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Apply for the APECS Executive Committee to help shape our organization and influence the future of polar research!

The elections for the 2025–2026 APECS Executive Committee will be held during May and June 2025 for the term from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026.

Application deadline: 1 June 2025 at 23:59 GMT

The APECS Executive Committee consists of five members, who are elected by the APECS Council to manage the day-to-day decisions of the organization. You can find information about the APECS Executive Committee on the APECS website, including general information, the list of current ExCom members, and summaries of their meetings.

2025 Elections timeline:

• 1 June at 23:59 GMT: Application deadline
• 2 June – 19 June: Review period within the APECS Council including Q&A with ExCom applicants
• 20 June – 3 July at 23:59 GMT: Voting period within the APECS Council
• 7 July: Announcement of the 2024–2025 APECS Executive Committee
• 1 August – 30 September: Transition process

The Executive Committee is a rewarding, high-paced, and work-intensive committee. Its members must be willing and able to contribute actively throughout the term on an almost daily basis via emails (except during e.g. field work, exam periods, holidays) and attend the online ExCom meetings (~2 hours) every two weeks. To apply, you must be an APECS member with prior experience in the APECS leadership—such as the Executive Committee, Council, or National Committee leaderships—or an equivalent organization.

Go to the Executive Committee Elections page to see the full election announcement, including eligibility criteria, how to apply, and a detailed explanation of the election process.

Is this the first time you want to get active in APECS?
To be an effective member of the APECS Executive Committee, a good background knowledge of APECS activities, projects, and internal processes is required. One of your roles will be to mentor and advise APECS Council members, Project Groups, and representatives. If you have not been actively involved in APECS before, we strongly recommend gaining experience through our Council, National Committees, or Project Groups before applying.

If you have any questions, please contact the ExCom Elections Coordinators 2025 at excom-elections [at] apecs.is.

The Permafrost Discovery Gateway (PDG) invites you to join our monthly webinar series on
Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM AKT.
This series focuses on using big geospatial data and remote sensing for community planning applications across permafrost regions.

📅 May 29, 2025

Title: Map the Gap: Detecting and Characterizing Pan-Arctic Infrastructure with Satellite Imagery and AI
Speakers: Elias Manos & Chandi Witharana, University of Connecticut

📝 Abstract

Permafrost thaw threatens to disrupt the lives of millions of people living in the Arctic by damaging homes, roads, and various other critical buildings and structures needed to sustain over 1,000 Arctic communities. Impacts are already unfolding across the region. However, there is a lack of unified, high-resolution infrastructure data that is comprehensive in both geographic coverage and attribute information across the pan-Arctic.

This data is crucial to accurately estimate economic losses due to permafrost thaw damages—needed at international levels for disaster risk reduction tracking, and at local to regional scales for hazard mitigation planning and resource acquisition.

Using artificial intelligence models trained on geospatial data, this research bridges the data gap by:

1. Detecting infrastructure such as buildings and roads from Maxar satellite imagery
2. Predicting attributes of buildings, such as use type (e.g., residential vs. non-residential)

Findings demonstrate how this work has improved geographic gaps in the best available pan-Arctic building dataset (OpenStreetMap) and has the potential to fill in its largely missing building attribute information.

📆 Add PDG Webinar Series to Your Calendar

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Polar Early Career World Summit – Community Input Invitation

From 22–24 March 2025, 120 polar early career researchers (ECRs) gathered for the Polar Early Career World Summit (PECWS) and developed:

• 12 vision statements
• 75 priorities
• 186 reasonings and actions

This material will guide international priority setting and coordination processes in polar research, including the 4th International Conference on Arctic Research Planning and the International Polar Year 2032–2033.

Help Shape the Future of Polar Research

To best represent the polar early career community, we need input from as many community members as possible. To achieve this, we are hosting virtual events taking place 27–29 May (depending on your time zone). These interactive sessions are specifically for ECRs who weren’t physically at PECWS.

The virtual events will provide:

• An overview of PECWS and the polar early career community priority synthesis process
• An opportunity to assess materials produced at the summit, specifically by providing live feedback on priority statements and their relevance to you and your work
• An understanding of the synthesis products you are contributing to

Contribute via Written Feedback

In tandem with the virtual events, we are releasing a form to provide written feedback on polar early career priorities. In this form, you can:

• Comment on existing visions and priorities
• Identify missing ideas

We strongly encourage those interested to both attend a virtual event and fill out the form. However, we welcome form submissions from all polar early career community members.

