Coolest Session Ever Resources for the International Polar Year Moderator: Julia H. Triplehorn Keith B. Mather Library Geophysical Institute Fairbanks,

Coolest Session Ever

Resources for the

International

Polar

Year

Moderator:

Julia H. Triplehorn

Keith B. Mather Library

Geophysical Institute

Fairbanks, Alaska

4th International Polar Year

March 1, 2007 – March 1, 2009

Joint Program

International Union of Science (ICSU)

and

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Coolest Session -- Presenters

1. Julia H. Triplehorn,

IPY – Past and Present;

2. Sharon Tahirkeheli, Ross Goodwin, and Heather Lane,

Collaborative Tracking of IPY Publications for the IPY Publications Database;

3. Doria Grimes,

IPY Information from NOAA;

4. Allaina Howard and Ruth Duerr,

The International Polar Years, Creating Access to 125 years of Polar Research.

International Polar Year

1882-83

Historical Review

International Polar Year 1882-83 Expeditions

• Austrian Expedition to Jan Mayen;

British Canadian Expedition to Fort Rae (Great Slave Lake);

• Danish Expedition to Godthaab (West Coast of Greenland);

• Dutch Expedition to Port Dickson (North Coast Russia);

• Finnish Expedition to Sodankyla (Northern Finland);

• French Expedition to Cape Horn (Tierra del Fuego;

• German Expedition to Kingua Fiord (Cumberland Sound) and South Georgia Island (South Atlantic Ocean);

•Norwegian Expedition to Bossekop (North Coast of Norway);

• Russian Expedition to Ssagastyr (mouth of the Lena River, Siberia) and Karmakule; Moller Bay, Novaya Zemlya);

• Swedish Expedition to Cape Thordsen (Spitzbergen);

•United States Expeditions to Lady Franklin Bay (Grinnell Land) and Point Barrow (North Coast of Alaska).

International Polar Year 1882-83 -- Arctic Stations

International Polar Year

1932-33

Historical Review

IPY 1956-57 Historical Review

International Geophysical Year (IGY)

Technical Panels

- Aurora and Airglow - Meteorology

- Cosmic Rays - Oceanography

- Geomagnetism - Rocketry

- Glaciology - Seismology

- Ionospheric Physics - Solar

- Longitude and Latitude - Artificial Satellite Determination

International Geophysical Year 1956-57

International Polar Year

2007-09

Organization