How to review a scientific proposal workshop

Hello UKPN,

Please join us for the second workshop in our series next Wednesday, co-hosted by the UK Polar Network (UKPN) and the US Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS). We are excited to invite you to an online Proposal Review Workshop on Wednesday, 24th September 2025, 15:00–16:30 BST.

This interactive workshop is designed for Early Career Researchers to better understand what reviewers look for in proposals.

You will hear from a panel of four scientists with diverse expertise:

1. Prof. Martyn Tranter – Polar Biogeochemist, Aarhus University, Denmark

2. Prof. Bob Hawley – Program Director, National Science Foundation / Dartmouth College, US

3. Chloe Nunn – Marine Ecological and Social Science Consultant, UKPN

4. Dr. Tasha Snow – Glacier and Geospatial Data Scientist, University of Maryland & NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, US

The session will include a panel discussion and an opportunity for participants to ask questions and seek advice directly from our panelists.

📍 Zoom:  https://bas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98883256900
📅 Date: Wednesday, 24th September 2025
🕒 Time: 15:00–16:30 BST
📅 Add to calendar: https://calendar.app.google/92UFwHAi6WZwoKny8

Please feel free to reach out with any questions:
📧 UKPN: international@polarnetwork.org
📧 USAPECS: usapecs@gmail.com

We look forward to seeing you there!

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UK Polar Network Festival volunteering opportunity - London

Hello UKPN!

 

The UKPN festivals team are excited to announce that the first UKPN science festival event of the new academic year will be happening on Saturday 29th November, as part of our ongoing collaboration with the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London.

 

We are looking for volunteers to help put on the event, including:

•  Setting up and running fun and engaging science-themed activities and experiments
•  A couple of short talks (~15 mins) on life as a polar researcher
•  Being on hand to chat to visitors and answer questions about polar science

 

This will be a great chance to engage a diverse audience of families and young children and potentially inspire the next generation of polar scientists!

 

No experience needed - all we ask is your commitment and enthusiasm. 😊

Food and drink will be provided on the day, along with refunds for travel and accommodation. For more info, and to express interest, see the form at: https://forms.gle/tbg9w7bMsmPHcqco9. Please fill out the form by the 30^th of September.

 

If you are unable to travel to London for this event, do not fear! There will be future events at different locations across the country that you can get involved in.

 

Please contact us at festivals@polarnetwork.org if you have any questions.

 

Best wishes,

Phoebe & Edmund

 

UKPN Festivals Coordinators

 

Two postdocs in ice and ocean modelling at BAS

Dear colleagues,

 

We are currently recruiting two positions in ocean and ice sheet modelling at the British Antarctic Survey:

 

The Greenland Ice/Ocean Modeller role is a 2-year postdoc to advance the UK Earth System Model's representation of Greenland's freshwater release to the ocean, and assess the risk of Greenland triggering a collapse of convection in the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre: https://bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/vacancy/820/Greenland-IceOcean-Modeller

 

The Ice Modeller/Emulation Scientist role is a 3-year postdoc to run ice-sheet simulations of key Greenland glaciers, and use AI frameworks to create statistical emulators which will be used to study tipping points in Greenland glaciers: https://bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/vacancy/821/Ice-ModellerEmulation-Scientist

 

Both posts are funded by new ARIA projects (PROMOTE and GIANT) under the "Forecasting Tipping Points" programme. Interested candidates are very welcome to contact me (chll1@bas.ac.uk) and/or Kaitlin Naughten (kaight@bas.ac.uk) with any questions.

 

With best wishes,

 

Rosie Williams

 

Dr C. Rosie Williams (she/her) | Deputy Science Leader for Ice Dynamics and Palaeoclimate (IDP) | British Antarctic Survey

e-mail: chll1@bas.ac.uk

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How to review a scientific proposal workshop

Hello UKPN,

Please join us for our second workshop series. UK Polar Network and the US Association of Polar Early Career Scientists will co-host an online for a Proposal Review Workshop on Wednesday 24th September from 15:00 - 16:30 BST

 

This interactive workshop is aimed at Early Career Researchers to help understand what reviews are looking for from proposals 

 

Join us for a panel discussion from four scientists with varied backgrounds:

1. Prof. Martyn Tranter, Polar Biogeochemist, Aarhus University, Denmark

2. Prof. Bob Hawley,  Program Director, National Science Foundation, Dartmouth College, US

3. Chloe Nunn, Marine Ecological and Social Science Consultant, UKPN

4. Dr. Tasha Snow, Glacier and Geospatial Data Scientist, University of Maryland & NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, US

  

The webinar will provide opportunity to ask our panelists for advice and questions.

