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International Polar Year
IPY 2007-2008
 
 
Updated on 25/1/05
 
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National

ID Source/Contact Theme Proposal or Theme Submitted by a National Committee or National Point of Contact
Australia
PDF4 Michael Stoddart 4 CircAntCML  - undertaken under the umbrella of the Census of Marine Life (CoML)
Belgium
PDF124 J.P. Henriet 1 Antarctic shelf/margin habitats -cryosphere/geosphere/hydrosphere/biosphere interactions
PDF126 C. Lancelot 1 Sea ice sampling to quantify Fe availability, functional diversity and sea ice assemblage viability
PDF263 Jean-Louis Tison 1 Sea-ice biogeochemistry in a changing climate
PDF117 Annick Wilmotte 2 Polar microbial diversity: exploration, function and exploitation
PDF119 Ann Vanreusel 2 Decoding processes structuring biogeography and biodiversity of the Antarctic benthic fauna
PDF122 Louis Beyens 2 Global change and biodiversity of terrestrial arctic ecosystems
PDF123 Wim Vyverman 2 Paleolimnology in East and Maritime Antarctica – a multi-proxy approach
PDF297 Thierry Camelbeeck 2 Establish Geophysical Investigations at the Belgian Station in Antarctica               
PDF300 Antoon Kuijpers 2 Paleo-oceanographic development and dynamic changes in the Arctic Ocean
PDF296 D. Fonteyn 3 Polar Stratospheric Ozone and its precursors
PDF118 Hugo Decleir 4 Dynamic interaction between the polar ice sheet and the subglacial environment (AMICS)
PDF120 Georges Feller 4 Genomics and proteomics of polar microorganisms: cellular basis of life at low temperatures
PDF116 Hugues Goosse 5 UCL-ASTR astronomical studies during the International Polar Year 2007-2008
PDF121 Jean. L. Rasson 5 Correlation of Seismic, Ionispheric and Geomagnetic Activity in Arctic/Antarctic regions
PDF125 C. De Clercq 5 AMANDA – ICE CUBE studies (neutrino telescope at South Pole)
PDF299 Michael Roth 5 Electrodynamic Coupling of the Auroral Ionosphere and Magnetosphere
PDF235 M. Arnould 5 a. Astrophysics (helio- and asteroseismology; infrared and sub-millimeter astronomy, particularly at Dome C)
PDF235b M. Arnould 5 b. Particle Astrophysics - AMANDA/ICECUBE detector development and modelling cosmic object sources
PDF235c M. Arnould 5 c. Astrophysics of solids (micrometeorites)
PDF127a Int. Polar Foundation E a. Activities around the “Polaris Climate Change Observatory
PDF127b Int. Polar Foundation E b. Promotion of the IPY 2007/08
PDF127c Int. Polar Foundation E c. Web-based activities and the educational program
PDF127d Int. Polar Foundation E d. Networking of Belgian and European Polar Research
PDF127e Int. Polar Foundation U e. Building of the Belgian Antarctic Station
PDF365 Anne–Pascale Targe U Transmission of Inuit knowledge in two distinct contexts: the family and school.
PDF366 P. Visart de Bocarmé U Anthropological Study of the Canadian Arctic Inuit through their artistic production
PDF466 Claude De Broyer various SCAR-MarBIN : The information dimension of Antarctic Marine Biodiversity
Canada
PDF356 Theme 1 Potential impacts on culture and economy of changes in exchanges of water through the Canadian Archipelago
PDF356b Theme 1 Contaminant dynamics in polar systems. Stresses on human activity and environment.
PDF356c Theme 1 Polar genomics, baselines for resource management and assessment of environmental change.
PDF356d Theme 1 Earth observation technology for monitoring applications to all projects
PDF356e Theme 2 Atmosphere, earth and ocean interactions stressing climate change and its impacts at different spatial scales
PDF356f Theme U The merging of indigenous knowledge traditions and western science traditions in polar scholarship
Chile
PDF410 Jose Valencia   Chilean National Perspective on IPY
PDF410b Proposal 1 Scientific traverse from Patriot Hills to the South Pole
PDF410c Proposal 1 Benchmark glaciers network for mass balance monitoring and validation of remote sensing of the Antarctic Peninsula
PDF410d Proposal 2 Effects of medium scale climate changes on the population sizes of Antarctic marine predators
PDF410e Proposal 2 Cape Shireff – a place-based case study of ecosystem changes
China
PDF185 Zhaoqian Dong 1 The process of the Amery Ice Shelf and its interaction with the ocean
PDF186 Zhaoqian Dong 1 The Variability of the Southern Ocean
PDF188 Li Yuansheng 1 Chinese “ITASE” project from Zhongshan Station to Dome A  - To set up observing systems on the ice sheet.
PDF190 Li Yuansheng 1 Observation of Lambert Glacier and the Amery Ice Shelf system
PDF192 Chen Bo 1 Changing processes of Arctic Ocean circulation and sea ice
PDF189 Li Yuansheng 2 Monitoring of cryospheric change at Zhongshan Station
PDF191 Yang Huigen 5 Conjugate Studies on Upper Atmospheric Phenomena in IPY 2007/8
PDF187 Li Yuansheng U Establishment of an in-land Chinese scientific research station at East Antarctic Plateau
Denmark/Greenland
PDF337 NC theme 1 Greenland’s Ice Sheet  - major question is its mass balance
PDF337b NC theme 1 The Arctic Climate
PDF337c NC theme 1 Man, Nature and Arctic Societies
PDF97 Preben Gudmandsen 1 Air-Sea-Land Interaction with reference to the Coastal North Greenland/adjacent Arctic Ocean.
