APECS Canada presents the "Did you know" series of Canadian Polar Research

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APECS Canada is happy to present a new series that we hope will entertain and intrigue you (not to mention educate you about polar science!). 

"Did you know" will be a series posted that shares interesting fun facts about polar research in Canada (http://apecs.is/get-involved/national-committees/apecs-canada-sp-1927085779/did-you-know).

We will be sending out a few "Did you know" notes as we approach the ArcticNet ASM in the coming weeks to engage all our members in learning more about polar science, including those attending the meeting and those that are not. If you are interested in contributing to "Did you know" series please contact Jennifer Provencher (jennifpro at gmail.com) or Ann Balasubramaniam (annbala at gmail.com).

We also welcome "Did you know" translations, and "Did you know" notes to be written in any of the many languages spoken in Canada!

And now from the "Did you know" series......

Did you know that it has been exactly 100 years since the Canadian Arctic Expedition. This voyage into Canada's Arctic by a multidisciplinary science team was led by Vilhajalmur Stefansson. Stefansson was a Canadian-American anthropologist and explorer. He originally gained sponsorship by US National Geographic Society and American Museum of Natural History for the Arctic Expedition, but after discussing the expedition with Sir Robert Borden, Canada's PM at the time, Stefansson conducted the voyage under the generous backing of Canada. This expedition was key in mapping out the extent of Canada's territory and northern border.

 

For a virtual exhibit and information on the Arctic Expedition go to:

http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/cae/int02e.shtml

This "Did you know" was brought to you by Ann Balasubramaniam.

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APECS Canada est heureux de présenter une nouvelle série qui, nous l'espérons, va vous divertir et vous intriguer tout en vous renseignant sur la science polaire!
Les "saviez-vous" seront publiés en une série qui partagera des faits amusants sur la recherche polaire au Canada (http://apecs.is/get-involved/national-committees/apecs-canada-sp-1927085779/did-you-know ).

Nous allons envoyer quelques notes "Saviez-vous" à l'approche d'ArcticNet dans les prochaines semaines pour engager tous nos membres à en apprendre davantage sur la science polaire, y compris ceux qui assistent à la réunion et ceux qui n'y seront pas. Si vous êtes intéressé à contribuer à la série "Saviez-vous", s'il vous plaît communiquer avec Jennifer Provencher (jennifpro at gmail.com) ou Ann Balasubramaniam (annbala at gmail.com).

Nous sollicitons également des traductions de "Saviez-vous" en français ou tout autres des nombreuses langues parlées au Canada!

Saviez-vous qu'il s'est écoulé exactement 100 ans depuis l'Expédition canadienne dans l'Arctique. Ce voyage dans l'Arctique canadien par une équipe scientifique multidisciplinaire a été menée par Vilhajalmur Stefansson. Stefansson était un anthropologue et explorateur canadien-américain. Il a à l'origine gagné le parrainage de l'US National Geographic Society et du Musée américain d'histoire naturelle pour l'expédition dans l'Arctique, mais après avoir discuté de l'expédition avec Sir Robert Borden, le PM du Canada à l'époque, Stefansson a effectué le voyage dans le cadre du soutien généreux du Canada. Cette expédition a contribué de manière importante à la cartographie de l'étendue du territoire du Canada et de ses frontières au nord.

Pour une exposition virtuelle et des informations sur l'expédition Arctique, visitez le lien suivant:
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/cae/int02e.shtml

Cette capsule «Le saviez-vous" vous a été présentée par Ann Balasubramaniam.

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Jennifer Provencher

jenniferprovencher.com

APECS Canada Announces Mentor Award

The APECS Canada National Committee and the ArcticNet Student Association (ASA) have joined forces to create the APECS Canada - ASA mentor award. The  award process is done through an open nomination process each year, and the aaward will be presented annually at the ArcticNet Annual General Meeting. The purpose of the APECS Canada - ASA mentor award is to recognize and honor the efforts of their mentors within the polar science community of Canada. This award has been created to acknowledge the time and energy that mentors dedicate to early career researchers each year, and their efforts in building a supportive community.

We are pleased to announce that the inaugural Mentor award will be presented to the winner during the banquet at the ArcticNet Annual Science Meeting  in Halifax on Thursday, December 12th, 2013.

