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Conference Announcement - Polar Gateways 2008
Conference Announcement Polar Gateways 2008 23-29 January 2008 Barrow Arctic Science Consortium Barrow, Alaska
Conference Announcement
Polar Gateways 2008
23-29 January 2008
Barrow Arctic Science Consortium
Barrow, Alaska
For further information, please contact:
John F. Cooper
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
E-mail: John.F.Cooper@nasa.gov
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The conference "Polar Gateways of Understanding to Solar System Exploration for IPY-IHY" will be held on 23-29 January 2008, at the
Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC) in Barrow, Alaska.
The Polar Gateways conference will connect electronically to arctic sites in Canada, Greenland, and Fennoscandia. The core of the meeting program will be a series of science highlight presentations from the connected arctic sites and following in progression from polar and IPY-IGY history to the present changing po lar environments to future exploration and eventual habitation of analogous environments in the solar system. About fifty scientists are expected to attend.
Conference program segments:
1) History of Barrow, Polar Exploration, and IPY
2) Present and Changing Polar Environments, IGY to IPY-IHY
3) Science team meetings, field ice expeditions, and Barrow regional outreach activities
4) Polar Gateways to the Solar System
For further information, please go to:
http://www.ipy-id63.org/
or contact:
John F. Cooper
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
E-mail: John.F.Cooper@nasa.gov