PDF104 T B G Berg 1 Ecosystem processes across climatic gradients,
PDF105 T B G. Berg 1 The determinants of multi-trophic interactions in a High Arctic landscape
PDF108 Eigil Kaas 1 Observations and data assimilation for sea-ice, Arctic ocean transport and water mass transformations
PDF109 Eigil Kaas 1 Stratospheric water vapour and Polar Stratospheric Clouds,
PDF112 Eigil Kaas 1 The Arctic/North Atlantic Oscillation
PDF113 Mikkel P. Tamstorf 1 Proposal for Polar Year activities related to carbon stocks and fluxes in the High-Arctic.,
PDF267 Claus Andreasen 1 Ecosystem West Greenland (ECOGREEN)
PDF280 Claus Andreasen 1 Fishing Industry, Construction and Housing Sector Productivity Studies in Greenland
PDF281 Claus Andreasen 1 Socio-economic effects of variations in the availability of living resources for Greenlandic hunters
PDF282 Claus Andreasen 1 Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic – SliCA
PDF98 Niels Reeh 2 Long-term mass change of the Greenland ice sheet
PDF100 P.W. Uitterdijk Appel 2 Puzzle of the Minturn circles - how was surface of high arctic regions formed during Ice Age.
PDF101 Martin Appelt 2 Decoding Polar Processes: Nailing it to the Ground – Man, Culture, Environment in Greenland
PDF102 Kim Aaris-Sørensen 2 Long-term changes in the distribution of the muskox (Ovibos moschatus) in the Eastern Arctic
PDF106 Eigil Kaas 2 Climate / Earth System Modelling,
PDF107 Eigil Kaas 2 The Arctic Ocean and its relation to inter-decadal climate variations,
PDF268 Claus Andreasen 2 Arctic Settlement Patterns from the Past to the Present (Pre-WWII)
PDF269 Claus Andreasen 2 Role plyed by media for Youth life in Upernavik - Media Culture of children and youth in Upernavik
PDF270 Claus Andreasen 2 The Upernavik Dialect
PDF271 Claus Andreasen 2 The Language situation and the Language Policy in Greenland - seen from Upernavik.
PDF273 Claus Andreasen 2 SILA-INUK: Global Warming - Local Change: Impact of Climate Change on the daily life of Inuit
PDF274 Claus Andreasen 2 Adjusting Education to Global and Local Needs
PDF275 Claus Andreasen 2 Regionalization – Resources, Economy and administration
PDF276 Claus Andreasen 2 Fisheries-Dependent Communities under Changing Environments
PDF277 Claus Andreasen 2 Time-Series Studies on Socio-Economic Changes in Greenland
PDF290 Claus Andreasen 2 Transformations of the Spiritual Experience in the Arctic: Past and Present
PDF301 S A Pedersen 2 Climate and Northern Shrimp
PDF303 Svend Funder 2 Melt water events and changing fresh water supply to the Arctic Ocean during ice ages and interglacials
PDF306 Susanne Juul Lassen 2 Paleo-oceanography of Nares Strait – Davis Strait Arctic gateway with  special reference to iceberg drift patterns
PDF307 J H Christensen 2 Climate Signals in Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems in the Arctic
PDF308 Jesper Christensen 2 Fate of Mercury in the Arctic (FOMA)
PDF310 Peter Japsen 2 Ice sheet stability and mountain building in Greenland
PDF311 Ole Bennike 2 Quaternary environmental and climatic history of Peary Land, N. Greenland
PDF318 Danish Nat. Comm. for Climate Research 2 The changing ice in the Arctic and its coupling to weather, climate and carbon cycling
PDF319 Niels Reeh 2 Establishing a Danish Centre for Cryosphere Changes
PDF321 Naja Mikkelsen 2 Scientific drilling in the Arctic Ocean: Tectonic, paleo-oceanographic and climatic evolution of the polar basin
PDF322 Ulla Odgaard 2 Focus on the world of the Palaeo-Eskimos. The Stone Age people of the High Arctic of Eastern Canada & Greenland
PDF323 Frank Sejersen 2 The perception of and attitude towards risks, threats and crises in Arctic societies
PDF304 Nina Skaarup 3 Structure and economic potential of the NW Greenland continental margin (Baffin Bay area)
PDF305 D.A.T. Harper 3 Early metazoan evolution: Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth, Cambrian explosion, Great Ordovician biodiversification
PDF312 Peter Stougaard 4 Characterization of Ikaite tufa columns in the Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland
PDF110 Eigil Kaas 5 Space weather
PDF111 Eigil Kaas 5 High-energy radiation and the geomagnetic field,
PDF309 P K Rasmussen 5 The Greenland ice cap as an astronomical site
PDF313 Anna B.O. Jensen 5 Mitigation of polar ionospheric effects for GNSS applications
PDF314 Trine Dahl-Jensen 5 Large scale tectonics and deep structure of the Greenland shield
PDF317 Niels Larsen 5 Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs), stratospheric temperatures, denitrification and ozone depletion
PDF272 Claus Andreasen H Historical aspects of the First Polar Year 
PDF315 Uffe Wilken E European Polar Outreach (EPO)
PDF316 Ingela Dahllöf E Is risk assessment for contaminants used in temperate areas valid in Arctic areas? - an outreach opportunity
PDF99 Per Molgaard U Bioactive Compounds from Arctic Plants
PDF103 T. I. Hauge Andersson U North Greenland as an area of special interest in the IPY
PDF278 Claus Andreasen U The role of ICT in business development
PDF279 Claus Andreasen U Comparative study of domestic violence among Inuit in Alaska, Canada and Greenland
PDF302 Peter Stougaard U Bioactive compounds from Arctic micro-organisms
PDF320 Space Design Group U From the Igloo to the Space Station
France
PDF338 NC Proposal 1 Use of the Franco-Italian inland station Concordia as a unique science site on the Antarctic plateau
PDF338b NC Proposal 1 A ground traverse project on the Eastern Antarctic side involving several nations such as Italy and Australia. 