Please contact Nikolaus Gantner (nikolausgantner [at] trentu.ca) or Jennifer Provencher (jennifpro [at] gmail.com) for more information.

http://apecs.is/get-involved/national-committees/apecs-canada-sp-1927085779/apecs-asa-mentor-award

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Jennifer Provencher

jenniferprovencher.com

Webinar, December 3, 3 pm Est Time: A Data Sharing Model from the IASOA Consortium: The Scientist-Centered Approach

A Data Sharing Model from the IASOA Consortium: The Scientist-Centered Approach

 

When: December 3,3:00 pm Est Time 

 

Webinar registration link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/533427889  

Webinar ID: 533427889 + https://www2.gotomeeting.com/island/login.tmpl 

 

 What the Meta with other peoples' Data?  If you have had problems finding the data you need or effectively using the data you find, this webinar is for you.  The International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere (IASOA) has listened closely to its science community to design an effective data access portal for flagship Arctic atmospheric observatories.  This portal uses a transparent place-based inventory of datasets from observatories around the Arctic, organized in terms our community understands.  We aim for the fewest clicks possible between our search engine and real data files.  Our approach to capturing dataset documentation (Metadata) is interoperable with relevant global archives and emphasizes non-duplication.  Even if you are not an atmospheric scientist, you will benefit from learning about this scientist-centered approach to effective dataset discovery and use.  Our system is constantly evolving.  Please join us and share your data searching pet peeves with us!

 This work was jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 

 Sandy Starkweather

Sandy is the Implementation Scientist for IASOA.  She applies her joint background in Arctic climatology and organizational management towards launching strategic initiatives and to best utilize Arctic observations and bring researchers together in collaborative endeavors.  Sandy spent 11 years conducting field work and managing field projects in Greenland, largely at Summit Station.  She too used to quiver at the word "metadata".  

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Louise Chavarie

PhD Student, Ecology

University of Alberta

(780) 492-1298

Calling all Canadian Science Bloggers

Today the new Science Borealis science blog site was launched.

The goal of Science Borealis is to be an inclusive digital science salon featuring Canadians blogging about a wide array of scientific disciplines. Science Borealis is a one-stop shop for the public, media, educators, and policy makers to source Canadian science information.

http://scienceborealis.ca/

SOOOO, if you have a science blog this is a great place to share it and become more  active in science communication.

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Jennifer Provencher

jenniferprovencher.com

Webinar Reminder: How to present your research at an Arctic conference effectively, today at 3:00 Est time

How to present your research at an Arctic conference effectively

When: November 22, 3:00 pm Est Time

Webinar registration link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/332704616

Webinar ID: 332704616 + https://www2.gotomeeting.com/island/login.tmpl

 

If you are unsure about your time zone, you can look of up alternate time zones at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

To attend the webinar
Each webinar will be conducted using the GoToWebinar platform. To attend a webinar you just need your computer or smartphone, and an internet connection. A headset or headphones and a built-in microphone are recommended, but not essential. We are not using webcams or telephones, so you do not need a web cam or telephone to participate.

Sponsors: 
GoToWebinar has been provided as an in-kind contribution from Bredbåndsfylket.

For questions or more information please email: chavarie@ualberta.ca
 

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Louise Chavarie

PhD Student, Ecology

University of Alberta

(780) 492-1298

APECS Canada Networking Event at ArcticNet ASM 2013 - You're invited!!

Dear members,

APECS Canada would like to invite you to our mixer event at the upcoming ArcticNet annual science meeting. APECS recognizes the importance of providing opportunities for early career arctic researchers to meet and mingle with senior researchers in informal settings.  Our plan is to have an informal evening in a pub (The Economy Shoe Shop: ) on Tuesday December 10 after the first poster session. The evening will also include a simple game of 'polar bingo' designed to break the ice and help people meet each other.  These evenings are part of our 'mentorship programming', which has been identified by members and mentors alike as a great way to get to know people within the research community. We would really appreciate if you would join us for this fun and informal evening.

For more information please visit the APECS site - http://apecs.is/get-involved/national-committees/apecs-canada-sp-1927085779/news/6386-apecs-canada-networking-event-arcticnet-2013

Hope to see you there!!!

From the APECS Canada ArcticNet 2013 Halifax Team

(Jean-Sebastian, Ann, Lorelei and Jenn)

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Chers membres,

APECS Canada souhaiterais vous inviter à notre évènement social à l'occasion de la prochaine conférence ArcticNet. APECS reconnait l'importance de promouvoir des opportunités pour des scientifiques en début de carrière polaire de rencontrer des chercheurs séniors en contexte informel. Notre plan est de se rencontrer lors d'une soirée informelle dans un bar (The Economy Shoe Shop) le jeudi 10 décembre après la première session de poster. La soirée inclura également un jeu simple de "bingo polaire" dans le but de casser la glace et d'aider les participants à se rencontrer les uns avec les autres. Ces soirées font partie de notre "programme de tutorat" qui a été décrit par les membres et les tuteurs comme un excellent moyen d'apprendre à connaitre d'autres personnes de la communauté scientifique. En espérant que vous participerez en grand nombre à cet évènement social et informel.

