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The International Polar Year (IPY) is an international scientific program focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic from March 2007 to March 2009. The Canadian north, including the Northwest Territories, is a key region for IPY researchers from Canada and internationally.

The Canadian IPY Program is focusing on climate and community sustainability in the north, and the Northwest Territories is poised to benefit from increased understanding of climate change processes and community adaptation, as well as numerous other research programs.

The IPY 2012 Conference is the final event of International Polar Year 2007 - 2008, the largest international program of interdisciplinary polar research ever undertaken. This conference will provide an opportunity to apply and disseminate the knowledge and scientific results from IPY from around the world and focus on next steps. For more information please visit http://www.ipy2012montreal.ca/.

International Polar Year (IPY) "From Knowledge to Action" Conference to be held in Montreal, Quebec from April 22 to 27, 2012. The IPY 2012 Conference wil be the final event to wrap-up International Polar Year. It is expected that the Conference will attract as many as 3,000 science, policy and political delegates from around the world to present scientific research findings and to consider the policy implications of their work. The Canadian IPY Program Office is leading the planning and coordination of the IPY 2012 Conference, in partnership with the National Research Council and the International IPY Joint Committee.

• IPY Report September 2008
• Arctic Report Card - Update for 2009

From January 19^th to the 21^st, 2011 the Aurora Research Institute hosted the NWT International Polar Year Results Conference at Sir Alexander Mackenzie School (SAMS) in Inuvik, NWT. The conference was an opportunity for researchers who had conducted their research in the Northwest Territories to present their results back to the community. The following is the report and other materials from that conference:

• NWT IPY Results Conference Report 2011

Presentations

• LIEP - Opportunity Taken by Alana Mero
• Organic Contaminants in Ulukhaktok Male Ringed Seals by Ashely Gaden and Gary Stern
• What is GAPS? by Dawn Bazely, Gabrielle Slowey and Rajiv Rawat
• Arctic Peoples, Culture, Resilience and Caribou by Dr. Brenda Parlee and Dr. Chris Furgal
• The Circumpolar Flaw Lead (CFL) system study by Dan Leitch, Gary Stern and David Barber
• Arctic Wildlife Observatories Linking Vulnerable EcoSystems (WOLVES) by Donald Ried
• The CircumArctic Rangifier Monitoring & Assessment (CARMA) Network by Don Russell
• Climate Change impacts on Canadian Arctic Tundra Ecosystems by Greg Henry
• Inuit Health Survey: Inuit Health in Transition and Resiliency by Helga Saudny, Crystal Lennie, Kue Young and Grace Egeland
• Rivers in the Sea - How the Arctic Ocean pays its bills by Humfrey Melling
• Inuvialuit Research, Planning, Monitoring and Implementation by Jennifer Johnston
• Cyclones in the Arctic and their Influence on Sea Ice by Matthew Asplin
• Trophic interactions in northwestern Canadian tundra lakes by Klaus Gantner, Don Ross, Fred Wrona, Erika Hille, Daniel Peters, Peter di Cenzo, Laurent de Rham, Terry Prowse and Jim Reist
• Arctic Freshwater Systems: Hydrology and Ecology by P.D. di Cenzo, F.J. Wrona and A. Pietroniro
• The Circumpolar Flaw Lead (CFL) system study by Scott Nickels
• O-buoy: new type of scientific equipment for chemical analysis of air composition in the remote Arctic environment and first results from its deployment by Stoyka Netcheva and Jan Bottenheim
• 14^th International Congress on Circumpolar Health by Susan Chatwood

Summaries

• Arctic WOLVES Part I
• Arctic WOLVES Part II
• Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions (CAVIAR)
• The Circumpolar Flaw Lead (CFL) System Study Part I
• The Circumpolar Flaw Lead (CFL) System Study Part II
• Climate Change Variability and Change Effects on Char in the Arctic (English)
• Climate Change Variability and Change Effects on Char in the Arctic (Inuvialuktun)
• Engaging communities in monitoring zootonic diseases for food safety concern
• Human Security in the Arctic - GAPS Project
• GEOTRACES - Multi-tracer investigation of the effect of climate change on nutrient and carbon cycles in the Arctic Ocean
• The Prevalence of HPV and its Impact on Cervical Dysplasia in the Northwest Territories - pamphlet
• The Prevalence of HPV and its Impact on Cervical Dysplasia in the Northwest Territories - summary
• O-buoy measurements of ozone, carbon dioxide and bromine oxide over frozen surface of Hudson Bay and Arctic Ocean

Posters

• Instrumented oceanographic moorings as year-round observatries in C3O
• Lancaster Sound mooring, regression analysis and numerical mode modeling
• CircumArctic Rangifier Monitoring & Assessment Network
• Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic Regions (poster)
• Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic Regions (roll-up screen)
• Cyclones in the Arctic and their Influence on Sea Ice
• Three years of community-based assessment of berry productivity across the Canadian Arctic Part I
• Three years of community-based assessment of berry productivity across the Canadian Arctic Part II
• Climate change and Canada's Arctic Glaciers
• Non-indigenous plant species along roadsides and other transportation routes in the Mackenzie Valley
• Shrub expansion in alpine and Arctic tundra of the Yukon Territory
• The Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and Its Impact on Cervical Dysplasia in the Northwest Territories —component I
• The Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and Its Impact on Cervical Dysplasia in the Northwest Territories —component II
• The Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and its Impact on Cervical Dysplasia in the Northwest Territories
• O-buoy measurements of ozone, carbon dioxide, bromine monoxide over the ice of Hudson bay and the Arctic ocean
• Monitoring Ice Thickness in Arctic Seas
• Observations of the mesoscale wind regime of Nares Strait
• Skills Transmission and Inuit Adaptation to Climate Change
• Tunngasugit to the Arctic SOLAS Program
• Butterfiles of Herschel Island and Komakuk

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