial role that the polar regions play in global systems. IPY 2007/8 will be an international programme of coordinated, interdisciplinary, scientific research in the Earth's polar regions to explore new frontiers, to increase our ability to detect changes at the Earth's poles and to deepen our understanding of polar processes and their global linkages. A crucial component of the IPY 2007/8 will be to attract and develop the next generation of polar scientists, engineers and leaders and to capture the interest of the public and decision-makers. The vision is for many nations to work together to gain holistic insights into planetary processes, targeted at exploring and increasing our understanding of the poles and their role in the global system. The concept of an International Polar Year 2007/8 has been endorsed and advanced by a broad range of global and polar research groups both internationally and nationally. To date 18 nations have formed national committees who are coordinating IPY activities nationally. The International Council for Science (ICSU) formed an International Polar Year Planning Group (IPY-PG) to stimulate, encourage and organize a debate on the International Polar Year 2007/8, formulate a set of objectives and develop a high level Science Plan. The Planning Group has sought input from the international science community and to date has received 138 ideas from over 22 nations. This input from the international community covers both poles, global processes and a diverse spectrum of disciplines. To date the input from the science community has identified key questions and proposed projects within the three major themes proposed by the ICSU IPY Planning Group: Exploration of New Frontiers, Understanding Change at the Poles and Decoding Polar Processes. Within the "Exploration" theme, three major concepts advanced by the community are genomic studies of the polar ecosystems, probing the polar deeps and sub-ice environments and studying the influence of the Earth's interior on polar processes. Within the theme of "Change at the Poles" the three major concepts advanced include climate connections and instabilities, solar forcing of the polar atmospheres and polar ecosystems response to change. Within the theme of "Decoding Polar Processes" three major concepts advanced include global forces on Peoples of the North, polar influences on people of the globe and contaminants at the poles. These ideas have been integrated into an outline of the proposed science questions and projects for the International Polar Year to be presented to the science community between April and September of 2004 for debate, discussion and review.
Bell Ray
Rapley C.
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