PDF338d NC Proposal 1 Implementation of a clean station on Svalbard within the general framework of a joint German-French station
PDF338e NC Proposal 1 A social science project devoted to the Arctic
PDF338c NC Proposal 4 A Southern Ocean Census of marine life project in close collaboration with Australia, New-Zealand and Germany
Germany
PDF67 Hartwig Gernandt 1 ANTSYO - Antarctic flight missions in the Syowa Region - atmospheric and geophysical research
PDF68 Hans-Jürgen Hirche 1 Seasonal and long-term observations in the Arctic using existing and abandoned Arctic bases
64 Sepp Kipfstuhl 1 AAFICOST: Arctic and Antarctic Firn Core Studies
PDF65 Martin Gude 1 AALM – Antarctic Active Layer Monitoring
PDF66 Angelika Brandt 1 ANDEEP–SYSTCO: Antarctic benthic deep-sea biodiversity: colonisation history/community patterns-system coupling
PDF72 Dorte Janussen 1 Taxonomical, phylogenetic and biochemical investigations of Arctic and Antarctic deep-sea sponges (Porifera)
PDF73 Jens Meincke 1 A study of the fresh water fluxes in the East Greenland Current
PDF74 Gritta Veit-Köhler 1 GAP - Gene flow along the Antarctic Peninsula
PDF76 Heinz Miller 1 IDEA  -  Ice Divide of East Antarctica., A multinational scientific surface traverse 
PDF79 Reinhard Dietrich 1 PONAP – Polar Network of Autonomous Observation Platforms
PDF80 Volker Strass 1 Synoptic Circum-Antarctic Climate-Processes and Ecosystem study (SCACE),
PDF82 Ursula Schauer 1 SPACE - Synoptic Pan-Arctic Climate and Environment Study with the ice breaker Polarstern to the central Arctic
PDF83 Jan L. Lieser 1 TDS@IPY - Transpolar Drift Station during International Polar Year 2007/08,
PDF84 Detlef Quadfasel 1 A study of the water mass transformation north of Svalbard
PDF153 Frank Sowa 1 Indigenous Peoples of the North & Globalised World: Local Perspectives on Nature, Risks & Landscapes
PDF173 Detlef Stammer 1 Helicopter-based scatterometer (HELISCAT) measurements of snow and sea-ice
PDF174 Detlef Stammer 1 Sea ice volume and freshwater and salt budget changes in the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian (GIN) Sea.
PDF225 Christopher B. Cogan 1 Arctic coastal biodiversity assessment in the face of unprecedented levels of human impact
PDF14 Jackie Grebmeier 2 International Arctic shelf-basin exchange observations
PDF53 Bernard Coakley 2 Arctic Gateways – An interdisciplinary, international collaboration for IPY
PDF62 Martin Klenke 2 POBACE: Polar Ocean Bathymetry Coordination Effort
PDF63 Jörn Thiede 2 Atlas of side-scan sonar imagery of Polar continental margins
PDF69 Rainer Gersonde 2 Bipolar Climate Machinery (BIPOMAC) - northern and southern polar processes in global climate variability
PDF71 Thomas Leya 2 Cryophilic freshwater algae: a bio-resource for climate studies and cell metabolites
PDF77 Julian Gutt 2 Marine life in extreme polar regions under climate change (MALEP)
PDF78 Rob Larter 2 Polar Ocean Gateway Evolution (POGE) - determine history of development of these gateways and significance
PDF81 Eberhard Fahrbach 2 Southern Ocean Freshwater Interactions (SOFI) - Role of SO freshwater in global water cycle and THC
PDF200 Karsten Gohl 2 Polar Ocean Gateways: The key for long-term global change
PDF227 Doris Abele 2 King-George Island, South Shetlands – impact of climate induced glacial melting on Antarctic coastal communities
PDF228 L. Schirrmeister 2 The Lena Delta and its catchment area - a highly sensitive Arctic Geo-Eco-system
PDF230 V. Schlindwein 2 Seismic arrays on drifting sea-ice and icebergs – origin of seismicity of the polar oceans and ice/water
PDF248 Dietmar Muller 2 Constructing a Circum-Antarctic Framework for Palaeo-Bathymetry & Ocean-Climate Models
PDF249 Lothar Viereck-Goette 2 Geodynamics of the West Antarctic Rift System (WARS) and implications for the stability of the WAIS
PDF250 Martin Gude 2 Land use impact on polar and sub-polar geosystems:­ extent, significance, perspectives LUPOG
PDF10 Chris Wilson 3 GigaGAP - Geoscientific insights of Greater Antarctica from Gamburtsev Mountains to Prydz Bay
PDF226 M. R. van der Loeff 3 Geotraces in the Arctic
PDF229 Dirk Radies 3 Climatic, eustatic and tectonic controls on Permo-Triassic sequence development in the Arctic
PDF70 J. Wolfgang Wägele 4 CASBE - Circum-Antarctic survey of benthic communities
PDF75 Martin Meschede 4 Geodynamics of the remote hinge zone between East and West Antarctica
PDF94 M. Klages 4 HOT RIDGE - sampling of potential hydrothermal vent fields along the Arctic Gakkel Ridge
PDF91 Andreas Veit E The University of South Georgia - Summer School of Earth Sciences
Iceland
PDF417 T. Thorsteinsson 2 Temperate ice caps in changing climates
PDF418 T. Thorsteinsson 4 Exploration of subglacial lake environments of Vatnajökull, Iceland
PDF419 Tómas Jóhannesson 1 Climate and glacier mass balance in the Icelandic highland
PDF420 Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir 1 The use of an AUV to measure ice thickness distribution and oceanic structures in the Greenland Sea
PDF421 Steingrímur Jónsson 1 A study of the freshwater fluxes in the East Icelandic Current
