Education, outreach and communication (EOC) has been a central part of IPY and teachers and other educators will be given the opportunity to share their experiences as part of the IPY Oslo Science Conference. Please visit the PolarTEACHERS conference website for more details.

The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat organized a lecture on 8th October where Dr. Veijo Pohjola, Uppsala University, talked about his IPY research and experiences in Svalbard at the “revived” research station Kinnvika. The research at Kinnvika is multidisciplinary, including glaciology and meteorology etc., and it is mainly focused on Arctic warming and its impact.

On 8 October 2009, a research team made up of scientists from the University of Wyoming, United States Geological Survey, and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, participated in a live Polar Week event from the U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Polar Sea, north of Barrow, Alaska.  The research team and a high school teacher from California, Cristina Galvan, shared with participants information about the polar bear research they are conducting in the Beaufort Sea.

Content: 1. IPO Update 2. The Canadian IPY Secretariat 3. Polar Weeks 4. Upcoming IPY meetings 5. Update from APECS 6. Update from Oslo 2010 Planning Process 7. Call for new stories and blogs for www.ipy.org 8. Submit your metadata, win a trip 9. Archiving IPY materials Report no. 27, July 2009 From: IPY International Programme Office To: IPY Project Coordinators cc: IPY Community Google Groups 1. IPO Update Please join us in welcoming Melissa Deets as interim administrative assistant who will join the IPO team July 13th. Melissa will be answering IPO inquiries through This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please note that Karen Edwards will remain point of conta...

Save the date! Announcing the IPY International Early Career Researcher Symposium from 4 Dec 2009 to 8 Dec 2009 in Victoria, B.C., Canada. The Symposium is organized in conjunction with the 2009 ArcticNet Science Meeting, which will be held after the Symposium in Victoria. With the support of IPY Canada, ArcticNet, and the Northern Research Forum, the Symposium will bring together Arctic and Antarctic early career researchers from across the world with experts to build skills, knowledge, and networks. The workshop is based around seven themes: *Community-based research; *Funding your id...

One of the biggest challenges faced by IPY in 2009 was to create education & outreach (E&O) mechanisms to create a strong polar legacy. As a non-polar country, and being involved for the first time in IPY, Portugal was one of the highly active countries in pole position that could allow the international community to see how those mechanisms were working. One of the strongest legacies of IPY was the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS). In 2009, Portugal continued active involvement in the Executive committee until March 2009 when José Xavier returned to Antarctica on fieldwork, there was also very active involvement on the Council and in various APECS activities (e.g. APECS strategy for 2009, planning for Oslo conference 2010, organization of ESOF 2010, art...

First Announcement: 2010 State of the Arctic Conference Hyatt Regency Miami at the Miami Convention Center Miami, Florida 16-19 March 2010 Registration and other information will be coming soon via a State of the Arctic website. -------------------- The State of the Arctic Conference, to be held 16-19 March 2010 in Miami, Florida, will be an international meeting to present, exchange, and discuss the latest knowledge on the state of the Arctic and future directions of arctic science and policy. CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES The State of the Arctic Conference will review our understanding of the arctic system in a time of human-induced, rapid environmental change. It will provide an open interna...

The scientific conference of Arctic Frontiers 2010 (27-29 January 2010 in Tromso

New record Arctic sea ice cover minimum? Climate researchers from Bremerhaven and Hamburg present new prognoses Bremerhaven/Hamburg, June 10th 2009. Climate researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and KlimaCampus of the University of Hamburg participate for the second time in an international scientific competition. Some of the most renowned climate research institutes worldwide fathom possibilities for seasonal prognoses of Arctic sea ice cover by means of different methods and climate models. The declared aim of all participants is to find the best method for reliable prognoses. The German researchers agree upon a continuing negative trend. Another critical minimum of Arctic sea ice is to be expected in the late summer of 2009. ...

Content: 1. IPO Update 2. Political Impacts of IPY 3. Polar Weeks 4. Upcoming meetings 5. Update from APECS 6. Update from Oslo 2010 Planning Process 7. Call for new stories and blogs for www.ipy.org 8. Archiving IPY materials Report no. 26, June 2009 From: IPY International Programme Office To: IPY Project Coordinators cc: IPY Community Google Groups 1. IPO Update Please join us in congratulating Nicola Munro on the birth of her daughter Isabella Rose on May 11th. Mom and daughter are both doing well and we are very excited to welcome a new polar enthusiast into the world. An interim replacement for Nicola's position will hopefully ...