A APECS baseia-se na construção de uma rede dinâmica de cientistas polares, sendo que as actividades de campo constituem um grande factor de motivação, quer sejam as temáticas de investigação as dinâmicas sociais das comunidades indígenas da região do Árctico ou o rastreio de pinguins na Antárctida!

A newsletter deste mês de Março centra-se nas actividades levadas a cabo durante as campanhas polares e nas formas como a APECS pode ajuda-lo a participar nestas actividades.

No website da APECS pode ainda consultar outras notícias, oportunidades de carreira, eventos, incluindo informação sobre os membros da APECS que participaram na recente expedição Antárctica Students On Ice para universitários, imformações acerca das próximas actividades práticas educativas, ou contribuir/obter informação sobre as bases de dados da APECS.

Conteúdos desta edição:
http://www.apecs.is/newsletter-archive/2794-mar-2011-newsletter

APECS News & Updates
- APECS Conference Travel Funds Contest
- Help wanted at AMS Asheville!
- APECS Virtual Poster Session on Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments
- APECS and CAFF Sign Memorandum of Understanding
- CAFF & APECS Sea Ice Biodiversity Opportunity
- Join the SCAR Open Science Conference 2012 Local Organizing Committee
- APECS Workshop at the AMAP 2011 Conference
- APECS Workshop at IUGG 2011
- Research Sites Working Group

Message from the Director: Troll Station - Dronning Maud Land Antarctica

Feature -Students on Ice
- Chapuis and May with Students on Ice Antarctic Expedition (SOI) Youth Expedition 2010/2011
- APECS Returns from 2011 Students on Ice Antarctic University Expedition

Partner News
- UArctic 10 Years - A History
- Young Professionals Photo Exhibition
- Miami Science Museum looking for polar science talks
- Jakobsson Awarded 2011 IASC Medal

Meetings, Workshops
- Arctic Science Summit Week 2011
- Career Development Panel at the Conference on Polar Meteorology
- 2 APECS PORTUGAL workshop
- APECS Workshop at the AMAP 2011 Conference
- APECS Panel at the International Symposium on Interactions of Ice Sheets and Glaciers with the Ocean
- ICASS VII 2011
- APECS Workshop at IUGG 2011
- APECS at the 11th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES XI)
- Tenth International Conference on Permafrost
- IPY 2012 Montréal

Career Development Webinars
- Communicating with the Public About Climate Change
- Publishing and Reviewing Journal Papers
- Working with the Media
- Selling your best assets: Conducting a successful interview
- Non-academic or alternative careers in polar research
- Designing your research questions

New Submissions to the Virtual Poster Session

New Jobs & Opportunities

New Members - 90!!!!!

With the conclusion of the first Census of Marine Life in London in October 2010, the Census Secretariat is organizing a forward-looking workshop to be held in conjunction with the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity (Scotland, September 2011). The goal of this workshop is to discuss a strategic plan for a marine biodiversity research program that would build on the first Census baseline and assets. We are pleased to announce that registration for this workshop, which we are tentatively titling the "Beyond 2010" Workshop, is now open.

The aim of the "Beyond 2010" workshop is to present and discuss this strategy, with a focus on engagement of the broader scientific community and plans and actions for implementation.

This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2nd World Conference on Marine Biodiversity in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Dates: 30 September 2011, beginning at 1400 (exact times and end times to be determined)
1 October 2011, beginning at 0900 (exact times and end times to be determined)
Location: Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Crombie Suite A (tentative), Aberdeen, Scotland

Registration: FREE (but space is limited, and preregistration is strongly encouraged). Please see http://www.comlsecretariat.org/community-resources/beyond-2010-workshop/  to register.

Travel support is NOT currently available for this meeting. Please direct any questions to CensusRegistration@oceanleadership.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The 11th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences in Edinburgh, UK, 10th ? 15th July 2011, is shaping up to be a fantastic event in the 2011 Polar Science calendar and the abstract submission deadline is fast approaching.

*Thursday 31st March at 5pm GMT*

is the deadline for submitting your abstracts for oral and poster presentations. This is also the deadline for Early Bird (cheap!)
registration. This gives you two weeks from today, so log on to http://www.isaes2011.org.uk/ and submit your abstracts and register before the 31st March!

