Association of Polar Early Career Scientists

 

APECS is excited to announce that another leadership term has begun on 1 October 2016!

apecs logo webAPECS Executive Committee 2016-2017:

APECS’ tenth Executive Committee (ExCom) is now in place and ready to continue to shape the polar world.

  • Alice Bradley (University of Colorado Boulder, United States)
  • Josefine Lenz (Alfred-Wegener Institute, Germany)
  • Hanne Nielsen (University of Tasmania, Australia)
  • Alex Thornton (University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States)
  • TJ Young (University of Cambridge/British Antarctic Survey, United Kingdom)

have been elected to form the ExCom, the main leadership body of APECS. Ruth Vingerhagen (United Kingdom), Heather Mariash (Canada), and Tristy Vick-Majors (Canada/United States) will serve as ex-officios and support the new ExCom over the coming year. And of course, Gerlis Fugmann, the APECS Executive Director will continue to support and foster the group from the International Directorate in Tromsø, Norway (and from February 2017 from our new location in Potsdam, Germany). More information on the APECS 2016-2017 Executive Committee can be found here.

Alice Bradley 2016APECS President 2016-2017:

With a new term, comes a new president, and this year Alice Bradley will be taking on this role. Alice is currently finishing her PhD research at the University of Colorado Boulder. She uses in situ and remote sensing observations of upper ocean heat and sea ice to study how the annual cycle of first-year ice growth in the Arctic is changing. She has been involved in APECS leadership for the past two years and is on the board of the US APECS committee.

 

APECS Council 2016-2017:

In 2016-2017 the APECS Council is made up of 49 very enthusiastic members from 24 countries: Sara Aparicio (Italy), Ted Bibby (USA), Gesche Blume-Werry (Sweden), Liz Bowman (USA), Julie Bull (Canada), Marta Bystrowska (Poland), Jilda Caccavo (Italy), Adam Campbell (New Zealand), Elizabeth Ceperley (USA), Henrik Christiansen (Belgium), Caroline Coch (Germany), Jennifer Cooper (USA), Adrian Dahood (United States), Meagan Dewar (Australia), Onur Sabri Durak (Turkey), Tamara Fletcher (USA), Friederike Gehrmann (Finland), Caroline Geisert (France), Vikram Goel (Norway), Claire Griffin (USA), Jean Holloway (Canada), Christopher Horvat (USA), Luis Huckstadt (USA), Bruno Ibañez (Peru), Lynn Kaluzienski (USA), Hanna Maria Kauko (Norway), Minkyoung Kim (South Korea), Nikita Kuprikov (Russia), Douwe Maat (Netherlands), Claudia Maturana (Chile), Bernabé Moreno (Peru), Swati Nagar (India), Karolina Paquin (Norway), Igor Stelmach Pessi (Belgium), José Queirós (Portugal), Pablo Rodríguez Ros (Spain), Gabriela Roldan (New Zealand), Vicki Sahanatien (Canada), Jose Séco (Portugal), Elisa Seyboth (Brazil), Evgeniia Sidorova (Canada/Russia), Merran Smith (Canada), Sara Strey (USA), Lorna Thurston (USA), Katya Uryupova (UK/Russia), Gary Wesche (USA), Scott Zolkos (Canada). Additionally, Yulia Zaika (Russia) remains on the Council in an ex-officio role. More information on the APECS 2016-2017 Council can be found here.

We once again thank the many APECS leaders that have come before us and have helped guide and foster many of those serving today! We look forward to another year with the projects that are currently underway, and continue to look for more ways that we can serve and help early career polar researchers around the world.

Contact APECS

APECS International Directorate
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Huginbakken 14
9019 Tromsø
Norway
Email: info(at)apecs.is

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