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February 16-18, 2010
Fairmont Château Laurier, Ottawa, Ontario
The IPY community in Canada convened for the IPY Canada Early Results Workshop in Ottawa to note IPY’s achievements, showcase preliminary findings from Canadian IPY projects, explore ideas for synthesizing and integrating results and begin focusing on the implications of IPY research in terms of climate change impacts and adaptations and health and well-being of northern communities.
The IPY Canada Early Results Workshop was the third in a series of workshops organized by the Government of Canada Program for IPY. These workshops bring together the diverse IPY community in Canada to develop and further networks, share information, discuss ideas and build synergies amongst the various Canadian IPY projects. The previous workshops, in October 2007 and December 2008, initiated discussions on data management, knowledge transfer and integration. Canada’s IPY Program is now at a stage in which most research projects have completed their final field seasons and data analysis and interpretation is underway. At this point, most IPY project teams have preliminary results to share and discuss.
The IPY Canada Early Results Workshop was the first opportunity for the broader IPY community in Canada to learn about the findings of IPY science that has been taking place in Canada since early 2007.
IPY Canada Early Results Workshop Highlights:
- Results and implications from almost 90% of Canadian IPY projects were presented and discussed through approximately 150 presentations in concurrent and poster sessions.
- Over 250 participants registered and attended the Workshop.
- Sessions not only covered IPY research but also the Canadian Arctic Research Licensing Initiative and a Health Canada Science and Policy Round Table on Northern Health and Community Well-being.
