Sunday, October 20, 2019

[IPRNmail] IPRN Executive Committee (Ex-com) Reconstitution

Dear Members

Some of you have already indicated your interest in being a part of IPRN leadership. As you are aware that IPRN Executive Committee (ex-com) reconstitution process has been started for which we are seeking nominations. 
Kindly mail back by 31 October 2019, if you wish to be a part of IPRN Ex-com 2019-20.


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Tuesday, July 23, 2019

[IPRNmail] Vacancy in Antarctic Wildlife Monitoring Program at Wildlife Institute of India

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The Antarctic Wildlife Monitoring Program at Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun has advertised for a Project Fellow position to work on Antarctic marine megafauna through a walk-in written exam cum interview. Eligible  candidates may go through the requirements via the link given below. Please read all the instruction very carefully before applying. 

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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

[IPRNmail] National Conference on Polar Sciences (NCPS-2019) at NCPOR, Goa

Dear IPRN Members

Please see the call of abstracts for National Conference on Polar Sciences (NCPS-2019) to be held at NCPOR, Goa. There are travel grants available to present your work in the conference.

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From: NCPS 2019 <ncps2019@ncaor.gov.in>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 14:23
Subject: Announcement of a National Conference on Polar Sciences (NCPS-2019) at NCPOR

Dear Sir,

I am delighted to inform you that NCPOR is going to hold a National Conference on Polar Sciences (NCPS-2019) during August 20-22, 2019.

NCPS-2019 aims to bring eminent researchers working in diverse polar regions of Arctic, Antarctic, Southern Ocean and the Himalayas to a common ground where the interdisciplinary approaches can be discussed to address the various scientific and operational issues. This event will also provide a platform for Early Career Researchers to interact, exchange their research ideas, findings and experiences.

We are looking forward to your participation by submitting your findings in a suitable theme and sessions related to your field. I request you to kindly encourage your colleagues and young researchers to actively participate and submit their research findings related to their field. The successes of this conference will indeed depend on your support to take our Nation to newer heights in the field of Polar Research.

I will also request you to please forward the attached brochure to people whom you know are working in polar realms. Wide publicity is required as the time is too short.

Please find the NCPS -2019 Brochure first announcement as an attachment. For more details & updates, see the conference website: www.ncps2019.ncaor.gov.in

Thanking you

With best regards

Avinash

डॉ. अविनाश कुमार | Dr. Avinash Kumar
Convener, National Conference on Polar Sciences (NCPS-2019)
वैज्ञानिक 'डी' | Scientist 'D'
राष्ट्रीय ध्रुवीय एवं समुद्री अनुसंधान केन्द्र | National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research
पृथ्वी विज्ञान मंत्रालय | भारत सरकार | Ministry of Earth Sciences | Govt. of India
हेडलैंड साडा, वास्को दा गामा, गोवा - 403 804 | Headland Sada, Vasco-da-Gama, Goa - 403 804 | India

Phone No: +91-832-2525-695 (O) | +91-832-2556488 (R) | +91-9158536334 (M)


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Monday, April 22, 2019

[IPRNmail] Final Reminder: Need Volunteers for conducting IPRN ex-com election

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As you are aware that IPRN Executive Committee (ex-com) reconstitution process has been started, we need your help in conducting elections for the term of 2019-20. 
This is the Final Reminder regarding the reconstitution of IPRN Ex-Com 2019-2020.
The election process will take about 4 weeks to complete after the formation of the Election Steering Committee comprising of 2 senior members, 2 currently active APECS members and 3 volunteers. 
Kindly send us your willingness to volunteer in this regard by this Friday, April 26, 2019. Once we receive enough number of consents, we would begin with the election process to be shared with all. 

