May / June 2009
Celebrating the
International Year of Planet Earth
Event Update
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What is the International Year
of Planet Earth?
The International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) is a U.N. declared event to bring countries together to focus collaboratively on the Earth sciences. The IYPE aims to ensure greater use of the knowledge accumulated by the world’s 400,000+ Earth scientists. The Year’s ultimate goal is to help build safer, healthier, and wealthier societies around the globe. International Year activities will run through December 2009.
See more at: www.yearofplanetearth.org
IYPE Education & Outreach Themes:
Groundwater
Hazards
Earth & Health
Climate
Resource Issues
Megacities
Deep Earth
Ocean
Soil
Earth & Life
Celebrating IYPE in the United States
Discovery Earth
The U.S. National Committee (USNC) for IYPE is supplying content for the Discovery Channel's new Web site, Discovery Earth. Four photo essays and one quiz have generated over one million page-views to date! We will continue providing engaging geoscience material to Discovery Earth to celebrate IYPE through December 2009.
Hear IYPE Programs on the Radio!
Click to listen to the 10 IYPE radio programs produced through the NPR radio program Earth & Sky, which is heard over 1,700 broadcast stations in 167 countries. The U.S. National Committee for IYPE would like to thank the National Science Foundation and U.S. Geological Survey for their support of these radio programs.
U.S. IYPE Web site
Take a look at what the United States is doing to celebrate the International Year of Planet Earth.
U.S. National Committee Participating Organizations:
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
- Association of American State Geologists (AASG)
- Association of Earth Science Editors (AESE)
- American Geological Institute (AGI)
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG)
- Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG)
- Bruce Museum of Arts and Science
- The Geological Society of America (GSA)
- Houston Geological Society (HGS)
- International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
- International Geographical Union (IGU)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Ground Water Association (NGWA)
- North American Committee for Stratigraphic Nomenclature (NACSN)
- Northeastern Science Foundation (NESF)
- Society of Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)
- Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
- Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
- United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Contact Wesley Hill for more information.
Celebrating IYPE around The Globe
Earth Science Expertise in Africa
As a part of the IYPE global legacy, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will begin an Earth Science Education Project in Africa later this year. Four workshops will be held to create an inventory of the centers of geoscientific expertise in Africa and to investigate the gaps that exist.
YES Congress, China
The first Young Earth-Scientists (YES) Congress for geoscientists under the age of 35 will be held at the University of Geosciences, in Beijing, China from 25 to 28 October 2009. Abstracts for oral presentations, poster presentations, and roundtable symposia will be accepted until 30 May.
The conference will discuss global climate and environmental and geological challenges facing today's society, with goals to establish an interdisciplinary global network of individuals committed to solving these challenges.
IYPE Global Closing Event, Portugal
The global closing event for The International Year of Planet Earth will take place from 18 to 22 November 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal. The event will bring international partners, national committees, ministers, and heads of state together to celebrate the legacy of this three-year global Earth science celebration. Look for updated information at www.yearofplanetearth.org
U.S. Sponsors:
Baird Petro
New Dominion, LLC
Geological Society of America
U.S. Geological Survey
National Science Foundation
IYPE Global Conferences & Events
6-11 June, 2009, Ötz Valley (near Innsbruck),
Austria
ESF-FWF-LFUI Conference – Mechanisms of Quaternary Climate Change: Stability of Warm Phases in the Past and in the Future
9-12 June, 2009, Munich, Germany
EUREGEO, 6th European Congress on Regional Geoscientific Cartography and Information Systems
14-20 June 2009, Castellaneta Marina, Italy
XIV International Clay Conference
23-30 August 2009, Sopron, Hungary
IAGA 11th Scientific Assembly
31 August-4 September 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina
International Association of Geodesy — General Assembly 2009
7-10 September 2009, Leipzig, Germany
International Conference – Megacities: Risk, Vulnerability, and Sustainable Development
12-16 October 2009, Montevideo, Uruguay
3rd Hemispheric Conference on Medical Geology
18-21 October 2009, Portland, Oregon USA
The Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
26-28 October 2009, Beijing, China
First World Young Earth-Scientists Congress 2009
14-18 December 2009, San Francisco, California, USA
American Geophysical Union
(AGU) Fall Meeting
12 June-16 July 2010, Tel-Aviv, Israel
IGU Regional Conference
Stay tuned at
www.iype-usa.org
Associate your U.S. EVENT with the International Year of Planet Earth!
Contact Wesley Hill
at The Geological Society of America (GSA) for information.
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