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We inform you that since last May 12, and as voted by the POLARCSIC Steering Board on May 11, Maria Gema Llorens will replace Santiago Giralt as coordinator of the PTI together with Adelina Geyer.

Maria Gema Llorens did her Doctoral Thesis in Structural Geology and Glaciology at the University of Tübingen and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Marine and Polar Sciences (AWI: Bremerhaven). She was also a postdoctoral researcher at the AWI until 2017 where she worked comparing ice simulations with Antarctic and Greenland ice surveys. For 5 years (2013-2017), she was coordinator of the European Research Network MicroDICE (microdynamics of ice), of the ESF. She is currently a member of the section of cryospheric sciences of the Spanish Commission of Geodesy and Geophysics.

We welcome Maria Gema Llorens and take this opportunity to thank Santiago Giralt for the time and effort he has devoted to launch and coordinate POLARCSIC during the last four years!

"Polar Early Career soft and complementary skills seminars”

More information  here

Presentation talks of the new POLARCSIC IGME groups

09/05/2022

Riesgos Geológicos, hidratos de gas y migración de fluidos: Ricardo León Buendía, Miguel Lorente Isidro, Luis Galán de Frutos, Jesús García Crespo, Jose Antonio de la Orden 

Tectónica, Paleoceanografía y cambio global: Fernando Bohoyo Muñoz, María Druet Vélez, Adolfo Maestro González, Carmen Rey Moral, Manuel Montes Santiago, Estefanía Llave Barranco, Beatriz  Benjumea Moreno, María Teresa López Bahut, Antonio Pedrera Parias, Ana Ruiz Constan

27/04/2022

Investigación del Patrimonio y Geodiversidad (GIPG): Luis Carcavilla y Enrique Díaz-Martínez

Registro Sedimentario de Cambios Climáticos (RESCLIM): Susana Lebreiro, Juan Cruz Larrasoaña, Laura Antón, Isabel Reguera

POLARCSIC Conference & Steering Board Meeting

11 -12 May 2022 , Madrid

Agenda 

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Wednesday 11/05/2022

15:00 - 18:30 Steering Board Meeting

Thursday 12/05/2022

 8:30 a 17:00  POLARCSIC Workshop

Friday 13/05/2022

10:00 a 14:00  POLARCSIC Early Career Workshop (ON-LINE)

More information here

Conference "Polar Worlds: Explorations and Challenges"

2 June 2022, Institut Français, Madrid

The two distinguished invited scientists, Jérôme Chappellaz and Carlota Escutia Dotti, shared their research and experiences during their polar expeditions. They also addressed the current and future challenges of polar research and participated in a discussion session moderated by Rosa M. Tristán, journalist specialized in scientific and environmental popularization.

Now available in Spanish and French on YouTube:

- Spanish version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYldACVXT-4

- French version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMidwOEDkrM

ANTARCTICA

Ecotoxicological Characterization of Type C Killer Whales From Terra Nova Bay (Ross Sea, Antarctica): Molecular Biomarkers, Legacy, and Emerging Persistent Organic Contaminants . 

Panti, C., Muñoz-Arnanz, J., Marsili, L., Panigada, S., Baini, M., Jiménez, B., et al. (2022). Frontiers in Marine Science. doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.818370

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Climate warming amplified the 2020 record-breaking heatwave in the Antarctic Peninsula. 

González-Herrero, S., Barriopedro, D., Trigo, R. M., López-Bustins, J. A., & Oliva, M. (2022). Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1), 122. doi: 10.1038/s43247-022-00450-5

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The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean Version 2

Dorschel, B., Hehemann, L., Viquerat, S. et al. . Sci Data 9, 275 (2022). doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01366-7

ARCTIC

GLOBAL

Can changes in deformation regimes be inferred from crystallographic preferred orientations in polar ice?

Llorens, M.-G., Griera, A., Bons, P. D., Weikusat, I., Prior, D. J., Gomez-Rivas, E., et al. (2022). C The Cryosphere, 16(5), 2009–2024. doi: 10.5194/tc-16-2009-2022

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Automatic Water Autosampler Operated From UAVs for Determining Dissolved Trace Elements .

Sparaventi, E., Rodríguez-Romero, A., Navarro, G., & Tovar-Sánchez, A. (2022). A Novel  Frontiers in Marine Science. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.879953

Have a look at the video here

Talks at primary and secondary schools 

Elisa Berdalet, Clara Cardelús, Magda Vila, Vanessa Balagué. La figura d'Antoni Ballester, presentation of the book: "Observando los polos" and scientific walk around Antarctica. IES Antoni Ballester, Montroig del Camp. (26/05/2022).

Vanessa Balagué i Clara Cardelús. Presentation of the book: "Observando los polos" and scientific walk around Antarctica.  Jornada ICM YOUNG RESEARCHERS DAY, Institut de Ciències del Mar-CSIC, Barcelona. (27/05/2022)

Lourdes González (ICM)- "Investigando la Antártida, ¿te apuntas?" . CEIP Las Encinas, Alfacar (Granada) (31/05/2022). 

Una mirada polar:

Un viaje visual a los confines de la Tierra

Geyer, A. , Giralt, S. and Madurell, T. (eds) (2021) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas ,  83 pp. eISBN: 978-84-00-10859-5

"Café con hielo" is a series of dissemination talks that will cover current issues on polar science. The activity comes from the collaboration between the platform POLARCSIC (from the Spanish National Research Council) and APECS-Spain, with the aim of approaching polar science to the general public.

This year, we have celebrated the 2nd Edition of "Café con hielo". The series include 6 sessions. In each of them, two scientists have given a flash talk about different perspectives of the session topic and afterwards, there was an open round table, conducted by a chair related to the topic. 

The webinars have been broadcasted live on Youtube. Watch them again!

Session 1: 23/03/2022 - Microplastics and contamination in the poles

Session 2: 05/04/2022 - Climate and Climate Change

Session 3 – 26/04/2022: Life under extreme conditions

Session 4 – 10/05/2022: Cryosphere

Session 5 – 24/05/2022: Geosciences

Session 6: 07/06/2022 - Life in Antarctica

Registration Deadlines: 

• International Symposium on Ice, Snow and Water in a Warming World (early bird 15 June, final registration and field trip 1 August)
• SCAR Open Science Conference 2022 (early bird 30 June)
• 3rd IPICS Open Science Conference (early bird 1 July)
• 17th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography (1 July)
• UK Challenger Society Conference: Where ice meets ocean (1 July)
• World Congress of Soil Science (23 July)
• 9th Polar and Alpine Microbiology Meeting (PAM2022) (early bird 31 July)
• Willi Dansgaard Centenary Symposium (5 August)
• ‘Methane in a Changing Arctic’ International Conference (14 August)
• 27th International Symposium on Polar Sciences (ISPS2022) (19 August)

Abstract Submission Deadlines:

• 9th Polar and Alpine Microbiology Meeting (PAM2022) (31 June)
• AGU Fall Meeting 2022 (3 August)

Funding / Fellowships / Prizes

• SCAR, COMNAP, & IAATO Antarctic-related fellowships (deadlines 30 June and 31 August)

• Call for Papers: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences special issue - Changing Arctic Climate and Low/Mid-latitudes Connections (1 September)
• Call for manuscripts for Geosciences special issue "Mountain Glaciers, Permafrost, and Snow" (25 October)
• Call for Papers: Advances in Polar Science special issue - Observations and simulations of Greenland ice sheet melting (submit contribution titles by 15 December)
• Call for manuscripts for Remote Sensing special issue "Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere" (31 December)