A date for your diaries and a fantastic conference in which to get involved!!
Event: International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES) 2011
Where: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
When: 10th ? 16th July 2011
The International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES)
promises to be one of the major events in the polar science calendar
of 2011, and APECS and the UK Polar Network will be there in force!
As well as reduced conference registration fees, funding support is
also available for Early Career Researchers thanks to ISAES and
supported by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) to
part-cover travel and accommodation expenses. This will be allocated
using the Funding Support Application Form on the ISAES website, so
make sure you download and fill this in and email it to
S.F.Henley@sms.ed.ac.uk when you submit your abstract. To be eligible
for this funding support, you must be a PhD student or a post-doc or
academic staff still within three years of PhD completion. Full
instructions are given on the ISAES 2011 web pages under the title
?Early Career Scientists?.
There are a host of APECS/UK Polar Network events lined up for those
of you planning to attend ISAES. An early career evening event will
comprise an open-floor mentoring panel session focusing on "Succeeding
in Polar Science". All Early Career Researchers are invited to ask
questions and seek the advice of senior mentors with the expertise to
help you make a great start to your polar science career! Drinks will
be provided at the Mentoring Session and then the evening will
continue with informal networking in the conference centre bar.
A full programme of public engagement and outreach activities is also
planned during ISAES and APECS/UKPN volunteers will play a major role!
Plans are still to be finalised, but there will be many outreach
opportunities for us to get involved in engaging the general public
about the huge importance of polar science and inspiring the next
generation of polar scientists!
So put the date in your diary now and start submitting your abstracts
to avoid missing out on a great event for APECS, the UK Polar Network
and Polar Science as a whole! Abstract submission and early bird
(cheap!) registration close on the 31st March, so get in early and
make sure you don?t miss out on this fantastic opportunity!
For more information, check out the ISAES XI website at
www.isaes2011.org.uk
And if you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me at
S.F.Henley@sms.ed.ac.uk
I hope to see you in Edinburgh in the summer!
Sian Henley
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On behalf of the Organising Committee, ISAES 2011, Edinburgh
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PhD Student
Edinburgh University
Diatom Ecology and Biogeochemistry of the Antarctic sea ice zone
Supervisor: Dr Raja Ganeshram
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