27 March 2025 | 08:30 - 10:00 (MDT)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: Glen Miller Ballroom - UMC 208
Organisers: Axel Schlindwein (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists - APECS - International Directorate); Mariama Dryák-Vallies (Polar Science Early Career Community Office - PSECCO); Sarah Strand (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists - APECS - International Directorate)
Zoom link to the Session (password-protected)
The password needed to connect to the session will be distributed the day prior to the start of the sessions to all registered conference participants. Further guidelines on how to participate virtually in the ASSW 2025 can be found on the ASSW 2025 website.
Session Description:
The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and the Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) collaborated to organize a Polar Early Career World Summit (PECWS) alongside the ICARP IV Summit, engaging early career individuals in discussions shaping the definition of polar research priorities and initiating the planning of activities for the next IPY. The summit fostered international collaboration across disciplines and encouraged discussions that many early career professionals are already spearheading within the scientific community, including emphasizing a need for diversity and equity within polar research, urging open science development, working across disciplines, furthering applied research, effective science communication, and equitably collaborating through co-production of knowledge.
APECS and PSECCO are hosting this session as a space to present the synthesized output of the PECWS and invite the broader community to engage and discuss polar research priorities with early career professionals. Adding to an overview provided by the PECWS Organizing Committee, participant rapporteurs will be presenting the perspectives of the early career community on the ICARP IV themes, polar research priorities and ideas to inform the structuring and planning of activities in the 5th IPY. The following dialogue with the audience will center around these topics and provide further insights into the perspectives of the next generation of polar professionals.
Speakers:
The speakers in this session will be a mix of PECWS team members and participants.