Edmund Lea
PhD Researcher, Iapetus2 DTP
Department of Geography, Durham University
Durham, DH1 3LE UK
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UK Polar Network Festivals Team 2025-2026
Edmund Lea
PhD Researcher, Iapetus2 DTP
Department of Geography, Durham University
Durham, DH1 3LE UK
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UK Polar Network Festivals Team 2025-2026
Do you want to engage with the international project Antarctica InSync (https://www.antarctica-insync.org/) but don’t know where to start? Have you heard about the initiative and want to learn more about the opportunities it provides to the research community and early career researchers in particular?
Join us online on 28 or 29 July for an introduction to the Antarctica InSync framework and explore ways for you to get involved. Early Career Researchers and senior scientists involved in Antarctica InSync will share their experiences and explain how they contribute to the initiative.
This event is hosted by APECS Germany as part of their “Let’s Talk” – series (https://apecs-germany.de/activities/lets-talk-seminar-series/). It is organised by the Antarctica InSync Early Career Coordination Group and supported by the Antarctica InSync coordination team.
The same webinar will be offered on two different dates and times to accommodate participants from different time zones. Please register through the links below to attend.
Session I: Date 28 July 2026, 15:00-16:30 GMT
Registration link: https://eu01web.zoom.us/meeting/register/X-c8yq5PR_WN4y1CboSMuA
Session II: Date 29 July 2026, 06:00-07.30 GMT
Registration link: https://eu01web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0GLHDUabTBae4Qm0MM_i6A
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Katherine Deakin (she/her)
PhD Candidate in Glaciology
Department of Geography
Durham University
Durham
DH1 3L
Dear all,
I’m delighted to share the launch of the brand new ✨ Future Arctic Conservationist Award ✨
Fauna & Flora is offering early-career conservationists in Greenland and Northern Norway (Nordland, Troms, Finnmark and Svalbard) the opportunity to apply for a Future Arctic Conservationist Award of up to US$15,000.
Awardees will also join the @Conservation Leadership Programme’s global network of conservation leaders, gaining access to leadership training, mentoring and peer learning opportunities.
Key eligibility criteria:
🌎Projects must focus on species, habitats, or ecosystems that are identified as priorities for conservation action through Indigenous and local knowledge, community priorities, ecological significance, or recognised conservation assessments
🌍 Projects must last 3-12 months
🌎 Projects must take place in Northern Norway or Greenland
🌍 Project teams must include at least three people
🌎 All team members must be early in their careers
🌍 All team members must be nationals of the country in which the project will take place, although one team member can be a non-national if this is clearly justified
🌎 Applications from Indigenous and local communities are particularly encouraged
Find out more here : https://www.fauna-flora.org/future-arctic-conservationist-award/
Please do share- and don’t hesitate to reach out if you would like to chat about this directly.
Warm wishes,
Chloe
Dr. Chloe Hodgkinson
Head of Learning and Partner Development | Conservation Capacity & Leadership
Fauna & Flora | Saving Nature Together
@faunafloraint | fauna-flora.org
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See below for PhD opportunities
From: Dorothee Bakker (ENV - Staff) <D.Bakker@uea.ac.uk>
Sent: 22 June 2026 15:39
To: Dorothee Bakker (ENV - Staff) <d.bakker@uea.ac.uk>
Subject: 3 PhD adverts are live - deadline 22 July - Home students only
Dear colleagues,
We are advertising 3 competitive funded PhD projects.
Home students only, 4 year stipend at UKRI level.
For a 1 October start.
The application deadline is 22 July.
Please, forward to strong applicants.
Kind regards,
Dorothee.
School of Biology and Environmental Science,
University College Dublin, Ireland
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Registration is still open for the UKPN training event this Wednesday 29th April at 2pm BST (UTC+01:00). This session will be on 'Simple steps to stress-free data'.
Further details and the meeting link (for registered attendees) are available on the Eventbrite page:
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Dear colleague,
We invite you to take part in an original research survey led by the BIO-Carbon Early Career Ocean Professionals Network (https://bio-carbon.ac.uk/), exploring how ocean carbon–related samples and datasets are collected, managed, and shared across the research community.
This work is motivated by the growing need to better understand data availability in the context of net zero, climate change, and the environmental cost of data collection. While the study is led by early career researchers, it is intended for participation from researchers at all career stages globally.
The survey aims to identify current practices, challenges, and opportunities related to sample and data management, and to better understand what could facilitate sharing of currently unpublished data.
