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.
From January 19th to the 21st, 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:
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
- 14th International Congress on Circumpolar Health by Susan Chatwood
Summaries
Posters