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SEQUOIA CLUB APECS January 2010 Newsletter The holiday season is over and we are all ready for a new and exciting year with APECS. I want to thank all members who have contributed time and energy to a very successful year for our organization and I hope that all of you will get actively involved in helping us build on these achievements during 2010. The January edition of the APECS Newsletter is filled with many new activities, meetings and workshops that are planned in the coming months, with the Oslo Science Conference in June being one of the highlights. It is great to see that the Virtual Poster Session had quite a few contributions in the last months. I’m also very happy that APECS keeps on growing and I would like welcome all the new members to our organization. Happy New Year 2010 to all APECS members! -Gerlis Fugmann, APECS President 2009-2010 APECS News & Message from the Partner News Meetings, Recent Updates Director • SCAR Report on Workshops Literature Antarctic Climate • Launch of APECS Page 2 • APECS Sweden Discussions Polska Change IPY Career Day December 2009 Page 3 • APECS Sweden • UKPN AGM Virtual Poster Report Career Day • APECS Mentor Panel Session • IASSA Autumn/ at VICC New Members Page 1 Winter Newsletter Page 8 • Jokkmokk Winter Page 6 • ice2sea Programme Conference APECS & Polar • SCAR Newsletter • Permafrost Summer Jobs & Multimedia • Prof. Steven Chown School awarded Muse Prize Opportunities • APECS at Oslo 2010 Page 2 • ICSU Newsletter • Antarctic Politics Page 10 • Arctic Future Symposium Newsletter • XXXI SCAR • Student Travel to Conference State of the Arctic • UKPN Remote Conference Sensing Workshop Page 3 Page 5 APECS News & Updates Report on the Launch of APECS Polska Contributed by: Matt Strzelecki and Outreach coordinator Mateusz Moskalik; and International relations coordinator Matt Strzelecki. Currently, we have 40 active The first “Launching” meeting of APECS Polska took place on 14-15 members and we are working on further expansion. Our major goal for November at PAS Department of Antarctic Biology in Warsaw. Over coming year is to prepare a Polar Symposium in Lodz (18-19.06.2010) two days 21 young polar researchers from Poland discussed their ideas and participating in the 2010 IPY Oslo Science Conference. about the association which will be able to fulfil the mission of APECS and also encourage young polarists in our country to work together. We look forward to another exciting year for APECS and we hope that work of APECS Polska will help in shaping the future of polar research, In December we carried out first elections and started work on our at least in Central Europe. charter and web site. The first APECS Polska executive committee was elected by acclamation and the results are: president Dr Gosia Korczak; http://apecs.arcticportal.org/apecs-news/1268- vice-president Liliana Keslinka; treasurer Artur Adamek; Education report-on-the-launch-of-apecs-polska APECS January 2010 Newsletter 1 APECS JANUARY 2010 APECS News (cont). Message from the Director APECS Sweden Career Day IPY Oslo Science Conference Contributed by Alex Taylor On January 20 APECS Sweden will arrange a career day, to be held in the DeGeer Geoscience building at Stockholm University. A panel of polar science speakers will present their experiences and advice from a range of different occupations in academia, the public sector and business. Happy New Year APECS Members, http://apecs.is/apecs-news/1232-apecs-sweden- career-day 2010 will see one of the major International Polar Research conferences in history. The IPY Oslo Science Conference will be held from 8-12 June 2010 in Oslo, Norway. You have already seen several announcements Latest Videos on the listserve about this conference, and you can expect to see a few more in the coming weeks. There will be loads of great events for young researchers such as a Professional Development Workshop, a Speed- and Podcasts Networking Reception, an APECS Lounge, and an area for you to have interviews with potential employers. To apply for one of the 400 young researcher stipends and Even though we all love reading a good literature paper, from time to time, travel fellowships, submit an abstract through the we like to see science in action or listen to a meeting. This section is created conference system by 20 January and check the box to to share fun things that your colleagues have created and to share the apply for the Oslo Stipend. To get a sneak peak of the podcasts and lectures from our meetings. application log into the APECS website and go to apecs.is/oslo2010. Recent posts in the APECS multi-media For more information on the conference and to submit collection your abstract go to http://www.ipy-osc.no/. Looking forward to seeing all of you in Oslo in June! http://www.apecs.is/multi-media • POLAR WEEK-SCAR Oct.'09, Teodor Gh.Negoita, Andreia Magdalin at Faculty of Architecture,Iasi Romania • IPY Polar Field School - Svalbard 2009 • COP 15 and