International Polar Year 2007-2008
IASSA IPY Task-group
Formed at the 5th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS V) in Fairbanks, Alaska in May, 2004, this group lobbied successfully for the inclusion of a social science and humanities theme in International Polar Year 2007-2008 (IPY).

Chair: Krupnik, Igor, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA - US IPY Committee, 2003-2004; IPY JC member, 2004-present; IASSA Council Member, krupnik.igor@nmnh.si.edu, 202-633-1901 tel., 202-357-2684 fax

Executive Officer: Sudkamp, Anne, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks AK, USA, IASSA Council Member; fyiassa@uaf.edu, 907-474-6367 tel., 907-474-6370 fax

Other Members
Beaulieu, Jean-Marie, Canadian Polar Commission, Ottawa, Canada – Canadian IPY Committee

Bravo, Michael, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, UK – British IPY Committee

Broadbent, Noel, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA, broadben@si.edu

Caulfield, Richard, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks AK, USA; University of the Arctic

Csonka, Yvon, Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland –Greenlandic IPY Committee, IASSA President

Dahl, Jens, International Workgroup for Indigenous Affairs, Copenhagen, Denmark –IASSA Past President, 1995-1998

Diachkova, Galina, Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Anadyr, Russia; IASSA Council Member

Duhaime, Gérard, Université Laval, Québec, Canada – Canadian IPY Committee, ICSU PG member, 2003-2004; IASSA Past President 1998-2001

Hovelsrud-Broda, Grete, Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo, Norway – Norwegian IPY Committee; IPY JC member, 2004-present, ghb@cicero.uio.no

Jensen, Anne, Ukpeagvik Iñupiat Corp., Barrow, Alaska, USA, anne.jensen@uicscience.org

Jolles, Carol, University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA, cjolles@u.washington.edu

Müller-Wille, Ludger, McGill University, Montréal, Canada – Canadian IPY Committee, IASSA Past President, 1990-1995

Pálsson, Gisli, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Poppel, Birger, Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland –Greenlandic IPY Committee; IASSA Vice-President

Pullar, Gordon, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Native Leadership Program, Fairbanks AK, USA

Schweitzer, Peter, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks AK, USA – IASSA Past President, 2001-2004; IASSA Council Member, ffpps@uaf.edu

Sejersen, Frank, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, sejersen@hum.ku.dk

Sörlin, Sverker, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; Swedish Polar/IPY Committee

Tennberg, Monica, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland – Finnish IPY Committee.

Circumpolar map of the first IPY stations of 1881-1884

Sincere thanks to the U.S. National Science Foundation for support for the IASSA IPY facilitation initiative.

Questions? Contact Anne Sudkamp at <fyiassa@uaf.edu>.

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