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Thursday, 05 July 2007 13:58
IPY EOC Workshop Summary: June 2007
Education, Outreach, and Communication (EOC) in IPY are a continuum of activities and ideas. As with the rest of IPY 2007-8, the EOC components build on local and regional activities and needs, and utilise existing networks and technologies, to raise awareness of the polar regions.
To this end, a group of educators from around the world met together to discuss strategies and activities that could build on existing structures, and help to raise awareness of the polar regions using existing resources.
The suggestions of the educators were then passed on to two groups: one focussing on the needs of young researchers and early career scientists, and the other on the international media. The idea was to identify and develop activities that would serve the broadest ...
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 20:28
Ice Station Antarctica open
The exhibition is open now, phew! And we’re getting some great feedback. The games are particularly popular. The firm favourite is the meteorite hunting game which is based on the adventures of Natural History Museum's Sara Russell who has been meteorite hunting in Antarctica with ANSMET. This photo is of my friend Paul on the meteorite hunt. It's a great game because visitors not only learn about meteorites but also the terrain of Antarctica.
Meanwhile I have started following our visitors around the exhibition for evaluation. I watch where they go and what they do, ideally without being spotted. This, combined with exit surveys, will help us to see what visitors are learning and how much they enjoy the e...
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Monday, 02 July 2007 07:01
IGY 50 Years Down the Road: Kiruna Observatory and the Politics of Arctic Geophysics
Kiruna Geophysical Observatory was launched 50 years ago on July 2nd. Sverker Sörlin visits the history of the station and draws comparisons with this IPY.
The ongoing IPY is a globalized two year event, opening simultaneously in many countries on March 1 last, with web casted ceremonies. Fifty years ago, IGY started its 18 months of activities without much fuss, with no official opening and few headlines. In retrospect, what did in fact come close to a first IGY event was the launch of the Kiruna Geophysical Observatory in northern Sweden, on 2 July. In this remote mining town, in the midst of Sami reindeer herding territory, today hosting the Sami Parliament, were among a range of high ranking guests a figure no less than Lloyd V. Berkner, one of the IGY initiators, the...
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Saturday, 30 June 2007 16:26
Very Cool Science: a live global on-line event
From 1-14th July 2007, high-school students from across Australia and around the world will gather at The University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia for the 34th International Science School (ISS), EcoScience – two weeks of scientific lectures, activities and social events with a focus on the environment and ecological science, and attention on IPY and the polar regions.
On Thursday July 5th, 2007 at 7.00pm Sydney time, the ISS presents a unique opportunity for high-school students to participate in a global webcast discussing polar science. Students, teachers and interested observers attending this 45 minute event hosted in Sydney, both at the ISS and o...
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Monday, 11 June 2007 22:29
creating educational thermographics
A new project is being developed to consider the use of Thermographics in Education.
A thermographic is a registration of the surface temperature by detecting long-wavelength infrared radiation. You can compare the image with a weather chart. It’s like holding 80.000 thermometers at the same time in front of an animal. The colors added to the measurements create the image. The colors show variations in temperature. You can capture images at night or in daytime, it doesn’t matter, you need different surface temperatures though.
In the Polar regions you’ll only find a few species of animals. They are definitely the best to-cold-adapted animals of the world. The biodiversity is not comparable with for example a rainforest, where you’ll find thousands of d...
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Friday, 08 June 2007 14:02
IPY Publications Database
The bibliography "International Polar Year 2007-2008 Resources on Polar Research in the NOAA Central Library Network : A Selected Bibliography" has been prepared to support NOAA Central Library (NCL) activities during International Polar Year 2007-2008. It reflects the NCL network’s unique print and online resources on exploration and research in Polar Regions. It includes citations organized “by title” from NOAALINC, the library's online catalog, and from the library's historical collections. The data and listings are comprehensive from the 18th century to the present. The formats represented in this resource include print, CD-ROM, online full-text documents, digital videos, digital images, online cruise data and Web resources. This document provides full-text access, copyright ...
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Friday, 08 June 2007 04:17
The Global Outlook for Ice and Snow
The ice caps are melting but Brits still think polar bears live in Antarctica - home of the penguins.
A new exhibition - Ice Station Antarctica - opens at Natural History Museum for International Polar Year 2007-2008. It will challenges kids to understand the importance of the frozen continent.
Antarctica is a continent 58 times the size of the UK and it plays a crucial role in understanding global climate change, but one in ten Brits doesn't know where it is and a third of us still think polar bears live there. The Natural History Museum today launches Ice Station Antarctica, a new family blockbuster exhibition developed in partnership with the British Antarctic Survey that challenges kids to survive the extreme conditions faced by scientists researc...
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Friday, 08 June 2007 02:07
International workshop on Snow, Ice, Glacier and Avalanches: extension of deadlines
To encourage larger participation in the international workshop
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Friday, 08 June 2007 01:39
IPY news from India
We have news from India about the various aspects of its involvement with IPY - through both scientific projects and outreach. The launching of the Indian chapter of the IPY 2007-2008 took place at National Centre For Antarctic & Ocean Research (NCAOR), Vasco-da-Gama, India and parallely at Jawaharlal Nehru National University (JNU), New Delhi, India on 1st March 2007. Details of the scientific and outreach projects can be read in this pdf document. Further details can be had at National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research website and ...
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Friday, 08 June 2007 19:16
Update for Project Coordinators: June
IPY Report June 2007 Contents: 1. Data Issues 2. Recent updates to the IPY website 3. Project Funding 4. Events, Meetings, and Conferences FROM: IPY International Programme Office To: IPY Project Coordinators Cc: IPY National Committees 1. Data Issues As coordinators of IPY Projects, you have all agreed to the IPY data policy that specifies free and open data access in a timely manner. You have also agreed to take responsibility for archiving data from within your projects. We know that, in reality, getting cooperation on data sharing and developing secure data archives take substantial time and effort. Members of the IPY Data ...
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