Edinburgh Festival Volunteering Opportunity

Dear All,

UKPN will be collaborating to run the Dynamic Earth area at the Edinburgh Festival this April 18th and 19th. Along with providing some hands on activities, we will also be providing some man power so that members of the public (ages 4+) can get answers to their pressing questions about the poles and our climate.

We are looking for about 3 members to join us so if you would be interested in volunteering your time and expertise for a weekend at the Festival then please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/ctbVRomPizJ5T3k37. 

If you have any fun and unique hands on activities, regardless of your availability to volunteer in person, and would be willing to share the equipment required then please also get in touch. The form has space for this, or just reply to this email. 

Thank you,

Chloe and Chloe, your Festival Coordinators

(chloe.nunn@polarnetwork.org)

(chloe.scott@polarnetwork.org)

Chloe Nunn

National Geographic Explorer 2018

MSc Sustainability 2018

BSc Oceanography 2017

+44 7519038793

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Outreach at the National Maritime Museum

Hi all,

 

The National Maritime Museum are theming their Easter holiday activities this year around Antarctica. They will be doing a bit of art, history and science across the holiday (4th April – 19th April 2020), and want the families visiting the museum to meet and talk to scientists who are actively researching and/or visiting the Antarctic. It will be an easy and fun bit of science outreach for any Antarctic researchers!

 

If there is a date or two you would like to be involved, please contact me. Weekdays are preferred over weekends, and exclusive of 10^th-13^th April.

 

Thanks,

Holly

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Holly Jenkins

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

UK Polar Network President

 

National Oceanography Centre Southampton

University of Southampton Waterfront Campus

Room: 344/35

Phone: 02380598724 (ext. 28724)

 

 

Available PhD Studentships

Dear colleagues,

 

We are seeking applicants for two fully-funded PhD studentships at the Department of Geography, Durham University, with Erin McClymont (erin.mcclymont@durham.ac.uk) and in collaboration with British Antarctic Survey. Both PhDs will be investigating new approaches to understanding Antarctic sea ice, its ecosystems, and their evolution since the Last Glacial Maximum:

 

PhD-1: Investigating the distribution and diet of snow petrels to understand Antarctic sea-ice ecosystems and palaeoclimate

https://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/news/allgeognews/?itemno=40807&rehref=%2Fgeography%2F&resubj=General+News+Headlines

Funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant “ANTSIE”.

 

PhD-2: Antarctic sea ice evolution and ecosystem responses since the Last Glacial Maximum

https://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/news/allgeognews/?itemno=40806&rehref=%2Fgeography%2F&resubj=General+News+Headlines

Funded by the Leverhulme Trust (UK).

 

Both studentships are open to UK / EU candidates who hold a First or 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). The studentship covers tuition fees, a tax-free maintenance grant, and travel and analytical costs.

 

The deadline for applications is Wednesday 5th February, 2020.

 

For full application details please follow the links above.

 

Best wishes,

Erin

 

Professor Erin McClymont

Department of Geography, Durham University

Lower Mountjoy, South Road

Durham DH1 3LE

erin.mcclymont@durham.ac.uk

 

 

 

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Holly Jenkins

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

UK Polar Network President

 

National Oceanography Centre Southampton

University of Southampton Waterfront Campus

Room: 344/35

Phone: 02380598724 (ext. 28724)

 

 

Outreach webinar

Dear UK Polar Network members,

 

In November you may have registered your interest in online training for science outreach in schools. Here is the eagerly awaited webinar!

 

It is now well-recognised that science outreach is an essential soft skill for any researcher. Do you understand the necessity but feel too underprepared to get involved? We're offering online training for anybody interested in taking their science into the classroom and adding a polar theme. The training will be led by a science communication expert and a school teacher to allow both worlds to come together. The focuses will be science communication for children and activity preparation, with tips on public speaking.

 

Monday 17^th February 10am – 12pm

Register here: http://tiny.cc/UKPN-webinar-registration

 

Thanks,

UKPN team

 

 

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Holly Jenkins

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

UK Polar Network President

 

National Oceanography Centre Southampton

University of Southampton Waterfront Campus

Room: 344/35

Phone: 02380598724 (ext. 28724)

 

 

Arctic Frontiers 2020: Next generation Arctic field courses: sharing best practices from the UK, Norway and Russia

Arctic Frontiers 2020

Next generation Arctic field courses: sharing best practices from the UK, Norway and Russia

 

When: 29 January 2020, 16:15-17:45

Where: Mellomstort møterom (Quality Hotel Saga), Tromso

 

Organisers: UK Science and Innovation Network and NERC Arctic Office

 

Arctic research is making a significant contribution to international efforts directed at better understanding the global challenges we are facing in the 21st century. Known for its remoteness and harsh climate, the Arctic is far from being an easy place to conduct fieldwork in, and it comes with many risks. As the need to understand the rapidly changing Arctic becomes more pressing, we ask ourselves what capabilities and tools future Arctic researchers may require and how best to cater to their needs.

