Reflections from the field: call for contributions

Hi all,

 

Please see the below from Reflections from the field, who are compiling poems, stories and sketches from scientists working in the field. Great opportunity to share some personal insight.

 

Thanks,

UKPN committee

Let's share the lasting yet unpublished creativity of the polar community

in an anthology of "Reflections from the field".

For many in our community, the field season conjures creativity. Those days when you battle against wind and rain to collect that precious sample, nights where stories are shared around the campfire; and the pangs of realization when you see, at first hand, the effect of climate change on your field site.  

For some people, these moments are captured as poems, sketches, anecdotes in a diary, or short stories documented in emails and letters. The aim of this new project is to gather this collective experience in a document. This will be shared with our community, used as an education tool to inspire future researchers and provide an important record of present day field experiences.

The upcoming Northern Hemisphere field season provides the perfect time to advertise this idea to you all! We seek contributions towards a pilot anthology. These contributions can be in any language, take any form (poetry, sketches, stories) and follow any fieldwork-related theme. Please send these contributions, and any questions, to: reflectionsfromthefield@gmail.com

Have a beautiful field season. 

Reflections from the field Team

 

 

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Holly Jenkins

PhD student, SPITFIRE DTP & Changing Arctic Ocean (NERC)

UK Polar Network committee

 

National Oceanography Centre Southampton

University of Southampton Waterfront Campus

 

Room: 344/35

Phone: 02380598724 (ext. 28724)

Email: hollyjenkins@soton.ac.uk

Korea and the Arctic - 5 June at UCL

We have just been told that Jong-Deog Kim, Director General of Industry Intelligence and Strategy Research Division, Korea Maritime Institute will be in London next week. The Polar Research and Policy Initiative http://polarconnection.org has quickly organised the following event:

Korea and the Arctic

Dr Jong-Deog Kim

5 June 2019, 1530-1700

Drayton House room B06, Drayton House, 30 Gordon Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0QB

Registration is essential via https://korea-arctic.eventbrite.co.uk

Edinburgh Arctic Research Network Summer Conference

Dear All,

The Edinburgh Arctic Research Network is holding a summer conference next Friday 7th June at ECCI in Edinburgh. Please see the agenda below for details of talks and sessions. All are welcome – please pass this invitation on to anyone else who might be interested.

The event is free to attend and there is no registration deadline as such, but please add your name to https://doodle.com/poll/euebyg7fhvnrgpz7 by Monday 3 June if you would like a free lunch. Also let us know by Monday, in a reply to this email, if you have a poster that you would like to bring along so that we can set up enough boards. Note that we welcome second-hand posters, so there is no need to make one especially!

We hope to see you next week!

Best wishes,
Richard Essery, Lorna Street and Sian Henley

 

Programme - EARN Summer Conference 2019

Training and Skills Room, ECCI, Edinburgh. Friday 7^th June 10:30-16:30

10.30-11.00 Welcome, tea and coffee.

Session 1. Keynote session: Arctic resources and development

11.00 Tina Soliman Hunter (University of Aberdeen) – Developing Arctic Petroleum Resources using evidence based regulation: New approaches to old problems.

11.20 Anthony Field (WWF) – Arctic industrial development and the role of UK business.

11.40 – 12.00 Questions and discussion.

 

Session 2.  EARN research presentations

 

12.00 Pete Nienow (University of Edinburgh) – Investigating the response of Greenland's tidewater  glaciers to oceanic and atmospheric forcing.

12.15 Antonia Doncila (University of Edinburgh) – How will the Central Arctic Biochemistry respond to global warming?

12.30 Matt Purslow (University of Edinburgh) – Temperature and infrared emissivity of Arctic surface snow.

 

12.45-13.20 Lunch

 

Session 3. Keynote session: Arctic environmental change

 

13.20 Laura Hobbs (University of Strathclyde) –  Hide and seek in the Arctic: the trials of zooplankton

13.40 Sarah Chadburn (University of Exeter) – Carbon emissions from thawing permafrost: What does this mean for the Paris Agreement targets?

14.00 Amber Leeson (Lancaster University) – 'Supraglacial lakes; from Greenland to Antarctica and back again.

 

14.20 – 14.40 Questions and discussion

 

Session 4.  EARN research presentations

 

14.40 Nina Friggens (University of Stirling) – Spatial patterns in soil organic matter dynamics are shaped by mycorrhizosphere interactions in a treeline forest

14.55 Claudia Colesie (University of Edinburgh) –  Antarctic plants (title tbc)

15.10 Andy Dugmore (University of Edinburgh) – Future lessons from a slowly unfolding environmental catastrophe in the past.

15:25 Close

15.30-16:30 Poster session, tea and cake.

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iAtlantic Project Manager - University of Edinburgh

Hi All,

Please see below for an exciting opportunity to join the Changing Oceans group at the University of Edinburgh as a project manager. Any queries, please contact Murray Roberts (cc'ed) directly.

