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The NGPR Symposium will be held May 4-11, 2008, at the La Foret Conference Center in Colorado Springs, CO, USA. It will bring together thirty-six advanced graduate students and recent Ph.D. graduates who are or will be conducting independent research during the 2007–2009 IPY, current polar experts, and veteran polar scientists who were actively engaged in the 1957–1958 IGY. The NGPR symposium will provide this new generation with a common sense of history and purpose, increase awareness of work conducted by their peers, share ideas for educational outreach, and forge interdisciplinary collegial relationships with their peers.

The NGPR symposium is also part of the larger IPY at University of the Arctic and collaborates closely with the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists.