Council Meeting Notes 2012-2013

Council members: Emily Choy – Canada, Eleanor Darlington – United Kingdom, Pedro Echeveste – Spain, Russell Fielding – United States, Jolie Gareis – Canada, Maeva Gauthier – Canada, Kristen Gorman – Canada, Molly ZhognanJia – Australia, Alia Khan – United States, MajaLisowska – Poland, Sylvia Lourenço – Portugal, Sylvia Lourenço – Portugal, Heather Mariash - Canada/Finland, Dagmar Obbels – Belgium, Jean-Sébastien Moore – Canada, Julia Schmale – Germany, Anton Van de Putte – Belgium, Tristy Vick-Majors – United States, Mariëtte Wheeler – South Africa

Council calls, RAC calls, MIC calls
Ingress of 1 new council member
Posted jobs from various listservers, posting news
Posted opportunities for graduate studies
Posted news articles to the APECS Polar News site
Updated website with information about conferences
Worked on fixing broken links and testing the new structure on the webpage
Posted the "Polar Rock Repository" on the Polar Who's Who page on the APECS site
Updated APECS internal mailing lists
Updated funding database
Started the process of transferring frostbytes to APECS website
Developed Research highlights
Started video editing team (WG)
Started traditional knowledge working group (WG)
Svalbard FrostByte – inventory on the webpage
Planning and organizing Arctic Science Summit Week APECS workshop 2013
Helped out with the Norden application
Recruited new members and mentors
MIC activities

RAC activities
Updated the webpage (new members, new info...)
Monthly updates on the Monthly Research Feature
Adding new posters on the Virtual Poster Session
Looking for raw material from VPS from November 2011 onwards

E&O Activities
International Polar Week September 2012
A class room activity for schools: Flakes, Blobs, Bubbles: An Ice Core Art Project, an activity translated into several languages by APECS members
Webinars
Connect to the Poles webinars for teachers and schools
Ask-a-scientist forum: APECS members and mentors answering the questions from schools
Virtual Balloon launch
Local activities by national committees

Antarctica Day 2012 December 1st
A class room activity: Antarctica Day Flag Design - an activity for schools translated into several languages by APECS members
Webinar for classrooms from McMurdo Station
Virtual Balloon launch

Participation in past conferences and organization of APECS events / workshops
Polar Ecology Conference, Czech Republic – advertising APECS at the poster session
Polar Ecology Conference, Czech Republic –APECS Panel session
4th Portuguese Polar Conference – APECS presentation
APECS Portugal career development workshop
CCAMBIO workshop in Belgium - APECS BeNeLux poster
APECS BeNeLux symposium in Ghent, Belgium
IES JaumeBalmes College in Spain – Antartic Day Flagship
ArcticNet conference, Canada
Future of Polar Research in Finland – APECS Finland seminar and career development workshop
ART-APECS workshop in Sopot, Poland

Arctic Science Summit Week 2013 - APECS workshop
Annual APECS Portugal career development workshop
Polar and Alpine Microbiology (PAM) in Montana – APECS event
ATCM meeting – APECS Belgium science fair
SCAR Biology Symposium, Spain – APECS workshop
Alaska Marine Science Symposium, January 2013 in Anchorage, Alaska
Ecological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN in Aug 2013
ASLO in New Orleans, LA in February 2013 – informal APECS event