The International Polar Year (IPY) 2007–2008, co-sponsored by ICSU and WMO, was the largest coordinated research program in the Earth's polar regions, involving over 50,000 researchers, local observers, educators, students, and support personnel from more than 60 nations in 228 international IPY projects.
A comprehensive summary of the research initiative "Understanding Earth's Polar Challenges: International Polar Year 2007-2008" is now available in online form HERE.
The published volume produced by the Canadian Circumpolar Institute in Edmonton, Canada in collaboration with the University of the Arctic will be released in May 2011. Pre-publication, discount price (175CAN plus shipping) print orders can be ordered til 31 march 2011 by using the form available here