Sunday, April 10, 2016

Fwd: Please share: ECR events at EGU

Dear UKPN,

If you are goign to EGU next week, APECS has collated a list of ECR activities to attend through the course of the conference--questions about the social can be directed to APECS Austria!

Please also stop by and introduce yourselves to us at UKPN--I and a few other people will be at the conference and would love to put names to faces!

Thanks

TJ



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1. Social event for Early Career Cryosphere Scientists!
If there is one thing you need to attend it is the social event we are organising together with APECS. After the short course on Wednesday evening (see below) we will head to the 1516 Brewing Company) for some food, drinks and networking. We will be there at approximately 20.30. You do not have to sign up in advance, but if you know that you are coming it would be very helpful if you could let us know filling in this doodle. (There is also a facebook event)
2. Meeting about the Cryosphere Blog
Have you heard about the EGU Cryosphere blog? If you like this blog and would like to contribute to it  — directly and/or indirectly — please come and meet us on Tuesday the 19th of April at 12.15. (practical details will be updated in the e-agenda soon)
3. Short courses
Short courses give an insight into a certain area and/or the applications/uses/pitfalls in and around the topic. There are a lot of very interesting courses at this year's meeting and below we have highlighted a few of them.

Cryospheric short courses
Time and date: Wednesday the 20th of April, 19:00–20:00 (Room 0.31)
Time and date: Friday the 22nd of April, 13:30–14:30 (Room -2.85) || Wednesday the 20th Apr, 17:30–19:00 (Room 0.31)
Time and date: Thursday the 21st of April, 19:00–20:00 (Room 0.31)
Using Ice core chronologies: Dos and don'ts   :for researchers who do not work directly in the ice-core community, but who find themselves using ice core data for comparison with other climate data and time-series. 
Meet the editor: The Cryosphere || Climate of the past will both discuss the publication process. How it works, what is needed, what should be avoided etc. 

Introduction to climate modelling about how the climate models are developed and applied at different spatial and temporal scales.
Broader Early-career short courses:
Of course there also many short courses of general interest for young researchers. Below, we highlighted a few of them but you can find more on this geolog blog post or in the ECS-program:
Time and date: Tuesday, the 19th of April, 15:30–17:00 (Room -2.85)
Time and date : Thursday, the 21st of April, 12:15–13:15 (Room -2.85)
The communicating geoscientist  will focus on how scientists can communicate science and do public engagement (outreach to schools, videos, blogs, etc)
Working at the science policy interface  will present how science becomes policies at European and global scales. (with speaker from the IPCC, the European Environment Agency and European Commission's Joint Research Centre)
4. ECS Forum
The EGU gives the opportunity to early career scientist to meet their representatives, find out what the EGU does for them and take the chance to become more involved in the Union. This forum is a great opportunity to let us know what you would like from the EGU, find out how you can get involved in the Assembly and meet other scientists in the EGU early career scientist community.
Time and date: Wednesday the 20th of April, 12:15–13:15 (Room L7)

More information can be found on the EGU cryosphere blog post.
* What is an early-career scientist?
The EGU defines an Early Career Scientists (ECS) as an undergraduate or postgraduate (Masters/PhD) student or a scientist who has received his or her highest degree (BSc, MSc, or PhD) within the past seven years [excluding parental leave] 



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TJ Young
PhD Student, University of Cambridge
Co-President, UK Polar Network

Phone: +44 (0)7539 526731

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