coolest session ever resources for the international polar year moderator: julia h. triplehorn keith...
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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 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).
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