IPY: Ice Planet Earth

新罕布什尔大学地球、海洋和空间研究所正在与休斯顿自然科学博物馆和埃文斯萨瑟兰公司（盐湖城）合作，制作一个30分钟可更新的数字全穹顶天文馆节目《冰行星地球》，同时还有极地研究人员的各种教育项目、教师的教育材料，以及新罕布什尔大学维护的一个《冰行星地球》网站。其他合作伙伴包括匹兹堡、巴吞鲁日、康科德、新罕布什尔州、波特兰、俄勒冈州以及澳大利亚墨尔本和以色列海法的组织。该项目的科学重点是通过地球作为一个独特的冰和水世界的观点，研究极地地区在全球联系系统中的关键作用。两种可更新的放映前产品正在开发中：一种是游客进入影院时的五分钟极地沉浸预览，其中包含了研究人员在实地拍摄的不断变化的高分辨率鱼眼图像，另一种是在主要feature开始之前由天文馆工作人员现场呈现的极地事件更新。在项目的整个生命周期中，估计出席人数至少为150万。评估由波士顿莱斯利大学的项目评估和研究小组（PERG）进行。

The University of New Hampshire Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space is partnering with the Houston Museum of Natural Science and Evans & Sutherland, Inc. (Salt Lake City) to produce Ice Planet Earth, a 30-minute updateable digital full-dome planetarium show, along with a variety of educational programs by polar researchers, educational materials for teachers, and an Ice Planet Earth Web site maintained by the University. Additional partners include organizations in Pittsburgh, Baton Rouge, Concord, NH, Portland, OR and in Melbourne Australia and Haifa Israel. The project's science focus is on the key role of the polar regions in globally-linked systems through the viewpoint of Earth as a unique ice and water world. Two updateable pre-show products are being developed a five-minute-long Polar Immersion preview as visitors enter the theaters that incorporates changing high-resolution fisheye images taken by researchers in the field, and Polar Events Update just before the main feature begins that will be presented live by planetarium staff. Estimated attendance over the life of the programs is estimated to be a minimum of 1.5 million. Evaluation is being conducted by the Program Evaluation and Research Group (PERG) at Lesley University, Boston.