The Polar Fair is an ongoing event each day providing an opportunity to meet Scientists and Specialists in Education and Outreach as they share their work and experiences through hands on demonstrations.

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Lakes & Mountains under ice? Lake Vostok and the Gamburtsev Mountains - With Robin Bell & Michael Studinger, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Imaging the Poles – With Suzanne Carbotte, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Polar Landscapes in New York - With Dorothy Peteet, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and Miriam Jones, Sanpisa Sritrairat, Maia Beh and Calder Orr, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Greenland in New York? How can that be? -With Yuri Gorokhovich, Lehman College

Norwegian Sami culture & life in the Circumpolar Region With special Norwegian Guests

US/Norwegian IPY Expedition - With Tom Neumann, University of Vermont

Create Polar Art– Illustrating PolarBooks With Girl Scouts of America

What is it like to work in the poles? Visit a Portable Polar Work Station straight from the poles! With Ken Hunkins, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Charles Bentley, Ice Core & Drilling Services, University of Wisconsin

Polar Warming and Melting - With David Holland, New York University

Life in the Icy Waters - With Andy Juhl, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Ray Sambratto, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

What Motivates Exploration - With Debika Shome, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions,  Columbia University

Build an Igloo - With Norbert Yankielun, Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory

Exploration and Polar History - With Milbry Polk and Wings World Quest

Teachers on Ice - With Lisbeth Uribe, The School at Columbia;

ARISE- ANDRILL's Research Immersion for Science Teahcers & the Flexhibit? - With Vanessa Miller, Central Park East II

ANDRILL - Drilling Back to Our Future - With Stephen Pekar, Queens College.

Penguins and Polar Bears and the tip of the Iceberg - With the Central Park and Bronx Zoo

Measuring the Temperature of Polar Ice from Space! - With Malcolm LeCompte, Elizabeth City State University

Understanding Glacier Flow with Glacier Goo! - With David Braaten, Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, Kansas University

Do you contribute to Global Warming With The Earth Institute of Columbia University

12:00 – 12:30 PM: Canadian Inuit Throatsinging

12:45-1:15 PM:In headwind and tailwind - stories from expeditions in Antarctica and the Arctic - By Liv Arnesen, Norwegian Explorer 

1:30-2:00 PM:Northern Lights: A message from the Sun - By Pål Brekke, Norwegian Space Centre

2:15 – 2:45 PM: Norwegian Sami Performers & Artists - Johan Anders Bær & Company

3:00 – 3:30 PM: Dramatic Changes in Polar Ice:  What Happens There Matters Here - BY Waleed Abdalati, NASA

3:45 – 4:15 PM:  Lakes Under Ice - By Michael Studinger, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

4:30-5:00 PM:   The Art of Science: Schoolchildren in Siberia are contributing to what we know about climate change. By Max Holmes, Woods Hole Research Center

12:00 –12:45 PM: Living Antarctica:  Filming Extreme Science... on Ice - By Anne Aghion, film director and producer

1:00 -1:45 PM: Global Warming & The Melting Arctic Ice - By Cecilie Mauritzen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute

2:00-2:45 PM: Norway-USA Traverse of East Antarctica - By Tom Neumann & Zoe Courville, University of Vermont

3:00 – 3:30 PM: The Psychology of Environmental Decision Making - By Sabine Marx, CRED, Columbia

3:45 – 4:15 PM: New York Students on Ice - By Milbry Polk and NYC students

4:30 -5:00 PM: International Polar Year 2007-2008 – what are we really doing? -BY National Science Foundation