ASSW2021 abstract deadline extended

Hello everyone,

 

I'd like to alert you to the extended deadline for submission of abstracts for ASSW2021, now 10 December.

And also to remind you of the session "Linking marine environmental models with observations for the assessments of socio-economic impacts of Arctic change". We are looking forward to getting your abstract submissions.

 

Best regards,

 

Stefanie

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Dear Arctic enthusiasts,

 

The call for abstracts for the science days of the Arctic Science Summit Week 2021 (24-26 March 2021, online) under the overarching topic "The Arctic: Regional Change Global Impacts" is now open. We'd like to invite you to submit an abstract to the session: "Linking marine environmental models with observations for the assessments of socio-economic impacts of Arctic change". Abstracts can be submitted either as an oral presentation or an e-poster.

Abstract

Fast changes in the Arctic marine and terrestrial environment create a significant stress on the local societies and industries. This necessitates assessment of the impacts through utilizing comprehensive information across a wide range of the scientific disciplines. The session aims to facilitate existing and forge new interdisciplinary communications and collaborations. We invite presentations bridging the gap between marine physics and biogeochemistry on one side and social sciences and economics on the other. In particular (but not exclusively), the session welcomes the topics on marine permafrost decay, coastal erosion, ocean currents and waves, changes in landfast ice and sea ice and impacts on marine ecosystems from the industrial development, such as shipping and mineral resource exploitation. We invite submissions offering new approaches in modelling and observations to understand current and future environmental changes and their consequences for socio-economics in the region. 

https://assw2021.pt/#cbp=assets/cubeportfolio/ajax-juicy-projects/B.html

 

Details on Abstracts and Programme: 

• Abstract submission deadline is the 10 Dec 2020
• Each lead author may submit up to one oral and one e-poster presentation 
• Abstracts text is limited to 1500 characters and the title should not be longer than 150 characters.
• Oral presentations will be of up to 12 minutes. The e-posters are to be submitted in pdf format. Detailed Guidelines will be made available in January.

 

The session is part of theme B: The Changing Arctic Ocean: Dynamics and Impacts, session ID 61.

For abstract submissions please use the following link:

 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBWoMK0f79MMqi2UUHczz4makkqez4re1-7p5DR1KfofYijQ/formResponse

 

Keep safe and well,

Stefanie, Igor and Yevgeny

 

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Antarctica Day Quiz

Dear all,

we are happy to announce that the UKPN has an exciting Antarctica Day Quiz running this year! Antarctica Day has been celebrated since 2010 to commemorate the signing of the Antarctic Treaty on 1st December 1959. So, grab a pint, a penguin, and some pals and join us on 1st Dec at 19:00 GMT on zoom. You can register with a team of max 5 people (all participating virtually, one registration per team):https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/antarctica-day-quiz-tickets-130384378185?fbclid=IwAR2WGGt898lezDEykuU-VzsIftRtfRX81rDOF1jdlgUHzSs9X--_HvuCw0k

Sincerely,

Floor van den Heuvel

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Cloud Physicist
UK Polar Network Committee member

Atmosphere, Ice and Climate team
British Antarctic Survey
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Cambridge CB3 0ET

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Arctic Science Summit Week: Microbiomes and biogeochemical processes along geographic and environmental gradients in the circumpolar North

Dear all,

We are pleased to invite you to present your research to the Arctic Science Summit Week in March 2021 (virtual).

Session Theme:
Unravelling Arctic ecosystem dynamics

Session Title: ID12

Microbiomes and biogeochemical processes along geographic and environmental gradients in the circumpolar North

Convenors:
Jérôme Comte | Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Quebec city, Canada

Anne D. Jungblut | Natural History Musuem, London, United Kingdom
Klemens Weisleitner | University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

The deadline to submit an abstract to this session is November 30, 2020!

Abstract
Arctic ecosystems are underpinned by communities of diverse microscopic lifeforms, collectively referred to as microbiomes. These occur as interacting networks that control biogeochemical processes such as greenhouse gas production and nutrient cycling, and they contribute to the base of food webs and affect populations changes at higher trophic levels. Genomic analysis has shown that microbiomes contain assemblages of viruses, archaea, bacteria and microbial eukaryotes that are metabolically as well as taxonomically diverse with new emerging taxa, but still little is known about the extent of that diversity, network relationships, spatial and temporal variation, and coupling to biogeochemical and ecosystem processes. The session organized by T-MOSAiC Arctic Microbiome Action Group invites contributions on bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi and other microbial eukaryotes from any Arctic environments. The aim of this session is to encourage broad and comparative research across spatial and environmental gradients as well as connectivity between terrestrial and marine habitats in the circumpolar North using omics and other approaches. This may include studies on microbiomes along geographic and environmental gradients, seasonal and temporal drivers of diversity patterns, responses to environmental stress, as well as metabolic and physiological responses to environmental change with implications to biogeochemical and ecosystem processes.