PDF422 Áslaug Geirsdóttir 2 Warm times in Iceland and the North Atlantic Arctic: providing a context for 20th century warming
PDF423 Haraldur Ólafsson 3 Predictability of weather in polar regions and impact of atmospheric observations in the polar regions for mid-latitude weather forecasting
PDF424 Halldor Björnsson 1 The impact of the extent of the sea ice on the development of mesoscale and synoptic scale weather systems
PDF425 Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir 2 The effect of sea-ice on peoples lives in past and future: a study on climate impacts, adaptation and mitigation methods using geographical information systems
India
PDF5c Harsh Gupta 1 The health of polar regions
PDF5d Harsh Gupta 1 The dynamics of polar regions
PDF345 Survey of India 1 Neo-tectonic and glaciological studies in Antarctica
PDF347 Geol. Survey of India 1 Bipolar studies of glacial parameters evaluating the comparative impact of global warming patterns on the polar regions
PDF348 SASE 1 Validation of surface energy and mass balance of snow covered areas versus blue ice areas of the Antarctic continent
PDF5 Harsh Gupta 2 Continued study of the ozone hole
PDF5b Harsh Gupta 2 Depletion/accretion of polar ice areas
PDF349 Zool. Survey of India 2 Long term studies on changes in biodiversity in relation to environmental change in Antarctica
PDF344 Geol. Survey of India 3 Constraining magmatism and metamorphism associated with Pan-African tectonic event in India and Antarctica
PDF346 A. Jayaraman 5 Lidar study of vertical distribution of aerosols and cloud structure over Maitri and estimation of aerosol radiative forcing
PDF351 Ajay Dhar 5 Antarctic Geomagnetism
PDF350 DIPAS U Scientific input in the area of human physiology and medicine
Italy
PDF132 M. Frezzotti 1 5Oth anniversary scientific traverses in Antarctica from Talos Dome to Dome A
PDF133 G. di Prisco 1 ICEFISH Cruises: Internat. collaborative expeditions to collect/study fish indigenous to Sub-Antarctic habitats
PDF135 Toni Meloni 1 Temporary Antarctic network of geophysical observatories (TANGO)
PDF214 Guido di Prisco 1 Evolution and adaptation of Antarctic fish (in association with “Evolution in the Antarctic” (EVOLANTA)
PDF215 Gabriele Capodaglio 1 Environmental monitoring in polar regions - micropollutants and microchemicals in polar environments
PDF216 Vito Vitale 1 POLAR-AOD, a network for aerosol measurements in polar regions
PDF217 Harry J. Beine 1 Atmospheric nitrogen photo-chemistry in and above snow surfaces - “Photo-Snow” - 
PDF218 Silvia Ceramicola 2 PATHWAYS -  Palaeoceanographic Pathways in the North Atlantic-Arctic Ocean
PDF220 Emanuele Lodolo 2 Linking climate & tectonics: development of deep-water Antarctic Circumpolar Current & effects on glaciation 
PDF251 Gianluca Frinchillucci 2 Map of Arctic Peoples -  to study the culture and lifestyles of the peoples of the Arctic and subarctic regions
PDF219 G. Böhm 4 Seismic exploration of Antarctic subglacial lakes
PDF131 M. Candidi 5 Complete coverage of the Antarctic ionosphere by the new southern SuperDARN radar array, 
PDF212 S. Cortiglioni 5 Observations of the microwave polarized component of the sky with the BaR-SPOrt experiment
PDF222 Silvia Masi 5 80 years after the NORGE: top science from Polar Long Duration Balloons
PDF134 G. De Rossi U Antarctic air network - To interconnect the existing networks and accomplish an Antarctic domestic network,
PDF213 Donatella de Pascale U Antarctic psychrophilic bacteria: biodiversity analysis for identifying novel compounds of biotechnological interest
PDF221 Benjamin Pushparaj U Exploitation of valuable products from photo-synthetic microorganisms from polar regions
Japan
PDF339 NC Proposals 1,2,4,5 A range of initial proposals by the Japanese National Committee
PDF426 Naohiko Hirasawa 1 Water transport between the Antarctic ice sheet and atmosphere
PDF427 Takashi Yamanouchi 1 Antarctic Trace Gas and Aerosol Airborne measurement Study (AGAMES)
PDF428 Yoshiyuki Fujii 1 Scientific Traverse in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
PDF429 Makoto Omura 1 Monitoring movements of Antarctic Ice Sheet and Glaciers on Coastlines by SAR
PDF430 Mitsuo Fukuchi 1 Studies on Antarctic Ocean and Global Environment
PDF431 Okitsugu Watanabe 1 Development of Automatic Research Station Net over the Antarctic Continent
PDF432 Okitsugu Watanabe 1 Systematic Airborne Observation over the Antarctic
PDF433 Hiroshi Fukunishi 1 Investigation of the role of the arctic middle and upper atmosphere in global environmental change
PDF434 Yasuhiro Murayama 1 Synergetic observations of dynamics-chemistry-electrodynamics in the arctic middle and upper atmosphere over Alaska
PDF435 Shuhei Takahashi 1 Glaciological investigation in McCall Glacier, Alaska
PDF436 Shuhei TakahashiI 1 Glaciological investigation in Suntal Khayata Range, East Siberia, for International Polar Year
PDF437 Tatsuo Sweda 1 Complete Assessment of Carbon Allocation by Ground Ranging and Echoing for Arctic/Boreal Regions (already in database)
PDF438 Masami Fukuda 1 Early Detection of Boreal Forest Fire
PDF439 Yutaka Matsumi 1 Chemical processes of the atmosphere in the circumpolar region