There is funding support available for early career researchers from ISAES, supported by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Make sure you submit a funding support application form at the time of abstract submission in order to be eligible for this funding ? go to http://www.isaes2011.org.uk/earlycareer.html for more information and to download the form.

An APECS Working Group on Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments Virtual Poster Session with two invited speakers:

Professor Achim A. Beylich (Chair of SEDIBUD - International Association of Geomorphologists Working Group on Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments) Geological Survey of Norway (NGU), and Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)  Trondheim, Norway, talking about achievements and future goals of  SEDIBUD Network and his research on cold region sediment budgets in Norway

and

Dr. Armelle Decaulne (Clermont-Ferrand, France) talking about her research projects on Iceland and career development from APECS to member of one of the most successful cold region geomorphology initiatives SEDIBUD

When:  24th of March, 18:00 GMT
TO ATTEND: log on to http://connect.canterbury.ac.nz/apecs-vps_12/.

To conduct these webinars requires Abode Flash Player installed on participants' computers.
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/.

If you have not participated in a webinar before, we have a great tutorial that you can watch and see how easy it is at
http://www.apecs.is/virtual-poster-session/live-sessions.

For more information on the VPS ? please go to:
http://www.apecs.is/virtual-poster-session.

"Ice deformation; from the model material to ice in natural environments"
7-9 november 2011
in Grenoble, France.
In the frame of the ESF project MicroDICE

The purpose of this conference is to gather researchers from the material science community around the following subjects that have been studied with ice:
- Intermittency and scale invariance, from dislocations to polycrystal
- Strain heterogeneities and recrystallization mechanisms
- Multi-scale characterization and modeling
- Brittle deformation, from the material to the large scale environment (sea ice, mantle crust...)
- Ice and engineering materials
- Polar ice deformation
- Extraterrestrial ice deformation

You will find more information on the conference website (still under construction):
http://microdice.eu/activities/ice-deformation-from-the-model-material-to-polar-ice/.

Deadline for abstract submission will be early may 2011.

Do not hesitate to contact me for any information.
MONTAGNAT RENTIER Maurine
Chargé de recherche
Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Géophysique de l'Environnement
UMR 5183
54 rue Moliere, BP 96
38402 St Martin d'Heres cedex
tel : 33 (0)4 76 82 42 67 / fax : 33 (0)4 76 82 42 01
montagnat@lgge.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr.

Session Proposals Invited - American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting,
5-9 December 2011
San Francisco, California
Session proposal deadline: Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Abstract submissions will open 8 June 2011 and close 4 August 2011.

For further information, please go to: http://www.agu.org/meetings/.

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is currently accepting proposals for the 2011 Fall Meeting. The meeting will be held 5-9 December 2011 in San Francisco, California.

Proposals may be submitted to only one discipline. Conveners may identify other sections/focus groups as potential session cosponsors.
Proposals must focus on scientific results and/or their applications, and session descriptions must concisely define the science issue and explain why it is topical. Further details on submitting a session proposal are available at:
http://agu-fm11.abstractcentral.com/index.jsp.

"NDX-1 suportou condições ambientais extremas semelhantes às de Marte.
Uma equipa da NASA testou um novo fato espacial numa região da Antárctida de condições ambientais extremas, que apresenta características semelhantes a algumas encontradas em Marte."
Revista on-line CiênciaHoje (22.03.2011) - (http://www.cienciahoje.pt/index.php?oid=48042&op=all)

"Ice Drilling Program Office" lança um novo web-site educativo
http://www.climate-expeditions.org/.
O site disponibiliza documentação e propostas de actividades para alunos dos ensinos básico e secundário, permite contruir perfis académicos com links para as universidades com centros de investição que recebem estudantes, e fornece ainda um conjunto de artigos e outros recursos multimédia para o público em geral.

Especialistas em ambiente alertam para reservas de água doce mais pura do mundo
Um grupo internacional de especialistas científicos apelou hoje aos dirigentes políticos e à população do Canadá para que preservem milhões de lagos e rios da sua floresta boreal, cuja água é fundamental para o gelo do Oceano Árctico."
Revista on-line CiênciaHoje (17.03.2011) - (http://www.cienciahoje.pt/index.php?oid=47949&op=all)