Events 2018

APECS, in cooperation with the EU Horizon 2020-funded project Nunataryuk and the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN), organized the Nunataryuk Workshop 2018 for early career researchers participating in the Nunataryuk project. The workshop took place in connection with the first General Assembly of Nunataryuk from 30 September - 6 October 2018 on the island of San Servolo near Venice, Italy.

APECS was once again partner of the Arctic Frontiers 2018 conference that took place in Tromsø, Norway, from 22-26 January 2018. This year’s theme was Connecting the Arctic and APECS contributed to the Arctic Frontiers Young programme with several activities:

The EU Horizon 2020-funded APPLICATE project, in cooperation with the World Meteorological Organization’s Polar Prediction Project (PPP) in occasion of the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP), the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and other partners organized the Polar Prediction School 2018 on weather and climate prediction in the polar regions from 17 - 27 April 2018 at Abisko Scientific Research Station in Sweden.

On November 30th, 16 young researchers met in Bremerhaven, Germany for the PYRN-APECS Workshop during the 10th meeting of the Working Group Permafrost of the German Society of Polar Research (DGP) in Bremerhaven (30 Nov – 1 Dec 2018).

APECS Turkey, in conjunction with ITU PolRec, hosted a workshop on Education and Outreach in the Polar Sciences in Istanbul, Turkey, at the Istanbul Technical University (ITU) from 3 - 4 October.

APECS South Africa hosted their 1st workshop on 14 August 2018 at the 5th SANAP/NRF PI Symposium in South Africa.

The V Symposium was held at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil from May 15 to 18, 2018.

APECS in collaboration with the Marine Ecosystem of the Southern Ocean (MEASO) and the IDEAL research center of Chile held a panel in Hobart, Australia on April 8th.