USAPECS
8th Annual International Polar Film Festival (PFF) is Live!
USAPECS’s 8th Annual International Polar Film Festival (PFF) is live. The PFF will run from Sept. 23-Sept. 27, 2024. This online event...
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USAPECS
- Jul 11
- 2 min
Call for Board Members 2024-2025
Call for Board Members 2024-2025
USAPECS
- Jul 1
- 5 min
How I Got to the Chilean Antarctic as a Working Biologist
How I Got to the Chilean Antarctic as a Working Biologist
USAPECS
- May 26
- 6 min
Arctic Early Career News - May 2024
IARPC Newsletter May 24
USAPECS
- Apr 26
- 1 min
8th Annual International Polar Film Festival - Call for Films
In conjunction with APECS International Polar Week, the US Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) is hosting the eighth...
USAPECS
- Mar 28
- 3 min
Early Career Newsletter - March 2024
Arctic Early Career News USAPECS + IARPC Early Career Forum Periodically USAPECS and the IARPC Early Career Community of Practice will...
USAPECS
- Mar 11
- 1 min
USAPECS Webinar: Water in a Frozen Arctic: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
The United States Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) is excited to invite you to our upcoming webinar, “Water in a...
USAPECS
- Jan 17
- 4 min
Early career newsletter - January 2024
Arctic Early Career News USAPECS + IARPC Early Career Forum Periodically USAPECS and the IARPC Early Career Forum will share research...
USAPECS
- Jan 3
- 1 min
2023-2024 Call for Blogs
This year, USAPECS is hosting a blog series entitled “Exploring Polar Science Across Disciplines”! We are looking for US-based scientists...
USAPECS
- Dec 20, 2023
- 2 min
International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences 2024 (ICASS XI) - Abstract submission
We are currently accepting paper abstracts for our upcoming open session Cross/Trans-Disciplinary Collaborations and Advancing Community,...
USAPECS
- Nov 20, 2023
- 6 min
Early Career Newsletter - November 2023
Arctic Early Career News USAPECS + IARPC Early Career Forum Periodically USAPECS and the IARPC Early Career Forum will share research...
USAPECS
- Sep 19, 2023
- 3 min
Early Career Newsletter - September 2023
Arctic Early Career News USAPECS + IARPC Early Career Forum Periodically USAPECS and the IARPC Early Career Forum will share research...
USAPECS
- Sep 18, 2023
- 1 min
Polar Film Festival 2023 is Live!
The Polar Film Festival 2023 is live with all films available for viewing during International Polar Week (Sept. 18-22, 2023). Please...
USAPECS
- Aug 17, 2023
- 1 min
7th Annual International Polar Film Festival - Call for film submissions EXTENDED!
In conjunction with International Polar Week, the US Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) is hosting the seventh annual...
USAPECS
- Aug 3, 2023
- 2 min
Call for Board Members 2023-2024
Call for new board members 2023-24
USAPECS
- Jul 5, 2023
- 3 min
Arctic Early Career News - July 2023
Arctic Early Career News USAPECS + IARPC Early Career Forum Periodically USAPECS and the IARPC Early Career Forum will share research...
USAPECS
- Jun 26, 2023
- 1 min
USAPECS Webinar: Launching Your Online Science Persona
July 20, 2023, 10:00 am-11:00 am Alaska/2:00 pm-3 pm Eastern The United States Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS)...
USAPECS
- Jun 14, 2023
- 1 min
7th Annual International Polar Film Festival - Call for film submissions!
Polar Film Festival 2023
USAPECS
- May 29, 2023
- 3 min
Eleanor Horvath: About as Early-Career as a Researcher Gets
My name is Eleanor, and I am in my final year at Boston University, where I’ve been simultaneously pursuing my Bachelor’s degree in Earth...
USAPECS
- May 8, 2023
- 4 min
Sarah Johnson: Finding the People and Places in the Polar Acronym Soup
I chose my college courses by which ones had the best field trips. Biology and geology field work paired well with my outdoor and...
USAPECS
- May 4, 2023
- 4 min
Arctic Early Career News - May 2023
Arctic Early Career News USAPECS + IARPC Early Career Forum Periodically USAPECS and the IARPC Early Career Forum will share research...
USAPECS
- Apr 20, 2023
- 4 min
Olivia Williams: Of Chronologies and Chronic Illness
My experiences in polar science and my experiences with chronic illness are closely linked. My first introduction to the field of...
USAPECS
- Mar 6, 2023
- 3 min
Arctic Early Career News - March 2023
Arctic Early Career News USAPECS + IARPC Early Career Forum Periodically USAPECS and the IARPC Early Career Forum will share research...
USAPECS
- Jan 19, 2023
- 4 min
Melissa Ward Jones: Grad School Frustrations Become Career Strengths
When unplanned graduate school courses become career strengths and tips for increasing your interdisciplinary literacy I did all three of...
USAPECS
- Jan 10, 2023
- 3 min
Arctic Early Career News - January 2023
Arctic Early Career News USAPECS + IARPC Early Career Forum Happy New Year! Periodically USAPECS and the IARPC Early Career Forum will...
