EGU session on winter and cold season ecology in Arctic/high latitudes

Dear UKPN members,

I've been asked to pass on some information about an Arctic-focussed EGU session so please consider submitting your abstract to this session.

 

The session will focus on winter and cold season ecology in Arctic and high latitude ecosystems – plants, microorganisms, biogeochemical cycling, seasonality, responses to climate change. We welcome a wide range of topics and study types – from field studies and experiments to monitoring and modelling. Please see full description below.

EGU session description:

Biogeosciences – Terrestrial Biogeosciences – BG3.19 – https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/52246

 

The cold season dominates most of the year in Arctic and high latitude regions but is understudied due to difficult access and challenging working conditions. Nonetheless, plant and microbial activity and biogeochemical turnover continues during the non-growing season under snow cover and sub-zero temperatures. Such activity is likely to play an important role in year-round biological activity and ecosystem functioning, greenhouse gas fluxes, and nutrient cycling. 

High latitude climate change is particularly pronounced during winter - where changing weather including extreme winter warming events, rain-on-snow events, and variable snow melt dates may substantially alter the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of terrestrial ecosystems and ecosystem interactions. However, there is a lack of data and understanding of the disruptions to soil-microbe-plant-snow-atmosphere interactions and ecosystem functioning resulting from changing winter conditions. Addressing the cold-season knowledge gap will bring us closer to a more comprehensive understanding of high latitude ecosystems and responses to seasonal and climatic changes.

In this interdisciplinary session, we aim to attract researchers working on the themes of Arctic and high latitude cold season biogeochemistry, microbiology and plant-soil processes. We want to bring multiple varied perspectives from different ecosystem constituents together, forming an integrated ecosystem approach that considers drivers, transformations, feedbacks, and interdependencies. We welcome studies focusing on experimental and modelling approaches to understand Arctic winter plant and microbial functioning, biogeochemical cycling, and associated impacts on the growing season, responses to changing Arctic seasonality, and winter climate regimes.

 

We hope to make this session as interactive as possible, with lots of opportunities to network and connect. I would like to especially encourage PhDs, postdocs and early career researchers. Together, we will shape this session!

 

The call for abstracts is now open, deadline January 15, 2025, 13:00 CET.

 

EGU takes place in Vienna, Austria, and online, April 27-May 2, 2025.

 

Please do not hesitate to reach out if you want to hear more about this session, discuss whether the scope of your work fits with the session, or have any other questions!

 

All the best,

Emily, on behalf of the convener team, Laura Helene Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen, and James Bradley, Mediterranean Institute for Oceanography

 

Emily Pickering Pedersen, PhD

Postdoctoral researcher | emily.pickering.pedersen@umu.se

Thanks,

Millie

Member at Large

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

Twitter:@UKPolarNetwork

Mathematics of Sea-Ice, 23-24 January 2025, UEA

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From: Emilian Parau (EMP - Staff) <E.Parau@uea.ac.uk>
Sent: 18 November 2024 11:39
To: Emilian Parau (EMP - Staff) <E.Parau@uea.ac.uk>
Subject: Mathematics of Sea-Ice, 23-24 January 2025, UEA

 

Dear all,

Sea ice is one of the largest and most dynamic ecosystems on Earth. Record lows in 2023 sea ice extent highlight the need for an urgent and better modelling sea ice dynamics.

Modelling sea ice and its behaviour is a challenging problem as highlighted in the recent The Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A theme issue "Theory, modelling and observations of marginal ice zone dynamics: multidisciplinary perspectives and outlooks" (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsta/2022/380/2235) and the INI programmes  "Mathematics of Sea-Ice Phenomena" and "SIP Follow on: Mathematics of sea ice in the 21st century" (https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/sipw05/).

To continue the discussion initiated at INI and at the previous edition of the "Maths of Sea Ice" we are planning a meeting on the 23–24 of January 2025 at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK).

We aim to start the meeting on the Thursday at 12:30 and close it no later than 15:00 on the Friday to facilitate travel.

The meeting will bring together researchers from different fields to present modern problems of ice dynamics, sea ice-waves interaction and thermodynamics, to formulate new problems and models and to discuss strategies for their solutions. The meeting also aims to bring new specialists with new ideas and non-standard approaches and techniques to the challenging problems of sea ice modelling.