Best wishes,
Sian

 

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.   iAtlantic Project Manager A dynamic and adaptable Project Manager is required for a large new international ocean research project with partners across Europe, Brazil, South Africa, Canada and the USA. The iAtlantic Project is a 4-year €10.63M project funded through the European Commission's Horizon 2020 scheme, with 33 core partners, a wider network of associate partners and an international Advisory Board. The project's goals are to create an integrated assessment of Atlantic marine ecosystems in space and time. The post holder will support the Principal Investigator and iAtlantic Coordinator (Prof Murray Roberts) in all aspects of grant and project management including monitoring of project delivery and budget, meeting EC reporting requirements, and fulfilment of objectives. You will also work very closely with the iAtlantic Steering Committee, PI's research team and University European Research Manager to ensure that the project is managed efficiently and effectively, and that both scientific and management aspects of the project are aligned and optimised throughout the project to the benefit of all stakeholders. Excellent project and grant management skills with proven ability to effectively interact with multiple stakeholders are critical to the success of the role. The post-holder will also have experience of managing EU funded contracts and an understanding of European research programmes. This post is full time and fixed term until the 31st May 2023. Salary: £33,199 - £39,609 per annum. Closing date is 4 June 2019 at 5pm GMT. The School aims to ensure equality of opportunity and holds an Athena SWAN Silver award. We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of gender or ethnic group. Appointment will be based on merit alone. Applications should be made via the University of Edinburgh website: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=048026 Update my topic preferences To subscribe to CMS emails please click here. You can forward this email to a friend or colleague.  You can unsubscribe at anytime. Follow me on Twitter

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Notice: Website and Email Maintenance

Dear UKPN Members,

 

Please be aware that over the weekend our website www.polarnetwork.org may experience some downtime whilst undergoing maintenance. For a very short period of time this may also affect our polarnetwork.org email addresses, such as president@polarnetwork.org or education@polarnetwork.org. We advise that if you need to contact us this afternoon that you wait until Tuesday morning when all the scheduled maintenance will be completed as any sent emails may not be delivered. For any urgent issues please feel free to contact Chelsey.A.Baker@soton.ac.uk or annbel@bas.ac.uk.

 

Thank you for your patience.

 

Best wishes,

Chelsey

 

Chelsey Baker

PhD Student

Co-President of the UK Polar Network

Office: 344/31

Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems

University of Southampton

National Oceanography Centre

Southampton

SO14 3ZH

 

Save the date: Research in Svalbard: An APECS workshop – November 4th 2019

Hello,

Exciting news from APECS Norway, Russia and UK – we will be running a workshop alongside the Svalbard Science Conference in Oslo in November this year.

The focus of the workshop is to share information about conducting research in Svalbard, helping, in particular ECR's know in advance the logistics and infrastructure available to carry out future research. The outline of the workshop is:

Research in Svalbard: An APECS workshop

 

Main workshop Session 1. Logistics and Funding

Main workshop Session 2. Environment

Main workshop Session 3. Data sharing and Outreach

Main workshop Session 4. Discussion and breakout groups

Main workshop Session 5. Posters and icebreaker

So save the date of 4^th November 2019 and keep an eye out for us sending out more details and a link to register for the APECS workshop.

Additionally, the deadline for registration of the Svalbard Science Conference is 15^th June, so take a look at the website here and be sure to get your abstract in on time. Places will be limited at the workshop, with the priority going to those participating in the Svalbard science conference, so get your abstracts in!

https://forskningsradet.pameldingssystem.no/svalbard-science-conference-2019#/home

 

 

Cheers

 

Anna

 

Dr Anna Belcher | Ecological Biogeochemist| British Antarctic Survey

High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET

Email: annbel@bas.ac.uk |Tel: +44 (0)1223 221281

 

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Conservation vs Development in North Alaska

Dear all,

 

Are you in London tomorrow? If so, the following event may be of interest to you: an evening focused on North Alaska, featuring a film screening, panel discussion and networking reception.

How does the 'Conservation vs Development' debate transpire in North Alaska? Is it possible to find the right balance?

The event is hosted by Polar Research and Policy Initiative, in partnership with Thomson Reuters Foundation, Arctic Today, UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

Sign up via the following link:
http://alaska-evening-london.eventbrite.co.uk

 

Thanks,

Holly

 

________________________________________________

Holly Jenkins

PhD student, SPITFIRE DTP & Changing Arctic Ocean (NERC)

UK Polar Network committee

 

National Oceanography Centre Southampton

University of Southampton Waterfront Campus

 

Room: 344/35

Phone: 02380598724 (ext. 28724)

Email: hollyjenkins@soton.ac.uk

 

 

FW: PI vacancies in biogeochemistry at NOC

Hi everyone,

Jobs galore going at NOC in biogeochemistry :) lots of opportunities to join the great team at NOC.

Cheers

Anna

Dr Anna Belcher | Ecological Biogeochemist| British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET
Email: annbel@bas.ac.uk |Tel: +44 (0)1223 221281

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From: Stephanie Henson <shen@noc.ac.uk>
Sent: 03 May 2019 08:37
Subject: PI vacancies in biogeochemistry at NOC

Hi all
We have the current vacancies for principal investigators in biogeochemistry at NOC, closing date 31 May Global Biogeochemistry:
https://careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/principal-investigator-global-biogeochemistry-376396.html
Phytoplankton Dynamics:
https://careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/principal-investigator-phytoplankton-dynamics-377885.html
Particle Flux Biogeochemist:
https://careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/principal-investigator-particle-flux-biogeochemist-385593.html
Anthropogenic Contaminants:
https://careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/principal-investigator-anthropogenic-contaminants-375801.html
Also, a vacancy for a research scientist in chemical oceanography, closing date 26 May https://careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/research-scientist-chemical-oceanography-377203.html
I'd be grateful if you could circulate around your networks.
Many thanks!
Steph

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PhD opportunity

Dear All,

Please find attached an advert for an exciting PhD in blue carbon. Any
queries, please contact Bill Austin (in cc).

Best wishes,
Sian

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