APECS News

Women on Arctic Fieldwork from APECS Webinars on Vimeo.

Thank you for the amazing photos that were submitted for our Antarctica Day 2021 Photo Competition!

We received 14 submissions in total. Now it is time for YOU to vote on your favourite photo. 

How to vote? Click through the photo gallery on our photo competition website and note their number and photographer name. And then fill out the voting form.

The Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) 2022 is inviting Early Career Co-Chairs (ECC) for engaging in the upcoming hybrid AOS, convening 30 March - 1 April 2022, in Tromsø, Norway and online on the theme “Arctic observing at the intersection of health, understanding, and resilience”.

Due to the actual COVID-19 measures our symposium “For Sustainability in the Polar Regions“ will be postponed to 17 March 2022! See further information here.

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and APECS Germany are organising a webinar on the SCAR Fellowship Programme. The webinar will be held via Zoom on Antarctica Day, 1st December 2021 at 3pm UTC/4pm CET.

The Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium (ARICE) and Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) invite for a webinar on How to measure water exchange in the Fram Strait using novel tracers? on 2 December 2021 from 13:00 – 14:00 pm GMT.

The international polar community celebrates Antarctica Day on the 1^st of December to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty. During this year, the APECS Antarctica Day Project Group (PG) has planned a series of activities for all our members and national committees to raise awareness of the importance of Antarctica in a fast changing world.

The Mentorship Database, Mental Health, Art and T-MOSAiC vlogs Project Groups are looking for additional members in their groups! Are you interested in getting involved? See their project description and call for members below. Please note that all Project Groups are open for registrations but the groups below are seeking members in particular.

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) are looking for two early career scientists to join the SOOS Southern Ocean Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) initiative.