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

[IPRNmail] 2603 latest antarctic update

1. Scientists set sail on expedition to investigate 'Iceberg Alley' off Antarctica

The 5.4 million-square-mile Antarctic Ice Sheet is the greatest mass of fresh water on Earth. If it all were to melt, it would raise global sea levels some 220 feet. Searching for answers to how fast the ice might react to changes in climate, scientists are now studying how that ice reacted to past warm periods similar to today's.
More than two dozen researchers aboard the drillship JOIDES Resolution left Punta Arenas, Chile, on March 20. They will obtain cores of sediment from a remote section of seafloor, where ancient icebergs are believed to have left clues.
With information from these cores, the researchers hope to chart how the ice sheet waxed and waned in response to climate over the past 10 million years.
The two-month cruise is Expedition 382: Iceberg Alley and Subantarctic Ice and Ocean Dynamics of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), a collaboration of scientists that coordinates large-scale ocean expeditions to study the Earth's history as it is recorded in sediments beneath the ocean floor.
On IODP Expedition 382, scientists plan to drill cores from the floor of the Scotia Sea off the Antarctic Peninsula.
As snow falls on Antarctica, it slowly builds up and turns into ice in the continent's interior. The ice then becomes glaciers, which move outward toward the coast. The ice carries sediment with it. When the ice reaches the ocean, icebergs break off, ferrying their load of debris to the sea.


more interested acees the link
https://phys.org/news/2019-03-scientists-iceberg-alley-antarctica.html
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2.Antarctic snowfall dominated by a few extreme snowstorms

Understanding the significance of these events is critical for scientists interpreting Antarctica's past, as well as predicting how our climate may 

BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY
     
A new study reveals the importance of a small number of intense storms around Antarctica in controlling the amount of snow falling across the continent.

Published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the study analysed daily Antarctic snowfall data starting in the 1970s. It reveals how the most extreme 10% of snowfall events account for up to 60% of annual snowfall in some places, and are the result of a few large storms that develop over the Southern Ocean.

more interested acees the link
 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/bas-asd032519.php

3. Connecting the Southern Ocean with Clouds

ACE-DATA/Antarctic Sea-Atmosphere Interactions Data (ASAID) Workshop; 5–6 November 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland

With rising global pollution, characterizing the processes of a previously unpolluted world is becoming ever more challenging. In the Antarctic and the surrounding Southern Ocean, we still find the cleanest seas and atmosphere on Earth. This makes it a particularly suitable place to investigate fundamental processes of ocean-atmosphere interactions in an almost pristine place. However, existing research in the Southern Ocean is mostly regional, making it difficult to generalize across the whole area.

he Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE), organized in 2016–2017 by the Swiss Polar Institute, represents the first foray into linking the islands, the surrounding ocean, and the Antarctic continent. The wide range of marine, terrestrial, and atmospheric measurements collected by the 22 projects on board is helping to establish baselines for many variables across the different regions. The data also provide valuable input for Earth system models.
The ACE–Delivering Added Value to Antarctica (ACE-DATA) project is a joint effort of domain scientists and the Swiss Data Science Center aiming to exploit this cross-disciplinary data set. As part of this effort, scientists involved with seven ACE projects met in Lausanne, Switzerland, in November 2018 to discuss the Southern Ocean's complex interactions between sea state, phytoplankton, trace gases, aerosols, and clouds. This is of particular importance because global climate models still fail to reproduce the cloud coverage over the Southern Ocean, resulting in a poor representation of the energy balance. This effect, in turn, has repercussions for simulations of sea ice extent, latitudinal energy transport, and sea surface temperature.

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https://eos.org/meeting-reports/connecting-the-southern-ocean-with-clouds


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[IPRNmail] 2504 LATEST ANTARCTIC UPDATES



1. Russian, Chinese scientists plan joint Arctic, Antarctic studies

Russia and China will have a joint symposium on March 25 - the first event in a series of meetings the scientists have scheduled
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MOSCOW, March 25. /TASS/. Russian and Chinese scientists will organize joint studies of the Arctic and Antarctic, they will explore mineral and biology resources in the global ocean, the Russian Academy of Sciences' Vice President Andrey Adrianov told TASS after the first meeting between representatives of the Russian and Chinese Academies of Sciences in Beijing on Sunday.

"Today, representatives of the Russian and Chinese Academies of Sciences had a meeting, which also featured directors of China's several ocean studies institutes," he said. "We have agreed to expand geography of our cooperation."

"Presently, we cooperate in the ocean's north-western area, and the Chinese experts are interested in taking part in our Arctic studies, they are also interested in joint studies of the Antarctic," he continued. "We have agreed to exchange experience in research and in search for underwater mineral and biology resources, in equipment for that work, including deep submersibles."

"We have also agreed to have joint Arctic expeditions with Chinese experts," he added.

Russia and China will have a joint symposium on March 25 - the first event in a series of meetings the scientists have scheduled.

