Happy Polar Bear Day everybody🐻‍❄️! Time for some happy news ❄️☺️

POLARSTUNDE – 11.03.2026 | 17–18 Uhr Online | Kostenlos "Die Rückkehr der Finnwale" mit Helena Herr & Alexander Rychwalski In dieser #Polarstunde geben wir spannende Einblicke in die aktuelle #Finnwal #Forschung. Anmeldung: [email protected] Zoom-Link folgt nach Registrierung. Infos 👇

Lots of great info this week at the Climate and Cryosphere Open Science Conference. Everything from cutting edge ice sheet process studies to Indigenous prospectives from Alaska and Aotearoa New Zealand. Nice mix of grad students, early career folks up to venerable veterans. #CliC2026

🚨 PSECCO Conference Travel Grants now open! Up to $900 for polar early career scientists & educators (U.S.-based) to attend Spring/Summer 2026 conferences. 🗓 Deadline: March 15, 2026 (11:59pm MT) ℹ️ More info below: psecco.org/news/psecco-... #PolarScience #ECR

📖 TALES FROM THE POLES We’re excited to announce a new e-book collaboration by @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social and @apecs_nl! Step into the world of polar science through stories and adventures from polar researchers themselves! 📅 Available 13 February 2026 #PolarScience #ResearchLife #TalesFromThePoles

This all women, all early career team is officially on its way to the Wedell Sea, Antarctica to study sea ice and plankton!! Wish us luck in the dreadful Drake Passage 🤞🌊🐧🇦🇶 #oceanography #iceXplankton Krill pun shirts were gifts from co-I Tricia Thibodeau 💗

❄️ Nächste Polarstunde am 14.01., um 17 Uhr! ❄️ Diesmal geht es um die Coole(n) Klassen in Antarktika, vorgestellt von Dr. Rainer Lehmann, Dr. Sonja Berg und Marie-Sophie Bothe. Diese geben ausführliche Einblicke in dieses spannende Projekt. Anmeldung bis zum 13.01. an [email protected]

🌈 Happy PolarPrideDay is coming! 🌈 ☕ Join APECS Austria on 18 Nov at 9:00 CET for an informal Virtual Coffee! Link to join👇 @florinaroana.bsky.social @apecs-germany.bsky.social @apecs-denmark.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

New position at the University of the Faroe Islands - Postdoc Researcher in Marine Mammal Ecology - Deadline: Oct 27, 2025 setur.totalview.cloud/recruitment/... FYI - @polarsecco.bsky.social @apecs-denmark.bsky.social @apecs-germany.bsky.social @arcticinstitute.bsky.social @iasc-arctic.bsky.social

❄️ Die POLARSTUNDE geht weiter! Am 26.11. geht es um Geoengineering in der Antarktis ❄️ Dr. Stefan Hain & Dr. Patrick Flamm geben Einblicke in das Thema und dessen Bedeutung für den Antarktisvertrag. 📩 Anmeldung bis 25.11. an: [email protected] @polarforschung.bsky.social

🧪🧵 Future change to #ThwaitesGlacier, Antarctica constitutes the largest uncertainty in #sea-level rise forecasts. The Science Coordination Office of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration recently issued a briefing document summarising some key findings - thwaitesglacier.org/findings

Last call for applications for our Reproducible Approaches to Arctic Research Using R course. This training is FREE and will be held on Zoom (in Pacific Time) from March 2-6, 2026. Applications are due October 31st, 2025. Apply here: forms.gle/Tv6enduXfHxX...

The Antarctic fieldwork season is calling, and four of our board members are heading south this year! ❄️🐧 Stay tuned for more information and a potential live check-in from the ice in the coming weeks.🎥 @lenanicola.bsky.social

Let’s talk: Data Archiving! Join us on November 5th, 6–7 PM (CET) for a lively conversation about preserving your data for the future. 🔗 Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @apecs-denmark.bsky.social @apecsoceania.bsky.social @ehpecs.bsky.social @polarforschung.bsky.social

