Open Science Conference:
Polar Research - Arctic and Antarctic Perspectives in the International Polar Year
8-11 July 2008; St. Petersburg, Russia
The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) present the Open Science Conference, Polar Research - Arctic and Antarctic Perspectives in the International Polar Year, which will take place in association with the XXX SCAR Meeting.
The IPY Joint Committee has endorsed this event as the first in a series of international interdisciplinary IPY conferences. It is therefore cosponsored by the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Sessions will take place in the Pribaltiskaya Hotel and at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI).
The conference will cover the following topics:
- Status and change
- Polar/global linkages
- A sense of discovery
- The poles as a vantage point for observations
- People and resources at the poles