Session GI7 features MEOPP, a proposal submitted under the umbrella of the upcoming International IPY Program (International Polar Year http://www.ipy.org/), marking the "50th anniversary celebration" of the big international exploratory push of polar regions of the IGY.  This session presents new instrumentation that will feature in IPY.  MEOPP will use newly developed instruments that have been used in a project called SEaOS (see link below), which has finished its data collection phase and is into analysis.

MEOPP stands for "Marine Mammal Exploration of the Oceans Pole to Pole". The underlying premise is that thanks to our technological developments in data collection, storage and communication, we will this time have the polar animals themselves as part of the exploratory team.  Who better, some might ask, to help us get data on places important to both them and us?

Session: GI7 Instrumentation related to the International Polar Year | >>programme