Call for Contributions from Environmental Science researchers in the Yukon

Dear Colleagues,

 

Wanted! Case Studies for Environmental Science research in the Yukon!

 

The Yukon College is currently developing an Environmental Science online course and is seeking input from researchers working in the Yukon on topics related to Environmental Science! This is an opportunity to highlight your Yukon-based research in a Yukon College online class room by either providing content for the course or through participation in an online-webinar during the course.

 

Background: The ENVS100 online course, a 100-level Environmental Science course, with a focus on community impacts will be offered online through Yukon College. Every second week of the course, a Case Study related to the weekly course theme will be presented to the students. This Case Study would be based in the North (ideally in the Yukon), can be conducted by communities, academics, government agencies, or private entities. Themes/topics of environmental science research can be focused on terrestrial, water (freshwater and marine), wildlife, contaminants or integrate one or more of these topics. Case studies should focus on ‘western science’ but can include traditional knowledge methods. Students enrolled in this course are not pursuing a science program but wish to learn more about the physical and biological processes that shape our environment. Students will thus appreciate high-level overviews of your important work, which introduce your subject of expertise and highlight the relevance of your research to them and their communities in an accessible way!

 

Ways you can contribute:

1.       Provide content (to be readied by mid-June 2015)

a.      You provide raw materials (and work with the instructor and YC staff on creating content)

b.      You provide online content (with the aid from YC staff and instructor)

2.       Participate in a webinar (dates TBD)

 

Length: the final content of each Case Study should be a maximum of 20 minutes in duration.

 

Types of material sought:

1.       Voice over power point slides (or alike presentation platform)

2.       Video explaining theory being applied in research (during field work / lab work / etc)

3.       Online short-courses or virtual labs or demonstrations etc

4.       Interactive online teaching tools or Social Media interactions

 

Themes / topics: Water, Terrestrial, Wildlife, and Contaminants

 

If you are interested in contributing to ENVS100 or wish to receive more detailed information on how, please respond to this email (ngantner@yukoncollege.yk.ca) or contact Dr. Nikolaus Gantner at (250) 532 9780 by April 30^th 2015.

 

All contributions must be confirmed by May 15^th 2015 to allow for timely inclusion in the course curriculum.

 

Note: You received this email as you have been identified as a leader or member of a relevant organization or research project. Should you or a member of your organization or project team not be able to contribute, we would appreciate if you could suggest colleagues that might be interested in contributing to us or pass this invitation on to a colleague on our behalf. Apologies for cross postings.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Regards,

Nikolaus Gantner

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Dr. Nikolaus Gantner
Curriculum Developer
Yukon College
500 College Drive, PO Box 2799
Whitehorse, Yukon  Y1A 5K4 Canada

Phone: (250) 532 9780 (off campus)
Email: ngantner@yukoncollege.yk.ca

start here. go anywhere.
www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

ehPECS Tweet Storm March 26th!

Hello APECS Canada,

Happy Polar Week! This is a great time of year during the equinox to chat about polar science and host fun events in your community or university. For great polar movie night ideas check out the NFB Sharing our Stories project: https://www.nfb.ca/playlist/unikkausivut-sharing-our-stories/

As you have seen, the APECS social media team is hosting a Polar Week Tweet Storm and encourages all APECS members who are on facebook or twitter to send out a science fact, thought, or photo this week tagged  #PolarWeek. I think it will be most time effective if we designate ehPECS Day March 26th during the week where we focus our efforts! Let's tag our tweets using #PolarWeek and @ehPECS

Follow APECS @PolarResearch and APECS Canada @ehPECS for more updates. Details on the international Tweet Storm below. 

Looking forward to hearing about your polar adventures on twitter March 26th! 

Cheers!

-Meagan

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Help us start a Polar Week Tweet Storm
 
To advance the presence of polar science within the broader scientific community and society at large, the APECS social media committee would like to invite you to participate in the first ever Polar Week Tweet Storm from March 21st -29th.
 
