For updates on the APECS Career Development Workshop, click here: http://apecs.is/workshops/oslo2010

For updates on Stipend Accommodation, click here: http://apecs.is/events/oslo2010/travel-support

We are very happy to let you know that ~500 young researchers have benefited from the IPY Oslo Stipend Programme and the reduced registration fee. A VERY BIG THANK YOU to the Research Council of Norway for being so proactive in supporting those of us that will carry forward the legacy of IPY!

Here is an updated list of IPY Oslo Stipend Recipients

Here is a list of the participants for the APECS Career Development Workshop prior to the IPY Oslo Conference

Here are some of the great questions we have been getting - and the best answers we can provide.  Please read them carefully :)

Q: I am a student and I want to know if there is a reduced registration fee to attend the conference?
A: As of Monday 1-Mar, the Conference Secretariat approved a reduced fee for students. To make sure you qualify, your advisor or department head needs to send an email to Richard Hart This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and Asgeir Knudsen giving them your name, abstract number and title, and confirming that you are curently a studend involved in polar related research. You will then hear back from Richard or Asgeir and can follow their instructions.

Q: Originally I did not receive a stipend or I was on the waiting list, but I was just informed that I am indeed getting a stipend. The trouble is that I already registered for the conference and paid the full price and I booked my accommodation but would like to use the stipend programme accommodation. What do I do now?
A: Confirm your acceptance of the stipend immediately (email to Richard Hart explaining the situation and he will take care of making sure you get the 1/2 of your registration fee refunded. Fill out the stipend programme accommodation survey and be sure to cancel your regular hotel booking.

Q: I just heard about the 1/2 price student registration, but I already registered and paid full price. What do I do now?
A: Just have your advisor Asgeir Knudsen giving them your name, abstract number and title, and confirming that you are curently a studend involved in polar related research. After that is done, send Richard and Asgeir a message telling them that you paid full price, who your advisor is that sent them the email and that need to receive the 1/2 of your registration fee back.

Great news!  Do to an overwhelming response from early career scientists, the IPY Oslo Science Conference is now offering a reduced registration fee for all currently registered students as well as retired professionals.

If you would like to be considered for the reduced fee, you must be currently enrolled as a student and have your advisor or the head of your department send an email to Richard Hart confirming that you are a student at XX University working a polar research related topic.

We have excellent news for Portuguese participants in IPY-OSC.

IPY Portuguese Commitee funding to the Oslo conference for early career researchers, teachers and educators.

Travel Grant Opportunity: Applications are open for early career researchers, teachers and educators from Portuguese institutions that will present a talk or poster in the IPY Oslo Science Conference, in June 2010. Travel support covers transportation and accommodation up to a maximum of 500€/person. Funds are limited and priority will be given to successful applicants who have already been awarded with half of the registration fee and accommodation costs by the IPY-OSC organizing committee.

More information at http://www.portalpolar.pt (in portuguese)
Deadline: 12 March 2010.

Just to keep you all informed and to help reduce the number of email requests our dear Director has been getting, please read this carefully.

We also want to caution you about contacting some of these groups after their application deadline has closed and their funding has been awarded (IASC< IARC, etc).  Asking them to fund you now after their funds have been allotted will only cause extra work for them and they will remember your request, and probably not in a positive way. We know that you can find alternative sources - you just might have to be a little creative :)

-- Funding for Portuguese researchers to attending Oslo Conference, click here

-- We have heard that the Canadian Federal IPY Office will be supporting some travel for young researchers and indigenous Canadian participants. We have sent them the list of stipend recipients and they are hoping to send out notifications of awards by 4 March.

-- Recently, thanks to the efforts of Hugues Lantuit and Paul Egerton, the European Polar Board, part of the European Science Foundation, agreed to contribute 5000 Euro toward the travel of young European Researchers to this conference. They have recieved our rankings as well and will be in touch with the recipients hopefully by 4 March. Please do not contact the European Polar Board regarding this, it will drastically decrease your chances for funding.  They will also send declination emails to those European stipend recipients that were not funded.

-- For those of you from Russia, make sure you try for funding from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. APECS cannot issue individual invitation letters. Please see the conference website for information on letters.

Dear IPY Stipend Recipients,

Please remember that you need to register as a conference participant by 4 March to retain your stipend.

You have received your discount registration code already. If you have lost this, please contact Richard Hart.

We realize that many of you still are not sure of travel funding or field work schedules so it may be hard to justify paying the registration fee if you are unsure you can attend. But, in accordance with the cancelation policy set up by the steering committee, if you register and then cancel by 27 April, you will receive your registration fee back minus a 10% administration fee. So worse case scenario: you register for the conference and have to cancel by 27 April, for whatever reason, and loose 24.5 euros. We hope you agree that taking a 24.5 euro chance to attend what will surely be a great opportunity for you to advance your career is an investment you will be willing to make. See http://www.ipy-osc.no/section/1259314487.95 for full cancelation policy.

If you don't register, there are a lot of people on the waiting list that would love to get your stipend...

Thanks,
Jenny and Hugues

Those of you who applied for the APECS Career Development Workshop were notified today about the committee's decision.

You need to send your acceptance or declination to by 24 Feb 2000 GMT or your position at the workshop will be given to the next person on the waiting list.

Please direct all workshop questions to

Last Friday emails were sent to all that applied for the stipend, either notifiying of acceptance, waiting list status, or declinations.

Stipend recipients need to notify Jenny Baeseman by 19 Feb at 2000 GMT or their stipends will be forfeited and alternates will be selected.

For a complete breakdown of the stipend recipients, read the great article written by Kristen Ulstein.

• ranking based on the outcome of the Stipend Reviewing Committee
• the quality of the abstract
• representation of scientists with an indigenous background