Symposium Announcement
Smithsonian at the Poles: Contributions to International Polar Year
Science
3-4 May 2007
National Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian Castle
Washington, DC
Registration Deadline: Friday, 13 April 2007
For further information, please go to:
http://www.si.edu/ipy
The Smithsonian Institution announces "Smithsonian at the Poles:
Contributions to International Polar Year Science," a polar science
symposium being held on 3-4 May 2007, at the National Museum of Natural
History and Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC. The symposium is
convened by Smithsonian Under Secretary for Science David L. Evans and
is one of the inaugural U.S. contributions to the International Polar
Year (IPY) 2007-2008.
The symposium will present research findings by Smithsonian scholars and
their collaborators from arctic and Antarctic research, with particular
attention to changes in past, present, and future polar systems and
their global impact.
The two-day event features an introductory plenary session followed by
concurrent sessions of invited papers and panel discussions, evening
public and keynote lectures, and tours of collections. The expected
audience includes Smithsonian scholars and research staff,
university-based scientists and students, program managers and
representatives from federal agencies, congressional staff, news media,
and the general public.
Symposium themes include:
- polar astronomy;
- systematics and biology of polar organisms;
- environmental change and polar marine ecosystems;
- IPY histories and legacies;
- methods and techniques of under-ice research; and
- cultural studies.
Results will be disseminated to scholars and the public through
publications, websites, and the news media. Symposium papers will be
published by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press as a proceedings
volume, available in print by mid-2008.
For further information and to register for the symposium, please go to:
http://www.si.edu/ipy