IPY Planning Group
The IPY Planning Group is comprised of representatives of international organisations. It meets twice a year and:
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provides input, advice and overall direction for the IPY planning process and the IPY Executive Committee
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prepares, presents and assists in taking forward specific issues to the IPY Executive Committee
Task Groups will be set up by the IPY Planning Group to work on specific aspects of the planning process in more detail. The task groups report back periodically to the IPY Planning Group.
Organisations currently involved in the IPY Planning Group:
- Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)
- Antarctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AnMAP)
- Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS)
- Aleut International Association (AIA)
- Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
- Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
- European Polar Board (EPB)
- International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)
- International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA)
- Integrated Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics (ICED)
- International Polar Heritage Committee (ICOMOS)
- International Science Council (ISC)
- Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC)
- Polar Coupled Analysis and Prediction for Services (PCAPS) Project of the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP)
- Polar Educators International (PEI)
- Saami Council (SC)
- Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
- Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP)
- Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS)
- Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS)
- World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
- University of the Arctic (UArctic)
