Happening this Wednesday! Register now!

Please join us for a workshop on Proposal Review, co-hosted by the UKPN and USAPECS on Wed, 24th September 2025, from 10-11:30 AM ET! Designed for ECRs to better understand what reviewers look for in proposals. Zoom: bas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98883256900 Calendar: calendar.app.google/92UFwHAi6WZw...

🌍❄️ PECWS Synthesis Report released! Explore early career perspectives on polar research priorities shaped by 238 voices worldwide. Hosted by APECS & PSECCO, PECWS 2025 brought Polar ECRs together to define priorities. 📖 Read report + add your endorsement: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The deadline is approaching (Sept 6)! Join USAPECS as an Executive Board Member and help shape the future of polar sciences. More details in the original post.

Arctic Risk Management Network (ARMNet) happening tomorrow! Register for the zoom link.

📣 Join us for our next webinar on an introduction to #Arctic disaster risk reduction! This event is held in collaboration with our partners at the Arctic Risk Management Network (ARMNet). 💻 Please register for free in advance at iarpc.zoom.us/meeting/regi... & contact @zacklabe.com for questions.

USAPECS is looking for new Executive Board members for 2025–26! Are you a student, postdoc, or early career polar researcher in the U.S.? Get involved, build connections, and help lead exciting projects across the polar science community. Apply here: www.usapecs.org/post/call-fo...

There's still time! Reminder about the #UArcticCongress 2026: the deadline for the call for session proposals is extended to July 31, and the online submission form is live! Read more and find the submission link here: www.uarctic.org/about-us/mee...

Join AGU's Thriving Earth Exchange Community Science Program in their upcoming fall cohort as a Community Leader! Community Leaders work with a volunteer project manager and volunteer scientist to achieve community-led solutions. Submit your community's project idea by August 21: buff.ly/UNOy9ib

Are you a scientist with an interest in #ClimateChange and Antarctica? This September, join a team of leading oceanographers & climate scientists from @bas.ac.uk for a scientific meeting at the Royal Society: royalsociety.org/science-even... @oceanandice.bsky.social @krhendry.bsky.social

Abstract submissions are now open for #AGU25! Please consider submitting abstracts to the two sessions being led by the NNA-CO: sessions C008 and ED005, full titles in the graphic below. Deadline to submit is July 30, 2025 (23:59 EDT). Abstracts can be submitted here: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

Join the Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) online for a panel discussion exploring ‘Polar Careers Outside Academia’ on Thursday, August 7, 2025, beginning at 8 am AKT | 10 am MT | 12 pm ET! To learn more about the event, visit: lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/vu4da...

I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...). I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.

Reminder: The application deadline for the XIV ISAES SCAR Travel Awards is coming up soon! Submit your details by 30 June 2025: scar.org/scar-news/is...

Applications close in 1 week for our 2025 AI/ML Curriculum Development workshop! Apply today! 🤩

🌍❄️ Lived, worked, or traveled in the polar regions? @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social & APECS Netherlands want your stories, poems, or reflections for Tales from the Poles! All voices welcome—scientists, artists, guides & more. Submit by form: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PolarVoices

🎨 Arctic ECRs! Apply to APECS Canada's #AS2A2025 contest to turn your research into art—with real community impact. Winners get art collab, science comm features + free #ASM2025 reg. All disciplines welcome! Apply by July 15! 🔗 apecscanada.wixsite.com/ehpecs/as2a #ArcticResearch #SciComm

🌡️ #ShowYourStripes 🌡️ The science is clear. The world is warming at an alarming rate and Arctic and Antarctic are warming twice as fast, and sometimes faster, than the rest of the planet. These stripes show the stark reality of climate change. The message? We’re out of time for delay.

Happy #ShowYourStripes Day! @edhawkins.org @climatecentral.org #Tammam #WarmingStripes physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

A lot of regional variability in the pattern of #Antarctic sea ice concentration anomalies during the last month (May 2025). A particularly notable spot was in the Bellingshausen Sea where there was effectively no ice formation. Data from @nsidc.bsky.social (nsidc.org/data/g02202/...).

Welcome June! We've wrapped up May with our latest newsletter: 🖌️ SCARFISH logo contest 🔭 AGATA travel grant 👥 Join the EDI AG If you missed it, you can still read it here: mailchi.mp/scar/may-sca... Or sign up to get future editions straight to your inbox: scar.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Monday ice update - it's the freeze season in the #Antarctic (austral winter), but the rate of sea ice growth has slowed in the last week. This graph is showing the current sea-ice extent anomaly (departure from average). More graphs at zacklabe.com/antarctic-se.... Data from @nsidc.bsky.social.

