1. The programme framework is ready
  2. Venue stood the test
  3. Committees ready to start working
  4. 1st Circular: Call for session proposals
  5. Oslo's new signature
  6. POLARCAT won the race for first proposal
  7. All programme proposals welcome
  8. IPY Open science in St.Petersburg
  9. Programme of 39 sessions
  10. Offer to registered participants: 30 percent discount on excursion to Svalbard
  11. IASC provides travel support to early career scientists
  12. 2nd Circular: Call for abstracts
  13. Time to get a booth at PolarEXPO!
  14. PolarCINEMA ready to receive polar films and TV-documentaries
  15. Steven Chown to be awarded the Martha T Muse Prize at IPY-OSC
  16. The IPY ‘From Knowledge to Action’ Conference to be held in Montreal in 2012
  17. Unique opportunity for science teachers
  18. A new precedent for the involvement of early career scientists
  19. Several opportunities to get travel support
  20. More than 2200 abstracts submitted on deadline
  21. Registration now open
  22. 400 stipends distributed to early career polar scientists
  23. Get your Letter of Invitation
  24. Invitations out for the PolarTEACHERS conference
  25. PolarCINEMA committee very satisfied with the turnout
  26. More than 2500 abstracts accepted
  27. RV Oceania to Oslo for IPY-OSC
  28. Institutions invited to indicate interest for the PolarFESTIVAL
  29. Poster guidelines
  30. Time slots allocated for sessions
  31. Book before 6th May: Glaciers and fjords - excursion to the scenic highlights of Western Norway
  32. Draft programme ready
  33. HRH Crown Prince Haakon will open the IPY-OSC 2010
  34. HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco will attend the conference
  35. 9th June Keynote: Katherine Richardson
  36. 10th June Keynote: Ole Henrik Magga
  37. Tinker Foundation travel grants for Latin American participants
  38. 11th June Keynote: David Barber
  39. 12th June Keynote: Alexander Frolov
  40. 2200 have registered so far
  41. Make sure your media contacts are invited
  42. PolarEXCHANGE with Sue Nelson
  43. Patrick Webber awarded with the first IASC Medal
  44. Arctic sea ice cover heading towards another record low?
  45. Teachers and young scientists join forces in Oslo
  46. Making marfu and melting ice
  47. Preparing for tomorrows polar science
  48. Launch of the Polar Information Commons (PIC) Tuesday afternoon
  49. Cruising the Oslo Fjord for polar history
  50. Warm opening of a cool conference
  51. A territory of dialogue
  52. From policy to action
  53. Signing agreement for cooperation
  54. Rising sea levels on the agenda
  55. Prestigious prize for work in Antarctica
  56. Polar expedition to the FRAM Museum
  57. More cold and snowy winters to come
  58. Arctic and Antarctic partners sign agreement on polar education
  59. Medal for science and inspiring mentorship
  60. Science should incorporate indigenous knowledge
  61. A road movie on ice
  62. Data on ice loss in the Arctic Ocean can be misleading
  63. On the making of polar documentaries
  64. Encounters on Polar Street
  65. Morning plenary: Vladimir Kattsov
  66. International Polar Year officially closed
  67. Survey shows Norwegians believe in science
  68. 1st Circular out for IPY 2012 MONTRÉAL
  69. 2nd Circular out for IPY 2012 in Montreal
  70. Reminder: Call for abstracts
  71. One week left till Abstract Deadline
  72. Updating the IPY Publications Database for the IPY 2012 Conference in Montreal
  73. Time to register for the IPY 2012 conference
 

Committees ready to start working

com-ing (Ingressbilde)

Any day now the various science committees will take up their tasks and start to develop the scientific programme for the IPY Oslo Science Conference. More than 100 session proposals, submitted by the IPY community, are on the table.

Asgeir Knudsen joined the IPY-OSC secretariat in December, as coordinator. He will act as liaison between the external PCO (Professional Congress Organiser) and the secretariat based at the Research Council of Norway. - My first assignment has been to recruit the Science Committee and its five subcommittees from a candidate's shortlist agreed upon in the Steering Committee last November. Most candidates have responded positively. We are still awaiting responses from a few, says Knudsen.

The committee members are now published at the conference website. Look under "Organisation" above for lists of committee members and contact details.

The Science Committees will continue to build the programme bottom up. All session proposals will be evaluated, placed within a theme, coordinated and supplemented. When the programme grid is laid, conveners and co-conveners will be appointed by the Science Committee before participants are invited to submit their abstracts.

- We are now removing the session proposals submission form from the website, but we still invite and will consider proposals for social or outreach and education activities during the conference, says Asgeir Knudsen. In particular he wants to receive advice about which institutions and businesses to invite to the Expo, and get requests for excursions before and after the conference week.

The EOC Committee (Education, outreach and communication) was appointed last November and have already started to prepare the EOC-programme. The committee will meet in Geneva 23rd and 24th of February ahead of the IPY celebrations on the 25th. A fair portion of the proposals submitted are EOC-related.

The next Steering Committee meeting is planned in conjunction with the Arctic Science Summit Week in Bergen 28th of March. A 2nd Circular can be expected in May or June.

Photo: The international IPY-EOC committee at work in St.Petersburg in June 2008.

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