Date

Multiple Resources Available

  1. Final Report Available
    Climate Change Impacts on Defense Assets in Alaska Workshop

  2. Newsletter Available
    NSIDC Notes Winter 2011 Issue
    National Snow and Ice Data Center

  3. Newsletter Available
    IDPO Ice Bits, Winter 2010-11
    Ice Drilling Program Office

  4. Book Available
    The History of the International Polar Years (IPYs)
    Edited By: Susan Barr and Cornelia Ludecke

  1. Final Report Available
    Climate Change Impacts on Defense Assets in Alaska Workshop

The final report for the Climate Change Impacts on Defense Assets in
Alaska Workshop, held 7-9 July 2009 in Anchorage, Alaska, is available
on the workshop website at:
http://defenseassetsworkshop2009.uaa.alaska.edu/.

The purpose of the workshop was to provide a venue for the discussion of
impacts and adaptation methodologies addressing the Department of
Defense (DoD) assets in Alaska. This was accomplished through a two and
a half day workshop that included pre-workshop white papers,
presentations, and working group discussions.

The final report synthesizes the brainstorming and discussion sessions
held at the workshop and formed the basis for identifying knowledge
gaps, research needs, and policy and partnering needs. While not meant
to be the end-all report on climate change impacts on defense assets in
Alaska, it should serve as the basis for future discussions, workshops,
or white papers on the issues associated with built infrastructure,
training lands and natural ecosystems, and coastal zones in cold
regions. The report provides the reader with an extensive background on
the impacts of climate change; potential adaptation strategies; and the
data, knowledge, research, policy, and partnering needs to carry out
these strategies.

In addition to the Final Report and separate Executive Summary,
supporting workshop materials (pre-workshop white papers, copies of the
presentations, etc.) can also be found on the workshop website, at:
http://defenseassetsworkshop2009.uaa.alaska.edu/.

  1. Newsletter Available
    NSIDC Notes Winter 2011 Issue
    National Snow and Ice Data Center

The winter issue Number 74 of the National Snow and Ice Data Center
(NSIDC) publication is available online. NSIDC Notes is published
quarterly in electronic format, and can be accessed as a PDF file at:
http://nsidc.org/pubs/notes/. Archived versions of the newsletter are
also available at the website.

Selected items in this issue include:

- New sea ice product, Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent (MASIE);
- NSIDC research and data management projects;
- Conference reports and upcoming meetings; and
- New products and updates to existing data sets.

To subscribe to the Notes notification list, please email:
nsidc [at] nsidc.org.

For further information, please go to:
http://nsidc.org/pubs/notes/.

  1. Newsletter Available
    IDPO Ice Bits, Winter 2010-11
    Ice Drilling Program Office

The winter issue of the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) newsletter
Ice Bits is available online. Ice Bits, a newsletter and update of IDPO
and Ice Drilling Design and Operations activities, is published
quarterly in electronic format, and can be accessed as a PDF file at:
http://www.icedrill.org/news/index.shtml#165.

Selected items in this issue include:

- Upcoming IDPO Science Planning Workshop;
- Review of Drilling Support to Science Projects;
- Intermediate Drill;
- DISC Drill;
- Replicate Coring System;
- Educational Outreach; and
- Requesting Ice Drilling Support.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.icedrill.org.

  1. Book Available
    The History of the International Polar Years (IPYs)
    Edited By: Susan Barr and Cornelia Ludecke

A new book entitled "The History of the International Polar Years
(IPYs)" is available. The volume was edited by Susan Barr, Directorate
for Cultural Heritage, Oslo, Norway; and Cornelia Ludecke, University of
Hamburg, Germany.

Although international scientific cooperation was established previous
to the first International Polar Year, IPY-1 (1882-1883) is considered
to be the first revolutionary step towards an extensive international
cooperation in the polar areas for the benefit of science rather than
national prestige and territorial gain. This was followed by IPY-2
(1932-1933) and IPY-3 (actually the International Geophysical Year,
1957-1958) before the crowning effort of IPY-4 (2007-2008).

The history of these years is recounted in the publication. "The History
of the International Polar Years (IPYs)" explains the political,
economic, technical, and scientific conditions and expectations that
laid the basis for each IPY and gradually expanded both the scope and
extent of our understanding of the complexities in polar regions.

For further information or to purchase, please go to:
http://springer.com/978-3-642-12401-3.