Next RAC call: November 2011, details will follow

Disciplines of the Month    

upcoming displines

RAC members are responsible for ensuring that information from various research fields is shared with the entire APECS membership. They collect and disseminate information relevant to the specific scientific area they chair, coordinate forum and literature discussions, support the activities of APECS members regarding the organization of workshops and seminars, and encourage the establishment of linkages between research areas through a close cooperation with the other RAC members. The Research Activities Committee aims at developing new research questions and approaches this by integrating various research fields and by identifying and answering the system-level questions necessary for understanding the environs of the Polar Regions.

Continuous Tasks

A) manage the discipline list-serves

B) VPS call chairing

C) webpage postings

D) featuring the discipline of the month

Journals

We post links and a little bitmap image of relevant journals in our field on the Journal webpage.

Website

We keep the APECS website updated, post new articles, news features, information on conference, workshops, fieldschools etc. We create webpages for the areas of reseach of APECS members and gather important and up-to-date information.

Submit Poster to the Virtual Poster Session

All RAC members submit one poster per year to the Virtual Poster Session.

Events
We post any relevant events to the Polar Meetings page of this website. This is an ongoing process and needs to be done continuously.

Discipline of the month

Each month one APECS research discipline is featured by the RAC members and their groups. Are you interested in featuring your area of research? Contact us!

RAC call notes

Meetings will be conducted through Adobe Connect Pro hosted by the University of Canterbury. The system is the same as the VPS and Council calls are using. It is easy, you only need a connection to the internet and klick on the link I will send you to connect to the meeting. When following the link, you will be asked to log in to the virtual room as guest providing your name. There is a great easy to understand tutorial video showing you how to join these sessions if you haven't before (but also when you have, this tutorial is really helpful): http://apecs.is/virtual-poster-session/live-sessions

RAC documents

Virtual Poster Session schedule

RAC members

Conferences

Listservs

Discipline of the Month Guide

This guide provides you with some ideas, tips and tricks on how to promote your research field as discipline of the month.

It is a very creative and highly rewarding activity to set up a webpage and have other activities. People get very excited about it and you will get a great resonance! And remember, working in teams is always more fun, so try to have at least another person from your research discipline to work with and you’ll see how easily and quickly everything gets done. This is a working document - so feel free to edit this with things you have learned from your DOM.