PDF440 Keiji Kushida 1 Remote sensing of carbon budget in boreal forest in Alaska based on component spectral characteristics
PDF441 Yojiro Matsuura 1 Structure and function of circumpolar biomes and its re-evaluation
PDF442 Hiroshi Fukunishi 2 Monitoring of the Global Environmental Change in the Antarctic region
PDF443 Hideaki Nakajima 2 A study on elucidating mechanisms of polar stratospheric ozone depletion using a Fourier-transform spectrometer and balloons at Japanese Antarctic Syowa Station (69°S)
PDF444 Hideki Miura 2 Shallow marine drilling project for high-resolution reconstruction of East Antarctic Ice and Southern Ocean history during the late Quaternary
PDF445 Yoichi Motoyoshi 2 GONDWANA EVOLUTION AND DISPERSAL: A PERSPECTIVE FROM ANTARCITCA
PDF446 Tetsuo Ohata 2 Study on the past variation of Eurasian Glaciated Regions and Future Monitoring
PDF447 Tetsuo Ohata 2 Environment change in the Arctic Regions and Water Cycle
PDF448 Hiroshi Kanda 2 Response of Arctic tundra ecosystem and carbon cycle to climate change
PDF449 Koichiro Harada 2 Response of permafrost to climatic change
PDF450 Shin-ichi Urano 2 Change and Recovery of Hydrological Process Affected by Forest Fire in Arctic Area
PDF451 Masaaki Wakatsuchi 3 Evaluation of sea ice production and dense water formation / transport in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean -towards understanding of the global thermohaline circulation
PDF452 Takatoshi Takizawa 3 Impact of Southern Ocean and ice sheet of Antarctica on the global climate change system
PDF453 Takatoshi  Takizawa 3 Spreading pathways of Pacific- and Atlantic-origin waters, and their impact on the ice cover in the western Arctic Ocean
PDF454 Takeshi Naganuma 4 Diversity and Potential Availability of Polar Microbial Resources
PDF455 Tsuyoshi Tanaka   Geochemical exploration of Precambrian Antarctic meteorite  - Aiming to the studies on "tectonics of the solar system"
PDF456 Hidetoshi Okuyama 4 Molecular biological evaluation of climate warming effects on activity of the moss ecosystem and moss habitat microbes in Arctic regions
PDF457 Satonori Nozawa 5 Research on the wind dynamics in the polar lower thermosphere and mesosphere based on EISCAT/MF/meteor radar observations and simulation predictions
PDF458 Masaki Okada 5 Observation of Aurora Fine-structure via INDEX Satellite
PDF   459 Takehiko Aso 5 Coordinated radar studies of the Arctic and Antarctic middle and upper atmosphere during IPY-4 period  (CRSAAMU)
PDF460 Natsuo Sato 5 Interhemispheric Conjugacy and Non-conjugacy of Aurora and Polar Ionospheric Disturbances
PDF461 Toshitaka Tsuda 5 Japanese CAWSES  (Climate And Weather of the Sun-Earth System)
PDF462 Masaki Ejiri 5 Program of the Antarctic Syowa MST/IS radar (PANSY)
PDF463 Seiji Tsuboi 5 Developing Plans for Antarctic Seismic Deployments: 'Antarctic Arrays'  - For Broadband Seismology on Ice-Covered Continent
PDF464 Hiroshi L. Tanaka 5 Development of the Polar Observing Airship "Vortex Chaser" as an Application of the Stratospheric Platform
PDF465 Hiroshi Hayasaka 5 Development of Control Method Using Satellite Monitoring
Norway
PDF340 NC Theme 3 Understanding the dynamic processes of the polar oceans, land and atmosphere including fluxes between spheres
PDF340b NC Theme 2 Exploring the evolution of the Arctic Ocean from a warm to a cold state
PDF340c NC Theme 2 Climate change and polar ecosystems
New Zealand
PDF341 Proposal 4 Circum-Antarctic Census of Marine Life - with Australia, France and Japan
Poland
PDF353 NC Theme 3 Lithosphere of the Arctic and Antarctic - its evolution in the geodynamic system of the Earth
PDF353b NC Theme 2 Response of abiotic components of the polar environment to global climatic change
PDF353c NC Theme 1 Structure, evolution and dynamics of biodiversity in both polar regions of the Earth (a comparison)
PDF354 Wieslaw Ziaja    1 Svalbard landscape structure and dynamics under the climate change since the Little Ice Age
PDF415 Rajmund Przybylak 2 History of the Arctic Climate in the 19th Century and Beginning of the 20th Century Based on Early Instrumental Data
Russia
PDF6 Vladimir Kotlyakov 2 Cryosphere and climate
PDF342 NC Proposals Various A set of initial ideas for Russian IPY activities
PDF368 I.I. Mokhov 3 Modelling and diagnostics of climate in polar and subpolar latitudes and their changes.
PDF369 A.N. Zueyev 1 Estimation of the temporal- spatial scales of global processes impact on environment and biota of the Arctic shelves in their interaction with the deep-water seas and sub-basins of the Arctic Ocean.
PDF370 N.F Fedoseev 1 Monitoring of CO2 and CH4 concentrations in the near-surface atmosphere in relation to geocryological conditions.
PDF371 A.I. Semenov 5

Temperature regime and structure of the middle atmosphere at heights of 85-100 km in high and middle latitudes by emissions of hydroxyl, sodium and a green line of atomic oxygen

PDF372 N.F. Elansky 1 Minor gaseous and aerosol species, large-scale transport, photochemical processes, mass and heat exchange in the Arctic lower and middle atmosphere.