 

Save the date! 

 

📍 Zoom: https://bas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98883256900

📅   24th September 2025 (Wednesday)

🕒 15:00-16:30 BST

 📅 https://calendar.app.google/92UFwHAi6WZwoKny8

Please feel free to reach out to us via international@polarnetwork.org (UKPN)  or usapecs@gmail.com (USAPECS) if you have any questions.

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Polar ECR events in Newcastle TOMORROW

Hi all, 

We're advertise and share further details of two ECR-focussed polar events happening tomorrow in Newcastle alongside the Arctic Science Conference, co-organised by UK Polar Network: 

International Polar Year Panel for ECRs

• 10am to 12 noon, 9th September in Ellison Building B, ELB001

This session is focussed on answering ECRs questions about the International Polar Year in 2032-2033 - what the IPY is, how it is structured nationally and internationally, current known activities, and a discussion on the last IPY. We hope this will be a useful introduction to what the IPY is and why it is important for ECRs to engage.

The session will be in three parts: 

1. An overview of what the IPY is, how is it structured and who are the key organisations/individuals to look out for with time for further discussion.
2. How we as ECR's can help inspire the next generation of ECRs ahead of their engagement with the IPY - Leeza Pickering (UKPN education and outreach team)
3. Panel discussion with Henry Burgess (NERC Arctic Office), Pilvi Saarikoski (British Antarctic Survey), and Professor Kate Hendry (British Antarctic Survey) to discuss their experiences of the previous IPY and how to get involved in the next IPY.

Followed by a networking session to meet other ECR's!

If you wish to attend the pre conference workshop in person or online please sign up using the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEXZJu_tmU4ws9FXJRJaUvUqxnxeYiS2DW4xrQplWghPFPzw/viewform

Polar Beers public talks

• 18:30, 9^th September 2025 at the Hotspur pub

Polar Beers is the UK Polar Network's series of public engagement talks on polar science taking place in more informal settings. For the first time, Polar Beers is coming to Newcastle with two talks on Arctic science from Rachel Carr (Newcastle University) and Amy Macfarlane (UiT, Tromsø, Norway & Northumbria University). Doors will open from 6pm, and there will also be a polar themed quiz. 

We hope to see you there

Many thanks

Sam

Sam Hartharn-Evans (He/Him)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ice-Ocean Modelling

Vice-President (Antarctic) | UK Polar Network

 

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: PolarSTEP Field Course

Dear UKPN members, by request, we have extended the deadline of the field course until 23:59 on September 12^th (THIS FRIDAY). Please find more details and the application form here. 

Please get in touch with the training team (training@polarnetwork.org) if you have any queries. 

Best wishes, 

Ellie 

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To: UK Polar Network Mailing List <ukpn@jiscmail.ac.uk>
Subject: DEADLINE APPROACHING: PolarSTEP Field Course

 

❄️ The UKPN is delighted to announce PolarSTEP, an intensive field-course for UK-based early career polar scientists and professionals. ❄️

Based on survey feedback from the UKPN membership, we have put together a course schedule designed to provide training which fills recognised gaps in courses available through UK academic institutions. This November, we're bringing together a group of early career researchers and professionals from across all realms of polar science for a multi-disciplinary field course designed to provide a solid baseline in a diverse mix of polar field skills, from pitching tents to successfully engaging with local communities. 

Course content:

The focus of this field-course is to provide science planning, and scientific field skills at an introductory level. Coursework will take place both outdoors and in the classroom, with an experienced instructor team. 

A non-exhaustive list of examples of content to be covered in the course is described below:

🏔️ Basic outdoor skills (never pitched a tent or packed a rucksack? We'll teach you!) 

