What is IPY?

The International Polar Year is a large scientific programme focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic from March 2007 to March 2009. Learn more about IPY.

Highlights

Exploring Subglacial Lake Ellsworth

Exploring Subglacial Lake Ellsworth, Jan 16, 2009

Neil Ross reports on the first weeks of the season in the field, surveying Antarctica's Subglacial Lake Ellsworth. More...

International Polar Days

Get involved and learn more about polar research during IPY Science Days. More...

IPY in Google Earth

Learn more about IPY projects using Google Earth More...

Featured Multimedia

ANDRILL's Project Iceberg looks at the history of polar research, focusing on 1957, the International Geophysical Year. More...
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News & Announcements

IPY Blogs

Friends of IPY

LOHAFEX: An Indo-German iron fertilization experiment in the Southern Ocean
Jan 13, 2009
IPY Press Releases
Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) report now online
Jan 12, 2009
IPY Announcements
Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing Innovations During IPY
Jan 12, 2009
IPY Announcements
New issues of the Australian Antarctic Magazine
Jan 8, 2009
IPY Australia Announcements
IPY Report: January 2009
Jan 7, 2009
Nicola Munro Announcements
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: Issue 10: Polar Mammals
Dec 31, 2008
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears
Sailor of the RRS James Clark Ross Awarded the Merchant Navy Medal
Dec 27, 2008
Glenn Stein
The UK Polar Network presents: Atmosphere and Modelling Skills Workshop
Dec 17, 2008
IPY Announcements
AGU press advisory: The Arctic in Flux: New Insights from the International Polar Year
Dec 16, 2008
IPY Press Releases
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Exploring Subglacial Lake Ellsworth
Jan 16, 2009
Exploring Subglacial Lake Ellsworth
Sun shadows Project update
Jan 12, 2009
Polar Teachers
Using Indigenous Knowledge in Scientific Research in the Arctic
Jan 8, 2009
International Polar Foundation
Antarctica in an Italian Classroom
Jan 8, 2009
Guest Contributor
Dome A Traverse and Kunlun Station
Dec 31, 2008
International Polar Foundation
Report from the YEP expedition to Antarctica
Dec 28, 2008
Roswitha Stolz
The Polar Rubics
Dec 27, 2008
Antarctica’s Gamburtsev Province Project
EISCAT testing for NISSE
Dec 19, 2008
The NISSE Team
Mt. Erebus and its special lake of lava
Dec 19, 2008
John Wood
Ready, set, wait
Dec 17, 2008
Antarctica’s Gamburtsev Province Project
Polar preparations pick up pace
Dec 15, 2008
McMurdo Sound Winter Sea Ice
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The International Polar Year 2007-8 is a huge, exciting scientific campaign focussing on the polar regions. It is also an unprecedented opportunity to demonstrate, follow, and get involved with, cutting edge science in real-time.

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