❄️ Die POLARSTUNDE startet in die neue Saison! Am 15.10. geht es um Sturmschwalben im Südpolarmeer 🐦🌊 Prof. Petra Quillfeldt & Dr. Yvonne Schumm geben spannende Einblicke in eine Brutkolonie auf King George Island. 📩 Anmeldung bis 14.10. an: [email protected] @polarforschung.bsky.social

Simply beautiful photos of climate scientists in action. And really well explained - worth a read. 1/

❄️ Die POLARSTUNDE geht in eine neue Runde! ❄️ Ab dem 15.10. erwarten Sie spannende Vorträge rund um Polar- und Klimaforschung. 🌍🐧 📩 Anmeldung per Mail an [email protected] @polarforschung.bsky.social

‪Extended deadline! Early-career polar researchers – show us your creativity! Submit a short, fun video explaining your thesis by Nov 1, 2025 and win up to 300€! Details 👉 apecs-germany.de/explain-your... @polarforschung.bsky.social

The Northern Pacific Ocean is currently smashing temperature records. And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected. A short thread 🧵

Jari Haapala opens the first Finnish Sea Ice Research Day….great initiative bringing 60 sea ice researchers together…going to be a great day

💪 A superpower of the Southern Ocean is taking up heat and carbon from humans and slowing the rate of global warming, by exchanging heat and carbon between the atmosphere and the deep ocean. 🔄 The freeze-and-melt cycle of sea ice drives this exchange by changing water density and acting as a pump.

Ever heard of #AntarcticaInSync? It's a very cool initiative to better understand the Southern Ocean and it's icy continent.. Kicking off the second webinar now... www.antarctica-insync.org

With emissions still rising 📈 and the catastrophic consequences 🔥 becoming ever clearer, geoengineering is getting ever more tempting 🧪 But a review has concluded that the main methods proposed to save polar ice 🧊 are not doable or won't work www.newscientist.com/article/2495...

As the giant #Antarctic iceberg #A23a is currently breaking apart, we created a video about its dance in the water in the last year, including spinning in a Taylor column! Even though A23a is not sea ice, the microwave signature is similar and it shows up in our data! Can you spot it in the video?

Have you lived, worked, or journeyed in the polar regions? Do you have a story, memory, or reflection from your time there? UK Polar Network (UKPN) and APECS Netherlands are creating a collection of voices from the Arctic and Antarctic — and we would love to hear yours! @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social

Have you heard of #AntarcticaInSync? A UNESCO-endorsed program for coordinated science in Antarctica & the Southern Ocean (www.antarctica-insync.org). We - APECS - aim to represent us early career scientists in the project 🙌🏼. You can find all FAQs on our new website: apecs-germany.de/antarctica-i...

The next issue of our quarterly science bulletin 'Southern Signals' will be out in October. Please sign up at aappartnership.org.au/contact-us/ to receive yours by email. July 2025 issue at createsend.com/t/j-614D1AD6...

🚨 WORK WITH US at @imas-utas.bsky.social IN HOBART! 🦐 Research Associate – Krill Physiologist 🚢 Study #climate change impacts on #Antarctic krill through fieldwork on marine voyages and aquaria experiments ✍️ Applications close 26 October 2025 ▶️ careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/50143...

🧊 Die Evidenz für sehr viel frühere & stärkere Auswirkungen verdichtet sich bei jeder @awi.de Expedition in die #Arktis 👇 www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Reminder! Early-career polar researchers – show us your creativity! Submit a short, fun video explaining your thesis by Oct 1, 2025 and win up to 300€! Details 👉 apecs-germany.de/explain-your... @polarforschung.bsky.social @apecs-denmark.bsky.social @apecsoceania.bsky.social @ehpecs.bsky.social

Hi! I’m ARIEL, an L-band microwave radiometer 📡, and this is my little buddy Sebastian (the pulka 🛷). Together, we traveled across 3 Arctic ice stations ❄️ to uncover the invisible (aka microwave) secrets of ever-changing summer sea ice and its thickness on the @awi.de CONTRASTS #expedition 🧊.

🌏 "To keep Earth habitable, humanity must recognize the value of #Antarctica and seek to save it from irreversible damage." Researchers from @utas.edu.au, @ucl.ac.uk ‪and CSIRO set out some strategies towards long-term planetary stability in @nature.com. ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Sea-level rises of multiple meters mean global political instability that will dwarf what we’re seeing right now.” - @profmattengland.bsky.social #Antarctica #ClimateEmergency grist.org/climate/anta...