"It will focus on deep research in the global ocean, and we shall discuss also means to control the global ocean - satellite technologies, space monitoring of natural hazards in the ocean, control of the ocean surface, including the upper water layers, and, of course, the deep ocean," the scientist said.
The visit's schedule

Representatives of the Russian and Chinese Academies of Sciences on Monday and Tuesday at a joint symposium on the global ocean's deep studies will share information and experience, will discuss scientific cooperation in research of the planet's water resources.

During the working trip, which will continue to March 30, experts of the Russian Academy of Sciences will visit the Chinese Academy's Institute of Neuroscience (ION), the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, the National Center for Protein Science, the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, the ShanghaiTech University, and the Shanghai World Financial Center.

http://tass.com/economy/1050272

2. Diving to new depths for Antarctic science

A University of Canterbury scientist is using Kiwi technology in her Antarctic research to capture fascinating footage of life beneath the surface in McMurdo Sound.
This year, as part of her research into the Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area, Gateway Antarctica scientist Dr. Regina Eisert partnered with Boxfish Research to study Type-C killer whales with a new kind of remotely operated vehicle (ROV).
The stunning footage is just a snippet of what was recorded during 21 hours underwater this season. It includes, Adélie penguins, whales, Weddell seals, bright red octopus and a glowing ctenophore.
A University of Canterbury marine mammal expert, Dr. Eisert says the technology is a game changer for marine science, being safer and having a wider scope than scuba divers.
"Before this, I feel that my view of marine animals was quite biased, we would observe penguins waddling along and seals sleeping on the ice and whales on the surface, but they spend most of their lives in the water and this is the important stuff to see.
"We got confirmation of the overlap between penguins and Type-C killer whales, the ROV captured unconcerned penguins freely entering and exiting the water in the presence of theses whales, and being ignored by them" she says.
The Boxfish ROV carried out 15 dives, gathered 21 hours of footage and reached depths of 210 metres this season.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-03-depths-antarctic-science.html#jCp
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https://phys.org/news/2019-03-depths-antarctic-science.html
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3.environment
A mission to unfreeze Antarctica's secrets
For all the staggering sights of Antarctica - the vast white wilderness and its unique wildlife; summer days with no end - it is the sounds of the frozen continent that remain with Harry Seagar.

It was the commotion of the wind in particular that struck the Blake Ambassador. Antarctica is, after all, the windiest continent on the planet.

Soon after he arrived on the ice, Seagar was compelled to capture the wind, as it howled and whistled through the Antarctic Field Training camp - polar tents pitched in sea ice where newbies to Scott Base live for the first two days of their expedition.

"It was 2am and everyone else had gone to bed, but I was too overwhelmed by everything," the 21-year-old says. "It was blowing a gale outside, and snowing - a white-out - when suddenly I realised where on Earth I was, and it hit me like a slap in the face.

"So I took my recorder outside and taped the wind. It's one of the most relaxing sounds I've ever heard. A truly beautiful sound."  

And it's the sound that Seagar has used to start his podcast, Antarctica Unfrozen, to "get people in a zen zone, ready to take it all in".

What Seagar wants listeners to absorb is the simplified science around the icy
LINK..
tps://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/03/25/501099/the-mission-to-unfreeze-antarcticas-secrets

4. Antarctica Unfrozen, a podcast series
A young Cantabrian is hoping to unfreeze Antarctic science mystery with a new podcast series.

Antarctica Unfrozen, created by 21-year-old Blake Antarctic Ambassador Harry Seagar, launches today.

In February he spent 11 days in Antarctica hosted by Antarctica New Zealand.

Seagar says he's hoping his podcasts will inspire everyday people to have a conversation about the environment.

"I'm just your average Joe who knows a little about Antarctica and cares about climate change, I want to share that with the world and keep a conversation going."

The podcast has 10 different episodes covering a range of topics from climate change, to wildlife and living at Scott Base.

"The episodes are conversation style, I'm asking these amazingly passionate people why they are excited about Antarctica and how we can get others passionate about the environment as well," he says.

LINK
ww.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1903/S00299/antarctica-unfrozen-a-podcast-series.htm


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Monday, January 14, 2019

[IPRNmail] Need Volunteers for conducting IPRN ex-com election

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This is to inform you that IPRN Executive Committee (ex-com) reconstitution process has been started and we need your help in conducting elections for the term of 2019-20. 

The election process will take about 4 weeks to complete after the formation of the Election Steering Committee comprising of 2 senior members, 2 currently active APECS members and 3 volunteers. 

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