The deadline for registration for the 2016 UK Antarctic Science Conference at the University of East Anglia, Norwich (5th-7th July) is fast approaching: deadline of Friday 17th June.

The main conference will be preceded by a meeting of the UK branch of APECS - the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists - (4th–5th July), and followed by a Workshop on Southern Ocean biases in Climate Models (afternoon of 7th July).

Online booking is available at:
http://store.uea.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=28&catid=17&prodid=53

Accommodation on the UEA Campus may be booked on the website for the low cost of £40 per night B&B, or there are a range of other accommodations available on and off campus in the fine medieval city of Norwich.

The conference includes talks on the New UK Polar Research Vessel, the Sir David Attenborough, and the iSTAR Pine Island Glacier traverses.There will be invited talks by David Wilson (great nephew of Edward Wilson who died with Scott) on the Centenary of the Shackleton Expedition to Antarctica, and by Amanda Lynnes of the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators. There is an exciting programme of talks and posters on all aspects of Antarctic Science.

The programme for the main meeting can be found here: https://goo.gl/G5IiY3

The meeting will be held in the new low-carbon Enterprise Centre that opened this year: a Passivhaus and BREEAM Outstanding building, and currently Britain’s “greenest” building.

Partial registration fee rebates are available for UK-based PhD students thanks to funding by the Natural Environment Research Council.

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