PDF373 Yu.A. Volkov 1 Experimental investigation of air-surface interaction in polar regions
PDF374 V. N. Makarov 1 Monitoring of Arctic lower atmosphere aerosols and estimation of anthropogenic ecotoxicants released to environment
PDF375 D.G. Matishov 1 Investigations of the Polar atmosphere in the Arctic and in the Antarctic, input of stable technogenous exotoxicants  into the environment and biochemical characteristics of their distribution within trophic chains in both polar regions
PDF376 A.N. Gruzdev 1 Investigation of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the polar stratosphere
PDF377 A.N. Gruzdev 1 Investigation of pollution of the lower atmosphere in the northern polar region by nitrogen oxides
PDF378 A.N. Gruzdev 1 Features of variability of ozone in polar regions
PDF379 A. Tishkov 1 Investigations of terrestrial fauna pollution on islands and beach line of Arctic and study of arctic animals role in pollution migration in polar desert and tundra ecosystems
PDF380 S.F. Timofeev 1 Investigation of species composition, distribution and biological diversity of animals and plants (benthos, algae- macrophytes, marine mammals) in conditions of global climate change and economic exploration of the Arctic.
PDF381 A. Tishkov 1 Dynamics of arctic animals and plant distribution under climate changes and anthropogenic transformation of arctic ecosystems
PDF382 G.A. Zerebtsov 5 Research into solar-terrestrial connections and physical processes in Sun­–Earth system for polar regions
PDF383 E.M.Galimov 2 Bipolar climate machine and ocean gates of the Arctic and Southern Oceans
PDF384 S. Lappo 3 Study of inter-ocean exchanges in the polar area of the Southern Ocean
PDF385 S. Lappo 1 Comprehensive investigations of the Kara Sea in the interactions with adjacent regions of the Arctic - the coastal areas, the continental slope and the basin
PDF386 A.N. Zueyev 1 All sided investigation of the Kara Sea in the interaction with the adjacent areas of the continental slope and ocean floor, surrounding islands and continent
PDF387 V.V. Kunitsky 1 Embryonal glaciers, perennial snow patches and niveolian deposits: composition, structure and depositional environments in the Arctic and Subarctic areas
PDF388 A. Glazovsky 1 Current state of glaciers and ice caps in the Eurasian Arctic
PDF389 V.M. Kotlyakov 1 Grounded ice discharge of the Antarctic ice sheet
PDF390 G. Leitchenkov 1 Antarctic Bed Relief and Ice Sheet (ABRIS)
PDF391 A. Georgiadi 1 Hydrologic response of permafrost regions in Eastern Siberia to climate change
PDF392 A. Georgiadi 1 Genetic structure of river runoff in geographically diverse regions of Lena river basin - seasonal and long-term changes
PDF393 G.A. Tarasov 2 Pleistocene - Holocene glaciers and periglacial events, their role in the evolution of the marine ecosystems and estimation of the future nature changes in high latitude Arctic areas
PDF394 A.A. Velichko 2 Comparative analysis of environmental changes in Arctic and Antarctic through the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene
PDF395 Yu. Tyupkin 1 World Data and Information Framework of the International Polar Year  2007/08
PDF396 A.B.Kuzmichev 3 Tectonics of New Siberian Islands and adjacent East-Arctic shelf: a key to a non-contradictory model of Amerasian basin opening
PDF397 M.D.Khutorskoy 1 Geothermal field of Arctic and Antarctic passive transitive zones measuring for terrestrial temperatures and lithosphere thickness research as well oil and gas deposits on a shelf and continental slope evaluation
PDF398 Yu.G. Leonov 1 Tectonic Map of the Earth’s Polar Regions
PDF399 A.B. Kuzmichev 2 Late Mesozoic - Cenozoic tectono-magmatic history of the Barents Sea shelf and slope as a clue to paleodynamic reconstructions in the Arctic Ocean
PDF400 E. Andreeva 1 Study of prospects of development of non-renewable natural resources in Arctic, impact of global climate changes on reliability and safety of economic and social infrastructure functions. Structure changes in land/resource use and their impact on sustainability of indigenous peoples’ lifestyles of the North in modern society.
PDF401 V.P. Melnikov 1 Coastal-shelf cryolithozone of the western sector of Russian Arctic
PDF402 N.A.Shpoljanskaja 1 Massive ground ices of a modern and ancient Arctic shelf
PDF403 E.S.Miklyaeva 1 Transport and accumulation of hydrocarbon pollution in soils and rocks of Arctic regions
PDF404 V.N.Gosudarev 1 The ecology-faunistic review of modern Arctic biota
PDF405 V.B. Spektor 2 Climatic Events and Geographical Conditions in the Laptev Sea and East Siberian Segments of Arctic for past 400 kyr
PDF406 A.V. Pavlov 1 arctic permafrost dynamics under global climate change
PDF407 M.N. Grigoriev 1 The present state and evolution of permafrost in the continental and shelf areas of the Russian Arctic (eastern sector)
PDF408 V.T Balobaev 1 Antarctic Permafrost: its composition, structure, temperature field, conditions and processes of its formation
PDF409 D. Gilichinsky 2 The Age of Antarctic Permafrost
PDF411 German Leitchenkov 2 Geodynamic, depositional and environmental history of the region off the Amery Ice Shelf (Prydz Bay – Kerguelen Plateau Geotransect)
Spain
PDF261 Francisco Navarro 1 Analysis of glaciological transition zones based on field observations and numerical modelling
PDF355 Adolfo Eraso 1 Monitoring subpolar glaciers as natural sensors of global warming
PDF197 J. A. Flores 2 Rapid and abrupt oceanic changes during the last climatic cycles in Antarctic and Subantarctic regions
PDF204 J. Galindo-Zaldivar 2 Recent tectonic deformations & implications in a global perspective: integrated studies on Scotia Arc development
PDF208 Antonio Quesada 2 Polar freshwater systems as sensors of climate change
PDF224 J López-Martínez 2 Evidence of present and Holocene environmental changes in ice-free areas of the polar regions
PDF260 Carlota Escutia 2 Climatic inferences on development of the sedimentary record
PDF292 Ana Ramos 4 Biodiversity of benthic polar systems:  a comparison between the Arctic and Antarctic oceans
Sweden
PDF86 Per Holmlund 1 A Japanese Swedish Antarctic glaciological traverse between Syowa and Wasa stations
PDF87 Michael Tjernström 1 An Arctic-Ocean Atmospheric Mission By ODEN  to study ice-ocean-atmosphere climate processes,
PDF88 Leif G Anderson 1 A study of the land-shelf-basin interactions along the Siberian Shelf Seas,
PDF357 Ralf Döscher 3 Understanding & description of coupled arctic processes and global feedbacks using numerical models & observations
Ukraine
PDF470 c/o Valery Lytvynov   Ukrainian Plans for IPY
PDF471 c/o Valery Lytvynov 1 Circum-Antarctic Geological Survey: geochemical study of the large detrital zircon populations that reflect sub glacial provenance (CAGS)
PDF472 c/o Valery Lytvynov 5 Investigation of global lightning activity using the worldwide ELF interferometer (involving Vernadsky, Syowa, Amundsen-Scott in Antarctica, Tohoku University in Japan, and Institute of Radio Astronomy in Ukraine).
