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 [at] nasa.gov
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 polar 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 [at] nasa.gov