PhD Position at Northumbria University, UK

I know that many people on this list aren't on Cryolist, so I thought I should forward along this opportunity. Nick Rutter has been a great UKPN mentor in the past, too!

Best,

Allen

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From: Benjamin Brock <benjamin.brock@northumbria.ac.uk>
Date: 2012/3/30
Subject: [CRYOLIST] PhD Position at Northumbria University, UK
To: cryolist <cryolist@cryolist.org>

Applicants are sought for a funded PhD project at Northumbria University, School of the Built and Natural Environment:

'Air temperature distribution across melting glaciers: implications for melt models and glacier response to climate'

Project start date: September or October 2012

Supervisors: Dr Ben Brock and Dr Nick Rutter

The studentship includes a full stipend, paid for three years at RCUK rates (figure for 2012/13 is 13,590 pa) and home/EU fees.

 

For details on the project, eligibility and how to apply, please see:

http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=38231&LID=1143

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/researchandconsultancy/graduateschool/studentships/

 

For further information about postgraduate research at Northumbria, see:

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/researchandconsultancy/graduateschool/?view=Standard

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/researchandconsultancy/graduateschool/prospectivepgrs/?view=Standard

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/bne/

 

Applicants should hold, or soon complete, a first or upper second class honours degree (in a relevant subject) from a British higher education institution, or equivalent. Students who are not UK/EU residents are eligible to apply, provided they hold the relevant academic qualifications, together with an IELTS score of at least 7.0.

If you want to discuss the PhD project informally, please get in touch with me by phone or email.

Best regards,

Ben

 

Dr Ben Brock

Reader in Remote Sensing

Geography and Environment

School of the Built and Natural Environment

Northumbria University

Newcastle Upon Tyne

NE1 8ST

Email: Benjamin.brock@northumbria.ac.uk

Tel. +44 (0)191 227 3225

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/bne/study/divgeogenv/staff/benjaminbrock

 

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Fwd: Science Communication training and conference for PhD students

Hi UKPN,

I thought this might be of interest to many of you.

Best,

Allen

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The University of Lorraine (Nancy, France) is inviting 100 budding researchers to take part in a two-day training event as well as the International Conference on Science Communication (from 2 to 7 September). Participants will learn about science communication in workshops supervised by professionals, after which they will attend the entire conference.

Date: September 2 - 7, 2012

Place: Nancy (France)

Open to: all PhD. students, whatever their discipline and nationality

How to register:

• These training days are free (including training, accommodation, meals and local transport, conference registration)

• PhD. Students wishing to participate are invited to register on this form online at:

http://www.jhc2012.eu/index.php/en/post-graduate-study-days until April 13, 2012.

• A letter of motivation and a letter of agreement of the supervisor or laboratory director, and a copy of student card, are to be attached to any application.

• Successful applicants will be informed by mail in April 2012 and must confirm their attendance by return mail.

For more information see the website:

http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/56271-525781/-International-Conference-on-Science-Communication.html

REMINDER: UKPN AGM Wed 4th April, 2pm at the University of Sheffield

Hi Everyone,

 

A quick reminder about the UKPN Annual General Meeting (AGM), which will be held at 2 pm on Wednesday the 4th April, in the Geography Department, University of Sheffield - so next week!

 

If you have been thinking about becoming more involved with UKPN this is the ideal time to find out more, to take up a position on the committee, and to bring your own ideas for future events to the table.

 

Agenda:

·         Free lunch provided before the meeting (1.15 pm), which gives you the opportunity to network or catch up with a few old faces!

·         Introduction to UKPN and a quick overview of last year’s events

·         Update on events currently in the pipeline for 2012

·         Introduce those who currently volunteer on the committee and welcome new committee members

·         Open discussion about possible future events (and funding!) Please bring your ideas and suggestions!

 

This is a really informal meeting, so please come along, get involved and meet some of the amazing early career Polar scientists working in the UK and with UKPN!

