Dear UKPN,
Apologies for any cross-posting, but see below for a great online conference from APECS.
Laura Hobbs.
New perspectives in the Polar Sciences
APECS International Online Conference
Conference Date: 16 March 2015 (09:00 GMT to 22:05 GMT)
Event Format: Online conference (webinar)
APECS webinar organizers announce registration for audience members to participate in our International Online Conference, "New Perspectives in the Polar Sciences," which is scheduled for 16 March 2015 (09:00 GMT to 22:05 GMT):
Please register for New Perspectives in the Polar Sciences on Mar 16, 2015 9:00 AM GMT at:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/9104074290012167682
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
This conference will engage scientific dialogues between early career scientists from multiple disciplines and backgrounds on new research perspectives in their field of research. With increased attention on the changing polar environment and the future challenges this will bring, this conference aims to convey the broad range of new research currently being conducted internationally. Guest speakers include Prof. Pete Convey from the British Antarctic Survey, UK, who will be discussing new research on the evolution and adaptation of Antarctic terrestrial biota and the implications of this for future management and conservation; and Prof. John Smellie from the University of Leicester, UK, will be discussing new methodological applications of glaciovolcanism that are able to better reconstruct the evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, the largest ice mass in the world. The full conference programme is given below:
The detailed conference programme including all abstracts can be downloaded on the APECS website.
APECS Online International Conference
New Perspectives in the Polar Sciences
SESSION ONE
09:00-09:05 GMT: Session One Conference Introduction
SESSION: CULTURAL, POLICY, EDUCATION & HISTORY
09:05-09:20 GMT: Antarctica in Advertising: Media Representations of the South
Presenter: Hanne Nielsen, Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, Australia
SESSION: GEOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT & TERRESTRIAL CRYOSPHERE
09:20-09:35 GMT: Spatial and temporal variations of total mercury in Antarctic snow along the transect from Zhongshan Station to Dome A
Presenter: Chuanjin Li, State Key Lab of Cryospheric Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
09:35-09:50 GMT: GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) research on Livingston Island, Antarctica
Presenter: Asparuh Kamburov, University of Mining and Geology, Bulgaria
09:50-10:05 GMT: Persistent organic pollutants' release from a glacier in the context of changing melt and snowfall
Presenter: Krystyna Koziol, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
SESSION: OCEANOGRAPHY & SEA ICE
10:05-10:20 GMT: The Polar Regions: Ideal Test Beds for Data Assimilation
Presenter: François Massonnet, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium and Catalan Institute for Climate Sciences, Spain
SESSION: TERRESTRIAL & MARINE BIOLOGY
10:20-10:35 GMT: Vegetation Extraction in Antarctica Using Remote Sensing
Presenter: Chayanika Devi,National Center For Antarctica And Ocean Research, Goa, India
10:35-10:50 GMT: Boreal Shrub Growth Response to Fertilization, Herbivory and Climate near Kluane Lake, Yukon
Presenter: Meagan Grabowski, University of British Columbia, Canada
10:50-11:05 GMT: Effects of iron and light co-limitation on Southern Ocean phytoplankton
Presenter: Raissa Philibert, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
11:05-11:20 GMT: Insights into trophic ecology of the Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarctica) in Antarctic coastal ecosystems
Presenter: Erica Carlig, ISMAR-CNR U.O.S. Genoa and University of Siena, Italy
SESSION: CULTURAL, POLICY, EDUCATION & HISTORY
11:20-11:35 GMT: Web conferences: interaction with Antarctic researchers from anywhere
Presenter: Adriana Keiko Nishida, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil, and Universidade Aberta do Brasil, Brazil
SESSION: GUEST SPEAKER
11:35-12:15 GMT: How do you mix biology and ice ages in the Antarctic?
Presenter: Prof. Pete Convey, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
12:15-12:20 GMT: CONCLUDING SESSION ONE & THANKING PRESENTERS
SESSION TWO
18:55-19:00 GMT: Session Two Conference Introduction
SESSION: GUEST SPEAKER
19:00-19:45 GMT: Volcanoes and reconstructing the Antarctic Ice Sheet – the myth of an irreversible step-change in thermal regime
Presenter: Prof. John Smellie, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
SESSION: TERRESTRIAL & MARINE BIOLOGY
19:45-20:00 GMT: Walrus and bearded seals go with the floe
Presenter: Olivia Lee, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
20:00-20:15 GMT: Ecology of arrow worms in the Arctic – are they really the "tigers of the plankton"?
Presenter: Jordan Grigor, Takuvik Joint International Laboratory, Université Laval (Canada) - CNRS (France) and Québec-Océan, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
20:15-20:30 GMT: Spatial distribution of the macrobenthos at the Mackellar Inlet, King George Island: Explanations integrating the systematic and trophic grouping approaches
Presenter: Bernabé Moreno, Cientifica del Sur University, Lima, Peru
20:30-20:45 GMT: Automatic zooplankton species identification for the greater North Water Polynya region
Presenter: Moritz S. Schmid, Takuvik Joint International Laboratory, Université Laval (Canada) - CNRS (France) and Québec-Océan, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
20:45-21:00 GMT: Forecasting the habitat suitability of high risk invasive species in the Canadian Arctic
Presenter: Jesica Goldsmit, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski (UQAR/ISMER), Quebec, Canada
SESSION: CULTURAL, POLICY, EDUCATION & HISTORY
21:00-21:15 GMT: From Winds to Sea Ice: A Historical Perspective on Global Climate
Presenter: Julianne Yip, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
21:15-21:30 GMT: Brazilian initiative to psychological interventions in Antarctica
Presenter: Paola Barros-Delben, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
21:30-21:45 GMT: Exploration of Utility and Expansion of Indigenous Knowledge within the Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONet) Local Observation Program Database: Pilot in Barrow, Alaska of the North Slope Borough
Presenter: Irene Holak, Antioch University New England, New Hampshire, USA
21:45-22:00 GMT: To the Extremes! A Teacher Research Experience Program in the Polar Regions
Presenter: Sarah Bartholow, Arctic Research Consortium of the US (ARCUS), Fairbanks, USA
22:00-22:05 GMT: CONCLUDING SESSION TWO & THANKING PRESENTERS
For more information and enquiries about the conference, please email Rachel Downey (rachel.v.downey@gmail.com)