Starting on March 21st and continuing throughout the week, we are asking you to tweet polar-related posts and include the hashtag #PolarWeek.
 
Our APECS Twitter account has over 3000 followers. Imagine if for 1 week, half the people on that list tweeted 3 new posts and retweeted 5 others, all in one day. That's 12,000 tweets per day; over 100,000 for the week. It will cause people to notice.
 
The goal of our Tweet Storm is to share the importance of polar ecosystems with the world. By tweeting and retweeting together, we can reach a broader audience. It will also strengthen our own community and potentially open the door to new connections and collaborations. If you haven't joined Twitter yet, now is the perfect time to do so and get involved!
 
Some general guidelines about what we are trying to do:
 
- Starting March 21st, tweet polar related posts using the #PolarWeek hashtag.
 
- Aim to post a minimum of 3 tweets (or more) per day, so 27 for the week.
 
- Variety is the spice of life. You can post anything polar-related: thoughts, facts, ideas, pictures, quotes, links, you name it. Even promote your blog or research program. Just be sure to include #PolarWeek in somewhere in your post.
 
-  You can repost the same tweet more than once. The audience at 1pm Tuesday is not the same as the audience at 3am Friday.
 
- Try to retweet at least 5 #PolarWeek tweets by other people per day. More or fewer is just fine too; the goal is to spread the polar week message.
 
We are stronger as a community than alone. Let's storm Twitter together and bring the poles to centre stage!
 
Remember to follow APECS and the social media team!
◦       @Polar_Research – APECS
◦       @jennifer_balmer– Jennifer Balmer
◦       @WideWhiteStage – Hanne Nielsen

And watch the #PolarWeek hashtag!  

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Meagan Grabowski
MSc Student
Dept of Zoology
University of British Columbia
grabowski@zoology.ubc.ca
http://meagangrabowski.weebly.com/

Fwd: Call for Applications: Jane Glassco Northern Fellowship – 2015-2017 Cohort

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From: Walter & Duncan Gordon <info@gordonfn.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:01 PM
Subject: Call for Applications: Jane Glassco Northern Fellowship – 2015-2017 Cohort
To: "annbala@gmail.com" <annbala@gmail.com>

Dear friends,

 

Jane Glassco Northern Fellowship – 2015-2017 Cohort

Application Deadline: Received by Monday, June 1, 2015

 

The Gordon Foundation is pleased to announce its third call for applications to the Jane Glassco Northern Fellowship, a policy and leadership development program.

The Fellowship brings together young northerners, aged 25 to 35, who want to build a strong North that benefits northerners. It incorporates self-directed study, collective learning and mentorship with the aim of empowering young northerners to build healthy, self-reliant and sustainable northern communities. The Fellowship is for those who, at this stage in their lives, are looking for additional support, networks and guidance from mentors. Fellows will join peers from across the North at gatherings throughout Canada to deepen their understanding of important issues facing their region, and develop policy ideas to help address them.

We are looking for ten (10) Fellows for the third cohort of the two-year Fellowship (2015-2017) and we need your help in our search!

How you can help:

1.       Direct anyone who qualifies and who might be interested to our website: http://gordonfoundation.ca/north/jane-glassco-northern-fellowship/apply

2.       Check out our BROCHURE on the Jane Glassco Northern Fellowship

3.       Request promotional materials to distribute to young northerners in your community.

Feel free to forward this email to your network to get the word out!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Holly Mackenzie

Program Manager

Jane Glassco Northern Fellowship

 

 

 

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Ann Balasubramaniam
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Water Lab
200 University Ave
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1
519-888-4567 ext.36540
annbala@gmail.com

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Jennifer Provencher

jenniferprovencher.com

FW: ACUNS 2015 Due North: Call for Abstracts Now Open

Dear APECS Canada,

 

Apologies for cross-posting!