 

Please RSVP if possible (eeamd@leeds.ac.uk) so we can get an idea of numbers for lunch, but don't be afraid to just turn up if it’s a last minute decision.

 

Best wishes and looking forward to seeing you,

 

Aisling Dolan

 

UKPN secretary

 

eeamd@leeds.ac.uk

 

 

Travel information can be found here http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/about/travel.html

 

The meeting will be following on from the UKPN Modelling in Polar Sciences Workshop (2^nd-4^th April, University of Sheffield – email j.kingslake@sheffield.ac.uk for further details).

 

 

 

**************************************************************

 

Aisling M. Dolan

PhD Student in Palaeoclimatology

 

School of Earth & Environment

University of Leeds

Leeds LS2 9JT

UK

 

Tel: +44 (0)113 343 9085

Email: eeamd@leeds.ac.uk

Homepage: http://homepages.see.leeds.ac.uk/~eeamd/

 

Arctic Science Conference: http://www.ukarcticscience.org/

UK Polar Network: http://www.polarnetwork.org/new/

 

 

Re: Polar Beers in Cambridge, TOMORROW (Wed 21st March)

POLAR BEERs here too

 

http://pcillu101.blogspot.com

 

DANNY BLOOM

POLAR CITY RED, a new fiction novel by JIM LAUGHTER, abotu life in 2100 AD, sci fi novel

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Ella Darlington <ella.darlington@polarnetwork.org> wrote:

Hello!

 

After the Royal Meteorological Society talks on "Polar Ice- Processes and Impacts" tomorrow at BAS, Cambridge, there is a group of us headed for beers and food at The Punter (3 Pound Hill, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AE).

 

Everyone is welcome, it'd be great to see you if you're in the area! If you fancy it drop me a message so we can look out for you.

 

Ella

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Dan appearing on JU GER LIANG TV SHOW / LO LAT SEGMENT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKEpSisKryE 

 

 

Polar Beers in Cambridge, TOMORROW (Wed 21st March)

Hello!

 

After the Royal Meteorological Society talks on "Polar Ice- Processes and Impacts" tomorrow at BAS, Cambridge, there is a group of us headed for beers and food at The Punter (3 Pound Hill, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AE).

 

Everyone is welcome, it'd be great to see you if you're in the area! If you fancy it drop me a message so we can look out for you.

 

Ella

[APECS] Career Development Webinar Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Just in case you don't know...the APECS career Development series continues tomorrow, with Journal Article Publishing. If you can't make it they are avialable online afterwards. Links and more info below.

 

Ella

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Date: 19 March 2012 22:25
Subject: [APECS] Reminder: Career Development Webinar Wednesday, 21 March 2012
To: apecs@tek.iarc.uaf.edu


Career Development Webinar
Journal Article Publishing: The Review Process, Ethics, Publishing
Contracts, Open Access, and the Kitchen Sink
Wednesday, 21 March 2012 at 1800 GMT

For further information, please go to: http://apecs.is/webinars
For questions, please email: webinars@apecs.is

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The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and the US
NSF ARCSS Thermokarst Project announces the seventh webinar in the
Spring 2012 Career Development Webinar Series, scheduled for
Wednesday, 21 March 2012 at 1800 GMT.

Remember, if you observed Daylight Savings Time the webinar time may
have changed! You can look up alternate time zones at:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html.

This week's webinar is entitled "Journal Article Publishing: The
Review Process, Ethics, Publishing Contracts, Open Access, and the
Kitchen Sink" and will be co-presented by Caroline Sutton of Co-Action
Publishing and Helle Goldman of the journal, Polar Research. This
webinar will demystify the publishing process by explaining what
happens to a manuscript after it's submitted, focusing on how
submissions are evaluated. This webinar will introduce a range of
topics connected to journal article publishing, including single-blind
versus double-blind review, tips for authors submitting manuscripts,
ethical issues (plagiarism, salami slicing, duplicate publication),
understanding the fine print in publishers' contracts, open access
publishing and how authors benefit from it.

