Meet the 2011-2012 ExCom: Allen Pope (UK / USA), Angelika Renner (Norway), Jennifer Provencher (Canada), Luis Guilherme Resende de Assis (Brazil), Gerlis Fugmann (ExCom Ex-Officio, Germany / Canada) and Yulia Zaika (APECS President 2011-2012, Russia). All the bios of the new Executive Committee and Council are available on www.apecs.is/leadership. We are looking forward to a great year full of exciting activities and events and encourage you to learn more about the leadership team ...

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One year after the launch of the International Polar Year (IPY) Education, Outreach and Communication (EOC) Assessment Project the task of inventorying and investigating the hundreds of IPY EOC programmes that occurred during the IPY 2007-08 is now complete. Supported by APECS, IASC and SCAR, this ICSU funded project is the only global examination...

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As the active layer cools in the northern hemisphere, APECS is proud to announce a new Discipline of the Month: October is Permafrost time! If you understood the first sentence, or especially if you didn’t, this is the month for you. Check out and contribute to the Permafrost Page, and regularly visit again for updates ...

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Representatives of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) came together at the ICSU Polar Challenges meeting 23-24 September 2011 in Sienna, Italy to sign a memorandum of understanding to advance the professional and academic development of early career researchers working in the cryosphere ...

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Julia Schmale, APECS RAC Co-Chair and researcher based at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, has been asked to serve on the Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) for the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2013 ...

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APECS is proud to welcome Richard Boone as the newest mentor on the APECS Advisory Committee. He is Professor of Ecosystem Ecology in the Department of Biology and Wildlife and the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks;  ...

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APECS is international. APECS is interdisciplinary. APECS is truly an organization fueled by its members. But who exactly are they? Recently, we had a quick look at who is in APECS, and you might be interested in reading the results.

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"APECS Panel Finding Opportunities for Polar Research (Palma de Mallorca-Spain) Surrounded by beautiful beaches, sunny days and amazing food, an APECS Panel was organized within the VIII Symposium on Polar Studies ...

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The 11th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences in Edinburgh, UK, was a resounding success for APECS, the UK Polar Network, all those in attendance and polar science as a whole! A record number of delegates attended ...

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In June the APECS Director and organization co-founder, Jenny Baeseman, was invited to participate in the US National Academy of Sciences Workshop designed to help summarize the activities of the International Polar Year...

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Another great conference to put on your wish list... The first circular for the XXXII SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) Open Science Conference ...

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To assist IASC and SCAR in thinking about how they might work yet more closely together in future, and how they might best contribute to the International Polar Year and its legacy, a Joint Bipolar Action Group (BipAG) was formed in early 2008. This joint Action Group provided very useful advice to the SCAR and IASC Executive Committees ...

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As you probably know, the IPY 2012 From Knowledge to Action Conference is the final event of International Polar Year 2007 - 2008, the largest international program of interdisciplinary polar research ever undertaken ...

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The September issue of the journal Oceanography, "The Changing Arctic Ocean: Special Issue on the International Polar Year (2007-2009)," is now available from The Oceanography Society ...

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We have a couple of really great opportunities for you here - but you need to act quickly... The Arctic Council working group on the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) has asked if we can send a member to their upcoming workshop...

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Melbourne (Australia) meeting, 5-7 July 20011 The AGCS is a research programme of the SCAR - Standing Scientific Group (SSG) – Physical Science (PS). The main objective of this programme is to investigate the interaction of the Antarctic atmospheric and oceanic climate and the rest of the earth system on a decadal time scale ...

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Free UK Polar Network Workshop:High latitude biology, ecosystems and the future; A multidisciplinary approach •       Are you about to embark in polar research or currently touch on polar topics? ...

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Jokkmokk Winter Conference 2012Transition: from Knowing to Implementing - How to cope with (climate) change? 30 January - 2 February 2012Register now for Jokkmokk Winter Conference 2012 ...

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Hello APECS Members, It’s a great pleasure for me to introduce the 2011-2012 ExCom to you: Allen Pope, Angelika Renner, Jennifer Provencher, Luis Guilherme Resende de Assis, Gerlis Fugmann, and myself. We are looking forward to a great year full of exciting activities and events and encourage you to learn more about the leadership team of the APECS ExCom and Council made up of 37 enthusiastic young scientists from 19 countries!

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As the sun is getting closer and closer to setting in Arctic Norway, October is a great reminder of things getting colder, and frozen. So "October is Permafrost" is a great time to share with you some of the amazing permafrost research in Norway.  If you are curious about the state of permafrost in Svalbard and parts of Norway, you can check out the first Norwegian permafrost database NORPERM ...

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