Pour plus d'informations s'il vous plaît visitez - http://apecs.is/get-involved/national-committees/apecs-canada-sp-1927085779/news/6386-apecs-canada-networking-event-arcticnet-2013

APECS Canada ArcticNet 2013 Halifax Team
(Jean-Sebastian, Ann, Lorelei and Jenn)
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Jennifer Provencher

jenniferprovencher.com

Fwd: NASA SWGR Snow School

Dear APECS Canada

Below is a field school opportunity!

Cheers,

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Ann Balasubramaniam
PhD Candidate
Water Lab
University of Waterloo

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NASA Snow Working Group - Remote Sensing (SWGR) is seeking applicants for the inaugural winter school for field snowpack measurements. The field school will take place January 7-9 at the Fraser Experimental Forest in Fraser, Colorado. Applications are open to anyone involved in university or agency research related to the cryosphere, where snow measurements are made as part of a research program, or where an understanding of snowpack properties and measurements will increase his/her ability to effectively move cryospheric science forward. This course is not aimed at people who are already well versed in snowpack measurements. Applications must be received by December 2, 2013.

http://nasasnowremotesensing.gi.alaska.edu/content/winter-school-field-snowpack-measurements

"Snowpack properties are needed for hydrological models, ground truth for remotely sensed data, ecological models, avalanche forecasting, and a wide variety of other applications. There are two important user groups that are dependent on both high-quality measurements and an understanding of what those measurements actually mean and represent in the real world. Practitioners often collect and use field data for their own purposes. Modelers and remote sensers often obtain the snowpack data from field practitioners or other researchers, but have little knowledge of meaning or richness of the data they are using beyond the basics (e.g. snow depth, mean density, etc.). The course is aimed at teaching skills to practitioners and modelers to increase the quality of the results for all snow data users. The course will introduce students to standard and specialized, quantitative and qualitative, methods of characterizing the snowpack."

Joshua M.L. King, PhD Candidate

Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3)
Department of Geography and Environmental Management
Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
Tel.: 519-888-4567 ex. 36755

How to present your research at an Arctic conference effectively, Nov 22 3:00-4:00 pm

APECS Canada is pleased to announce the start of 2013-2014 Webinar Series. Webinars are interactive presentations and workshops using the online conferencing program 'GoToMeeting', which allows participants to see the PowerPoint presentation being presented by the presenter. This live presentation platform allows  speakers to talk and point to their slides while participants watch and interact either by voice or typing into a dialog box with the presenter. Webinars essentially allow people to connect and participate in high quality research discussions from the comfort of their desk!  Each webinar will last approximately one hour and will be broadcast online.  APECS Canada looks forward to your participation!   See below for information about the next webinar and instructions on how to participate.

How to present your research at an Arctic conference effectively

When: November 22, 3:00 pm Est Time

Webinar registration link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/332704616

Webinar ID: 332704616 + https://www2.gotomeeting.com/island/login.tmpl

 

If you are unsure about your time zone, you can look of up alternate time zones at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

To attend the webinar
Each webinar will be conducted using the GoToWebinar platform. To attend a webinar you just need your computer or smartphone, and an internet connection. A headset or headphones and a built-in microphone are recommended, but not essential. We are not using webcams or telephones, so you do not need a web cam or telephone to participate.

Sponsors: 
GoToWebinar has been provided as an in-kind contribution from Bredbåndsfylket.

For questions or more information please email: chavarie@ualberta.ca
 
cheers

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Louise Chavarie

PhD Student, Ecology

University of Alberta

(780) 492-1298

APECS Canada member survey

Hi Everyone,

APECS Canada has been asked to contribute to a panel at the Canadian Science Policy Conference discussing "Is Canada able to meet its needs for research and innovation on northern issues, given that it does not have graduate programs situated in the three Canadian territories?"  We would like to gather some opinions and ideas from our membership.

I know that everyone is busy, but if you could take a few minutes to fill out this survey it would really help us gather ideas and perspectives to share during the upcoming conference. And I promise that it is just a short survey!

Link to survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1iDL7uUb2Lf_T__91q6f99htqFKn24sHPTKsliFg-seo/viewform

Thanks in advance for taking the time to help out!!!