The full schedule of presentations and recordings of previous webinars
are available at http://apecs.is/webinars.

TO RESERVE A SPOT FOR THE WEBINAR
To reserve a spot in the webinar, please follow the "Register or Join
this Webinar" link at http://apecs.is/webinars.

TO ATTEND THE WEBINAR
Each webinar will be conducted using the GoToWebinar platform. To
register in advance or join a webinar in session, go to
http://apecs.is/webinars, select a webinar and click on the "Register
or Join this Webinar" link on the right side of the table. To attend a
webinar you just need your computer or smartphone, an internet
connection, and a headset or headphones and a built-in microphone is
recommended. We are not using webcams or telephones, so you do not
need a web cam or telephone to participate.

This webinar series is a collaborative effort between APECS and the
U.S. NSF ARCSS Thermokarst Project. GoToWebinar has been provided as
an in-kind contribution from Bredbåndsfylket.

For tutorials and further information, please go to:
http://apecs.is/webinars.
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Software Carpentry workshops: software development skills for researchers

Dear UKPN members,

Please find below an advert for a couple of free two-day Software Carpentry workshops, designed to give researchers a foundation in the principles of software development.

Hopefully this might be useful to some of you!

Best wishes,
Kathryn Rose

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Software Carpentry workshops: software development skills for researchers

Software development is now a fundamental part of the day-to-day activities of many researchers. Yet often PhD students and early-career researchers have to learn for themselves how to build, validate, maintain, and share complex programs. This can lead to big problems later, when others try to build on their research. To address this, Software Carpentry aims to teach scientists how to build the software they need for their research in an efficient, systematic way, and so maximise the impact of their research.

We are running two-day Software Carpentry workshops at two UK universities in April and May, followed by 4-8 weeks of self-paced online learning. The workshops will take place at:

- University College London: Monday 30 April and Tuesday 1 May;
- Newcastle University: Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 May.

and will cover topics including:

- using the shell to do more in less time
- using version control to manage and share information
- basic Python programming
- how (and how much) to test programs
- working with relational databases

The online follow-up goes into these topics in more detail, and also touches on program design and construction, matrix programming, using spreadsheets in a disciplined way, data management, and software development lifecycles.

There is no charge to attend, but places at the bootcamp will be allocated with the aim of a balanced spread of subjects and geographical areas of the attendees. We strongly encourage learners to attend with colleagues - ideally we would like teams of 3 to 6 members
- and we will give preference to teams including one more knowledgeable member who is interested in organising further training at their own institution.

For more information and to register, visit the web page for the relevant event, or e-mail the local organisers:

UCL: http://software-carpentry.org/boot-camps/university-college-london-april-may-2012/
swc2012@ucl.ac.uk

Newcastle: http://software-carpentry.org/boot-camps/newcastle-university-may-2012/
swc2012@ncl.ac.uk

Places are limited, so please register your interest before March 23rd.

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Director, Software Sustainability Institute EPCC, University of Edinburgh, JCMB, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5957
http://www.software.ac.uk/

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UKPN AGM Wed 4th April, 2pm at the University of Sheffield

Hi Everyone,

 

An important date for your diaries: The UKPN Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at 2 pm on Wednesday the 4th April, in the Geography Department, University of Sheffield.

 

If you have been thinking about becoming more involved with UKPN this is the ideal time to find out more, to take up a position on the committee, and to bring your own ideas for future events to the table.

 

Agenda:

·         Free lunch provided before the meeting (1.15 pm), which gives you the opportunity to network or catch up with a few old faces!

·         Introduction to UKPN and a quick overview of last year’s events

·         Update on events currently in the pipeline for 2012

·         Introduce those who currently volunteer on the committee and welcome new committee members

·         Open discussion about possible future events (and funding!) Please bring your ideas and suggestions!