#Matt_England 2025 post45 @profmattengland.bsky.social The 25 page pdf is available. note: There is a regime shift 2015 figure 1a. Antarctica is 20Mkm² (bigger than Russia) go.nature.com/45H0bqS bsky.app/profile/natu...

An excellent article in the NYTimes about the impending demise of the last U.S. Antarctic research vessel, the N.B. Palmer, featuring US and overseas colleagues (including @polarrobs.bsky.social). Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...

Call for a special IGS-EGG conference grant to attend CliC OSC 2026 (clic2026.com) Read the eligibility criteria here igsegg.org/egg-events/c... Deadline: September 30 @igsoc.bsky.social #Grant #CliC2026 #IGS #ECR

A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Drake Passage, a body of water between the southernmost tip of South America and Antarctica. The Chilean government warned of possible tsunami waves at some of its bases in Antarctica.

M 7.5 - 2025 Southern Drake Passage Earthquake earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Antarctica is changing at s disturbing rate. “What happens in Antarctica won’t stay there. The stakes could not be higher. The choices made now will determine whether we face a future of worsening impacts and irreversible change or one of managed resilience to the changes already locked in.”

🌊 Southern Ocean Modellers – We Need You! Take 10 min to share your insights & help shape upcoming @soosocean.bsky.social, @oceaniceeu.bsky.social & #AntarcticaInSync activities: 🔗 forms.gle/1VgrpMtcS5xi... 📅 10 Sept Guide research priorities & strengthen links between modelling & obs communities

This is the second major research vessel prematurely retired in the same year. Devastating for Earth and Environmental Science research. www.science.org/content/arti...

Our team member Dmitry is onboard @awi.de Polarstern on the #CONTRASTS expedition in the #Arctic Ocean. Part of the work is to deploy a number of autonomous systems to track the movement of the #seaice and how it is melting. Data will be made accessible on the @meereisportal.bsky.social data portal

The mid-July Arctic sea ice update is now posted in the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. Atlantic side of the North Pole has low ice extent, but the Pacific side has high ice. Two more months of melt to go for 2025. #Arctic #SeaIce #akwx #Summer2025 alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/july-2025-...

🇦🇶 Antarctica’s coastal zone is changing fast & it matters globally. A new #AntarcticRINGS review paper maps what we know, what we don’t & why it matters for sea-level rise. 🌊 Explore fresh insights, a Quantarctica-friendly data package & all figures as downloadable slides: scar.org/scar-news/cr...

Greetings from the CONTRASTS expedition: We already finished our first ice station with 4 successful days of melt pond reflectivity, L-band microwave emissivity + ice thickness measurements. The weather even allowed us to perform airborne 🚁 observations. Now we continue to our 2nd ice station! 🧊 📏

Some spectacular scenery from East #Antarctica on the research cruise in 2023 (NBP23-03). 🧪🌎🇦🇶🐧

Our review of the Antarctic coastal zone is finally available after 3+ years of work with 50+ institutes! We highlight data gaps & future priorities. Preprint here 👇 doi.org/10.22541/ess... #SCAR_RINGS #glaciology

🔊 Call for SOFLUX WG Early Career Rep APECS & SOOS call for an ECR to join the SOFLUX group, focusing on air-sea fluxes in the SO 🗓️ Apply by 20 July: apecs.is/news/apecs-n... @usapecs.bsky.social @apecs-denmark.bsky.social @apecs-germany.bsky.social @apecsoceania.bsky.social @ehpecs.bsky.social

Did your thesis focus on polar and cryosphere science? Show us what you researched – in a fun and creative video! 🎬 "Explain Your Thesis!" – APECS Germany & DGP’s new video competition 💸 Win up to €300 📅 Submit by October 1, 2025 Check out apecs-germany.de/explain-your... for more information!

Today we are boarding RV Polarstern in Tromsø for the two month #CONTRASTS cruise to the #Arctic You can follow us here: www.meereisportal.de/contrasts There is also a live webcam.