USAPECS
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...
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USAPECS
- 5 days ago
- 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
- 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
- 2 min
Call for Board Members 2023-2024
Call for new board members 2023-24
USAPECS
- Jul 5
- 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
- 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
- 1 min
7th Annual International Polar Film Festival - Call for film submissions!
Polar Film Festival 2023
USAPECS
- May 29
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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:...
USAPECS
- Feb 11, 2020
- 4 min
Is this the right decision at this time? by Dr. Elizabeth Hoy
Find Liz's bio on her NASA webpage here: https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/elizabeth.hoy As I sit to write this my two kids are just...
USAPECS
- Jan 2, 2020
- 2 min
2020 Board Recruitment & Year End Survey
Are you an early career researcher doing work in polar or alpine regions? USAPECS would like to invite you to take our survey on our...
USAPECS
- Jan 2, 2020
- 2 min
2020 Board Recruitment & Year End Survey
Are you an early career researcher doing work in polar or alpine regions? USAPECS would like to invite you to take our survey on our...
USAPECS
- Dec 16, 2019
- 7 min
Pursuing an academic career in the community college system by Monika Sikand
BIOGRAPHY: Dr Monika Sikand is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering, Physics, and Technology at Bronx Community...
USAPECS
- Nov 23, 2019
- 1 min
Headed to AGU? Check out some of the Exciting ECR Events hosted/collaborated by USAPECS.
Schedule of USAPECS events at AGU Early Career Workshop (YESS, YHS, USAPECS) – Saturday December 7th, 1 – 5 PM @ the Hyatt Regency San...
USAPECS
- Nov 23, 2019
- 1 min
Headed to AGU? Check out some of the Exciting ECR Events hosted/collaborated by USAPECS.
Schedule of USAPECS events at AGU: Early Career Workshop (YESS, YHS, USAPECS) – Saturday December 7th, 1 – 5 PM @ the Hyatt Regency San...
USAPECS
- Nov 13, 2019
- 5 min
Personal and Professional Success Are Not Mutually Exclusive by Ellyn Enderlin
Dr. Ellyn Enderlin Assistant Professor of Geophysics Boise State University Twitter: @glacier_doc I have taken what most would consider...
USAPECS
- Nov 4, 2019
- 1 min
USAPECS Panel at AGU
This panel session focused on discussing: (1) Navigating Your Early Career and Beyond; (2) With panelists from the polar and alpine early...
USAPECS
- Nov 4, 2019
- 1 min
USAPECS Panel at AGU
This panel session focused on discussing: (1) Navigating Your Early Career and Beyond; (2) With panelists from the polar and alpine early...
USAPECS
- Oct 14, 2019
- 7 min
Dealing with the reality of that dream job by Sally Carraher
Dr. Carraher is an applied medical anthropologist. She studies health and illness experiences among the peoples of the Alaskan and...
USAPECS
- Sep 22, 2019
- 1 min
Watch Films with USAPECS for 2019 Polar Week
The 2019 Polar Week is happening right now! Head over to our 2019 Polar Film Fest page to check out all the exciting films showcasing the...
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