New Open Access Book: The Spectral Arctic: A Cultural History of Ghosts and Dreams in Polar Exploration

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UCL Press is delighted to announce a brand new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: The Spectral Arctic: A Cultural History of Ghosts and Dreams in Polar Exploration. Download free: https://goo.gl/h27jhi

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The Spectral Arctic: A Cultural History of Ghosts and Dreams in Polar Exploration
Shane McCorristine
Download free: https://goo.gl/h27jhi
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Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage.

The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly-lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin's lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin's ships.

Download free: https://goo.gl/h27jhi

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NERC Engaging Environments: Future of Our Seas public engagement training opportunity

Dear All,

Please see below and attached for an excellent opportunity to gain skills in public engagement relevant to the seas and oceans. For any queries or to apply, please contact Raeanne Miller (cc'ed) directly.

Best wishes,
Sian

NERC Engaging Environments: Future of Our Seas public engagement training opportunity

On June 12-14, we will be hosting a free NERC Future of Our Seas training event, at the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban. It is the second event that the NERC Future of Our Seas project will be hosting in 2018, which takes a fresh and dynamic look at public engagement, going beyond traditional science communication approaches to include learning from psychologists, artists, creatives, media professionals, and community groups. We want to build on the growing, nationwide conversations about the future of our seas, and help researchers to develop new and exciting ways to engage people in their work.

Feedback from our previous event in Plymouth included:

"dynamic and engaging"

"totally out of the box"

"a unique take on scicomm"

"not your average training!"

We'd love to have a great Scottish turnout - more information is attached, an below are a few pictures from the event we hosted in Plymouth as part of Plymouth Pirate Weekend - everyone had great fun! The Oban version will be hosting a similar event in July as part of the West Highland Sailing week. Also check out www.futureofourseas.org for more information!

I'm happy to answer any questions you might have - applications are due this Friday June 1st!

--  Dr Sian Henley    NERC Independent Research Fellow  School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, UK

London Polar Group discussion: Antarctica - at UCL on 25 May 1-3 pm

London Polar Group discussion: Antarctica

Please join us on Friday 25 May from 1-3 pm in the Garwood Lecture Theatre (midway down the corridor of the first floor of the Wilkins Building - South Wing at the UCL Gower Street site).

Rachel Tilling https://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/people/r.tilling will show photos and describe her research from her Antarctic oceans and ice trip earlier this year. Then, we will brainstorm on how to generate Antarctic-related projects.

Research Experience Placement for undergraduates

Dear colleagues,

 

We have a REP from SPITFIRE DTP that might be of interest to members of the UKPN.  If you could pass onto any interested undergraduates you might have that would be great.

 

It will be based at British Antarctic Survey for 10 weeks over the summer and involves working with both the Atmosphere, Ice and Climate team and the Space Weather and Atmosphere team.  The project will be looking at to see what the impact of space weather events are on the Antarctic atmosphere.

 

Title: Space weather impacts on the Antarctic Middle atmosphere

Supervisors: Dr Andrew Kavanagh & Dr Tracy Moffat-Griffin (British Antarctic Survey)

 

Project details can be found here: http://www.spitfire.ac.uk/spitfire/sites/spitfire/files/documents/1_REP%20Project_BAS_Moffat-Griffin%26Kavanagh_2018.pdf

Application procedure can be found here: http://www.spitfire.ac.uk/spitfire-dtp-research-experience-placement-scheme-2018

 

Application deadline is Monday 21^st May.

 

Many thanks,

Tracy and Andrew

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Postdoc positions at AWI/Germany within MOSAiC

Lieber Herr Rabe,

 

anbei die beiden Stellenausschreibungen als PDF.

 

Liebe Grüße

Wencke Griemsmann

 

 

 

 

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Tel.: +49(0)471-4831-1853

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Dear all,

Please find attached 2 post doc opportunities at AWI in Germany to work on the MOSAiC project (The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate).

Deadline for applications is May 16th!

Best,
Kyle