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There are anumber of activites taking place during the International Polar Year.
The next quarterly IPY science day, or International Polar Day, will occur on March 12th, 2008, and focus on changing earth; past, present, and future.
 
The Polar region are critical archives of Polar change. different techniques and disciplines are used to learn about earth's history over millions, thousands, and hundreds of years. Observations monitor and explore the earth today, and models developed from these sciences help predict the future. By learning more about the earth in the past, and how climates have changed previously, we equip ourselves to better predict and understand changes we are experiencing today, and will experience in the future.

The IPY science day on March 12th will focus on change over geological time, especially the glacial and interglacial periods that have occurred during the past million years, and cycles of ocean- atmosphere interactions that give rise to regional climate variations on scales of decades to centuries. Understanding these processes, and the science projects that investigate them, is critical in order to put recent human- induced climate change into context.

Further details about the day and information about previous days can be found on the IPY website. a document about the day can be found here