Please follow the link below for more information on the conference and to submit an abstract. https://assw2021.pt/

Best wishes

Anne

Dr. Anne D. Jungblut

Research Scientist 
Life Sciences Department
The Natural History Museum 
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7942 5285

ASPP2021 – Arctic Science Priorities Project Survey

We invite researchers (from all career stages) and everyone interested based in the UK and Russia who have previously undertaken, are undertaking, or want to undertake UK-Russia collaborative research to take part in this survey. The questions are designed to identify the challenges that people undertaking, or want to undertake, UK-Russia collaborative research projects face so that these barriers can be addressed to facilitate future and sustainable collaborative projects.

https://tinyurl.com/yxfcbmhb

This survey is open 20 November to 20 December. We kindly ask you to spare approx. 10 mins of your time to share your views on this topic. If you have any questions please get in touch via (ukrussiasurvey@polarnetwork.org)

This survey aims to develop a roadmap for priority areas of UK-Russia bilateral Arctic research by understanding what challenges researchers face when undertaking, or wanting to undertake, collaborative research. The findings will be used to facilitate links between Russian and UK researchers, understand how to build mutually beneficial cooperation between the Russian and UK scientists, and importantly engage early career researchers and students from the UK and Russia.

We will also be hosting online activities on this topic early next year. If you would like to find out more about these please let us know at the end of the survey.

Thank you for your time and participation!

BAS PhD Studentship Projects 2021

Hi everyone,

 

We are currently advertising our PhD studentship projects for 2021.  Please do feel free to share.

 

https://www.bas.ac.uk/science/science-and-students/nerc-doctoral-training-opportunities/

 

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/program/phds-at-british-antarctic-survey/?p5094

 

Many thanks

Ali J

 

Ali Teague | Postgraduate Student Co-ordinator | British Antarctic Survey

High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET

Email: alag@bas.ac.uk

 

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PhD studentship on freshwater in the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean at the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Southampton

Dear colleagues,

 

As part of the NERC-funded INSPIRE Doctoral Training Partnership (https://www.inspire-dtp.ac.uk/), we are seeking applicants for a competition-funded PhD studentship entitled "The changing freshwater composition of the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean: causes and impacts". This is a joint project between the British Antarctic Survey (in Cambridge) and the University of Southampton, with supervisors Povl Abrahamsen (BAS), Alberto Naveira Garabato (UoS), Mike Meredith (BAS), Robert Mulvaney (BAS), and Alex Brearley (BAS). The brief project description is:

 

The Southern Ocean exerts a disproportionate influence on our planet's climate, via the strong drawdown of anthropogenic carbon and heat from the atmosphere that occurs there. This role is intimately connected to the Southern Ocean circulation; it is the key region globally where old waters are upwelled to the surface, and new waters created that sink back into the ocean interior. Freshwater inputs to the ocean can impact this circulation, by affecting density gradients and the stability of the upper ocean. Both sea ice meltwater and the melt of Antarctic glaciers exert such an influence, and both are known to be strongly variable, both in time and space. This project will use a tracer of freshwater inputs – the stable isotopes of oxygen in seawater – from the South Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean to distinguish sea ice melt from other sources of freshwater in historical and recent ocean datasets. By linking these measurements with conventional oceanographic data, satellite data and the outputs of computer simulations, the student will determine the impact of known freshwater inputs on oceanographic circulation, the level to which variability in these sources impacts the ocean, and how such changes might influence climatically-important processes into the future.