 

This is a really informal meeting, so please come along, get involved and meet some of the amazing early career Polar scientists working in the UK and with UKPN!

 

Please RSVP if possible (eeamd@leeds.ac.uk) so I can get an idea of numbers for lunch, but don't be afraid to just turn up if it’s a last minute decision.

 

Best wishes and looking forward to seeing you,

 

Aisling Dolan

 

UKPN secretary

 

eeamd@leeds.ac.uk

 

 

Travel information can be found here http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/about/travel.html

 

The meeting will be following on from the UKPN Modelling in Polar Sciences Workshop (2^nd-4^th April, University of Sheffield – email j.kingslake@sheffield.ac.uk for further details).

 

 

 

**************************************************************

 

Aisling M. Dolan

PhD Student in Palaeoclimatology

 

School of Earth & Environment

University of Leeds

Leeds LS2 9JT

UK

 

Tel: +44 (0)113 343 9085

Email: eeamd@leeds.ac.uk

Homepage: http://homepages.see.leeds.ac.uk/~eeamd/

 

Arctic Science Conference: http://www.ukarcticscience.org/

UK Polar Network: http://www.polarnetwork.org/new/

 

 

(potential) PhD position at Loughborough University, UK

Again, another opportunity. Sorry for any cross-posting!

 

Ella

Loughborough University has a PhD studentship competition open, with a closing date of 30 March, full details of which can be found here:

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/graduateschool/funding/GraduateSchooolStudentships.htm

In the Geography Department at Loughborough, we have funding for summer 2012 fieldwork at Tarfala, northern Sweden, on the topic below. We would be very interested in hearing from anyone who would be interested in pursuing PhD research in this topic, and who would like to apply to the studentship competition noted above.

Clearly this opportunity would suit someone who is actually available for fieldwork in summer 2012; please note that a studentship application would be in competition with other topics across the university - although we hope that the availability of fieldwork funds will make for a compelling case.

Please contact Paul Wood (p.j.wood@lboro.ac.uk) or Richard Hodgkins (r.hodgkins@lboro.ac.uk).

HYDROECOlogical variability in ARCtic glacierized catchments: Tools for Interpreting Change (HYDROECO-ARCTIC)
 
Current studies of glacierized catchment hydroecology are biased towards mountainous, mid-latitude locations, though the characteristic features of Arctic latitudes, such as physical remoteness, extensive permafrost and the occurrence of the polar day and night, are likely to create distinctive ecological responses. There is consequently a need for interdisciplinary studies that link the particular hydrological characteristics of high-latitude catchments occupied by glaciers with their aquatic ecology.
Hydroecological research from alpine catchments has indicated significant variability in the composition of benthic stream communities in relation to variability in runoff characteristics and habitat. However, comparable evaluations for Arctic locations are currently very limited. To address this shortfall, the following aims are proposed:
(1) Define and quantify water-source contributions and pathways for an Arctic catchment exhibiting glacier retreat: Tarfala, northern Sweden;
(2) Test Brown et al.'s (2003) alpine stream habitat classification for the Arctic location;
(3) Assess spatio-temporal variability in aquatic physical habitat, in terms of runoff magnitude and variability, water temperature, total dissolved solids, turbidity, channel stability;
(4) Assess spatio-temporal variability in benthic macroinvertebrate community composition, diversity, life histories, species traits and habitat utilization;
(5) Evaluate Milner and Petts' (1994) influential, conceptual model of benthic macroinvertebrate community structure for the Arctic catchment.
With the recent, unprecedented acceleration in atmospheric warming over the Arctic, the need to address uncertainties in environmental change response is urgent. A greater understanding of the resilience of hydroecological communities, and of biotic interactions within them, to changes in runoff sources, timing and magnitude, would increase our understanding of community response, and indicate the ability of organisms to adapt to environmental change. Our proposed Arctic-specific evaluation of stream habitat classification and of the development of benthic macroinvertebrate community structure will provide tools to interpret and predict the response of aquatic ecology to changes in hydrological regime forced by continued atmospheric warming.
 