 

The UK, Norway and Russia have accumulated substantial experience in designing and delivering Arctic field courses for young scientists. Over the past few years we have seen innovative new approaches to Arctic field courses whereby they were developed by early career researchers for early career researchers and involved international cooperation, taking into account specificities of a given Arctic region and efficiently addressing knowledge and skills gaps.

 

This session, following the PechaKucha method, will feature a line-up of the next generation of Arctic researchers and organisations involved in organising field courses in the Arctic. Speakers will share best practices in planning and running Arctic field courses, followed by discussion on what future Arctic field courses might need to look like to empower new generations of Arctic researchers and how international cooperation in this area could aid knowledge transfer.

 

- Henry Burgess, Head of the NERC Arctic Office
- Saule Akhmetkaliyeva, PhD student, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Polar Network
- Ingrid Medby, Senior Lecturer in Political Geography, Oxford Brookes University
- Marina Kalinina, UArctic Vice-President for Interregional Cooperation/Rector's Adviser for International Cooperation at Northern (Arctic) Federal University
- Yulia Zaika, APECS Russia Past-President 2017-2019
- Josefine Lenz, Project Officer, APECS
- Kate Hendry, biogeochemist and chemical oceanographer, the University of Bristol
- Margareta Johansson, research coordinator, Lund University/Coordinator for EU programme, INTERACT
- Phil Steinberg, Professor of Political Geography, Durham University
- Andrea Schneider, Project Officer, University of Tromsø/APECS Norway

 

For more details, please visit https://eu.eventscloud.com/website/614/side-events/

The North American Arctic - open access download

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UCL Press is delighted to announce an open access book that is likely to be of interest to list subscribers: The North American Arctic: Themes in Regional Security, edited by Edited by Dwayne Ryan Menezes and Heather N. Nicol
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Book title: The North American Arctic: Themes in Regional Security
Editors: Dwayne Ryan Menezes and Heather N. Nicol
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The North American Arctic addresses the emergence of a new security relationship within the North American North. It focuses on current and emerging security issues that confront the North American Arctic and that shape relationships between and with neighbouring states (Alaska in the US; Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada; Greenland and Russia).

Identifying the degree to which 'domain awareness' has redefined the traditional military focus, while a new human rights discourse undercuts traditional ways of managing sovereignty and territory, the volume's contributors question normative security arrangements. Although security itself is not an obsolete concept, our understanding of what constitutes real human-centred security has become outdated. The contributors argue that there are new regionally specific threats originating from a wide range of events and possibilities, and very different subjectivities that can be brought to understand the shape of Arctic security and security relationships in the twenty-first century.

The North American Arctic provides a framework or lens through which many new developments are assessed in order to understand their impact on a changing circumpolar region at different scales – from the level of community to the broader national and regional scale.

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Webinar today: antarctic science bursary - up to £6000 for side project

Hi guys

Final reminder to sign up to the APECS webinar today at 3pm and 8.10pm UTC for some tips and tricks on applying for the ANTARCTIC SCIENCE bursary. Hear from previous bursary winners and the award committee who review applications. Sign up here:

https://www.apecs.is/news/apecs-news/3535-webinar-tips-for-a-successful-bursary-application-and-q-a-session.html

For those of you looking for some funding to support an awesome Antarctic project, check out the Antarctic Science Bursary – applications have just opened again for this year

https://www.antarcticsciencebursary.org.uk/apply-for-an-asi-bursary/

Cheers
Anna

Dr Anna Belcher
Ecological Biogeochemist
British Antarctic Survey
Cambridge

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Hello and happy new year!!

 

For those of you looking for some funding to support an awesome Antarctic project, check out the Antarctic Science Bursary – applications have just opened again for this year

 

https://www.antarcticsciencebursary.org.uk/apply-for-an-asi-bursary/

 

The deadline is 31^st March, so time to get your ideas together etc. And sign up to the APECS webinar on January 20^th for some tips and tricks on applying for the bursary

 

https://www.apecs.is/news/apecs-news/3535-webinar-tips-for-a-successful-bursary-application-and-q-a-session.html

 

 

Cheers

 

Anna

 

Dr Anna Belcher | Ecological Biogeochemist| British Antarctic Survey

High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET

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School Visit Requests

Hi UKPN Members,

So far this academic year, we've had 6 successful school visits- with many more in the pipeline for this term so thank you for kindly giving up your time to do this! 

Below is another list of schools that would love to have a Polar Scientist visit- to speak to their students about the polar regions and research taking place there. 

Are you able to help with any? 

Please do let me know if you were able and interested in doing any and I can pass on the contact details of the teacher to you. 

SCOTLAND: Chapell Hall Primnary School, ML6 8XW, Year 5, (request for Arctic specifically) 
LONDON: Hampstead School, Year 7 (the school I work at so I suppose I could call this a special visit request! 

LONDON: Abacus Belsize Primary School, Year 1 and Year 2 

SOUTH LONDON: Burntwood School, Year 7 and 8 

SURREY: Farnham End Heath School, Year 8

LEICESTERSHIRE, Hinckley: Hastings High School, Year 7 and 8 

SOUTHPORT: Greenbank High School, Year 8

GATESHEAD: Year 4, Kells Lane Primary School

SHEFFIELD: Wharncliffe Side Primary School, Year 1&2 

Thanks in advance, 

UKPN Education Team 

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BAS ATSC - Safe & Effective Fieldwork in the Polar Regions. Call for Applications.

