SEQUOIA CLUB APECS March 2011 Newsletter APECS is all about building a network of enthusiastic polar researcher, and whether you study social dynamics of indigenous northern communities or track penguins in Antarctica, fieldwork motivates and excites a lot of us in the polar sciences! Which is why the newsletter this month is focusing on fieldwork and how APECS can help you get out into the field and get the most out of it. On the APECS website you can see information about APECS members who recently returned from a Students on Ice University Cruise to Antarctica, information about upcoming field schools, or contribute to and get information from our Field Sites Database. Of course, we all need funding to get out into the field - so if you're interested to contributing to the Funding Resources Working Group, it's a great way to get involved and learn some valuable information while building an important skill set. For more about APECS fieldwork - and all the regular polar news, events, jobs, and community that you always see in the APECS newsletter - keep on reading. Yours in Polar Research, - Allen Pope, APECS President 2010-2011 APECS News & • Research Sites Partner News • APECS Panel at the • Publishing and Working Group International Reviewing Journal Updates UArctic 10 Years – A Page 2 • Symposium on Papers History • APECS Conference Interactions of Ice • Working with the Travel Funds Contest Message from the • Young Professionals Sheets and Glaciers Media Photo Exhibition with the Ocean • Help wanted at AMS Director • Selling your best Asheville! • Miami Science • ICASS VII 2011 assets: Conducting a • Troll Station - APECS Virtual Poster Museum looking for • APECS Workshop at successful interview • Dronning Maud Land Session on Sediment polar science talks IUGG 2011 Antarctica • Non-academic or Budgets in Cold • Jakobsson Awarded • APECS at the 11th alternative careers in Environments Page 4 2011 IASC Medal International polar research Symposium on • APECS and CAFF Sign Page 7 • Designing your Memorandum of Feature – Antarctic Earth research questions Sciences (ISAES XI) Understanding Students on Ice Meetings, Page 11 Tenth International • CAFF & APECS Sea Chapuis and May with • • Workshops Conference on Ice Biodiversity Students on Ice Virtual Poster Permafrost Opportunity Antarctic Expedition • Arctic Science Summit Session Week 2011 • IPY 2012 Montréal • Join the SCAR Open (SOI) Youth Page 12 Science Conference Expedition 2010/2011 • Career Development Page 8 2012 Local • APECS Returns from Panel at the Jobs & Organizing 2011 Students on Ice Conference on Polar Career Committee Antarctic University Meteorology Opportunities Development Page 13 • APECS Workshop at Expedition • 2 APECS PORTUGAL the AMAP 2011 workshop Webinars Page 5 New Members Conference • APECS Workshop at • Communicating with Page 17 • APECS Workshop at the AMAP 2011 the Public About IUGG 2011 Conference Climate Change APECS March 2011 Newsletter 1 APECS MARCH 2011 B. Klock B. Klock B. Klock APECS News & Updates APECS Conference Travel Funds Contest APECS and CAFF Sign Memorandum of Contributed by Allen Pope Understanding Do you ever find it challenging to get money to attend international Contributed by Kári Fannar Lárusson conferences? Wish there were an easier way to find travel funding or funds to cover conference registration? Here’s an opportunity to win The Arctic Council recognizes in the Tromso €500 for exactly that! declaration that education, outreach, As an international organization, many of APECS’ most important scientific research and capacity building are initiatives are web-based. The content on our website is community- major tools via which to address challenges driven – and we want to hear from the entire APECS community so we in the Arctic. And on the third of February, can guarantee the latest and greatest information is shared with all our during the XIII CAFF Biennial meeting in members. We would like to ask you to help by posting this to jobs & Akureyri Iceland, a Memorandum of funding opportunities, posters, events, and polar news articles. Understanding was signed to strengthen cooperation between the Conservation of http://apecs.is/apecs-news/2683-apecs-conference- Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) working travel-funds-contest group of the Arctic Council and APECS. Help wanted at AMS Asheville! The memorandum was signed by Aevar Petersen CAFF Chair and Sigmar Arnarsson Contributed by Julia Schmale on behalf of APECS. The American Meteorological http://apecs.is/apecs-news/2710-apecs-and-caff-sign- Society's Board on Societal Impacts is memorandum-of-understanding organizing a conference on climate adaptation called: Practical Solutions CAFF & APECS Sea Ice Biodiversity for a Warming World, 18-20 July 2011, in