CEDAR email: Contribute to Plans for Cutting-Edge Research During International Polar Year 5

[Michael Hartinger]

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider making your voice heard in the planning for the next
International Polar Year. International Polar Years are major
international, interdisciplinary, coordinated research efforts in polar
regions. They’ve led to significant advances in geospace research,
infrastructure improvements, and transformations in how we share data.
Planning for the fifth International Polar Year 2032-2033 has begun (
https://iasc.info/cooperations/international-polar-year-2032-33), and it’s
essential for the CEDAR community to participate in planning efforts to
ensure that geospace research is a key part of the IPY5 program. In
previous IPY’s, planning documents were used to inform programming at NSF,
NASA, and other agencies. This is no less important in IPY5, with
opportunities for campaigns with several major satellite missions and
ground-based networks, experiments related to a rare polar total eclipse in
Alaska on 30 March 2033, and numerous opportunities for interdisciplinary
and international collaborations.

Planning for IPY5 is primarily coordinated by two international
organizations: the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC,
https://iasc.info/) and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
(SCAR, https://scar.org/). There are several ways to contribute to IPY5
plans via these organizations:

*IASC is currently preparing for the Fourth International Conference on
Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV, https://icarp.iasc.info/). As part of
the ICARP IV process, anyone can use online forms to submit resources (
https://icarp.iasc.info/engagement/submit-resources) and research
priorities (https://icarp.iasc.info/engagement/icarp-iv-survey) for IPY5
programs and Arctic Research more broadly. The deadline to submit feedback
is March 1, 2024, and the ICARP IV meeting itself would be held one year
later, 21-28 March 2025 in Boulder, Colorado.

*SCAR will hold a meeting in Pucon, Chile on 19-24 August 2024 with
discussions related to IPY5 and future plans for Antarctic research more
broadly: https://www.scar2024.org/

*Many countries have representatives on both IASC (
https://iasc.info/about/organisation/council) and SCAR (
https://scar.org/about-us/leadership/delegates) who can be contacted to
submit ideas/resources for IPY5.

Although IPY5 is nearly a decade away, many of the high-level plans and
goals will be set in the next ~1-2 years. Please consider providing
feedback via one of the methods above to ensure the interests of the
geospace/space weather research communities are represented in IPY5.

Thank you,
Mike Hartinger
Allan Weatherwax
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