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The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is an international and interdisciplinary organization for undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, early faculty members, educators and others with interests in Polar Regions and the wider cryosphere. Our aims are to stimulate interdisciplinary and international research collaborations, and develop effective future leaders in polar research, education and outreach.
 

Your Opinion Matters - Please take 5 minutes and fill out the APECS survey

If you are involved in polar research as a graduate student, postdoctoral researcher, junior faculty member (or at a comparable stage of  career in industry) - we want to hear from you!

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is conducting a survey to help us all understand current thinking in the early career polar scientist community. Are you excited by your fieldwork, do you work long hours, do you have control over your research direction, do you worry about money, what do you like best about your research environment? The answers to these questions will both inform the larger polar community of how we view the polar research field and provide a benchmark by which changes in polar research between now and the next IPY can by historically gauged.

So for our community and for IPY, please dedicate a few minutes to completing this survey (link below).

LINK: <https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=78cX3l8EC4oKHqUq_2fAIWSQ_3d_3d>

The survey is anonymous, and no answers can be linked back to you. Please answer as honestly as you can. Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey!

Many thanks

APECS

Featured Member

Hugues Lantuit

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany

Permafrost Young Researchers Network

APECS Executive Committee

I am a 29 years old big boy from France. Upon completion of my French Baccalauréat, I started a Geography/Geology degree in Paris. I graduated from Université Paris 7 with a maîtrise in Physical geography and moved to Montréal, Canada to get a masters. I stayed three years at McGill University, and graduated with an MSc that had to do with the quantification of coastal erosion on Arctic coasts using remote sensing and photogrammetry. I then got an offer to come to the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam to start a PhD and took it. My research is primarily focused on the impacts of climate change on Arctic coasts. My PhD project involves the use of geospatial tools, including satellite imagery, Geographical Information Systems, and photogrammetry to quantify and characterize the coastal erosion occurring in permafrost regions.

I also take part in some projects in the polar world related to specific science issues (Arctic Coastal Dynamics, SEDIBUD) and to the promotion of young scientists activities (Permafrost Young Researchers Network www.pyrn.org, APECS, WAYS).

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