1. eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 FRESH PERSPECTIVES Ron Weaver NSIDC, University of Colorado, Boulder

2. eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 FRESH PERSPECTIVES

3. eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 Themes Active management versus stewardship  Might be a crisis in distributed environments Levels of Service Discovery of Data AND access to Data  Jim Geringer at Decadal Survey Hearings  Decisions based on hard data and not anecdotal judgment Educate the producers as well as the users about data and data management

4. eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 Themes, (questions) What can eGY do in conjunction with the WDC’s? the ‘pull’ to energize? Geoinfomatics? (geology, seismology + ?) eGY has said what it wants to be, and the route seems to be sessions at conferences (how long IPY?)

5. eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 Electronic World and Communication

6. eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 It’s metadata and data

7. eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 Education Both youth – entrainment into science And scientists – methodologies and best practices for data management in scientific research

8. eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 The outcome of the first International Polar Year No arrangements for post-expedition synthesis Long delays in publication of the data Why? Historic example of peaceful international scientific cooperation that inspired subsequent Polar Years. A wide-ranging and extensive set of observations collected and published between 1885 and 1910. The synoptic data were never analyzed, no fundamental discoveries followed as a result of the first IPY. Part 1: History Outcome

9. eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado March 13-14, 2007 The first IPY was a successful example of international scientific cooperation, but coordinated observations were not synthesized for 125 years!!! (Wood and Overland, 2006: Climate Lessons from the First International Polar Year, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Vol. 87, 1685-1697 Data and image collection available at: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/aro/ipy-1 Slow analysis

10. The first in a series of Polar Years Took place prior to marked 20th century warming and attendant environmental change. First synoptic view of the Arctic. 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 20th century Arctic warming Zonal-average annual surface air temperature (SAT) anomaly in degrees C. From Johannessen (2004). Temperature Anomaly Year 40 50 60 70 80 Latitude (N) IPY-1 1882-1883 IPY-2 1932-1933 IGY 1957-1958 IPY-4 2007-2008 Part 1: History IPY history

11. Tiksi, Russia Alert, CanadaBarrow, Alaska Eureka, Canada Summit, Greenland Ny-Alesund, Svalbard IASOA Target Observatories IASAO