We wanted to share this notice about our international ACUNS 2015 Student Conference being hosted by the Arctic Institute of North America and the University of Calgary in November. Abstract submission opened today. There will be a chance to apply for student travel awards, and updates on that will be posted on the conference website soon.

Please distribute to anyone who  may  be interested. Thanks!

Gaby

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Gabriela Ibarguchi, M. Sc., Ph .D.
Associate Director, International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC)

Eyes High Postdoctoral Associate, Arctic Institute of North America (AINA), University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW, ES-1040, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada

http://arctic.ucalgary.ca/ | (403) 220-7294 | http://www.arcticchange.org/

gabriela.ibarguchi@ucalgary.ca

 

From: ACUNS Student Conference 2015 [mailto:acuns15@ucalgary.ca]
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 11:57 AM
Subject: ACUNS 2015 Due North: Call for Abstracts Now Open

 

The Organizing Committee of ACUNS 2015 Due North: Next Generation Arctic Research & Leadership is pleased to announce that the Call for Abstracts in now open.  The Conference will take place in Calgary November 5-8, 2015.

Abstracts will be accepted until May 31, 2015.   Please share this information with all colleagues and students.

 

To submit an abstract, please visit the ACUNS 2015 Abstract Submission Page (https://arctic.ucalgary.ca/webform/acuns-2015-abstract-submission); to register for the conference, please visit the ACUNS 2015 Conference Registration Page (https://arctic.ucalgary.ca/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=7)

BACKGROUND:

The Arctic Institute of North America and the University of Calgary will host the next Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies 2015 Student Conference (ACUNS 2015) from November 5-8, 2015. This interdisciplinary conference is a gathering of early career scholars working on all topics related to the circumpolar North (http://arctic.ucalgary.ca/acuns-2015-student-conference ). We are pleased to announce that ACUNs 2015 will include pre-conference workshops starting on Nov. 4^th, meetings, networking opportunities, and other side events, including an optional tour to Banff National Park on Nov. 9th.  

Conference Themes:

C1: Arctic Communities: Resilience, Management, Culture, Indigenous Knowledge.

C2: Arctic Sustainable Development: Sovereignty, Infrastructure, Healthcare, Tourism, Land Management, Protected areas, Citizen Engagement.

C3: Arctic Wildlife, Ecosystem and Biodiversity: Flora & Fauna, Vegetation, Habitats, Food system, Migration patterns, Wildlife health and monitoring, Forest fire, Species Endangerment, Impacts, Conservation, Management.

C4: Arctic Food Security: Food sovereignty, Subsistence, Productivity, Transportation, Food safety.

C5: Arctic Landscapes: Geology, Geomorphology, Hydrology, Glaciology.

C6: Climate Change and adaptation: Arctic Warming, Extreme events, Climate variability, Biogeochemical Cycles, Changing Landscapes, Building Resilience.

C7: Disaster Risk Management: Oil Spills, Toxic contaminants, Coastal Floods, Mitigation, Capacity Building.

C8: Policy, Politics and Leadership: Commerce, Geopolitics, Climate Laws, International Organizations.

C9: Arctic Environment (Data and Techniques): Remote Sensing, Modeling, Surveying, Data sources, Ice core drilling.

C10: Arctic Resources: Renewable energy, Fossil fuels, Fishing, Oil and Gas, Exploitation, Consultation.

C11: Future of Arctic: Opportunities & Vulnerabilities, Mitigation, Culture, Climate, Wildlife, Indigenous Communities, Economy, Sustainability

A pdf version of this document is attached. More conference information can be found on the conference website.

Please contact the conference organizing committee at acuns15@ucalgary.ca if you have any questions.

We look forward to seeing you! We are still looking for volunteers to help us organize this event and to promote the conference at your own institutions. Contact us for more information.

