APECS News

The XII Workshop APECS Portugal is finally here and will focus on how polar science and scientists adapted to the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic: “An Unexpected Journey - Polar Science in a Pandemic crisis”. Through a hybrid format, the event will be completely free and our objective will be to discuss the negative and positive effects of the pandemic on polar science expeditions, data collection, science outputs, networking and education; as well as lessons learned.

Event date: 30th November, 9:00-17:00 GMT. 

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) are organizing a webinar for all those interested in applying to the 2022 IASC Fellowship Program. We will be introducing the IASC Fellowship Program, and several of the current and past IASC Fellows as well as working group chairs will be introducing themselves and discuss their work with the IASC Working Groups. The webinar will also provide the opportunity for potential applications to ask questions about the program and the application process.

The IASC Fellowship Webinar will be on 25 October 2021 at 14:00 GMT and you can attend it via this link. We have a capacity limit of 100 participants for the webinar.

APECS is happy to announce that the position of the APECS Executive Director of the International Directorate in Tromsø, Norway is now open for applications!

Application deadline is 7 November 2021.

A new host for the APECS Directorate has been found: The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in Tromsø in partnership with the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) and the High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment (FRAM) will be hosting the APECS Directorate for the coming 5 years, from the beginning of 2022 until the end of 2026!

The Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium (ARICE) and Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) invite for a webinar on Marine Fungi & Mineral Ballasting -  An Influence on Arctic Carbon Export? on 27 October 2021 from 09:00 – 10:00 am GMT.

This PolarWeek was all about pen and paper, as we learned the basics of sketchnotes from Prof. Katharina Theis-Bröhl (University of Applied Science, Bremerhaven) as part of the “From Research Abstract to Comic: I can not draw, but sketch my science!” workshop.

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) are looking for an early career scientist to join the the SOOS Observing System Design Capability Working Group (OSD CWG).

In the run-up to COP26 and in collaboration with the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT), the UK Polar Network is organising a series of online Pint of Science talks:

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), the Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) of the Arctic Council, the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA), the Sustaining Arctic Observing Network (SAON)  in cooperation with the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) are excited to announce several fellowships this year: 

• IASC Fellowship Program 2022
• SDWG-IASSA-IASC Fellowship 
• SAON-IASC Fellowship

Please note that you can apply for all three fellowships but can only be accepted to one of them.