 

When measured alongside salinity, the ratio of stable isotopes of oxygen in seawater is a key tracer for quantifying the input of sea ice melt separately from freshwater from other sources (glacial melt, precipitation). Substantial datasets of oxygen isotopes now exist, with many obtained recently from the NERC-funded ORCHESTRA programme (Ocean Regulation of Climate via Heat and Carbon Sequestration and Transport; https://www.orchestra.ac.uk). Ocean freshwater composition will be derived from these datasets using mass balance techniques, along with quantitative estimates of ocean circulation from inverse techniques applied to conventional oceanographic data, building on, and complementing, the inverse modelling that is being performed as part of ORCHESTRA. This will enable the ocean transports of different freshwater types to be determined, and their changes over time to be quantified. The availability of new datasets will enable these analyses to take place over larger spatial scales (i.e. basin scale) than has been done before. Relating these results to remotely-sensed quantifications of sea ice change and glacial ice change on Antarctica will reveal the impact on the ocean of the different freshwater inputs.

 

You can find more information about the project at https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/the-changing-freshwater-composition-of-the-south-atlantic-and-southern-ocean-causes-and-impacts/?p123752. Links to eligibility criteria and how to apply can be found at https://www.inspire-dtp.ac.uk/how-apply. The deadline for applications is 4 Jan 2021, with interviews in the second half of February, and project start in late September 2021.

 

If this project doesn't float your boat, other ocean/environment/climate-related projects from the INSPIRE Doctoral Training Partnership can be found at https://noc.ac.uk/gsnocs/projects/inspire

 

Please note that international students are eligible to apply; a limited number of studentships can be made available to international students. However, as things currently stand, the funding for these studentships will not cover the difference between UK and overseas tuition fees, leaving a shortfall of roughly £20k per year over the course of the 3.5-year PhD (~£70k in total). If you are not a UK citizen or permanent resident, you will need a plan for how you will cover these fees, e.g. through other grant sources. It is also possible that this situation might change before the start of the studentships – I certainly hope so – but this is not confirmed at present.

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch.

 

Kind regards,

 

Povl

 

Povl Abrahamsen | Physical Oceanographer | British Antarctic Survey

High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, United Kingdom

Email: epab@bas.ac.uk | Tel: +44 (0)1223 221401 572429 (home) | Website: https://www.bas.ac.uk/profile/epab

 

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Cardiff Science Festival 2021 Volunteers Needed

Dear All,

Are you interested in doing some public engagement online outreach? Please respond to this email, by 25th November 2020, indicating your interest in helping with the below. We will send out a formal volunteer application once we have confirmed more of the details. 

As science festivals in the UK are getting back on their feet and gearing up for what appears to be a year of virtual events, the UKPN festival coordinators are hoping to attend several of them (unrestricted by travel!). 

The most pressing festival on our agenda at the moment is the Cardiff Science Festival to be held online February 18th to 21st. We have put together a series of four events to be held each once (maybe twice for the kids ones) over the four days:

1. Children's/Family quiz style session with an origami demonstration to follow along

2. Children's/Family educational talk followed by a hands on activity they can do at home while watching.

3. A panel of polar researchers from a range of fields for interested adults

4. A career session helping those interested turn their 'hobby' into a job (which will include a panel of UKPN ECRs and some background info on the UKPN)

Let us know if you'd be interested in volunteering for one or more of the above so that we know if it's going to be feasible! We are likely to need about 15 of you in total over the course of the four sessions so don't be shy :) 

Many thanks,

Chloe & Eva - UKPN Festival Coordinators

UKPN Co-Festival Coordinator: chloe.nunn@polarnetwork.com

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Re: Request for Antarctic expertise to reply to Polar pen pal letter

Just to follow-up, we've already had one of our lovely members step forward to reply to the letter! 

Thanks! 

Robynne

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PhD Student, Arctic Biology 

The University Center in Svalbard 

Co-head of Education and Outreach 

UK Polar Network

On Friday, 13 November 2020, 12:14:58 CET, Robynne Nowicki <robynnenowicki1@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi UKPN 

We got a lovely letter today from the Year 4 class at St. George's school in Windsor, sharing their knowledge of Antarctica and asking some questions. They have been studying formal letter writing in English and Antarctica in Geography, and so combined the two into a letter to us!

It would be great to have someone with Antarctic knowledge, and even field experience, to reply to them. 

I have attached the letter here and please get if touch if you would like to take up the offer :) 

Thanks! 

Robynne 

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PhD Student, Arctic Biology 

The University Center in Svalbard 

Co-head of Education and Outreach 

UK Polar Network

Request for Antarctic expertise to reply to Polar pen pal letter

Hi UKPN 

We got a lovely letter today from the Year 4 class at St. George's school in Windsor, sharing their knowledge of Antarctica and asking some questions. They have been studying formal letter writing in English and Antarctica in Geography, and so combined the two into a letter to us!

