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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: polarstunde@polarforschung.de
Zoom-Link folgt nach Registrierung. Infos 👇

Banner for the Climate and Cryosphere Open Science Conference, Wellington, New Zealand 9-12 February, 2026.

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

Five early career scientists in krill pun t-shirt: jagged little krill, krill bill, killer queen, license to kril. In front of the R/V Sikuliaq, university of Alaskas research vessel. About to depart to Antarctica to study sea ice and plankton!

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 💗

@polarforschung.bsky.social

❄️ 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 polarstunde@polarforschung.de

🌈 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: polarstunde@polarforschung.de
@polarforschung.bsky.social

Image showing front page of briefing document

🧪🧵 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: polarstunde@polarforschung.de
@polarforschung.bsky.social

Simply beautiful photos of climate scientists in action. And really well explained - worth a read.
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❄️ Die POLARSTUNDE geht in eine neue Runde! ❄️
Ab dem 15.10. erwarten Sie spannende Vorträge rund um Polar- und Klimaforschung. 🌍🐧

📩 Anmeldung per Mail an polarstunde@polarforschung.de

@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

Time series of monthly Northern Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies from 1850 to August 2025 alongside multi-model expectations of the warming in this area (scenario SSP2-4.5).

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

Geoengineering is not going to save the poles from climate change A review of the five main methods proposed for cooling down the poles or slowing the loss of ice concludes they are all wildly impractical, wouldn't work, or both

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...

(S+) Expedition im Packeis: Polarforscher befürchten Ökokollaps im Eismeer Das Forschungsschiff »Polarstern« war zwei Monate lang im Eis der Arktis unterwegs. Was die Wissenschaftler gefunden haben, könnte auf eine ökologische Katastrophe hinweisen.

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