Date

Call for Submissions
International Polar Week 2017
Association of Polar Early Career Scientists
20-26 March 2017

Multiple events available online

Submission deadlines:

Polar Art artwork submissions: Monday, 13 March 2017
Polar People photo contest submissions: Monday, 20 March 2017 at
11:59 p.m. AKST

For questions, contact:
Jean Holloway
Email: jean.holloway77 [at] gmail.com


The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) announces calls
for submissions for events occurring during their International Polar
Week Spring 2017. International Polar Week will take place 20-26 March
2017.

Polar Week is a series of international events with the goal of
promoting the science that takes place in polar latitudes and educating
the public about all things polar. Through social media interaction to
an online conference, organizers hope to educate the public about the
Arctic and Antarctic.

Organizers are accepting submissions for the Polar Art event, which will
promote artwork with polar themes, and the Polar People photo contest.

Submission deadlines:

Polar Art artwork submission deadline: Monday, 13 March 2017.
Polar People photo contest deadline: Monday, 20 March 2017 at
11:59 p.m.AKST.

To submit artwork to the Polar Arts event, email submission as a JPEG
file to polar-weeks [at] apecs.is.

For information about the Polar Week photo contest, go to:
http://tinyurl.com/APECS-Polar-Week-Photo.

For the upcoming Polar Week, organizers are highlighting humans and
their activities and impacts on the poles. More information about people
of the will be available through online events throughout Polar Week.

Additional Polar Week events include:

  • Polar Science 101: Breaking Down Scientific Concepts for a General
    Audience, a blog with posts throughout the week;
  • Online conference and panel discussion;
  • Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) featuring APECS members; and
  • PolarPeople on Twitter.

Information about the online conference and registration will be
available online shortly.

Polar Week Twitter campaign: 23-24 March 2017.

To join the Polar Week Twitter campaign, use #PolarPeople.

Polar Week Reddit AMA: 25 March 2017, 11 a.m.-2:00 p.m. EDT.

To participate in the Polar Week Reddit AMA, go to:
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/.

For more information about all Polar Week activities, go to:
http://tinyurl.com/Polar-Week-APECS.

For questions, contact:
Jean Holloway
Email: jean.holloway77 [at] gmail.com


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