Second round: SIOS Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Training Course (HSRS), 6-10 September 2021

Hello UKPN members

 

The Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) will be hosting a training course on the use of 'Hyperspectral Remote Sensing in Svalbard'. If you are interested to learn more about this exciting area of remote sensing, please consider applying. The training course will cover various aspects of hyperspectral remote sensing, ranging from fundamental data parameters and processing tools to applications and calibration/validation techniques. The course material will be delivered through a mixture of lectures and hands-on sessions from leading experts in the field. No prior knowledge is assumed.

 

This training course will be conducted on fully online mode and there is no cost involved. More information is available here: https://sios-svalbard.org/HSRScourse. The deadline to apply for this course is 30th June 2021.

 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me here (remotesensing@sios-svalbard.org) or William Harcourt (wdh1@st-andrews.ac.uk).

 

Best Regards

Shridhar and William

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UKPN Membership Survey - 10 Days to Go!

Hi All, 

We've produced another survey to find out who makes up the UKPN and how (or if) this is changing over time. We'd be very grateful if you could take some time to fill it in; it shouldn't take more than about 5 minutes and you can skip any questions you're uncomfortable answering. 

https://forms.gle/MgWxWdh1zJ4G8WX5A

As an incentive, you can also enter a draw to win a set of polar postcards! Email addresses for the prize draw will be removed from our survey after the draw, and will not be able to be linked back to survey responses.

The survey will close at 4pm (BST) on the 30th of June, and we will publish a summary of the results on the UKPN website and send round a link to those at some point in July. If you have any questions, there's a box for comments on the last page of the survey or you can send us an email. 

Many Thanks!

Victoria Dutch & Madeline Anderson

UK Polar Network Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Officers

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GW4+ Widening Participation Summer Undergraduate Research Placement on Antarctic Microbiomes

Hello UK Polar Network,

 

GW4+ is offering Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Placements (REPs) designed to encourage undergraduate students to consider applying for PhD projects in the Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences with the GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) (https://www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/undrgrad-placements). The placements will run for 6 to 8 weeks over the summer vacation period with funding of up to £3,200 is available per placement which includes £500 for project costs.

 

We are offering a placement on “Microbial diversity and ecology in Antarctic freshwater environments” at the Natural History Museum, supervised by Dr. Anne Jungblut. This project is a ‘widening participation’ placement available to undergraduate students in any science, mathematics, computing or related discipline who must be from a group typically underrepresented in science.

 

Project description: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ca5c73677b90374d82b97aa/t/60c0ed468099cf4df8f59a94/1623256390920/Anne-Jungblut_pdf.pdf

 

The deadline for applications is Monday the 28^th June. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact myself or Dr. Anne Jungblut (a.jungblut@nhm.ac.uk).

 

Best wishes,

Carla Greco

 

GW4+ PhD Student

Natural History Museum

c.greco@nhm.ac.uk

 

Internship Opportunity with IOC/UNESCO

Hi all, 

My team is looking for a summer intern at the moment to support the Ocean Decade implementation. It would be over the summer and heavily focused on Excel based data management. Not explicitly polar focused, but I know lots of you are marine scientists!

Unfortunately, the post is unpaid. But if that's something you have the capacity for then the job description is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jjdX9cObfwNhmGUHQoWBrKdnDMAMAa6i/view

And I am happy to answer questions!

Chloe Nunn

Digital Resume

MSc Sustainability // BSc Oceanography

+44 7519038793 // www.mudskippermusings.co.uk

IOC-UNESCO Junior Consultant: c.nunn@unesco.org 

National Geographic Explorer 2018

UKPN Co-Festival Coordinator: chloe.nunn@polarnetwork.com

Society for Women in Marine Science Communications Lead

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UKPN Membership Survey

Hi All, 

We've produced another survey to find out who makes up the UKPN and how (or if) this is changing over time. We'd be very grateful if you could take some time to fill it in; it shouldn't take more than about 5 minutes and you can skip any questions you're uncomfortable answering. 

https://forms.gle/MgWxWdh1zJ4G8WX5A

As an incentive, you can also enter a draw to win a set of polar postcards! Email addresses for the prize draw will be removed from our survey after the draw, and will not be able to be linked back to survey responses.

