Re: Peer Review Workshop by UKPN and US APECS

Sorry please refer to the correct time as per the calendar invite:

Apologies!

🕒 17:00-18:00 BST

Le jeu. 1 mai 2025 à 07:46, Nadia Frontier <frontier.nadia@gmail.com> a écrit :

Hello UKPN,

With less than a week to go, please join us for an online Peer Review Workshop by the UK Polar Network  and the US Association of Polar Early Career Scientists on May 7th (Wed) at 15:00 BST

 

This interactive workshop is aimed at Early Career Researchers to help navigate the daunting peer review process.

 

There will be a Plenary Talk by Terrestrial Ecologist Prof. Pete Convey, chief editor for 'Antarctic Science', 'Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution', board member of 'Ecology' and associate editor for 'Polar Science', 'Polish Polar Research', 'Ukrainian Antarctic Journal'.

 

It will be followed by a Panel discussion on peer review by the following early, mid and late career scientists:

1. Oceanographer Dr. Sam Hartharn-Evans, Post-doctoral researcher at Northumbria University and UK Polar Network vice-president.
2. NASA Geologist Dr. Lauren Andrews, Associate Editor at 'Journal of Geophysical Research'.
3. Glaciologist Prof. Bob Hawley, Program Officer at NSF and Past President of AGU Cryosphere Sciences.

 

The webinar will provide opportunity to ask our panelists for advice and questions.

 

Save the date! 

 

📍 Zoom: https://bas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98922453196

📅   7th May 2025 (Wednesday)

🕒 15:00-16:00 BST

 

Please feel free to reach out to us via international@polarnetwork.org (UKPN)  or usapecs@gmail.com (USAPECS) if you have any questions.

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Peer Review Workshop by UKPN and US APECS

Hello UKPN,

With less than a week to go, please join us for an online Peer Review Workshop by the UK Polar Network  and the US Association of Polar Early Career Scientists on May 7th (Wed) at 15:00 BST

 

This interactive workshop is aimed at Early Career Researchers to help navigate the daunting peer review process.

 

There will be a Plenary Talk by Terrestrial Ecologist Prof. Pete Convey, chief editor for 'Antarctic Science', 'Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution', board member of 'Ecology' and associate editor for 'Polar Science', 'Polish Polar Research', 'Ukrainian Antarctic Journal'.

 

It will be followed by a Panel discussion on peer review by the following early, mid and late career scientists:

1. Oceanographer Dr. Sam Hartharn-Evans, Post-doctoral researcher at Northumbria University and UK Polar Network vice-president.
2. NASA Geologist Dr. Lauren Andrews, Associate Editor at 'Journal of Geophysical Research'.
3. Glaciologist Prof. Bob Hawley, Program Officer at NSF and Past President of AGU Cryosphere Sciences.

 

The webinar will provide opportunity to ask our panelists for advice and questions.

 

Save the date! 

 

📍 Zoom: https://bas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98922453196

📅   7th May 2025 (Wednesday)

🕒 15:00-16:00 BST

 

Please feel free to reach out to us via international@polarnetwork.org (UKPN)  or usapecs@gmail.com (USAPECS) if you have any questions.

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Fw: UKPN Seminar Series: Science for Policy in Antarctica

A reminder about today's seminar about Antarctic Science Policy! It's not too late to sign up

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Hi all, 

UKPN Seminar Series: Science for Policy in Antarctica

Join us for our next UKPN seminar, including talks from two scientists who have contrasting experiences interacting with Antarctic policy frameworks.

 30th April
 2-3pm UTC (in your time zone)
Microsoft Teams
 Sign up via Eventbrite here

Antarctic tourism – background, impacts, and opportunities
Dr Jasmine Lee (British Antarctic Survey) is a conservation scientist whose research focuses on understanding and mitigating threats to terrestrial Antarctic biodiversity.

Conservation and fisheries management in the Southern Ocean
Dr Susie Grant (British Antarctic Survey) is marine biogeographer whose research to support conservation of the marine environment and the sustainable use of marine resources, including the development of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and spatial management.

There will be a chance to ask both speakers questions. Teams meeting details will be sent out to those who sign up.

All the best,

Lucy

Lucy Stephenson (she/her) | Scientific Data Officer | UK Polar Data Centre | British Antarctic Survey

Antarctic President | UK Polar Network 

Room 330a, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET

Email: lustep@bas.ac.uk  

 

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GW4+ DLTP - Undergraduate Research Experience Placement Projects

Good Morning,

GW4+ have four paid Research Experience Placements available this summer for undergraduate students

Please see the link below for the project lists and how to apply

the deadline for applications is the 9th May

Projects which may be of particular interest for the UKPN are as follows, these projects will be hosted at British Antarctic Survey. 