Students on Ice • Bergen Summer Research School 2009 Message to Copenhagen • APECS Meeting in Stockholm September 2007 • New Generation of Polar Researchers by Billy D'Andrea • International Polar Year - Overview The APECS newsletter is created by Benjamin Beall and the APECS Executive Committee. Please contact Ben ([email protected]) or any of the Executive Committee members with comments or questions about the newsletter. We are always looking for contributions, so if you have a story on polar research to share, please send us an email. In this issue, the images are courtesy of Benjamin Beall and the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists. 2 APECS News & Events APECS JANUARY 2010 Partner News & Announcements SCAR Report on Antarctic Climate Change and ice2sea Programme Announced the Environment ice2sea is a European Union Framework 7 (FP7) funded programme, Contributed by Kirstin Werner consisting of 24 project partners. The purpose of the project is to further constrain predictions of the contribution of continental ice to Following production of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report in 2005, SCAR decided that a southern hemisphere equivalent was required, and set about producing it. 100 scientists from 13 countries contributed as authors, and the manuscript was worked up by an editorial team of 9, headed by Dr John Turner of the British Antarctic Survey. http://apecs.is/all-news/21-news/1216-scar-report- on-antarctic-climate-change-and-the-environment IPY December 2009 Published Contributed by Kirstin Werner sea-level rise, over the next 200 years. It will contribute to the next IPCC report, as well as determining better understandings of the In the December issue of the IPY report: physical processes involved, creating a base of models for future work, and training a new generation of specialists to continue research in 1. Oslo Science Conference, 8-12 June 2010 state of the art prediction scenarios. 2. IPO at AGU Fall Meeting 3. IPY EOC update SCAR Newsletter: Issue 21, December 2009 4. APECS Update Contributed by Gerlis Fugmann 5. IPO during December 2009 The latest edition of the SCAR Newsletter is now available online at http://apecs.is/apecs-news/1217-ipy-report- http://www.scar.org/news/newsletters/issues2009/ december-2009- dec09.html IASSA Newsletter Autumn/Winter 2009 In this issue: 1. SCAR and Policy 2. Science News 3. Data and Information Management 4. Honours and Awards 5. Job Vacancies 6. Other SCAR-related Newsletters 7. Events Contributed by Gerlis Fugmann The Autumn/Winter 2009 issue of the IASSA newsletter "Northern Notes" is now available online at http://www.svs.is/IASSA/ NorthernNotes%20No31.pdf, and includes an APECS Social Sciences update. Partner News 3 APECS JANUARY 2010 Professor Steven Chown awarded the first Arctic Future: Issue 13, November 2009 Martha T. Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Contributed by Gerlis Fugmann Antarctica The Circumpolar International Internship Newsletter Arctic Future of Contributed by Gerlis Fugmann the International Institute for Sustainable Development is available at http://www.ookpik.org/content/arctic_future.aspx An outstanding researcher and world renowned advisor to the Antarctic Treaty In this issue: System, Professor Steven Chown of Stellenbosch University, South Africa, has 1. IISD and the CYLP at the Association of Canadian Universities been named the inaugural recipient of the for Northern Studies Conference prestigious Martha T. Muse Prize for Science 2. Climate Change Starts with Me and Policy in Antarctica. 3. Circumpolar Young Leaders Program Training http://apecs.is/features/1237- 4. Power Shift Canada: Youth taking action against climate change professor-steven-chown-awarded- 5. Alberta's Tar Sands and COP 15: A sticky problem the-first-martha-t-muse-prize-for- science-and-policy-in-antarctica 6. Norway's Climate and Cryosphere Project ICSU Newsletter - December 2009 State of the Arctic Conference - Student Contributed by Gerlis Fugmann Travel Scholarships Available The new International Council for Contributed by Gerlis Fugmann Science (ICSU) newsletter for December 2009 is available online at Travel support is available for students to http://www.icsu.org/ attend the State of the Arctic Conference, to be 3_mediacentre/ held 16-19 March 2010 in Miami, Florida. INSIGHT_12_2009.html The State of the Arctic Conference will be a ICSU, one of the oldest non-governmental organizations worldwide major milestone for arctic science by providing with a global membership of both national scientific bodies and an international forum to review the current international scientific unions, is a co-sponsor of the IPY Oslo Science knowledge of the arctic system in a time of Conference in June 2010. rapid environmental change and point to future research, resource management, and Content of the December 2009 Newsletter: policy directions. Participants will include a diverse and interdisciplinary group of scientists, students, agency 1.