PDF473 c/o Valery Lytvynov 5 The "electromagnetic pollution" of Antarctica from industrial regions of the Northern hemisphere.
PDF474 c/o Valery Lytvynov 5 The propagation of the AGW of tropospheric origin upwards to the ionosphere/magnetosphere using a network of automatic meteo-magnetic stations in the Antarctic Peninsula region.
PDF475 c/o Valery Lytvynov 2 Antarctic Peninsula: a key region for understanding the rapid environment change study
PDF476 c/o Valery Lytvynov 5 The deep geoelectric model of Antarctic Peninsula.
PDF477 c/o Valery Lytvynov 4 The deep structure and principal evolution stages of West Antarctica (on the base of geophysical, petrologic, geochronology and palaeomagnetic data)
PDF478 c/o Valery Lytvynov 4 Modelling of the Antarctic and Arctic Polar Regions’ Interior Structure and Geodynamic Features Using the Gravimetric Tomography Technique
PDF479 c/o Valery Lytvynov 1 Bathymetry, Mapping and Sedimentation Processes of Unsurveyed Shallow Archipelagos of the West Antarctica
PDF480 c/o Valery Lytvynov 1 Climate variability and its influences on the state of glaciation of the Antarctic Peninsula region.
PDF481 c/o Valery Lytvynov 1 Long-term ecosystem monitoring of the Vernadsky station region.
PDF482 c/o Valery Lytvynov 5 Complex study of the deep Earth’ structure, break tectonics of the Earth crust in the Scotia Sea region and Pacific shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula, internal physical processes connected with energy active reactions into the external and internal core of the Earth
PDF483 c/o Valery Lytvynov 1 Using of the energy balance model of the global Earth climate for modeling of the regional Antarctic Peninsula climate peculiarities, and atmospheric processes in the South Polar area
PDF484 c/o Valery Lytvynov 1 The development of the physical background of the earthquake in the Scotia Sea in order to improve the prognosis methods on the base of the radon emission observation, the geomagnetic field variation and seismic observations at the Vernadsky station
PDF485 Vladislav Timofeyev 2 Changes in Antarctic Environment: on the Centenary of Charcot’s expeditions and first detailed research at the region of the Antarctic Peninsula
United Kingdom
PDF343 NC Theme 1 A generic observation theme to provide a temporal baseline - a snapshot - of slow polar processes
PDF343b NC Theme 1 Effects of climate/anthropogenic perturbation in polar regions on ecosystem processes, risks from invasive species
PDF343c NC Theme 1 Biogeochemistry of the Southern Oceans
PDF343d NC Theme 1 Human dimension of climate/anthropogenic impacts in the Arctic, Arctic living conditions, humanistic aspects of IPY
PDF343e NC Theme 2 Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Shelf
PDF343f NC Theme 3 Bipolar research on the significance of polar regions to the Global Water Cycle
United States
PDF13 Arnold Gordon 1 Polar Climate Transects in the Southern Ocean are proposed
PDF36 Frank Carsey 1 An International Fleet Of Polar Rovers to address Climate Science During International Polar Year 2007-2008
PDF38 James Maslanik 1 The New Polar Explorers of the 21st. Century: Autonomous Vehicles
PDF41 Sydney Levitus 1 Structure of High Northern Latitude Climate Variability In Space And Time
PDF44 Donald K. Perovich 1 Assessing, understanding, and conveying the state of Arctic sea ice cover
PDF47 Tony Hansen 1 Advanced instrumentation to facilitate research in the Arctic and Antarctic,
PDF48 Paul Shepson 1 OASIS (“Ocean-Atmosphere-Sea Ice-Snowpack Interactions”) as an IPY Core Activity
PDF150 Matt Nolan 1 Towards an Arctic Topographic Mapping Mission during the IPY
PDF151 Ola Persson 1 Arctic Ocean Field Program in the central Arctic Ocean to methodologies and explore physical processes
PDF163 Mark Dyurgerov 1 The Ice-Water Budgets of Glacierized Basins in Arctic Archipelago(s)
PDF164 Mahlon C. Kennicutt II 1 Bi-Polar Census of Persistent Global Contaminants
PDF198 Dan Lubin 1 The Antarctic Ozone Hole: Toward Closure on Ecological Impacts
PDF238 Breck Owens 1 Physical profiling of the Arctic Ocean - High-latitude areas lack systematic obs. continuous in time & space
PDF239 John Toole    1 An Arctic Array of Ice-Tethered Profilers as Arctic is poorly sampled in comparison to the temperate seas. 
