The Executive Committee on Polar Observations, Research, and Services promotes and coordinates relevant programmes that are carried out in the Antarctic and Arctic regions by nations and by groups of nations. It interfaces with all World Meteorological Organization programmes and other related programmes throughout the world, meeting global needs and requirements for meteorological observations, research and services in the polar regions.
The upcoming EC-PORS meeting will be held in March 2013 in Lanzhou, China. APECS will be represented by APECS member Wang Yuzhe. In his words:
"I'm a masters student at State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou City, China. I'm working on the glacier volume changes of Mt. Qilian, in northeast Tibetan Plateau during the early twenty-first century. The goal of this research is to calculate the regional mass balance and how much glacier mass has changed in the recent decade and try to link the glacier volume change to regional climate change and glacier runoff. I use satellite data (i.e SRTM, ICESat, Chinese ZY-3) and field survey GPS data. I will graduate in May this year. This is a good opportunity for me to shape my successive doctoral direction of polar studies. The meeting will be held in Lanzhou and I can provide the local service for APECS' friends."