👉 Take the survey here: https://imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bviaL311XeDiPD8
⏱️ Time required: ~15–20 minutes
📅 Deadline: 15 July 2026
Importantly:
By completing this survey, you will contribute to a community-wide assessment of data accessibility. Findings will be shared via a summary report, and a potential peer-reviewed publication, and could help to inform future funding calls and priorities across the field.
We would also greatly appreciate it if you could share this survey with colleagues, collaborators, and relevant networks to help us reach a broad, global and representative group.
If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with Dr Sarah Cryer (s.cryer@hw.ac.uk) or Dr Cordelia Roberts (c.roberts@imperial.ac.uk)
We recognise how busy everyone is and greatly appreciate your time.
Best wishes,
Dr. Cordelia Roberts and Dr. Sarah Cryer
on behalf of BIO-Carbon ECOP Network
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Dear all,
My colleagues and I would like to draw your attention to a Topical Collection on Resilience and recovery in lake systems, hosted by Journal of Paleolimnology.
Healthy lake ecosystems are crucial harbours for freshwater biodiversity, a vital tool for global carbon storage, and essential for water security. However, many lakes remain highly vulnerable to human-induced stressors such as pollution, eutrophication, and climate change. Recent research has determined that many lake systems may be approaching, or have already tipped into states dominated by simplified ecological networks and a lack of resilience, creating an urgent need to understand how lakes respond to management and recover from degraded states, so that resource management or restoration plans can be better informed. Emerging studies from palaeolimnological records and recent monitoring could benefit long-term freshwater health and ecosystem management.
Here, we invite contributions to a thematic collection in the Journal of Paleolimnology that explores resilience and recovery in lakes across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. We welcome research that integrates novel data, methodological innovations, and theoretical frameworks that help illuminate recovery trajectories, ecological thresholds, and the role of multiple stressors in system recovery. Submissions that link these insights to management and restoration strategies are particularly encouraged. By bringing together diverse perspectives, this thematic collection aims to advance our knowledge of how lake ecosystems can recover from major disturbances and to better inform freshwater ecosystem management.
Best wishes,
Roseanna and the guest editors team
Co-lead Guest Editors:
Dr Roseanna Mayfield, University of Nottingham
Dr Richard Walton, University of Southampton
Additional Guest Editors:
Dr. Virginia Panizzo, University of Nottingham
Prof. Xu Chen, China University of Geosciences - Wuhan
Dr. Timothy Foster, University of Southampton
Submission Deadline: 31 July 2026
Website: https://link.springer.com/collections/cajdhjhjec
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"Polar Disaster Risk Reduction and Response".
https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/the-arctic-institutes-2026-polar-disaster-risk-reduction-response-series-an-introduction
Edited with Jeevan Toor for The Arctic Institute. The introduction is available and the articles will appear over the next month.
Communication is a crucial skill for researchers, regularly topping the list of skills that are most valued by future employers of PhD graduates. The ability to explain research findings in ways accessible to diverse audiences can increase future success in individual careers in all sectors, help to gain funding, generate media and policymaker interest, and inspire the next generation. Visuals of any kind can add great value to this communication. Highlighting research findings through an engaging image is effective, but sometimes just as important is the process of collaborating and working with creatives to develop ideas, which can lead to new insights.
In this talk, artist and UNRISK CDT manager James Mckay will highlight some lessons learned from over 15 years of routinely working with environmental scientists and engineers (including many PhD students and post-docs) to create visuals for public engagement. James has produced everything from simple sketches to full-colour detailed paintings and animations, within scientific papers, popular books, films, TV and live events.Links to some of James' projects:
https://www.robhopkins.net/2019/01/07/james-mckay-the-man-who-draws-the-future/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52125369Dreams of a Low Carbon FutureSupergen Bioenergy Comic
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09p85b4
https://sustainability.leeds.ac.uk/our-work/biodiversity/bodington-fields/
https://theconversation.com/our-climate-projections-for-2500-show-an-earth-that-is-alien-to-humans-167744
Both events will be held on Google Meet and are open to anyone interested. Meeting details will be sent out on registration.
Please contact info@polarnetwork.org with any questions.
If you have any requests for speakers/topics or would like to give a seminar yourself please don't hesitate to get in touch! We also have a form for talk submissions to the seminar series: https://forms.gle/rbsnHZxfBPS35WLB8
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