• Analysing the particulate carbon flux from Fjords to Open Ocean: How do melting glaciers influence the biological carbon pump?
• Changes in the relationship between the Southern Annular Mode and Antarctic temperatures: the role of internal climate variability
• How Well Do Climate Models Represent the Upper Atmosphere? A Comparison with Observations from the Arctic
• Quantifying drivers of variability in copepod respiration and influence on carbon export

Please circulate this opportunity within your networks

Thank you,

Flo

Dr Flo Atherden | She/Her | Ecological Biogeochemist| British Antarctic Survey

High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET

Email: flrden19@bas.ac.uk

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PhD advert for Arctic Alien Plant Genomics

Dear UKPN,

Please find attached a PhD advert that might be of interest. Note the deadline next Friday:

Dear colleagues (sorry for any cross-postings),

I'm writing to spread the word that we are recruiting for an open PhD position on "Arctic alien plant genomics" at NTNU University Museum in Trondheim.

This exciting project concerns the genomics of Arctic invasion in the plant Barbarea vulgaris, using field collections and historical herbarium specimens.

Application deadline is 9 May, 2025, and more details can be found here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/278168/phd-candidate-in-arctic-alien-plant-genomics

I will be the main supervisor, while Mike Martin (NTNU Univ Museum) and Simone Fior (ETH Zürich) will be co-supervisors.

It would be very nice if you could distribute this to motivated and finishing or recently completed master students who might be interested! A summary of the position follows.

 

Thank you and best wishes,
Kristine

 

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About the position.

The NTNU University Museum is seeking a highly qualified, ambitious, and motivated PhD candidate for a project focusing on genomics of Arctic alien plants. A warming climate, changes in soil properties, and rising human activity in the Arctic increase the probability of introduction and establishment of alien plant species. In high-Arctic Svalbard and other Arctic regions, the wintercress (Barbarea vulgaris) is an established alien species. Hypotheses for its success include multiple introductions from different genetic sources, enemy release advantage related to plant defense compounds, and shifts in adaptive traits.

 

The PhD project will develop genomic datasets, making use of field collections and herbarium resources, and have the possibility to develop experimental evidence to examine links between the genomic basis of successful establishment and potential invasiveness in the high-Arctic. The wintercress will be a primary focus of the project, but complementary research on parallel systems may be developed. The project will add an important evolutionary component to ongoing interdisciplinary research on Arctic greening.

 

The successful candidate will be employed at the NTNU University Museum's Department of Natural History. The NTNU University Museum is the natural and cultural history museum of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. The Department of Natural History conducts research in systematics and taxonomy, evolutionary genomics, as well as in phylogeography, population genetics, and ecology with an emphasis on conservation biology. Your immediate leader will be the Head of Department.

 

About the project.

The team of supervisors will consist of Ass. Prof. Kristine Bakke Westergaard (main supervisor), as well as co-supervisors Prof. Mike Martin and Dr. Simone Fior (ETH Zürich, Switzerland). The candidate will use the NTNU University Museum's herbarium, genomics laboratory facilities and computational resources, and the work will be closely associated with a project on Arctic greening based at ETH Zürich. The work will also be part of the Nordic Borealization Network  that seeks to understand the processes, drivers, and consequences of changes in the species composition of tundra ecosystems.

 

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Kristine Bakke Westergaard

Associate professor, scientific curator of vascular plants herbarium TRH

Department of Natural History

NTNU University Museum

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

7491 Trondheim, Norway

+47 98072974

http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/kristine.b.westergaard

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Peer review workshop- Wednesday 7th May 2025

Hello UKPN community,

Please join us online for an interactive workshop aimed at Early Career Researchers to help navigate the daunting peer review process.

We will be joined by Pete Convey, Dr. Lauren Andrews, Prof. Bob Hawley and our very own UKPN Vice President, Dr. Sam Hartharn-Evans sharing their own personal experiences from the perspective of early, mid and late career scientists. 

The webinar will provide opportunity to ask our panelists for advice and questions.

UKPN will be co-hosting this webinar with APECS US.

Save the date! 

