The 6th APECS International Online Conference was held on 20th of May 2020. This year’s theme was: “Opening Doors: Collaboration across knowledge systems” and the event ran over 10 hours to accommodate contributions from all timezones. The abstracts and session recordings of all presentations can be found below.
Including those of the following prize winners for each category!
- Alpine:
Winner: Manasi Debnath, North-eastern Hill University, India - “Reconstruction of Glacier Dynamics of the Changme Khangpu Valley, Sikkim Himalaya” - Session 1
2nd place: Suman Kumari, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, India - “Estimating Spatio-temporal Variability of Satopanth & Bhagirath-kharak Glaciers using Geospatial Tools” - Session 1
3rd place: Nishu Bhardwaj, Remote Sensing Applications Centre Uttar Pradesh India - “Monitoring of Snow Cover Variation over Hindu Kush Himalaya (hkh) for the Periods of 2008-2018 using Cloud Mitigated Moderate Resolution Spectroradiometer (modis) Snow Cover Data” - Session 1 - Antarctic:
Winner: Minkyoung Kim, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - “Sinking Particle Flux and Composition at three sites of different annual Sea Ice Cover in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica” - Session 4
2nd place: Sofía Galbán, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain - “How Multidisciplinary Early Career Researchers Contribute to Investigate Airborne Microorganisms Dispersal from Antarctica In Microairpolar Project” - Session 3
3rd place: Rodrigo Gomez Fell, Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury, New Zealand - “Mapping Landfast Ice over Mcmurdo Sound by Interferometric Sar and Laser Altimetry” - Session 1
- Arctic:
Winner: Matthias Winkel, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany - “Seasonal Variation in Microbial Community Compositions and Functions on Icelandic Glacier”- Session 2
2nd place: Gretchen Lescord, Laurentian University, Canada - “Food for Thought; Subsistence Fishing in Northern Ontario and Future Needs from Environmental Monitoring Programs” - Session 5
3rd place: Steven Franke, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Germany - “Understanding an ice stream in Greenland at the EastGRIP camp: An international-multidisciplinary effort and knowledge transfer among scientists” - Session 4
- Collaboration:
Winner: Jonathan Griffith, University of Colorado Boulder, United States - “On Board with MOSAiC: Engaging the Public with Collaboratively Designed Resources” - Session 3
2nd place: Natalie Carter, University of Ottawa, Canada - "Collaborative Survey Development and Training to Understand Inuit uses and needs for Weather, Water, Ice and Climate Information" - Session 2
3rd place: Lisa Sheffield Guy, Arctic Research Consortium of the US, United States - “Working Across Knowledge Systems in Arctic Research, Policy, And Education” - Session 2
APECS congratulates the prize winners, all of whom have won funds towards future conference travel.
We are also grateful to all the presenters and volunteers who made the conference possible. Also thank you to all audience members for making the day a huge success!
Best wishes from the APECS International Online Conference 2020 project group!