 

 

Association for Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS)/ Association universitaire canadiennes d’études nordique (AUCEN)

11^th Annual Student Conference/11e Conférence annuelle des étudiants

November 5-8, 2015

Calgary, Alberta Canada

Email: acuns15@ucalgary.ca

Website: http://arctic.ucalgary.ca/acuns-2015-student-conference

 

 

 

New ECR discussion paper on permafrost

Hi all,

 

See below link to and abstract of a new paper by Fritz et al. 2015, titled 'Brief Communication: Future avenues for permafrost science from the perspective of early career researchers'. Several APECS members contributed to this paper as well.

 

Link: http://epic.awi.de/37425/1/tcd-9-1209-2015.pdf

 

Abstract: Accelerating climate change and increased economic and environmental interest in permafrost-affected regions have resulted in an acute need for more directed permafrost research. In June 2014, 88 early career researchers convened to identify future priorities for permafrost research. This multidisciplinary forum concluded that five research topics deserve greatest attention: permafrost landscape dynamics; permafrost thermal modelling; integration of traditional knowledge; spatial analysis of permafrost types and vulnerability; and engineering issues. These topics underline the need for integrated research across a spectrum of permafrost-related domains and constitute a contribution to the Third International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP III).

 

 

Regards,

 

Nikolaus Gantner

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APECS Canada board member

 

Call for volunteers: ArcticNet Student Day 2015 Organizing Committee

Dear APECS Canada members,

This is a call for volunteers to be part of the ArcticNet Student Day 2015 Organizing Committee. The next ArcticNet meeting will be held in Vancouver this December. From my involvement last year, I found volunteering a very enjoyable experience and helped me to make a lot of new connections in the polar research community. 

Roles on the organizing committee include, but are not limited to:

- workshop development

- plenary talk development

- elevator pitches organization

- social events planning

- event set-up

- social media support and photography

Some roles will require more of a time commitment than others and I will try my best to find a good fit for you if you are part of the team. You will never have to work on any responsibilities by yourself as we will break off into smaller groups to accomplish different tasks.

We are planning to have our first meeting next week via GoTo Meeting. Please let me know ASAP if you are interested in helping out and I will send you a link to the meeting Doodle poll along with additional information. The poll closes on Sunday at noon. We are depending on our community of early career researchers to make this student-led initiative a success once again!

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

Sincerely,

Dan Lamhonwah

Student Day Coordinator

ArcticNet Student Association Executive Committee

Fwd: 2 PhD positions to assess climate change impacts on biodiversity and C dynamics in Norwegian mountains!

Hello all,

A couple of PhD Opportunities coming up in Norway:

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From: Vigdis Vandvik <Vigdis.Vandvik@bio.uib.no>
Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:14 PM
Subject: 2 PhD positions to assess climate change impacts on biodiversity and C dynamics in Norwegian mountains!
To: ITEX-LIST@lists.ubc.ca


Dear Colleagues,

We're starting up a new project investigating biodiversity and carbon storage of alpine ecosystems under climate change (http://www.uib.no/en/rg/EECRG/85396/funcab). The project focuses on the roles of, and interactions between, different functional groups of plants and microbes in controlling the biodiversity and carbon storage of these systems under climate change. Removal experiments (graminoids, forbs, bryophytes), plant and microbial biodiversity assessments, and C flux and stock measurements will make up the core field and lab components  of the project. The project will make use of the 'climate grid' of experimental sites set up by the SeedClim project (http://www.uib.no/en/rg/EECRG/55395/seedclim) along temperature and precipitation gradients in western Norway.

So lots of exciting field work carried out in the beautiful fjord landscapes of western Norway.

And for all this, we need PhD students!

We are now advertising *two PhD positions*, open now, deadline the 9th and 2nd of March, respectively, to work on

Biodiversity:
http://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/110898/research-fellow-phd-candidate-in-plant-community-responses-to-climate-change

C dynamics:
http://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/110898/research-fellow-phd-candidate-in-plant-community-responses-to-climate-change

Please help me spread the word!

Best,

Vigdis



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Ecological and Environmental Change Research Group
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University of Bergen
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