Asheville, North Carolina. Opportunity The conference organizers would be very pleased to host an APECS event. Unfortunatelly, we don't know if any APECS member is planing Contributed by Allen Pope to attend this conference who would be motivated to participate in the CAFF (Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna) and APECS are organization of an APECS panel or social, or who could put up a poster. teaming up to provide more opportunities for early career researchers. If you are eager to help "shaping the future of polar research" contact CAFF is looking for an APECS member to participate in and contribute julia.schmale{a}mpic.de. to a project entitled "Status and Conservation Issues of Arctic Sea Ice- http://apecs.is/apecs-news/2700-help-needed associated Biodiversity." The first event associated with APECS Virtual Poster Session on Sediment this collaboration is a meeting in Budgets in Cold Environments Vancouver, British Columbia March 22-24. CAFF is especially Contributed by Matt Strzelecki interested in a fairly local participant, and if possible The APECS Working Group on Sediment Budgets in Cold someone with a food chain Environments is hosting a Virtual Poster Session on 24 March, 2011, specialist background. Please see the project info below and the 18:00 GMT. Professor Achim A. Beylich, the chair of SEDIBUD workshop invitation here. See the project website here. (Geological Survey of Norway & Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Dr. Armelle Decaulne (Clermont-Ferrand, France) are The meeting is approaching quickly, so if you're interested in this invited speakers. opportunity, please email apope00 [at] gmail [dot] com with your CV and a statement of interest by February 21st at the very latest. Visit http://apecs.is/virtual-poster-session/live- sessions for information on how to join this live session, and watch http://apecs.is/apecs-news/2694-caff-a-apecs-sea- for future announcements on the APECS website. ice-biodiversity-opportunity 2 APECS News & Events APECS MARCH 2011 J. Baeseman J. Baeseman J. Baeseman APECS News & Updates Join the SCAR Open Science Conference 2012 APECS Workshop at IUGG 2011 Local Organizing Committee 27 June 2011 Contributed by Allen Pope APECS is organizing a Career Development Workshop in association In April 2011, the ICSU-WMO Joint Committee for with the General Assembly of the the International Polar Year (IPY) will publish a International Union of Geodesy and summary of IPY activities in which the Committee Geophysics (IUGG; and associated teams were directly involved. http:// Comprising 38 chapters in five parts (Planning, www.iugg2011.com/) at Melbourne Research, Observations, Outreach, and Legacies), University, Melbourne, Australia on 27 the report covers the development of IPY 2007– June 2011. 2008 for almost a decade, from 2001 till summer The purpose of the workshop is to bring together early career polar 2010. researchers, those interested in starting a polar research project, and It has engaged hundreds of contributing authors from all disciplines senior mentors with the experience to help them. The workshop will and more than 20 nations. This broad overview demonstrates the consist of plenary lectures, hands-on breakout sessions, and panel extensive and essential contribution made by participating nations and discussions. organizations, and provides a prospective blueprint for future polar http://apecs.is/workshops/iugg-2011 research. http://apecs.is/apecs-news/2693-join-the-scar-open- science-conference-2012-local-organizing-committee APECS Workshop at the AMAP 2011 Conference APECS is happy to J. Baeseman announce Shaping the Future of AMAP early career researcher (ECR) workshop presented by APECS in association with AMAP this spring. This one day workshop will be held before “The Arctic as a Messenger for Global Processes - Climate Change and Pollution” in Copenhagen, 3-6 May 2011, hosted by AMAP, the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University. http://apecs.is/workshops/amap-2011 APECS News & Events 3 APECS MARCH 2011 APECS News (cont.) Research Sites Working Group • the possibilities to buy food and other essentials (e.g. Contributed by Mariette Wheeler batteries) The APECS working group ‘Research Sites’ intends to set up a database • expected costs including information about different research field sites and locations • fun stuff to do and around the globe where APECS members are currently working. recreational facilities This database will help young polar researchers who are planning to available in the area undertake research activities in the the remote polar regions. In I. May We will help to share all this great addition to the typical information (e.g. climate, habitat, major information with APECS members logistics) which are readily