Online Workshop Announcement
International Polar Year Integrated Communication Effort
17-31 March 2006
More information on this planned workshop is available at:
http://www.coexploration.org/ipy/ice
If you have questions, please contact:
Mark McCaffrey
E-mail: mark.mccaffrey [at] colorado.edu
or to:
Peter Tuddenham
E-mail: peter [at] coexploration.net
One year from now the International Polar Year (IPY) will be launched.
Covering two full field seasons, March 2007 through March 2009, IPY will
engage a wide range of research scientists, arctic residents, science
educators, media specialists, writers, artists, and others studying,
concerned about, and/or inspired by the polar regions and their global
linkages.
In order to identify key science concepts and messages for IPY and to
support broad, diverse, and international collaboration and
participation in this timely, important event, the Integrated
Communication Effort (ICE) strategic planning online workshop will be
held 17-31 March 2006 with support from the National Science Foundation
and the NOAA Office of Education.
To learn more about the workshop, please go to:
http://coexploration.org/ipy/ice
We invite your participation in this virtual event, which requires you
simply to register online (details coming soon) and if possible commit
to participating one hour a day during the course of the workshop
(roughly 16 hours total) with your peers and colleagues to help develop
syngergies and strategies that will support individual, national, and
regional efforts and help facilitate international coordination and
cooperation.
There have been three previous IPYs, the first in the 1880s, the second
in the 1930s, and the third--expanded into the International Geophysical
Year (IGY)--during 1957 to 1958. Building on these past efforts, the
upcoming IPY will also be founded on the planning of numerous
individuals and organizations who have sought to develop the broad
vision through the leadership of ICSU and WMO to the various workshops
held to plan for IPY education, outreach, and communications.
The overall goal is to engage a broad community of scientists,
educators, media experts, evaluators, and other key stakeholders
involved with the IPY to build on previous work by identifying important
messages and concepts to communicate to various audiences during IPY and
determining effective strategies to accomplish that communication.
The first step is to gather ideas about what you think is important.
Please help by completing a short survey to jump start the process:
http://www.betaresourcesinc.com/nc/ice_mar5/
Completing this as soon as possible will help with further planning.
More information on this planned workshop is at:
http://www.coexploration.org/ipy/ice
If you have questions, please contact:
Mark McCaffrey
E-mail: mark.mccaffrey [at] colorado.edu
or contact:
Peter Tuddenham
E-mail: peter [at] coexploration.net