APECS News

Communication is becoming increasingly important in the scientific world, whether in the context of project deliverables or to inform the general public of current scientific challenges and breakthroughs. We always say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so why not convey your current polar research issues through your most beautiful expedition photographs? 

This year, APECS Belgium teams up with the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and the International Polar Foundation for the Museums Nocturnes of Brussels. We are organizing a polar photography exhibition at the Natural Sciences Museum between the 19th and the 22nd of May.

With great pleasure, the APECS Arts Project Group invites the public to an online tour of the Active Witnesses exhibition, an introduction to the project concept, and a Q&A session about socially engaged art in the Arctic and Lapland, specifically. The session will be held by the exhibition curator Raphael Vega. Please register here and join us on April 22 at 12 pm GMT.

The EU project Arctic PASSION plans activities for early career scientists and Arctic and Indigenous youth to exchange knowledge, experiences and learnings multilaterally and also to promote the next generation in the use of Arctic observing systems. But most importantly, it is learning from you! With combined capacities, visions and ideas we can improve relevant Arctic observations together in order to better understand Arctic environmental change, and to adapt technologies and data acquisition for societal needs. 

The votes on our March 2022 Polar Week Photo Competition are in. More than 200 people voted on the 16 amazing submissions on Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine photographs. A big thank you to all the people who submitted a picture and another thank you to everyone who voted and made this photo competition happen. 

We are happy to now announce the winners of our photo competition. 

Congratulations to ... Marielle Holmbom, Julius Lauber and Ruth Tchana Wandji!

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is a non-partisan, non-governmental organization that does not usually take a stance on current political events, but firmly condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Both countries contribute to polar research, which requires international collaboration — the foundation of APECS.

We are pleased to announce the annual APECS Switzerland member meeting during the International Polar Week!

Mark your calendars for Thursday 24^th March, 16:00-18:00 CET.

Alpine Cryosphere is a project group that represents an increasing number of APECS members working in the mid-latitude and high-altitude environments. We have the aim to connect, gain perspectives from the community, and improve APECS’ resources for non-polar researchers.

In 2021, Alpine Cryosphere created the first Alpine Cryosphere Newsletter. Right now we are looking for contributions for the upcoming edition of the APECS Alpine Cryosphere Newsletter. 

APECS seeks to recognize and honor the efforts of its mentors within the international polar scientific community. The APECS International Mentorship Award is designed to recognize the time and energy that mentors devote to Early Career Researchers (ECRs) each year, and their efforts to build a community of support. APECS will award a mentor who works with the ECR polar scientific community (this covers Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine areas). APECS encourages ECRs around the world to nominate mentors who are deserving of this recognition.

The APECS Workshop at the Arctic Science Summit Week 2022 project group has organized hybrid sessions on 28 March 2022. To join, participants need to register for online or in-person attendance at ASSW. Online participation is free of charge, and the in-person registration price is reduced 50% for early career researchers and indigenous participants.

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is currently developing a polar remote sensing resource that will summarize key relevant information about Earth Observation techniques in the polar sciences and improve the accessibility of remote sensing to polar early career researchers (ECRs). To make this resource as useful for the community as possible, we would like to better understand your current needs, expectations, and barriers to polar remote sensing. We thus welcome all early career polar researchers (master students, PhD candidates and professional researchers, both in public and private sectors, up to 8 years after obtaining a PhD) studying the Arctic, Antarctic and/or the Alpine region, to fill out this survey: https://forms.gle/qdPtHacLFzTveZSC7