🌍 June 2 is #HeatActionDay. A new report from @wwattribution.bsky.social, @ifrc.org, and @climatecentral.org reveals how climate change has fueled extreme heat over the past year. 🧵 on key findings: 👇 #BeatTheHeat

Call for Polar Early Career Input on International Polar Year Priorities Help make sure the global polar ECR community is fully represented. Fill out the priority input form by 23:59 GMT on 11 June. psecco.org/news/be-sure... @polarsecco.bsky.social

May 2025 #Arctic sea ice extent was statistically tied for the 7th lowest on record... This was 730,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average. May ice extent is decreasing at about 2.31% per decade. Data: @nsidc.bsky.social (nsidc.org/data/seaice_...)

📣❄️ Applications are now OPEN for the October 2025 Scaling Impact: Co-Creating a Shared Framework for Teaching AI and Machine Learning with Applications in Arctic Research workshop. Learn more about the workshop and submit your application by June 30th here: forms.gle/a3TQ9QeoqocT...

🧊 Polar Early Career Researchers: shape YOUR research future! The 5th International Polar Year (IPY 2032-2033) will impact you. Share your feedback on polar early career priorities by 11 June: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @psecco.bsky.social #PolarResearch #ECR #IPY5

🎥 Missed the Peer Review Workshop for Early Career Scientists? No worries - recording & slides are now available! 🗓️ Hosted by @usapecs.bsky.social & @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social 🎙️ With Prof. Pete Convey & a panel of top polar experts ▶️ youtu.be/wUuxyohwR5g?... 📂 drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Effective immediately, the PGC is no longer accepting new NSF-supported requests due to a lack of renewal funding. Current work is wrapping up. Please contact your NSF program officer if impacted. We’re grateful to have supported your polar research. Read our full statement at www.pgc.umn.edu

This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data. "As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported." nsidc.org/data/user-re...

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) put together an anonymous survey to better understand the challenges faced by Arctic researchers under the current U.S. landscape to determine how to best support researchers. Complete the survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Online Peer Review workshop is happening in less than 2 hours! More details below:

🌍🔬 Final Reminder: Happening Tomorrow! Join us for an Online Peer Review Workshop 🧊 🗓 May 7 | ⏰ 12-1pm ET 🧠 Keynote by Prof. Pete Convey + Panel w/ NASA, NSF experts & more! 🎯 Get peer review tips & ask questions! 🔗 bas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98922453196 #PolarScience #ECR #PeerReview #ScienceTwitter

47 years of #Arctic sea ice thickness during the month of April... (updated through 2025) Graphic available at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

🌍🔬 Early Career Polar Scientists! Join us for an Online Peer Review Workshop 🧊 🗓 May 7 | ⏰ 9–10am PT 🧠 Keynote by Prof. Pete Convey + Panel with experts NASA, NSF & more! 🎯 Get peer review tips, ask your questions! 🔗 bas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98922453196 #PolarScience #ECR #PeerReview #ScienceTwitter

A reminder to mark your calendars! May 7, 9-10 am PT

🌍🔬 Early Career Polar Scientists! Join us for an Online Peer Review Workshop 🧊 🗓 May 7 | ⏰ 9–10am PT 🧠 Keynote by Prof. Pete Convey + Panel with experts NASA, NSF & more! 🎯 Get peer review tips, ask your questions! 🔗 bas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98922453196 #PolarScience #ECR #PeerReview #ScienceTwitter

US-SCAR TRAVEL AWARD OPPORTUNITY XIV SCAR International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES) Punta Arenas, Chile 18-23 August 2025 Applications accepted from students, postdocs, scientists in US. Preference given to ECRs. mailchi.mp/usscar.org/2...

🌍 Happy Earth Day! 🌿💧 The cryosphere, Earth's frozen water, stores 68.7% of our freshwater. As temperatures rise, it melts, and sea levels go up 🌊 Since 1900, sea level has risen over 20 cm and the pace is increasing. Protecting ice means protecting our future 💙🌱 #EarthDay2025 📸 NASA Science

Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore. This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/

Visualizing changes in April temperatures across the #Arctic region during the last four decades... Data provided by doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Thank you to @thehill.com for sharing about our latest saga conducted by DOC/NOAA: thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Temperatures averaged across the #Arctic Circle over the last 100 years... Data from @berkeleyearth.org (berkeleyearth.org/data/). Graphic available for download at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... 🥼❄️

My latest 'climate viz of the month' blog is now out and introduces my new timeline of global change (version 1): zacklabe.com/climate-viz-... #DataViz #SciComm #OpenData #OpenScience #ClimateChange

After you've listened to this cracking episode of Iceworld, maybe you can also check out this long read. It's all about an epic logistics mission that took place this season - and the Tractor Train Traverse team played a key role in making it happen! ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/bas....

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 8th lowest on record (JAXA data)... • about 100,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 410,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 840,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,410,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

But there were also potential positive impacts for animals, who: a) we like b) are part of Earth's physical and chemical cycles (aka biogeochemistry) Nutrients got pulled up towards the surface - food for tiny marine plants at the bottom of the Antarctic food chain. So, it's complicated! 🧵 6/7