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Tosca Ballerini

University of Siena, Italy

APECS Italy

I’m 31 years old. I studied Agriculture at the High School and Natural Sciences at the University. In particular I followed the evolutionary track (a lot of Biology but also Astronomy, Evolution of Earth, Evolution of Life on Earth, Evolutionary theories and History of Science). I was in Mozambique for an experimental thesis of mangrove fiddler crabs. After the Laurea I retired from University for a couple of years, during which I got the licence of Environmental Excursionist Guide and made some lessons in elementary and medium schools. I went back to University, starting my polar career… In 2007 I got a PhD on Polar Science from the University of Siena. I was in Antarctica with the Italian Antarctic Research Program counting penguins (80 days most of which camping at 60 kms from the Italian Base). The title of my thesis is “From individual information to population models: the case of a long lived Antarctic species, the Adélie penguin Pygoscelis adeliae”. I did a lot of computer work and modelling for my PhD and I would like to go back to do field work at the poles (but non only at the poles…).

Career Development

Career Development

For those of you interested in planning, sharing ideas, etc about ways we can improve our career development - from planning workshops, to sharing resumes that work, to finding jobs, to teaching tricks, etc. If you are interested in hosting an APECS event, please contact this group for planning assistance.


Contact Person:     Liz Thomas (LITH at bas.ac.uk)

Homepage:        http://groups.google.com/group/apecs-career-development

Group email:        apecs-career-development_at_googlegroups.com

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Upcoming career development events:

 

Career Paths in NZ Polar Research: from student to PI

Workshop for students and early career polar researchers,
Monday 30th June 2008, University of Otago

http://arcticportal.org/apecs/get-involved/upcoming-events

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APECS career development workshop

St Petersburg, Russia

7th July 2008 

I am pleased to announce that 76 polar researchers will attend the APECS workshop on Monday 7th July. Thanks to the support of SCAR, IGS, WMO and IASC we have been able to fund travel and accommodation for sixteen polar early career researchers to attend both the workshop and the open science conference. 

The research disciplines are bi-polar and extremely varied with applicants from 20 nationalities, studying and working in 18 different countries. The response from the polar community has been hugely encouraging with some great mentors and senior researchers volunteering to run sessions and offer career advise. I am confident that this will be an exciting and informative workshop with some fantastic networking opportunities.

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Workshop Programme

09.30    Opening welcome (Liz Thomas, APECS career development coordinator) and introduction to APECS (Kriss Rokkan Iversen, APECS president)

10.00    Joint session by SCAR (Colin Summerhayes) and IASC (Volker Rachold) executives

10.25    SCAR fellowships Narelle Baker (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge)

10.35    Funding opportunities (Marya Levintova International Program Officer for Russia, Eurasia and the Arctic Affairs, NIH)

10.50    Coffee break and networking

11.15    Tips for writing a grant proposal – (Elena Sparrow University of Alaska)

11.45    Research productivity (Robin Bell- University of Columbia, USA)

12.45    Lunch (To be provided at the hotel restaurant)

13.50    Fieldwork opportunities (Christiane Hübner Svalbard Science Forum)

14.00    Separate into smaller groups for the following interactive sessions (40 mins each, 5 min turnover).

1.       Fitting outreach activities into a busy research career

·         Jose Xavier (Centre of Marine Sciences, University of the Algarve and British Antarctic Survey)

2.       Finding your perfect polar job

·         Jen Baeseman (International Arctic Research Center,
University of Alaska and APECS Director)

3.       Communicating your polar research

·        Dave Carlson (Director, IPY International Programme Office)

14.40    Second breakout session from the list above

15.20    Break and networking

15.50    Career development Q&A discussion time

This is an open session for participants to question the mentors about career development. Mentors will be given time to introduce themselves and may wish to include one power point slide (optional).
 

Additional mentors joining us for the panel discussion include:

Victoria Lytle (CReSIS), Alan Rodger (BAS), Pete Convey (BAS), Nick Owens (BAS)...

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19.00   SCAR/IASC conference welcome reception, for all official participants, Pribaltiyskaya Hotel. The APECS reception and networking evening will be held on Wednesday 9th July at The Otto-Schmidt Labor, Arctic and Antarctic Research Instute, St Petersburg.

 Reminder

 
Please remember to register for the science conference “Polar Research - Arctic and Antarctic Perspectives in the International Polar Year” taking place in the Pribaltiyskaya Hotel (venue of the APECS workshop) 8th- 11th July.

You can register online for the conference at www.scar-iasc-ipy2008.org

Accommodation and excursions can also be booked online.

 

* Important * All foreign participants of the Conference and APECS workshop must obtain a visa to enter the Russian Federation.

 
For all those registered for the science conference the Conference Service Agency Monomax  PCO will provide participants with the tourist visa support papers, which includes an invitation & hotel voucher. We strongly encourage all workshop participants to register for the conference and make use of the visa support services that Monomax are offering.

 
Visa support documents are issued based on a personal information submitted by each participant during the registration on this web site (Visa Support section) or on your e-mail request sent to: osc2008@onlinereg.ru

In order to obtain a Russian Visa please contact the nearest Russian Consulate or Embassy in your home country.

Monomax PCO provides visa support papers ONLY after receiving hotel accommodation pre-payment so we recommend that you book your accommodation as soon as possible.


Please be advised that in order to obtain the visa your passport must be valid for at least 3 months after the proposed date. More information about visas can be found at the conference site www.scar-iasc-ipy2008.org.

 

 

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