Calendar of Australian Education, Outreach and Communication Events

This website promotes Australian Education, Outreach and Communication Events that will be hosted throughout Australia during the International Polar Year (IPY).

Click here to see the calendar of Australian events.

Click here to see the IPY Australian Education, Outreach and Communication Flyer.

About the International Polar Year

The International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 will be an intense, internationally coordinated campaign of research that will initiate a new era in polar science. The Polar Year will actually run over two years from March 2007-March 2009, spaning two Arctic and two Antarctic summer research seasons.

IPY 2007-2008 will include research in both polar regions and recognise the strong links these regions have with the rest of the globe. It will involve a wide range of research disciplines, including the social sciences, but the emphasis will be interdisciplinary in its approach and truly international in participation. It also aims to educate and involve the public, and to help train the next generation of engineers, scientists, and leaders.

The IPY in 2007-2008 also affords an opportunity to engage the upcoming generation of young scientists and to get the public to realise just how much the cold ends of the sphere we all live on really do influence us.

See: www.ipy.org

Click here to see the IPY Brochure.

 

IPY Australian Education Outreach and Communication Committee

The Committee was established in November 2006 to coordinate the promotion of Australian Education, Outreach and Communication Events that will be conducted during the International Polar Year (IPY) from March 2007 to March 2009.

Role of Committee

• Coordinate support for the Australian launch of the International Polar Year which will take place in Hobart, Tasmania on 1 March 2007;
• Coordinate the development and dissemination of Australian IPY education, outreach and communication events that will be held across the nation during the next 24 months.

Committee Members

Sir Guy Green - Chair - Honorary Antarctic Ambassador for Tasmania
Prof. Amanda Lynch: - Australian National IPY Coordinator
Dr Ian Allison - Co-Chair of the IPY 2007-2008 Joint Committee
Sally Chambers - Communications Manager, Australian Government Antarctic Division
Dr Sandy Zicus - Communication Manager, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC
Dr Patti Virtue - Project Officer, International Antarctic Institute
Andy Baird - Antarctic Education Officer, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Mary Koolhof - Senior Education Officer, Centre for Extended Learning, Dept. Ed.

David Dodd - Adviser to IPY Planning Committee, The Royal Society of Victoria

Ben Galbraith - General Manager, Antarctic Tasmania
Heather Glidden - Project Manager, Antarctic Tasmania

 

Committee Secretariat

Antarctic Tasmania, based in Hobart Tasmania, provides secretariat support to the Committee and hosts this website.