Invited speakers for this meeting will be:

Francesca De Santi (CNR Italy)

Danny Feltham (University of Reading)

Philippe Guyenne (University of Delaware)

Atle Jensen (University of Oslo)

Delegates will have the opportunity to deliver 5 mins talks and a poster. leaving plenty of time for discussion.

The meeting is supported by the Isaac Newton Institute Network Support (EP/V521929/1) and EPSRC (EP/Y02012X/1), there are no registration costs. We aim to support reasonable travel and accommodation costs with priority given to Early Career Researchers (PhDs from the UK) by providing support towards travel expenses.

For accommodation, we suggest the hotel in the UEA campus

https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/information-for-visitors/visitor-accommodation. Please book yourself a room there (or somewhere else in Norwich) and we will reimburse you after the meeting.

We hope we can join us in Norwich, please sign-up on 

https://forms.office.com/e/GxHixfU6xz

as soon as possible to help us plan.

Forward the invitation to interested people in your network, particularly Early Career Researchers that we might have missed out on.

Do not hesitate to get in contact with any questions

Best regards,

Emilian 

on behalf of he organising team

Alberto Alberello, Emilian Parau & Alexander Korobkin

UKPN Outreach Opportunities

Dear all UKPN members, 

 

We are excited to announce that we are in the process of establishing the UKPN’s Education and Outreach Network and are looking for enthusiastic UKPN members who would like to get involved in any future outreach events, helping us to deliver educational initiatives and inspire the next generation! 

 

The types of opportunities we currently offer are:

 

School visits - attend schools that reach out for a polar scientist and give a short presentation and discussion with children of all ages and abilities. Resources and support can be provided by the UKPN Education and Outreach officers and is a great opportunity to develop scientific communication skills and public speaking.

 

Festivals - represent the UKPN at science festivals and events around the country, running fun, interactive activities for families and children, supported by our dedicated festivals team. Get crafty, try on polar gear, or bring something related to your own work!

 

Polar Pen Pals - this initiative is designed to connect scientists and support workers with polar experience to school children learning about polar science. Questions are often on fieldwork, life in extreme environments and polar science in general. This is a great opportunity to develop written communication and support outreach experience without the need to travel to schools in-person.

 

If you are interested in participating in future events, please sign up using the google form below so we will keep you updated with opportunities in your area. We are also able to support reasonable travel expenses for any events in which you represent the UKPN.

 

https://forms.gle/2dL1xjhkC1ZMDmRu8

 

Thank you for your support!

 

The UKPN Education and Outreach Team

 

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Polar Pride Day 2024

Good Morning,

We would like to invite you to join us and our partners across APECS on Monday, November 18th, 2024, to celebrate Polar Pride Day.

Polar Pride Day celebrates the contributions of LGBTQIA+ people to polar science. It was launched in 2020 with participation from 49 countries, over 4000 tweets, and a global reach of over 12.8 million people! In 2024, we want to build on this success and take the Polar Pride message to an even bigger audience, and we need your help to do it. 

A particular highlight of last year was the images of celebrations in the field. If you plan to celebrate at either pole, at your institute, or virtually, please make sure that you take some photos or videos to share on the day. If you are using Twitter, please use the hashtags #PolarPride, #PolarPrideDay, or #PolarPride2024. 

Please share widely, stay in touch, and let us know what you’ll be doing! The attached document provides more information.

Best wishes, 

Jasmine and Darcie

EDI Co-Officers

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

Twitter:@UKPolarNetwork 

Email: edi@polarnetwork.org

Ticket to Antarctica

Hi all, 

We've been asked to tell you all about 'Ticket to Antarctica' - a chance for the public to follow on with a research vessel. See details below and share with anyone you think might be interested.

Ticket to Antarctica is taking the public on a digital journey to the frozen south. It's an adventure on the UK's polar ship RRS Sir David Attenborough departing the UK on 13 October.  Ticket to Antarctica | Send your name to Antarctica and follow the adventure | #TicketToAntarctica - YouTube

We've already had over 400 sign ups and need your help to promote it more widely. Get your ticket here: Ticket To Antarctica (tickettoantarctica.com)

Ticket to Antarctica is an innovative public engagement project designed to inspire and entertain the next generation of polar researchers and enthusiasts. As naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough recently highlighted, this unique initiative offers a rare opportunity for the public to virtually embark on a journey to Antarctica aboard the UK's polar research ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough.