Hi everyone,

 

See below and attached flyer of the AMAZING course run by BAS on fieldwork in polar regions. Having been on the course myself in the past, I can really recommend applying if you will have future fieldwork in polar regions. It’s really great!

 

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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Sent: 09 January 2020 09:32
To: Belcher, Anna C. <annbel@bas.ac.uk>
Subject: BAS ATSC - Safe & Effective Fieldwork in the Polar Regions. Call for Applications.

 

Good morning Anna,

 

We are planning to run our Advanced Training Short Course “Safe & Effective Fieldwork in the Polar Regions” again this year.  The course consists of 3 days theoretical and practical work at BAS in Cambridge, followed by 5 days practical training exercises on the ice and at sea at the NERC Arctic Research Station in Ny Alesund, Svalbard.  More information and an application form attached.

 

The closing date for application is Friday 13^th March 2020.

 

Please could I ask you to circulate across UKPN or any other network groups.

 

Many thanks for your help.

Best wishes

Ali

 

Ali Teague | Postgraduate Student Co-ordinator | British Antarctic Survey

High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET

Email: alag@bas.ac.uk |Tel: +44 (0)1223 221253

 

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

 

 

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Re: Can you help? UKPN School Visit Requests

Dear Kate,

 

 

 

Which kind with these schools of help do you mean?

 

 

 

 

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Best regards,
Anastasia Makhnykina, PhD student
Department of Ecology and Environmental Science
Institute of Ecology and Geography
Siberian Federal University
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Phone number: +79607742435

 

 

 

17.12.2019, 03:26, "Kate Stockings" <stockings.geography@gmail.com>:

Hi UKPN Members,

 

Firstly, thank you for the amazing response to my previous email about requests for School Visits. As a result, several visits are now going ahead which is fantastic news. 

 

Below is another list of schools that would love to have a Polar Scientist visit- to speak to their students about the polar regions and research taking place there. 

 

Are you able to help with any? 

Please do let me know if you were able and interested in doing any and I can pass on the contact details of the teacher to you. 

 

SOUTH LONDON: Burntwood School, Year 7 and 8 

SURREY: Farnham End Heath School, Year 8

LEICESTERSHIRE, Hinckley: Hastings High School, Year 7 and 8 

SOUTHPORT: Greenbank High School, Year 8

CORNWALL: Treverbyn Academy, St Austell, Year 2 

NORTHAMPTON: Kingsthrope College

GATESHEAD: Year 4, Kells Lane Primary School

SHEFFIELD: Wharncliffe Side Primary School, Year 1&2 

INVERCLYDE: St John's Primary School

RUGBY: Avon Valley School, Secondary School

 

Thanks in advance, 

UKPN Education Team 

 

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Re: Can you help? UKPN School Visit Requests

Dear Kate,

 

Which kind with these schools of help do you mean?

 

 

 

 

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Best regards,
Anastasia Makhnykina, PhD student
Department of Ecology and Environmental Science
Institute of Ecology and Geography
Siberian Federal University
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Phone number: +79607742435

 

 

 

17.12.2019, 03:26, "Kate Stockings" <stockings.geography@gmail.com>:

Hi UKPN Members,

 

Firstly, thank you for the amazing response to my previous email about requests for School Visits. As a result, several visits are now going ahead which is fantastic news. 

 

Below is another list of schools that would love to have a Polar Scientist visit- to speak to their students about the polar regions and research taking place there. 

 

Are you able to help with any? 

Please do let me know if you were able and interested in doing any and I can pass on the contact details of the teacher to you. 

 

SOUTH LONDON: Burntwood School, Year 7 and 8 

SURREY: Farnham End Heath School, Year 8

LEICESTERSHIRE, Hinckley: Hastings High School, Year 7 and 8 

SOUTHPORT: Greenbank High School, Year 8

CORNWALL: Treverbyn Academy, St Austell, Year 2 

NORTHAMPTON: Kingsthrope College

GATESHEAD: Year 4, Kells Lane Primary School

SHEFFIELD: Wharncliffe Side Primary School, Year 1&2 

INVERCLYDE: St John's Primary School

RUGBY: Avon Valley School, Secondary School

 

Thanks in advance, 

UKPN Education Team 

 

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antarctic science bursary - up to £6000 for side project

Hello and happy new year!!

 

For those of you looking for some funding to support an awesome Antarctic project, check out the Antarctic Science Bursary – applications have just opened again for this year

 

https://www.antarcticsciencebursary.org.uk/apply-for-an-asi-bursary/

 

The deadline is 31^st March, so time to get your ideas together etc. And sign up to the APECS webinar on January 20^th for some tips and tricks on applying for the bursary

 

https://www.apecs.is/news/apecs-news/3535-webinar-tips-for-a-successful-bursary-application-and-q-a-session.html

 

 

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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