Output and Legacy
Since the onset of the IYPE Triennium in 2007, many thousands of activities have taken place all over the globe.
The 80 National and Regional IYPE Committees are among the most important legacy items of the IYPE. At the national level, they united key players from several, sometimes competing organisations into a single campaign dedicated to raising awareness of the Earth sciences among decision makers and the public at large.
The creation of a Young Earth-Science Initiative (YES) has been another major IYPE legacy item. YES provides a platform for young professionals in the Earth sciences and was initiated by two Italian geoscientists, David Govoni and Luca Micucci. It started in 2007 and grew rapidly at the Global Launch Event of the IYPE in Paris (2008) in which many young geoscientists were invited to participate. From there, the YES Initiative expanded, eventually leading to a formal structure, a network of supporting organisations (including IYPE) and an invitation by the Chinese government to host the first International YES Conference in October 2009 in Beijing.
OneGeology is another major IYPE legacy item. That initiative, spearheaded by Ian Jackson of the British Geological Survey, came under the IYPE banner in 2007. This ongoing project aims to bring together geological data from all nations into a digital database and thus transform them into a single computer language.
Read more about this topic: International Year Of Planet Earth
Famous quotes containing the words output and/or legacy:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)