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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Attending ASSW 2026? Join our workshop on preparedness for safe and inclusive fieldwork: supporting Early Career Researchers and how PI’s can learn from us… 🗓 Sun 29 March | 13:30 📍 Richard Mortensen room (and online) #ASSW2026 #ArcticResearch #ECRs @apecs-denmark.bsky.social

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

📢 Join us for the next edition of the Polar Book Club! 📚 We will read "Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland" by Tété-Michel Kpomassie. 🕑 2nd October 2025, 3pm GMT Registrations here: lnkd.in/ezxdCnqF

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

📣Missed the deadline to apply for our upcoming polar field skills course this winter? 📅 Don't worry, by request we've extended the deadline to THIS FRIDAY (September 12th 2025). For more details: polarnetwork.org/events/polar...

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

📣 We are delighted to announce PolarSTEP, an intensive field-course for UK-based early career polar scientists and professionals! PolarSTEP will bring together ECR's and professionals for a field course designed to provide a mix of polar field skills! ⛺🧊 Apply here docs.google.com/forms/d/1aEK...

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

📣 Join the UK Polar Network Committee! Are you interested in supporting polar ECR's through networking, education and outreach, and making polar science a welcoming, and inclusive place for all? 🚨 To apply, fill in the application form below by the 18th August 2025 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

✍️Join us for an online peer review workshop! A webinar aimed at helping ECRS navigate and better understand how to peer review journal articles successfully. 📍 Zoom bas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98922453196 📅 Wednesday 7th May 2025 ⏰ 17:00-18:00 BST See you there!

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Are you a secondary school student or teacher? Can you speak French? Would you like to write to Antarctica? UKPN & APECS-France are working in partnership to produce a Language Polar Pen Pals Scheme for a letter exchange scheme. Find out more here!

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A great opportunity for ECRs to travel to South Korea for an international conference on Antarctica! Two more weeks to apply for AntClimNow BACO2025 Travel Grants!

Baco 2025 joint assembly: apply for ECR travel grants up to $2000!

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Sarah is an award-winning artist with expertise in ocean exploration and marine biology. Her art has been shown by the RSGS, the Explorers Club Great Britain & Ireland Chapter, and at Discovery Point in Dundee. She is also the founder of the Polar Artists Collective and Polar Book Club.

Sarah Barnard - it's me posting on BlueSky!

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Beth is a PhD student at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, researching carbon storage in Arctic marine sediments. Beth is interested in the ocean’s ability to store carbon, acting as a nature-based solution to mitigating climate change and how these processes may be altered by human actions.

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Anthony is a PhD student at the University of Exeter in the climate science group. Anthony's main research focuses on Antarctic and Arctic sea ice change, the drivers behind them and predicting and simulating their extent in the near future.

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Aimee is currently studying an MSc in Marine Biology at Bangor University, where she aims to continue her research on anthropogenic activities, particularly in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, with a particular focus on Marine mammals.

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Meet our social media team, Aimee, Anthony, Beth and Sarah!

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Peter is a PhD student at the University of Bath, studying atmospheric gravity waves in the middle atmosphere using various satellite data.

Photograph of our webmaster Peter Berthelemy in a dogsled

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Emily has recently completed her BSc Physical Geography degree at Lancaster University, in which she has had a particular interest in glaciology and polar sciences.

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Meet our Marketing Officer, Emily and Webmaster, Peter!

Pictures of our marketing officer Emily Adams and our webmaster Peter Berthelemy

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Polina Sevastyanova is a Master’s student at the University of Cambridge, studying Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science. Her area of interest is improving estimates of sea level rise from Polar ice shelves.

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Saule Akhmetkaliyeva is a a researcher in environmental science with experience in pan-Arctic fieldwork and lab work in geochemistry, environmental microbiology, glaciology and paleosedimentology.

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Nadia Frontier is a Masters' student at the University of Glasgow and previously worked as a benthic ecologist with the British Antarctic Survey.

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Meet our International Collaboration Officers, Nadia and Saule, and Conference Coordinator, Polina!

Meet the UKPN Committee! Today we have the international collaboration officers and conference coordinator.

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

We are looking for volunteers for our upcoming UKPN events at Cardiff and Nottingham Science Festivals! Volunteers will: Geek out about polar science Show off our engagement material (i.e. BAS field kit and tactile ice sheet displays) Optionally organize an activity of your choosing - with support

Graphic asking for UKPN volunteers for Nottingham and Cardiff science festivals

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Apply now for networking event - ‘Polar Fieldwork: Navigating Knowledge, Impact, and Responsibility’ 13th-14th March 2025 UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Bangor, Wales Organised by: @ukceh.bsky.social, @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social & University of Cambridge

Graphic for Polar fieldwork: navigating knowledge, impact and responsibility in Bangor

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Sam is a researcher at Northumbria University investigating how the ocean and ice shelves in Antarctica interact, specifically, how the meltwater plume beneath ice shelves mixes with the ocean using laboratory scale process models to understand these systems.

Picture of UKPN vice president Sam Hartharn-Evans.

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Connor is a geospatial developer for Amentum working in the nuclear sector. Connor worked as a postdoctoral research associate in glaciology using both earth observation and laboratory techniques to better understand the (surface) mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Picture of UKPN vice president Connor Shiggins

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Meet our Vice-Presidents, Connor and Sam!

Pictures of UKPN vice presidents Connor and Sam

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Louise is a PhD Student at Northumbria University. Louises research looks at the use of environmental community-based monitoring (CBM) approaches in the Canadian Arctic.

A picture of UKPN co-president Louise Mercer

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Lucy works within the UK Polar Data Centre at the British Antarctic Survey. She is the point of contact to polar science NERC grant holders throughout the data management lifecycle.

A picture of UKPN president Lucy Stephenson

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UK Polar Network @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Meet the UKPN Committee! We're introducing you to the 2024/25 UKPN committee. This time, it’s our Presidents, Lucy and Louise!

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