The survey will close at 4pm (BST) on the 30th of June, and we will publish a summary of the results on the UKPN website and send round a link to those at some point in July. If you have any questions, there's a box for comments on the last page of the survey or you can send us an email. 

Many Thanks!

Victoria Dutch & Madeline Anderson

UK Polar Network Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Officers

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SIOS Training Course on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

Hello UK Polar Network!

 

The Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) will be hosting a training on course on the use of ‘Hyperspectral Remote Sensing in Svalbard’. If you are interested to learn more about this exciting area of remote sensing, please consider applying. The training course will cover various aspects of hyperspectral remote sensing, ranging from fundamental data parameters and processing tools, to applications and calibration/validation techniques. The course material will be delivered through a mixture of lectures and hands-on sessions from leading experts in the field. No prior knowledge is assumed.

 

Key information

Dates: 6-10 September 2021

Link (including registration): https://sios-svalbard.org/HSRScourse

Location: Virtual (Zoom)

 

Applications

First round: Open to applicants from SIOS member institutions

Opens: 1^st June 2021

Closes: 15^th June 2021

 

Second round: Open to applicants from SIOS member and non-member institutions

Opens: 15^th June 2021

Closes: 30^th June 2021

 

If you have an questions, please do not hesitate to contact either myself or Shridhar Jawak (remotesensing@sios-svalbard.org).

 

Best wishes,

Will

 

 

William D. Harcourt

PhD Student in Physics

ECR Observer to the SIOS RSWG

Room 161, Telephone: +44 (0) 1334 463155

School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, KY16 9SS

 

Twitter: @will_harcourt

 

Website: www.williamharcourt.co.uk

 

PhD Title: ‘The application of millimetre wave radar to the study of the cryosphere’

New Paper: Subglacial Controls on dynamic thinning at Trinity-Wykeham Glacier, Prince of Wales Ice Field, Canadian Arctic.

New Blog Post: Radar monitoring of snow in Scotland…during a pandemic!?

 

 

SIOS Online Conference 2021 on Remote Sensing in Svalbard

Hello UK Polar Network!

 

The Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) invites you to join us at the SIOS Online Conference, where applications of remote sensing in Svalbard will be presented. SIOS are consortium of 26 institutions from 9 different countries aiming to develop a regional observing system for Svalbard.

Conference Link: https://sios-svalbard.org/RS_OnlineConference2021

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsc-igpj8tHNBkcCL5jPMzt71cTByHTLm8

Dates: 8-10 June 2021

 

The conference will consist of ~50 talks with 7 keynote speakers, alongside a dedicated session for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to present their work. We will also host an open session of the Remote Sensing Working Group (RSWG) meeting, where you can get involved in discussions on the working group activities.

 

If that wasn’t enough, we will also be hosting dedicated social sessions, including a Svalbard quiz (jointly organized by the EGU Cryosphere, Oceans and Atmospheric Sciences Divisions) and a Gathertown event. To join the Gathertown, please express your interest in the registration process. You will receive additional information on how to join later.

 

We hope to see many of you there!

 

Best wishes,

Will

 

 

William D. Harcourt

PhD Student in Physics

ECR Observer to the SIOS RSWG

Room 161, Telephone: +44 (0) 1334 463155

School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, KY16 9SS

 

Twitter: @will_harcourt

 

Website: www.williamharcourt.co.uk

 

PhD Title: ‘The application of millimetre wave radar to the study of the cryosphere’

New Paper: Subglacial Controls on dynamic thinning at Trinity-Wykeham Glacier, Prince of Wales Ice Field, Canadian Arctic.

New Blog Post: Radar monitoring of snow in Scotland…during a pandemic!?