What does IPY stand for?

International Polar Year

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The research was led by Eric Post, associate professor of biology at Penn State University, along with a large, international team that carried out ecosystem-wide studies of the biological response to Arctic warming during the fourth International Polar Year, which ended in 2008.

Global warming may make the Arctic of today a thing of the past

Post led a research team that studied the Arctic during the International Polar Year, which ended in 2008.

Effects of Arctic warming seen as widespread

Pages 22-23 review the massive collaboration behind the 160 separate projects of the International Polar Year.

Clarifying our priorities

Following the success last year of an International Polar Year project to map the extent and depth of subglacial Lake Ellsworth, the Natural Environment Research Council is funding a consortium of researchers from nine UK universities, the British Antarctic Survey and the National Oceanography Centre.

Final frontier for University expert; Isolated lake in Antarctica is ...

A report for the 2007-2008 International Polar Year claimed that the temperatures are steadily rising across a greater area than previously thought.

Melting threat from Antarctic

Still, Canadian scientists need to hold up their end when it comes to funding, said David Hik, a biologist and head of Canada's International Polar Year secretariat.

Canada: Arctic research station planned

The meeting coincided with the International Polar year, and was held earlier in the year than is traditional, so that Alaska could be seen at its best.

Report of the President: the Society for the Advancement of ...

As part of International Polar Year, a EUR5 silver proof coin and aEUR100 gold proof coin are being offered to collectors.

Coins mark Irish polar explorers; COLLECTIBLE