Editing International Polar Year (section)

===IPY Science Conferences===
[[File:IPY Joint Committee at IPYOslo2010.jpg|thumb|left|Joint Committee at IPY Oslo 2010]]

====Oslo, Norway 2010====
The IPY Science Conference was held 8–12 June in [[Oslo]], Norway and was organized by the WMO, ICSU, IASC and the Research Council of Norway and marked the official end of the fourth IPY.
The conference aim was to celebrate and publish early results from the International Polar Year 2007–2008 (IPY) and enable direct interaction among all IPY science cluster projects. There were over 2000 participants from over 60 countries.
[[File:IPY Montreal 2012 Opening.jpg|thumb|Peter Harrison opens the IPY 2012 conference in Montreal]]

====Montréal, Canada, 2012====
Building on the previous IPY Science Conference in Oslo, the IPY steering committee organized a science conference (22–27 April 2012) in [[Montréal]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ipy2012montreal.ca/|title=IPY Montreal – Polar Year Conference for medical treatments|access-date=16 October 2019|archive-date=8 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190908115644/http://www.ipy2012montreal.ca/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Canada, with the theme ‘From knowledge to action’. This conference examined the global impact and implications of International Polar Year activities. The aim of the IPY Science Conference in 2012 was to help shape stewardship, sustainable development and environmental protection goals for the strategic and highly valued polar regions. In total the IPY 2012 conference received 2134 abstracts with contributions from over 45 countries.