{"id":39,"date":"2007-03-01T16:25:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T20:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2007-03-01T16:25:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T20:25:16","slug":"pole-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2007\/03\/01\/pole-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pole Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are out in the cold, taking samples and measurements, do you sometimes get \u00e2\u20ac\u0153jiggy with it\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to keep warm?\u00c2  Then perhaps pole dancing is for you\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddancing at the North or South Pole that is.\u00c2  March 1, 2007 marks the beginning of International Polar Year (IPY), an international and multidisciplinary effort involving 50,000 people from more than 60 countries in Arctic and Antarctic research. \u00c2 IPY 2007-2008, which actually extends to March 1, 2009 to allow researchers to conduct two annual observing cycles in each polar region, occurs on the 125<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the first polar year and the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the International Geophysical Year.\u00c2 \u00c2 <\/p>\n<p>IPY 2007-2008 aims to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unlock the secrets of the Arctic and Antarctic worlds\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with more than 200 projects.\u00c2  Key research areas include: assessing environmental status and change in the polar regions; understanding past change and predicting future change; studying links between polar and global processes; increasing science exploration in the polar regions; observing Earth and space from the poles; and studying the sustainability of circumpolar societies.\u00c2 <\/p>\n<p>One key outcome of IPY 2007-2008 is to excite and engage the public.\u00c2  Most people on the planet will never visit a polar region, yet changes in polar processes affect us all.\u00c2  Multimedia images and videos, along with classroom curricula and activities, will provide a link to these hard to reach polar regions.\u00c2  Many projects also involve teachers who will create blogs, develop curricula, and take back to the classroom their polar experiences.\u00c2 <\/p>\n<p>To\u00c2 learn more about IPY and all the interesting research projects going on, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipy.org\/\">http:\/\/www.ipy.org\/<\/a>.\u00c2 <\/p>\n<p>The spirit of International Polar Year will hopefully continue past its official end date and promote continued interest in polar research.\u00c2  Perhaps, one day you too can dance at a Pole.\u00c2<br>\n\u00c2 <\/p>\n<p><em>Contributed by Mindy Destro, Science Programs Manager, Ecological Society of America<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are out in the cold, taking samples and measurements, do you sometimes get \u00e2\u20ac\u0153jiggy with it\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to keep warm?  Then perhaps pole dancing is for you\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddancing at the North or South Pole that is.  March 1, 2007 marks the beginning of International Polar Year (IPY), an international and multidisciplinary effort involving 50,000 people from more than 60 countries in Arctic and Antarctic research. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-ecology-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}