Everyone can sign up for their ticket and join the journey here: www.tickettoantarctica.co.uk This gives them access to follow the ship's journey to the frozen wilderness of Antarctica. Sign ups will get an engaging and immersive experience through:

Weekly email postcard updates: Participants will receive interactive content from the ship's crew, including games, live Q&A sessions with the ship's captain, stunning photographs of Antarctic wildlife, and insights into the research stations and people living and working in Antarctica.

Virtual activities: Updates on the ship's progress, insights into the daily lives of the crew and scientists, and an educational live lesson from Rothera Research Station.

Grand launch event: On 13 October 2024, the RRS Sir David Attenborough will depart from its port of Harwich, marking the official start of this extraordinary journey.

The journey will cover over 8,000 kilometres from the UK to Antarctica, offering highlights such as:

-Meeting the crew and learning about life and work at sea

-Witnessing the majesty of icebergs

-Visiting various research stations in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic

-Finishing the journey at Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula to meet staff and scientists at the forefront of polar research

Best,

Lucy 

Lucy Stephenson (she/her) | Scientific Data Coordinator | UK Polar Data Centre | British Antarctic Survey

Antarctic President | UK Polar Network 

Room 330a, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET

Email: lustep@bas.ac.uk  

 

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Visit our website www.bas.ac.uk | Follow BAS on Twitter and Facebook

 

 

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Participants wanted: male colleagues supporting menstruation in the field

Dear UKPN members, 

Please find an advert attached for a research project at Herriot Watt looking at how male colleagues support those who menstruate in the field in remote settings such as polar fieldwork. This builds on a body of work which has included UKPN/APECs driven research so it would be really great to see as many who are eligible for this study to participate as possible!

Thanks, 

Millie

Member at Large

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

Twitter:@UKPolarNetwork

Applications open for 2025 Gordon Research Seminar for Polar Marine Science

Dear all,

We have been asked to circulate this opportunity:

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Dear all,

We would like to invite you to apply to the 2025 Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Polar Marine Science, which will be taking place on 8-9 March 2025, near the village of Barga in Italy. The GRS strives to create a non-intimidating forum for graduate students and postdocs from all disciplines of polar marine science (marine biology, chemistry, physics, geology, engineering, and related technologies, as well as social sciences) to present new, unpublished data, cutting-edge ideas and multidisciplinary approaches in a peer-to-peer setting. 

In 2025, the GRS will focus on "Understanding the Role of Sea Ice in Polar Ecosystem Dynamics" and we would like to invite contributions by early career researchers (ECRs) whose work centers around sea ice, its importance for polar ecosystem dynamics, the implications of observed changes for ecosystem functioning and services, and that highlight direct and indirect links between sea ice, ocean, atmosphere and society. We hope to showcase diverse and innovative research that advances our understanding of present-day dynamics and processes, with an eye to future changes in polar marine systems and advancements in scientific undertaking. 

The seminar will feature a keynote talk by Dirk Notz, selected oral presentations from fellow ECRs, two poster sessions as well as mentoring from scientists at a range of career stages. To encourage active participation during the seminar, all attendees are expected to give either an oral or a poster presentation. Applications are now open, with general applications closing February 8, 2025. Those wishing to be considered for an oral presentation must submit their abstract by December 1, 2024. Please refer to the website for more information - the full program will be available online soon. 

The GRS will be followed by the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Polar Marine Science (9-14 March, 2025), which will focus on sea ice as a nexus in polar seas. Presentations and discussions will address current topics ranging from small to large scale questions, encompassing ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions, ecosystem dynamics and evolution in the sea-ice zone as well as the implications for the potential for life on icy moons. Information on travel, venue and applications can be found online and details of the program will be available shortly. Applications for this meeting must be submitted by February 9, 2025. We encourage you to apply to the GRC if you are applying to the GRS, as the conference will build on the mentorship and science discussions of the GRS. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed before this deadline. Check the conference website for updates. 

Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS.

We are looking forward to seeing many of you in Italy!

Best wishes,

Clara Douglas & Josephine Rapp

2025 GRS on Polar Marine Science co-chairs

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Claire Penny

PhD Candidate at Durham University and the British Antarctic Survey 

Department of Geography | Durham University | Durham | DH1 3LE | UK

ANTSIE: Unlocking Evidence for Antarctic Sea Ice Evolution from a novel biological archive

Email: claire.e.penny@durham.ac.uk