Jenn

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Jennifer Provencher

jenniferprovencher.com

Re: APECS activities at ICASS VIII

Hi Jenn and Yulia,

I am interested in attending and helping with ICASS. I am based at the University of Waterloo and am currently in Warsaw for the COP19 UN Climate Negotiations. It'd be great to chat/skype when I return -- I return to Canada Nov. 20th.

Thanks,

Andrew 

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:19 PM, J Provencher <jennifpro@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

Please see the message below from Yulia Zaika regarding the upcoming ICASS meeting in BC in 2014. If you are attending and/or interested in helping please contact Yulia.

Thanks!

Jenn

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From: Yulia Zaika <yzaika@inbox.ru>
Date: Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:03 AM
Subject: APECS activities at ICASS VIII
To: canada-board@apecs.is
Cc: "Heather J. Gordon" <hjgordon@wisc.edu>

Hi All,

As you might now there will be ICASS2014 in British Columbia, Canada next year - http://resweb.res.unbc.ca/icass2014/index.htm
And as always APECS will be organizing a Workshop during the conference. If you are considering to attend the ICASS2014 and are interested to help with the event, please contact me (Yulia Zaika) by replying to this email (no need to include everyone in the correspondence). Please forward this letter to anyone interested in the event.

Thanks so much!

All the best,
Yulia





Khibiny educational and scientific base
Faculty of Geography
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Kirovsk 184250 a/ja 59
Murmansk Region
Russia
Mob. +7 921 605 6502
Skype: yulia.zaika
APECS ExCom Ex-Officio 2013-2014
www.apecs.is

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Jennifer Provencher

jenniferprovencher.com

Fwd: 11 November, 18:30 CET (14:30 EST): Webcast of IIASA lecture on Polar Regions under Climate Change

Of interest to some of you:

Dear  Colleagues, and other interested friends,

IIASA Council Chair Peter Lemke has recently returned from a research cruise during the Antarctic winter, and he will offer a public lecture at the IIASA Conference Center on Monday evening that will discuss both the preliminary observations from the cruise and the scientific context of changes in polar regions.  We are pleased to announce that it will also be Webcast live.  Please distribute this information to both scientists and friends with an interest in the polar regions, as the lecture will be geared toward a non-specialist audience.

The IIASA blog NEXUShas just posted an interview with Professor Lemke that offers an introduction to the topic and his work (http://blog.iiasa.ac.at/2013/11/07/interview-the-arctic-is-closer-than-you-think/).

For those parts of the world where 18.30 CET is an inconvenient time for watching a Webcast, we are pleased to inform you that the lecture will be posted on the IIASA Website (http://www.iiasa.ac.at/)  within a few days.

Let us know if you have questions.  

Warm regards,

Maggie

Webcast of IIASA Public Lecture: Polar Regions under Climate Change

 

Polar expert Peter Lemke will discuss the details of the complex interaction between atmosphere, sea ice and ocean, and the impacts on the polar ecosystem and the human society as part of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences joint public lecture series.

 

Watch the webcast from 18.30 (CET) on Monday November 11, 2013.

 

About the Lecture

High latitudes have received attention recently because of significant changes in the atmosphere, sea ice, and ocean, and on land, especially in the Arctic. The surface air temperature in the Arctic has increased about twice as fast as the global air temperature. The Arctic sea ice extent in summer has decreased by 35% since 1979, and the sea ice thickness during late summer has declined in the Central Arctic by about 40% since 1958. A warming has also been observed at depth in the Arctic Ocean and the Southern Ocean. But surprisingly there is no negative trend observed in the Antarctic sea ice. Both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass, and the sea level is rising. Most of these observed trends are in agreement with warming scenarios performed with coupled climate models, which indicate an amplified response in high latitudes to increased greenhouse gas concentrations. But details of the complex interaction between atmosphere, sea ice and ocean, and the impacts on the ecosystem and the human society are still only marginally understood, a disturbing fact in view of the global experiment we are performing with the Earth. Results will be shown from the latest Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and from a winter expedition the speaker has lead into the ice-covered Weddell Sea (Antarctica).

 

About the Speaker

Peter Lemke is a council member of IIASA, professor of physics of ocean and atmosphere at the University of Bremen and head of the Climate Sciences Research Division at the Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research, received his PhD in meteorology from the University of Hamburg in 1980. He has more than 30 years of experience of working in climate, sea ice and atmospheric research.

 

Margaret Goud Collins, Ph.D.

IIASA Secretary

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Schlossplatz 1

A-2361 Laxenburg

Austria

+43 2236-807-354

+43 676 83807-354 (mobile)

www.iiasa.ac.at

 

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Jennifer Provencher

jenniferprovencher.com