Webcast Celebrates U.S. IPY Launch

Left to right: Robert Bindschadler, Konrad Steffen, Robin Bell, Mead Treadwell, and Arden Bement at the IPY opening ceremony. Credit: NSF

Archived webcast of U.S. celebration of International Polar Year

2/26/2007

The heads of U.S. government research agencies, polar scientists and important political figures with an interest in Arctic and Antarctic research took part in the Opening Ceremony for the International Polar Year 2007-2008 at the National Academies of Science in Washington D.C.

IPY is cooperative global effort to advance our understanding of how the Earth's remote polar regions impact global climate systems, to bring about fundamental advances in many areas of science, and to fire the enthusiasm of young men and women for future careers in science and engineering.

To view, go to the archived page

Participants included:
Ralph Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences

U.S. Government Leadership Panel:

Arden L. Bement, Jr., Director, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Senator, State of Alaska
Brian Baird, U.S. Congressman, State of Washington – 3rd District
P. Lynn Scarlett, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior
James L. Connaughton, Chairman, White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary, Democracy and Global Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, and Administrator, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce
David L. Evans, Under Secretary for Science, Smithsonian Institution
Mark D. Myers, Director, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
James Herrington, Director of the Division of International Relations,
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Panel of Scientists:
Robin E. Bell, Doherty Senior Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Robert Bindschadler, Chief Scientist, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Gretchen E. Hofmann, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Deanna Kingston, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University
Konrad Steffen, Director, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado – Boulder
Mead Treadwell, Chair, U.S. Arctic Research Commission