USAPECS
- Nov 4, 2022
- 2 min
Arctic Early Career News - November 2022
Arctic Early Career News USAPECS + IARPC Early Career Forum Periodically USAPECS and the IARPC Early Career Forum will share research...
USAPECS
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
USAPECS Get to Know Us & Listening Session
US Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) will be hosting a “Get to Know Us & Listening Session” webinar on Thursday,...
USAPECS
- Sep 1, 2022
- 4 min
Arctic Early Career News - September 2022
Arctic Early Career News USAPECS + IARPC Early Career Forum Periodically USAPECS and the IARPC Early Career Forum will share research...
USAPECS
- Aug 29, 2022
- 3 min
Steve Vavrus: Polar Journey
Almost every day there is another news story about the rapidly changing polar environments and how amplified climate change is...
USAPECS
- Jul 7, 2022
- 3 min
Arctic Early Career News - July 2022
Arctic Early Career News USAPECS + IARPC Early Career Forum Periodically USAPECS and the IARPC Early Career Forum will share research...
USAPECS
- Jun 28, 2022
- 2 min
Call for Board Members: 2022-2023
USAPECS announces our call for applications for the 2022-2023 executive board. Members of the USAPECS Board work together to develop and...
USAPECS
- May 31, 2022
- 2 min
Maintaining Motivation throughout Fieldwork Delays
I still remember getting an email when I was a senior at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2019 about a last-minute opportunity to...
USAPECS
- May 16, 2022
- 2 min
Arctic Early Career News - May 2022
Periodically USAPECS and the IARPC Early Career Forum will share research from, and opportunities for, early career researchers working...
USAPECS
- Mar 31, 2022
- 3 min
Early Career News - September 2022
Arctic Early Career News USAPECS + IARPC Early Career Forum Periodically USAPECS and the IARPC Early Career Forum will share research...
USAPECS
- Mar 19, 2022
- 2 min
Ukraine crisis
Dear USAPECS Members and the Polar Science Community, We, the Board of USAPECS, as the national committee representing United States...
USAPECS
- Feb 18, 2022
- 2 min
2022 Call for Blog Ideas
USAPECS is hosting a Becoming a Polar Scientist/Becoming part of the Polar Scientific Community blog series this year! We are looking for...
USAPECS
- Aug 31, 2021
- 2 min
2021 Call for Board Members (CLOSED)
This call has closed for 2021/2022. Please look for a call in the Summer of 2022 for the 2022-2023 year. Are you an early career...
USAPECS
- Jun 10, 2021
- 5 min
Building Smart Arctic Communities
From Carbon Emissions to Colonization Bearing the brunt of others’ footprints, from carbon emissions to colonization, is not a new...
Kristin Timm
- Apr 22, 2021
- 5 min
Key Ideas for Working at the Boundary of Science and Society
As a kid, I spent my days running around the forests and fields of rural central Wisconsin (USA) learning the names of all the trees and...
USAPECS
- Mar 25, 2021
- 9 min
Cryoactivism
In 2006, a geologist from San Juan, Argentina named Juan Pablo Milana laid out a map on the desk of Argentina’s highest environmental...
USAPECS
- Feb 22, 2021
- 5 min
Boundary Organizations
How do I know what a policymaker is interested in? How do I make connections? When is the best time to meet with policymakers? If you,...
USAPECS
- Jan 20, 2021
- 4 min
Arctic Indigenous communities shape conservation planning and policy
From a global perspective, Indigenous communities are increasingly shaping the conservation of lands, waters, and species around the...
USAPECS
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min
The Importance Of Meaningful Relationship Building
As an Anthropologist, researcher, and advocate, I find that relationship building work is just as important, if not more important, than...
USAPECS
- Sep 1, 2020
- 4 min
Exploring the Global Arctic
My name is Mia Bennett and I’m a political geographer working at the University of Hong Kong. I’ve been studying and writing about the...
USAPECS
- Aug 3, 2020
- 5 min
Training for the future of science by Dr. Alyson Fleming
A major solidifying force in my decision to pursue an interdisciplinary career came from taking a course in graduate school on the...
USAPECS
- Jun 30, 2020
- 4 min
Your First Steps on the Path toward Science Policy by Max Showalter
Policy is rarely far-removed from our lives as polar scientists; from climate change to food-web dynamics, cryosphere research touches...
USAPECS
- Jun 6, 2020
- 2 min
USAPECS Board: Response to Current Events
Dear USAPECS Members and the Polar Science Community, . . . . [Content warning: USAPECS response to current events. This CW is...
USAPECS
- May 27, 2020
- 1 min
Arctic Data Center Webinar
Hi Everyone, We are providing a copy of the slides as well as the "script" for the Arctic Data Center Webinar that is being hosted later...
USAPECS
- May 21, 2020
- 1 min
Polar Film Fest and an upcoming webinar with the Arctic Data Center
We have announcements concerning the Polar Film Fest and an upcoming webinar with the Arctic Data Center! - First, USAPECS is organizing...
USAPECS
- Mar 5, 2020
- 3 min
Championing Yourself - Setting and Enforcing Your Boundaries by Alice DuVivier
Alice K. DuVivier Project Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research https://staff.ucar.edu/users/duvivier Contact Alice at:...
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