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15 October 2025 - 7 min read

Get involved in the 5th International Polar Year

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Laurence Smith, chair of geography at University of California, Los Angeles, deploys an autonomous drift boat equipped with several sensors in a meltwater river on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet on July 19, 2015. blog
03 October 2025 - 4 min read

Shaping the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences (2025–2034) 

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24 September 2025 - 16 min read

Honouring science’s principles in a troubled world

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23 November 2015

The International Council for Science and climate change

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03 March 2011

Understanding Earth’s Polar Challenges: International Polar Year 2007-2008

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28 June 2009

ICSU and the International Polar Year 2007-2008

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03 February 2007

The Scope of Science for the International Polar Year 2007-2008

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28 June 2006

ICSU and Polar Research (2006)

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publications
03 November 2004

A Framework for the International Polar Year 2007-2008

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Relevant ISC Members

Ice member
02 April 2024

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

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member
14 May 2021

The University of the Arctic (UArctic)

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member
28 June 2018

International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA)

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member
10 April 2017

International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)

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Events View all

events
16 October 2025 - 18 October 2025

2025 Arctic Circle assembly

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Iceberg surrounded by a body of water in the Arctic events
20 March 2025 - 28 March 2025

Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2025

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Humpback whale flukes as it dives in Fournier Bay off Anvers Island (Antarctic Peninsula) events
22 June 2023 - 24 June 2023

2023 Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and Standing Committee on the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference

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