PDF240 Don Cline 1 Pan-Arctic Snow Observation & Modeling: leap-ahead in understanding Arctic terrestrial snowpack dynamics
PDF262 Victoria Gofman 1 International Network of Arctic Indigenous Community-Based Environmental Monitoring & Information Stations
PDF264 Jason E. Box 1 Enhancing Existing Observational Sites to Uphold the IPY-1957 Legacy.
PDF284 Larry Hothem 1 Comprehensive observations in support of Geodetic Infrastructure in Antarctica (GIANT) program
PDF352 Miles McPhee 1 IPY and the Southern Ocean – the relationship between Southern Ocean processes and climate change
PDF360 Bob Anderson  1 GEOTRACES: Biogeochemical cycles of trace elements in the Southern Ocean
PDF361 Bob Anderson 1 GEOTRACES in IPY
PDF487 O. Holm-Hansen 1 Production and fate of organic carbon in the Southern Ocean as influenced by physical mixing processes.
PDF490 Tom Farr 1 Identifying remote sensing signatures of geologic processes using new generation airborne and satellite based sensors.
PDF492 Rainer Amon 1 The biogeochemistry of methyl mercury in the Arctic Ocean and its relevance for humans
PDF14 Jackie Grebmeier 2 International Arctic Shelf-Basin exchange observations:  An Arctic “Snapshot” Proposal for IPY 2007-08
PDF32 Michael Ritzwoller 2 Aspects of Antarctic Array and Some Mantle Imaging Efforts in Antarctica and over the Arctic
PDF33 Jesse Johnson 2 IPY Community Ice Sheet Model Initiative
PDF37 Ginny Catania 2 How will Ice Sheets Contribute to Global Sea Level Rise?
PDF42 Sydney Levitus 2 Historical Oceanographic, Meteorological, Hydrological & other Geophysical Databases
PDF51 Ted A. Scambos 2 Has the Antarctic warmed in the past 50 years? A resurvey of shallow borehole temperatures at IGY sites
PDF52 David Ainley 2 The Ross Sea as a Research Base for IPY – the last pristine marine ecosystem
PDF55 Brad Barr 2 Impacts of Change in the Arctic
PDF56 David H. Bromwich 2 The Polar Atmospheric Initiative
PDF142 Peter Wilkniss 2 The Arctic Grand Challenge: Abrupt Climate Change
PDF170 Vicki Childers 2 Capturing Large-Scale Change in the Arctic Ocean and Cryosphere
PDF171 David L. Clark 2 Coring of Arctic Ocean sediments to date both Arctic Ocean formation and sea-ice cover formation
PDF196 James Overland 2 Rigorous comparison of Arctic data from IPY 2007-2008 with IPY-1
PDF202 Roger C Bales 2 Long-term measurements of arctic atmosphere at an expanded Summit Environmental Observatory
PDF231 Ken Jezek 2 An international campaign to map the interior and base of the polar ice sheets
PDF254 T. Scambos 2 Larsen Ice Shelf Retreat and Glacier Acceleration on the Antarctic Peninsula
PDF257 Stefan W. Vogel 2 The underbelly of ice sheets - studying the basal zone of ice sheets
PDF259 Andrey Proshutinsky 2 Simulated IPYs: International Collaboration in , Arctic Change Studies Based on Numerical Modeling
PDF325 Ron Weaver 2 Electronic Data Year  “unfreeze polar data”
PDF326 Seth Stein 2 Observation of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in the Arctic with GPS
PDF35 Dr. S. Tulaczyk 4 IPY-FASTDRILL: Interdisciplinary Polar Science & Fast Ice-Sheet Drilling Along a W. Antarctic transect
PDF54 Carol Finn 4 IPY Airborne Geophysical Surveys
PDF223 D.D. Blankenship 4 Investigating the Crustal Elements of the Central Antarctic Plate (ICECAP) 
PDF252 Peter Michael 4 Interdisciplinary studies of the slowest spreading mid-ocean ridge on earth: The eastern Gakkel Ridge
PDF39 Robyn M. Millan 5 Polar Balloon Experiments to transport instrumentation across polar regions.
PDF40 Marc Lessard 5 Sounding Rockets for Studies in ionospheric and magnetospheric Physics
PDF143 Edgar A. Bering, III 5 A coordinated study of the Global Electric Circuit linking weather and solar activity
PDF232 Alfred Y. Wong 5 Studying Geospace during IPY
PDF285 Bob Hutt 5 Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station ultra-high resolution seismology
PDF286 Jeffrey Love 5 IPY Geomagnetism programme to monitor the magnetic field under the auroral oval encircling the Arctic
PDF291 G Leonard Johnson 5 An Integrated Heliospheric and Oceanographic Programme 
PDF43 Claire L. Parkinson E Odyssey of the Mind: A Polar Problem
PDF159 Paulo Afonso E An International Space University (ISU) in Antarctica. 
PDF165 Anupma Prakash E Observing the Arctic from space: Scientific and Educational opportunities for an International Polar Year. 
PDF195 Orson P. Smith E International Polar Year Workshop Jan 2007 - “Research for Northern Society in a Warming World”,
PDF243 Richard A. Caulfield E UArctic and the IPY - education opportunities in the Polar Year through the UArctic network
PDF31 P.J. Capelotti H Social construction of polar science: archaeological examinations of international polar research sites
PDF244 Paul Arthur Berkman H International Workshop at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on International Scientific Cooperation
PDF256 Florence Fetterer H Preserving and promoting data collections and reports from early N American arctic research
PDF288 Anne M. Jensen H In the Footsteps of Murdoch & Ray-following up John Murdoch’s study of Ethnological Results of Point Barrow
PDF199 Laurence C. Smith U Trans-Siberia expeditions in the International Polar Year - using the Trans-Siberian Railroad as a platform

 
   
   
 
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