Help us make sure the global polar ECR community is fully represented.
Join us virtually and fill out the priority input form!

🗓️ Register for a Virtual Event

Click on the meeting times below to register for one of the 90-minute virtual events:

• 27 May, 04:00 UTC
  TUESDAY 27 May 9pm PT (San Francisco) | 10pm MT (Boulder) | 12am/midnight ET (New York)
  06:00 CEST (Tromsø) | 09:30 IST (Delhi) | 13:00 KST (Seoul)

• 28 May, 09:00 UTC
  2am PT (San Francisco) | 3am MT (Boulder) | 5am ET (New York)
  11:00 CEST (Tromsø) | 14:30 IST (Delhi) | 18:00 KST (Seoul)

• 29 May, 17:00 UTC
  10am PT (San Francisco) | 11am MT (Boulder) | 1pm/noon ET (New York)
  19:00 CEST (Tromsø) | 22:30 IST (Delhi) | THURSDAY 29 May 02:00 KST (Seoul)

📅 Deadline for Input

Fill out the priority input form by 23:59 GMT on 11 June.

Join us in Fairbanks, AK May 27th-30th, 2025 for our One Health, One Future 2025 International Conference!

Poster and Abstract Applications are open November 5th and close at 11:59pm AKT on December 15th, 2024. Submit your applications now!

For questions please contact uaf-onehealth-team [at] alaska.edu

The Future of Earth’s Polar Regions
Coordinators: Qinghua Ding, Helene Seroussi, Gunilla Svensson, Patrick Taylor, and Andrew Thompson

The Conference will be devoted to discussions about how the polar climate system will evolve in a warming world. It will focus on understanding key physical processes and interactions between different components of the polar climate with a view towards improving projections of future polar climate. We will recruit a diverse group of participants across research fields, career stage, gender, geographical origin, under-represented groups, from around the world. Sessions will cover topics such as: 1) physical processes, their representation in observations and models, and their importance in a warmer world, 2) feedbacks and interactions between components of the polar climate system, 3) how to learn from the past to improve future predictions, 4) the role of polar regions in an evolving global climate system, and 5) how to leverage technological advances to enable a sustained polar observing system.

This conference is allowing submissions of the following types:

Posters
Contributed talks
The priority submission deadline is May 25th, 2025. Visit your conference registration site.

Exploring Key Research Topics for the Fifth International Polar Year

Planning is beginning for the Fifth International Polar Year (IPY5) that will be held in 2032-2033. International Polar Years are intended to make large advancements in scientific understanding by galvanizing the research community and fostering large-scale international coordination and national investments in polar science.

The National Academies will be holding a workshop focused on IPY5 on May 20 and 21, 2025. Participants will discuss pressing research and monitoring questions that could be investigated by the U.S. and international partners during IPY5.

In person attendance is space limited. To inquire about in person participation, email Morgan Disbrow-Monz, MMonz [at] nas.edu

Full event details

When:

Day 1: Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Day 2: Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 10 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Where:

Attend virtually:

You will receive the relevant link(s) to attend virtually via email.

Seismological Society of America Environmental Seismology Topical Conference
14-18 October 2025 · Denver, Colorado

Make plans to join us at Environmental Seismology: Earth’s Surface and Subsurface Hazards, Dynamics and Resources in Denver, Colorado 14-18 October 2025.

This conference will explore marked advances in extracting information from seismic data to investigate phenomena that include cryosphere, ocean, and groundwater dynamics, fluvial processes, cyclones, landslides, erosion, and more. Seismology provides time-continuous data, access to remote regions and tools to monitor earthquakes and explosions. These tools to image the subsurface have been repurposed by scientists from marine mammal biologists to hydrologists. In addition, seismological methods have been central to energy exploration and development. A full list of topics and featured speakers can be found at the meeting website.

Abstract submission for the meeting will open 1 April 2025 and close 20 May 2025.
SSA will award three travel grants to student and early-career members attending the conference.

Applications for travel grants will be open from 1-30 April 2025. We look forward to seeing your abstracts in April. Please email abstracts [at] seismosoc.org with any questions.