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How are traditional ways to allow scientists and agencies to focus on their priority issues through national peer review funding processes, ensuring cutting-edge science. 2 ICSU, the International Council for Science, is a nongovern IPY attracted the involvement of more than 60 mental organization with a global membership of national scientific nations (Krupnik et al., 2011)
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Young polar researchers from around the world these campaigns marked a breakthrough in interna- were drawn to polar science and formed an active peer tionally coordinated exploration of Earth and space. network that will help empower the next generation IPY 2007-2008 took place in a different context from of polar scientists.
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SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES In both Antarctica and Greenland the contributions AND DISCOVERIES of individual ice sheets to global ocean volume were The poles are complicated, interlinked systems that refined to more effectively account for the measured are integrally connected to the rest of the planet. Study rate of sea level rise.
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SCIENTIFIC TOOLS AND Multiple independent satellite data sets show that the INFRASTRUCTURE ice sheets are losing significant mass at increasing rates in some locations, while elsewhere -- as predicted for a The polar regions have always presented great warmer and hence moister atmosphere -- snowfall has logistical challenges because the terrain is vast, access increased. Arctic sea ice loss in recent years has been can be complicated and expensive, working conditions dramatic, with record minima in areal extent for 2007 are difficult, and the areas of interest frequently cross and in volume for 2011, far exceeding the pace pre- national boundaries.
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L ooking to the future, IPY-related predictive modeling will continue to play a crucial role in helping KNOWLEDGE TO ACTION commercial enterprises, individuals, and governments IPY activities sought to convert knowledge gained assess the regional and global risks associated with t hrough scientific inquiry into societally relevant melting ice, sea level rise, permafrost degradation, and information. Extensive IPY research, particularly in other effects of high-latitude changes in a warming human health, community vulnerability, food security, world.
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The international s upport and delays in national funding processes polar science community, with the United States as a a ffected abilities to coordinate field research and key player, was sufficiently mature and ready to under- infrastructure sharing. The impact of IPY was very take and execute this large endeavor.
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I PY activities could benefit from the assertive • Coordination -- both within the United States engagement of funding agencies, as early as possible, and across nations -- was essential to establish structures perhaps through their own international planning and services to support all participants and ensure that g roup. During this IPY, extensive international they shared a common vision of IPY and understood commitment, participation, and support provided that they were part of a bigger whole.
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