Fraunhofer HHIGreat to welcome the FMD communications team at Fraunhofer HHI!
We exchanged ideas, explored #APECS, #QNC & #GreenICT projects, and showed where our research takes shape. Interviews with our scientists will be published soon 🎥🔬
Ruth MottramKicking off European polar science week with a fringe event at DMI in collaboration with the APECS organization of #ECRs on how to write proposals...
APECS Germany✨Meet our new #APECS Germany Chair Team ✨
Please welcome Alexandra, who will be chair for another term, and Lena and Lukas, who will work as co-chairs.
👉 Check out our current list of #board members on www.apecs-germany.de/board/
Thanks to also all #APECS Germany board members, who left during the 2023-2024 period for their engagement 🐻❄️🐧
If you're an early career scientist working in the polar regions, let me recommend that you join #APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists) - I had an illuminating chat with the #APECSdenmark team this morning - we'll be co-organising some activities with @OceanIceEU + perhaps also @PolarRES later this year at the #EuropeanPolarScienceWeek24 in Copenhagen AND at the Nordic Meteorological Meeting in August #NMM24
Zeitgeisty AphorismsLittle #APECs make big #Militarys.
Unsere Seminarreihe #POLARSTUNDE zusammen mit der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Polarforschung geht in die nächste Runde! 🎉✨
Die Vorträge werden immer von 17-18 Uhr online stattfinden; die nächste POLARSTUNDE ist am Mi, 29.11 🏔️
Last week, we've been at the @SPP_Antarktisfoschung coordination workshop in Potsdam! 🇦🇶✨
We were able to present #APECS Germany and gave a short overview over our ongoing projects and resources for Polar #EarlyCareer Scientists.
It's great to receive such nice feedback on our work!
For more information, visit our website at www.apecs-germany.de!
Lena NicolaOut on the @EuroGeosciences Cryosphere Blog:
3 Reasons to engage in early career networks
https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2023/03/24/3-reasons-for-early-career-networks/
3 Reasons to engage in early career networks
There are several early career groups, which are affiliated with cryosphere-based research in one way or another. APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists) is an international network that is present during many occasions and events in the world of polar research. Have you ever wondered why busy early career researchers (ECRs) use their time also for volunteering in such groups? Today, three members from the board of APECS Germany will give you their reasons why. “Learning by doing” – Alexandra (Board member since 2018 and part of the Leadership team since 2021) Every beginning is difficult. So can be the start in a new community when starting a masters or PhD project. I chose to join APECS Germany during my master’s thesis with the aim of finding like-minded people with similar interests for polar regions. Besides learning to code, lab techniques, and scientific writing, a number of soft skills are essential for an academic career. As with many things in life, it’s easier to learn by doing. For me, the work within APECS Germany and the international network provided me a comfortable, fun, and exciting environment. I learnt how to manage projects, how to engage with different groups from school children to senior scientists, how to motivate and lead a group of people, how to host a podcast and many more. The list is long and so are the skills I gained, as well as the memories associated with these projects. Examples are our seminar on fieldwork experiences and opportunities and the resulting resources page as well as the experience to interview guests for the APECS podcast Polar Times (check out this episode or this). In the end, I didn’t even notice how fast I went from being a newbie in 2018 to leading the entire APECS Germany board some years later as board members trusted in the skills I acquired. “Getting instant gratification” – Marek (Board member since 2018 and part of the Leadership team since 2021) During my first years within APECS Germany, I realized at some point that I really enjoy the behind-the-scenes type of work: preparing meetings, conducting internal communication, remembering timelines, trying to streamline projects and more. I basically try to make sure that the “normal business” works as smoothly as possible so that we have resources for interesting projects. On a first glance, this can sound really boring, I know that. One part is that I love a good to-do list. Additionally, having concrete and easy to complete tasks within a sea of longer-term projects, like a master thesis or now my doctoral studies, is beneficial for my mental health and my sense of accomplishment. My current favorite project is keeping our “Let’s talk” seminar series running and encouraging our whole board to come up with new topics, from funding to having kids to being part of the queer community, while doing polar research. Of course, spending my time on these “mundane” tasks would not feel impactful, if I would not enjoy the community work and outreach APECS Germany is doing and be proud of what we achieve. “Sharing is caring” – Lena (Board member since 2021) During the height of the Corona pandemic it was very helpful and motivating for me to meet like-minded, energetic people. When organizing events and other projects together, I experience a positive feedback loop: people excite each other to do something which is fun, helpful, and informative at the same time. As an example of such an activity, we created an overview on funding opportunities on our website and published a short paper on the topic of research funding in the DGP Journal Polarforschung. Based on these, we also organized an online seminar titled “Let’s talk funding” late last year (2022). On a different note, we have a saying in Germany. “Geteiltes Leid ist halbes Leid” (“Shared misery is only half the misery”). While there is maybe self-amplifying feedback when it comes to motivation, sharing stories about the things that do not work can lighten the individual load from time to time. Knowing that someone else is sitting in the same boat makes tough situations a bit less frustrating and sharing best practices of coping strategies, e.g. through our board call or during our seminars, is very useful. APECS Germany APECS Germany, one of many National Committees of APECS International, was founded in 2016. Since then, we are continuously evolving as a voluntary group of young polar researchers and enthusiasts – based in or associated with Germany. We aim to create a lively community for students, researchers, and others with interests in polar and alpine regions. And thus, we organize opportunities for career development, promote education and outreach, and are committed to making the polar sciences a welcoming and inclusive place. You can read more about our work on our website or follow us on social media (@apecs_germany; twitter and instagram). Edited by Stefan Thiele and Giovanni Baccolo Marek Muchow is a doctoral researcher at Aalto University (Finland) within the Marine and Arctic Technologies group. He studies sea-ice mechanics and deformation with a focus on sea-ice ridges and their development. Therefore, he models them using a simulation tool based on discrete element methods. Contact Email: [email protected] Lena Nicola is a doctoral researcher and member of the Ice Dynamics working group at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany. She studies the short- and long-term effects of extreme events on Antarctic ice dynamics with the Parallel Ice Sheet Model, PISM. Contact Email: [email protected] Dr. Alexandra Zuhr is a research associate and pursued her PhD at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmhotz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung in Potsdam, Germany. She investigated the process of signal formation in palaeoclimate archives, such as marine sediments and polar ice. For her PhD, she joined the EastGRIP project twice and spent some weeks in Taiwan. Contact Email: [email protected]
LemarLabSuite à la conférence de Sandrine SERRE du @lemarlab et Eric STÉPHAN de l'#APECS, le journal @OuestFrance a publié un article sur la présence du requin taupe sur les côtes bretonnes :
https://tinyurl.com/5n6379k8
Vous avez manqué la conférence de Sandrine SERRE, doctorante au @lemarlab et Eric STEPHAN de l'Association #APECS "sur la piste du requin taupe" ?
Pas de problème ! Vous pouvez la retrouver ici en vidéo : https://t.co/KsvnFcaGVn