📍Zoom: https://bas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98922453196

📅 Wednesday 7th May 2025

🕒 17:00-18:00 British Summer Time. 🕒 09:00-10:00 Pacific Time

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Workshop for UK Arctic Ocean science to IPY 32/33

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Workshop on the contribution of UK Arctic Ocean science to the International Polar Year 32/33

 

12:00 11th June – 16:00 12th June 2025

NOC Southampton

In-person (with online option)

 

Registration deadline 16th May

 

REGISTER HERE

 

Pre-meeting questionnaire (open to all)

 

The purpose of this workshop is for the UK Ocean Science community to discuss and then draft a prospectus document outlining the priority Arctic research questions the community would like to address during the run up to, throughout and beyond the International Polar Year 32/33. Additionally, to identify what unique strengths and technologies the UK has to help fill these knowledge gaps.

 

The second day of the workshop will be dedicated to writing groups, one for each of the priority research questions identified - from both the pre-meeting questionnaire (HERE) and day one discussion. By the end of the meeting, each group will have produced draft text and sourced supporting figures for the prospectus.

 

Post meeting, the draft will be opened for comments and suggestions from everyone, regardless of whether they were able to attend the workshop or not. It will then be shared with UK funders (UKRI, FCDO, DSIT, ARIA) and potential international programmes with whom we would like to collaborate (e.g. Arctic 2050, Norway). It will form a basis from which wider integration with terrestrial, atmospheric and cryosphere communities can be built, e.g. at the UK Arctic Science Meeting in September in Northumbria.

 

To ensure balanced community and ECR representation, and to ensure that the size of the writing groups is efficient and effective, if the number of registrations from individual institutes becomes overwhelming, we may contact individuals or teams and ask that each institute selects a smaller number of individuals to attend in-person. Please wait for confirmation of in-person attendance before finalising travel arrangements.

 

The workshop will be open to hybrid attendance and contributions on both days.

Lucy Stephenson (she/her) | Scientific Data Officer | UK Polar Data Centre | British Antarctic Survey

Antarctic President | UK Polar Network 

Room 330a, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET

Email: lustep@bas.ac.uk  

 

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Greenland ship-based training opportunity!

Call for applications: Early Career Research programme onboard R/V Skagerak to Greenland

Application deadline: 14^th May

The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, the University of Gothenburg, the British Antarctic Survey and the NERC Arctic Office jointly invite early career researchers (ECRs) affiliated with universities and research centres in Greenland, Sweden, Iceland and the United Kingdom to apply for a ship-based training programme this summer.

The programme will be part of a nine-day science cruise to central-east Greenland, starting and ending in Reykjavik. The vessel will be the R/V Skagerak, operated by the University of Gothenburg. There are five berths available within the programme for early career researchers.

More information available here 

This is a great opportunity for any UKPN members pursuing a career in marine science! 

Lucy Stephenson (she/her) | Scientific Data Officer | UK Polar Data Centre | British Antarctic Survey

Antarctic President | UK Polar Network 

Room 330a, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET

Email: lustep@bas.ac.uk  

 

Explore the PDC Discovery Metadata System Discovery Metadata System - British Antarctic Survey (bas.ac.uk)

Feedback for the PDC  https://forms.office.com/e/VtyQs3ZVqp

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Association of Polar Early Career Researchers https://apecs.is/

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

 

 

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UKPN Seminar Series: Science for Policy in Antarctica

Hi all, 

UKPN Seminar Series: Science for Policy in Antarctica

Join us for our next UKPN seminar, including talks from two scientists who have contrasting experiences interacting with Antarctic policy frameworks.

 30th April
 2-3pm UTC (in your time zone)
Microsoft Teams
 Sign up via Eventbrite here

Antarctic tourism – background, impacts, and opportunities
Dr Jasmine Lee (British Antarctic Survey) is a conservation scientist whose research focuses on understanding and mitigating threats to terrestrial Antarctic biodiversity.

Conservation and fisheries management in the Southern Ocean
Dr Susie Grant (British Antarctic Survey) is marine biogeographer whose research to support conservation of the marine environment and the sustainable use of marine resources, including the development of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and spatial management.

There will be a chance to ask both speakers questions. Teams meeting details will be sent out to those who sign up.

All the best,

Lucy

Lucy Stephenson (she/her) | Scientific Data Officer | UK Polar Data Centre | British Antarctic Survey

Antarctic President | UK Polar Network 

Room 330a, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET

Email: lustep@bas.ac.uk  

 

Explore the PDC Discovery Metadata System Discovery Metadata System - British Antarctic Survey (bas.ac.uk)

Feedback for the PDC  https://forms.office.com/e/VtyQs3ZVqp

UK Polar Network https://polarnetwork.org/

Association of Polar Early Career Researchers https://apecs.is/

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

 

 

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