2025-26 Call for Blogs

This year, USAPECS is hosting a blog series entitled “Reimagining data in polar science”! We are looking for US-based scientists, fieldwork organizers, and professionals with any polar/alpine/cryosphere connection for this series. Our goal is to showcase advances and new applications in research methods and frameworks being used across disciplines in the polar research community, and how researchers are adapting to social, economic, and environmental change. Potential topics include: advances in methodologies, datasets, and instrumentation; fieldwork design and conduct aligning with Indigenous research protocols and safety considerations; data reuse and archiving; and other related topics of your choice. We invite you to share your experiences with the USAPECS community by submitting a blog post proposal.

We will prioritize blog posts from those in their early career, but we welcome proposals from those at any career stage. Each blog will be approximately 3-5 paragraphs (or longer, if preferred) and a series of optional questions and writing prompts will be provided for inspiration.

If you are interested in participating, please email usapecs@gmail.com with your name, affiliation, polar discipline, career field (academia, government, NGO, private sector, etc.) and a short (1-3 sentence) pitch by February 20th, 2026.

Please forward this announcement to any others who you think have an interesting perspective to share and may be willing to participate. Selected blog contributors will be notified within two weeks. The series will be launched in late spring and will consist of monthly or bi-monthly posts depending on the level of interest we receive.

Kind regards,

USAPECS Blog Committee

US Association of Polar Early Career Scientists 

https://usapecs.wixsite.com/usapecs