Special Events
December
-December 6 - Global Day of Action on Climate. http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/index.php?lang=en
-December 12, 80 Degrees South at the foot of the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica: Fourth Antarctic
Ice Marathon
http://www.icemarathon.com/live/145.html
2009
March
-March 16 - 20 International Maritime Organization, Marine Environment Protection Committee, Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment.
April
-April 1 - 3, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 4th Malaysian International Seminar on Antarctica (MISA4) - Legacy of IPY to the Tropics. http://www.myantarctica.com.my/misa4/misa4.html
-April 3 - 4, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. SC-CAMLR / CEP Meeting.
-April 6 - 17, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ATCM XXXII and CEP XII. http://www.atcm2009.gov/
-April 20-24, Hobart, Australia: Monitoring Climate Change Impacts: Establishing a Southern Ocean Sentinel Program. http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=35088
May
-May 20-24, Washington, DC: International Marine Conservation Congress. http://www2.cedarcrest.edu/imcc/index.html
-The IMCC Meeting will include a symposium titled The Ross Sea, Antarctica: Science, Policy and the
Public in a Pristine Marine Ecosystem
June
-June 22-26, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: 3rd GLOBEC Open Science Meeting: Marine Ecosystems: From Function to Prediction. https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=1345&nid=9839
July
-July 6 - 7, Corvallis, Oregon: United States: International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS) Meeting.
-July 8 - 11, Corvallis, Oregon: Past Global Changes (PAGES) Young Scientists' Meeting. http://www.pages-igbp.org.
-July 13-17, International Maritime Organization, Marine Environment Protection Committee 59th Session.
-July 26 - 31, Sapporo, Japan: Xth SCAR International Biology Symposium.
-July 27 - 31, Newcastle, UK: Glaciology in the IPY. http://www.igsoc.org/
September
-September 21-25, Venice, Italy: OceanObs'09: Ocean Information for Society:
Sustaining the Benefits, Realizing the Potential. http://www.oceanobs09.net/index.php
October
-October 26-28, Vancouver, Canada: Oceans Past II: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the History and Future of Marine Animal Populations. http://hmapcoml.org/oceanspast/
November
-November 30 - December 3, Washington, DC: Antarctic Treaty Summit: Science-Policy Interactions in International Governance
December
-December (dates to be determined), Wellington, New Zealand: ATCM Shipping Experts Meeting.
2010
June
-June 8 - 12, Oslo, Norway: IPY Oslo Science Conference (co-sponsored by SCAR and IASC).
September
-September 7 - 11, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: World Seabirds Conference. http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/