⛺ Field hygiene (the lack of facilities on remote field camps can be intimidating for those who haven't spent time outdoors, but we're here to give you all the tips and tricks!)

🔬 Carrying out science in the field (you'll have the opportunity to deploy field equipment and learn best scientific sampling practices)

📃 Planning remote scientific sampling (before going into the field, we'll run a session on planning and risk assessment tools that you can apply to your own science)

✅ Ethical and responsible science (we'll help you to understand and mitigate the impacts of carrying out scientific fieldwork) 

🤝 Collaborative science and interpersonal skills (fieldwork can be intense, and we'll provide tools for navigating interpersonal relationships from the field)

🔊 Communicating science from the field (now more than ever, how we communicate polar science matters. Throughout the course, our experienced instructors will guide you on the best format and style for distributing your science, and you'll come away with usable media for your own portfolio). 

Who this course is aimed at:

To apply for this course you must be an Early Career Researcher or Professional, either working in or towards a career or degree in polar science and above 18 years of age. 

The UKPN has made a commitment to breaking down barriers to polar research. Part of this goal means ensuring all polar scientists are equipped with the basic field skills needed to feel comfortable on their first experiences of polar fieldwork. As such, some of the course content will be at an introductory level. However, having some fieldwork experience will not directly preclude your participation on the course. The course is not aimed at those who have, for example, completed multiple Antarctic field seasons, as much of the content will be structured towards those who have limited experience in the outdoors and/or on scientific fieldwork. However, if you can justify why this course would be of benefit to you we will consider applicants with prior experience of polar fieldwork. 

How to apply:

Please apply through our website before 29th August. If you have issues accessing or filling out the application, please email training@polarnetwork.org. 

Best wishes,

Ellie Honan, on behalf of the UKPN Training team

Link: PolarSTEP Field Course – UK Polar Network

Eleanor Maedhbh (Ellie) Honan (she/her)

PhD Candidate at Durham University and the British Antarctic Survey

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Re: UK Arctic Science conference ECR preconference workshop

Dear UKPN members, 

Just as a reminder today is the last day to sign up to the pre conference workshop!

Thanks, 

Millie

Member at Large

UK Polar Network (https://polarnetwork.org/)

On 4 Sep 2025, at 09:12, Millie Harding <millicentvharding@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear UKPN members, 

We hope everyone has had a successful field season and to start the move back into the academic year we have the UK Arctic Science conference taking place at Northumbria. As is tradition UKPN will be hosting the ECR pre-conference workshop (10am-12pm) ahead of the main conference. 

This year the session will be on the International Polar Year (IPY) to share with attendees what the IPY is, how it is structured nationally and internationally, current known activities, and a discussion on the last IPY. We hope this will be a useful introduction to what the IPY is and why it is important for ECRs to engage. We plan to make this event hybrid to enable UKPN members participating in all formats.

The first part of this session will give an overview of what the IPY is, how is it structured and who are the key organisations/individuals to look out for with time for further discussion. Then we will have Leeza Pickering, from the UKPN education and outreach team, speak on how we as ECR's can help inspire the next generation of ECRs ahead of their engagement with the IPY. The second part of this session will be a panel discussion with Henry Burgess (NERC Arctic Office), Pilvi Saarikoski (British Antarctic Survey), and Professor Kate Hendry (British Antarctic Survey) to discuss their experiences of the previous IPY and how to get involved in the next IPY. Finally we will then have a networking session to meet other ECR's!

If you wish to attend the pre conference workshop in person or online please sign up using the following link:

https://forms.gle/N1s8wfrqQWRvVjUi7

If you cannot make it to the pre conference session we also have Polar Beers after the conference on the 9th September where Prof. Rachel Carr and Dr. Amy Macfarlane will speak about their research at The Hotspur. This should be a very exciting evening full of Arctic science! Otherwise, many committee members will be around at the conference so if you want to chat more about UKPN or getting more involved with the activities we run please feel free to catch us! Here is a link to our current committee members.

Please let us know if you have any questions about the pre conference workshop or Polar Beers at info@polarnetwork.org and we are looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Thanks, 

Millie

Member at Large

UK Polar Network (https://polarnetwork.org/)