References
Brown et al. 2003. Alpine stream habitat classification: an alternative approach incorporating the role of dynamic water source contributions. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 35, 313–322.
Milner, Petts. 1994. Glacial rivers: physical habitat and ecology. Freshwater Biology 32, 295–307.

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PhD Opportunities at the University of Aberdeen

Dear all,

 

Some of you may be interested in the following PhD opportunities:

 

University of Aberdeen: Subglacial hydrodynamics beneath ice sheets as revealed by eskers and melt water channels http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cops/graduate/studentships/104/

University of Aberdeen: Quantifying basal controls on ice-stream motion using remotely-sensed evidence from contemporary and palaeo subglacial environments http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cops/graduate/studentships/103/

 

And if you are looking for PhD's, polar jobs or summer opportunities don't forget to check out the APECS job listing http://www.apecs.is/jobs

 

Cheers,

Ella

FW: International Summer School on Climate Change in the Marine Realm

Dear All,

This summer school may be of interest to many of you. Please contact
AWI directly if you wish to attend.

Many thanks,

Sian Henley
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From: Volker Rachold [mailto:Volker.Rachold@iasc.info]
Sent: 05 March 2012 19:09
To: No-Reply
Subject: International Summer School on Climate Change in the Marine Realm

Dear Colleagues,

Enclosed please find an announcement for an "International Summer
School on Climate Change in the Marine Realm", organized by the Alfred
Wegener Institute (AWI) for Polar and Marine Research at the AWI
Wadden Sea Station on the island Sylt and at the University of Bremen
on 10-24 September 2012.

Secretariat

Telegrafenberg A43 - 14473 Potsdam - Germany

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Fwd: RMetS National Meeting 'Polar Ice - processes and impacts

The meeting below may be of interest - see attached PDF for more information.

Ella

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From: Marcia Spencer <Marcia.Spencer@rmets.org>
Date: 5 March 2012 13:23
Subject: RMetS National Meeting 'Polar Ice - processes and impacts
To: "climate@apecs.is" <climate@apecs.is>, "info@apecs.is" <info@apecs.is>, "policy@apecs.is" <policy@apecs.is>, "heritage@apecs.is" <heritage@apecs.is>, "glaciology@apecs.is" <glaciology@apecs.is>

Please find attached a programme for the Royal Meteorological Society National meeting taking place on the 21^st March 2012 at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge.

 

I hope that this would be of interest to your organisation and your members.  We would be grateful if you could distribute and display as appropriate.

 

Kind regards

 

Marcia

 

 

Marcia Spencer

Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS)

104 Oxford Road

Reading

Berkshire

RG1 7LL

 

T: 0118 956 8500

F: 0118 956 8571

e: marcia.spencer@rmets.org

http://www.rmets.org

 

School Outreach Opportunity, Wiltshire

Dear UKPN, 

I have received an email from a Year 1 (age 5-6) teacher in Devizes, Wiltshire. She would like a member of the UKPN to visit her class to support their Polar Regions topic. 

If anyone is able to help with this, then please let me know.  Help with organisation, activity ideas and financial support for travel is available from the UKPN for anyone wanting to get involved with outreach! 

Look forward to hearing from you, 

Laura Hobbs

| Outreach Co-ordinator, UK Polar Network |

Video launch - great outreach tool!

Dear UKPN members, 

Please see below the link to a fantastic video just made by a team of paleogeologists at Swansea University, who have documented their time researching Greenland. 

It is available on YouTube, and would be a great resource to use in outreach, particularly for secondary age and up!

Hope you enjoy...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opid81mxkkI&context=C35262b2ADOEgsToPDskJXod0sOJEgWg2-jPsk-9KT

Laura Hobbs

| Outreach Co-ordinator, UK Polar Network |