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 August is our Special Video Feature Month! Take a break from hard field work or intensive office hours and watch the latest APECS videos!
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 Dear APECS colleagues, We have been extremely touched by your many messages of concern as a result of the recent bombing in Oslo and the shooting at the youth camp outside Oslo. APECS has very strong ties to Norway with our Directorate based in Tromsø, over 150 Norwegian members, and hundreds of supporters and other collaborators. Like many of you, we are in shock and disbelief as news of these events, partly aim...
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Hello APECS members, As you have probably seen on the APECS website and in your inboxes, nominations are now open for the APECS Executive Committee But, you may be thinking, that you have not really been that involved in APECS before or maybe you helped with a few events or attended a workshop and you want to get more involved, but aren't quite sure the Execu...
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Nominations Now Open for the 2011-2012 APECS Executive Committee Dear APECS members, In September we will have APECS Executive Committee elections for the 2011-2012 term. The purpose of this email is to encourage YOU to consider applying for the new APECS Ex...
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APECS welcomes two new members to the Council: Rebeca Zapata Guardiola  Rebeca Zapata Guardiola graduated from the University of La Laguna in 2005 with a degree in Marine Biology; she also co...
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 We are proud to report the successful conclusion of the Remote Sensing for Polar Scientists summer school. This, the second of two UK Polar Network events supported by the
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 Three Polish APECS members, Liliana Keslinka-Nawrot, Adam Nawrot and Tomasz Wawrzyniak will stay a whole year in Polish Polar Station (PPS) situated in Hornsundfjord (15o 33’ E 77o N), Svalbard. This is the northernmost Polish...
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 On June 27, 2011, APECS held a career development workshop in conjunction with the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) General Assembly in Melbourne, Australia. The workshop attracted 25 parti...
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 Dr. Jose Xavier, (one of the founding members of APECS and past Vice-President), a marine ecologist at the Institute of Marine Research of the University of Coimbra in Portugal an...
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 Should Global Climate Change research data be freely available, to anyone, anywhere? And what about the peer-reviewed publications that make sense of that data? Should they be freely available at publication? Could they be? And i...
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 Phd students from all over the world gathered today in the Meteorology Department at Reading University for the summer school ‘Remote Sensing for Polar Scientists’. Organised by members of the UK Polar Network, in partnership with the National Ce...
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During the IUGG (International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly; http://www.iugg2011.com/) conference in Melbourne, that took place between the 28th of June and the 7th of July, the leadership of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS http...
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 Another successful APECS social event was held this month in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 78N – a perfect polar location for a polar-inspired quiz...just what you expect from APECS! The participants: studen...
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Only one week to go and Students On Ice will head North for their Arctic Expedition 2011. Their journey will start on Iceland and bring them to Greenland, Labrador and Northern Canada. Their mandate is to educate and inspire the next generation of polar scientists and environmental leaders – and in doing so, help to pr...
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 Two great early career researcher events were held in connection with the 7th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences in Akureyri, Iceland! A pre-conference career development workshop (http://apec...
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 The June APECS Virtual Poster Session focusing on “Social Sciences” was held on June 30 at 12 GMT. The call was coordinated by Yulia Zaika (APECS Organizational Development Committee Chair 2010-2011) and...
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 The Arctic Frontiers (AFT) conference is a central arena for discussions of arctic issues. The conference brings together representatives from science, politics, and civil society to share perspectives on how upcoming challe...
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Dear friends IPY Conference Montreal 22-27 April 2012 is coming your way (http://www.ipy2012montreal.ca/)!! The call for abstracts are open until 30 September !! We have various APECS members convening in various sessions, but you are an early career scientist working in polar marine ecosystems, do consider submitting...
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Normally in my director's message to you each month I feature a place or institution in Norway that may be of interest to you, but this month, I feel compelled to share something far greater, the core that has built those great institutions...