It would be great to have someone with Antarctic knowledge, and even field experience, to reply to them. 

I have attached the letter here and please get if touch if you would like to take up the offer :) 

Thanks! 

Robynne 

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Robynne Nowicki

PhD Student, Arctic Biology 

The University Center in Svalbard 

Co-head of Education and Outreach 

UK Polar Network

REMINDER: UKPN Membership Survey (Closes Today!)

Hi All, 

Thank you very much if you've already filled in our membership survey. If you haven't yet, we'd be very grateful if you could fill it out before it closes at 4:30PM GMT TODAY. 

https://forms.gle/KWRPKFU1VQ8C9aVn6

For more info, please see our original email below. Many Thanks!

Victoria Dutch

PhD Candidate, Northumbria University

UK Polar Network Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Officer

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Subject: UKPN Membership Survey

 

Hi All, 

Myself and Madeline, the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion officers for the UK Polar Network, have composed a survey in order to find out a bit more about the who makes up the UK Polar Science community/our membership base at the UKPN. We'd be very grateful if you could take some time to fill it in; it shouldn't take more than about 5 minutes and you can skip any questions you're uncomfortable answering. 

https://forms.gle/KWRPKFU1VQ8C9aVn6

The survey will close at 4pm (GMT) on the 13th of November, and we will publish a summary of the results on the UKPN website and send round a link to those at some point in December. If you have any questions, there's a box for comments on the last page of the survey or you can send us an email. 

Many Thanks!

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UK Polar Network Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Officer

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online conference school on Remote sensing of vegetation at high latitudes in response to climate change and other disturbances

We cordially invite you to attend an online conference school on Remote sensing of vegetation at high latitudes in response to climate change and other disturbances, hosted by the Institute for Space Research (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow on 16 and 17 November 2020, between 14:00 and 18:30 Moscow time (11am-3.30pm UK time).

This event is run as a part of the All-Russian Open Conference on Current Issues in Earth Observation from Space, and serves as a conference school for young scientists.  It is jointly organised by IKI, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, British Antarctic Survey, and the Scott Polar Research Institute of the University of Cambridge, with support from the Science and Innovation Network of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The conference school will include over ten 30-minute lectures by established scientists from Russia, Britain, Austria and the US, followed by questions and answers. The target audience for these lectures is typically first-year PhD students, although the actual audience will be considerably broader.

There will be also a round table discussion between 17:20 and 18:30 (2:20-3:30pm) on 17 November focused on current projects and future collaboration.

All proceedings will be held in Zoom and accompanied by simultaneous translation in Russian and English.

The registration is free.

To register for the conference school, please fill in the following questionnaire and send it to Olga Gommerstadt at Olgagommershtadt@gmail.com by 11 November 2020:

Surname

Name

E-mail

Scientific degree

Country

City

Organisation

Position

Young scientist yes/no

 

All registered participants will receive links to the conference proceedings.

We are looking forward to welcoming you at this event!

 

On behalf of the organisers

Gareth Rees

Sergey Bartalev

Gareth Marshall

Olga Tutubalina

Tatiana Iakovleva

UKPN School Visits: Can you help?

Hi UKPN,

I hope you're all well. With the new academic year well underway, the requests for virtual scientists visits are coming in thick and fast. 

Are you able to help with any of the below? Please let me know if you are and I'll provide more details! 

Skype Visit- Year 7- Ecosystems Focussed 

School: Excel Academy, Stoke on Trent 

A session to Year 7 students to tie into their ecosystems unit so applicable to anyone who works researches wildlife, animals, ecosystem interactions. 

 

Recorded Video- send a video of yourself answering questions about Antarctica

School: Singapore 

This one is slightly different but very exciting! The students are recording a documentary about Antarctica and science there and want someone to answer the student's questions in a video that can be added to their film. 

Skype Visit- Aged 9-11 in Ireland- Arctic Focussed 

School: In Ireland 

The teacher wants the session to take place in the morning and to be based on the Arctic- they've been learning about keystone species in particular. They want someone to talk more generally about life as a scientist etc too. 

Thanks 

Kate 

For more ideas, resources & blogs, take a look at www.katestockings.com 

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