What is IPY?
The International Polar Year is a large scientific programme focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic from March 2007 to March 2009. Learn more about IPY.
Highlights
Anne Aghion: Filming ‘Ice People’
International Polar Foundation, Oct 9, 2008
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SciencePoles.org interviews Anna Aghion, whose latest documentary follows a small team of geologists searching for fossilized vegetation on Antarctic lakebeds. More...
International Polar Day - People
The 6th International Polar Day, on September 24th 2008, celebrates People in the Polar Regions. More...
Featured Multimedia
Join John Priscu and team as - for the first time ever - American researchers stay out in the field for an extended research season in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. More...
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- New training strategy for climate research in the German federal state Bremen
IPY
Press Releases
- US Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) launches new website
IPY
Announcements
- NSIDC Releases new set of sea ice animation for Google Earth
IPY
News
- Poles Apart // Pulling Together: call for IPY Images
ANDRILL Team
Announcements
- Call for Abstracts for International Polar Year Session (J03) at the MOCA Joint Assembly: July 2009
Nicola Munro
Announcements
- IPY Report: October 2008
Nicola Munro
Announcements
- Call for Abstracts: Lessons from Continuity and Change in the 4th IPY; March 4-7, 2009
IPY Alaska
Announcements
- Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: Issue 7: Energy and the Polar Environment
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears
- 2008 Disko Bay expedition takes artists to the Arctic
IPY
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- Anne Aghion: Filming ‘Ice People’
International Polar Foundation
- Ice Captain: The Life of J.R. Stenhouse
Glenn Stein
- McGill University students study Canada’s permafrost
Guest Contributor
- Buzzing from People Day
Rhian Salmon
- Social/Human Sciences in IPY 2007–2008: A New Mission
Guest Contributor
- The Indigenous Discourse: Representations of Sámi and Representations of Inuits in the 19th Century
Karin Granqvist
- Investigating the permafrost in NE Greenland – and comparing it to the permafrost in Svalbard!
Svalbard Students
- Arctic Sea Ice in the news
David Carlson
- A Chilly Swim in the Arctic
Rhian Salmon
- A step back from the adventure
Rhian Salmon
- Glaciers and Pod Groups
Rhian Salmon
- More...
