Future Arctic Research: Integrative Approaches to Scientific and Methodological Challenges

Schmale, Julia; Lisowska, Maja; Śmieszek, Małgorzata

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“…APECS provides in-person training through regular workshops and panel discussions, often connected to large polar conferences, such as SCAR Open Science Conference (OSC) and Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW). Workshop topics have focused on a variety of skills, including proposal writing, conducting fieldwork, science communication and working with Indigenous people (Schmale, Lisowska, & Smieszek, 2013;Thomas, Baeseman, Lantuit, Xavier, & Baker, 2008). By giving ECRs responsibility for organising these events, relevant themes are selected.…”

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A decade of shaping the futures of polar early career researchers: A legacy of the International Polar Year

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The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is an important legacy of the International Polar Year (IPY). APECS continues to foster engagement in education, outreach and communication (EOC) activities relating to the polar regions and provide training for early career researchers (ECRs). We highlight opportunities for training, leadership and skills development, such as the annual Polar Weeks and Antarctica Day celebrations. Participation and engagement in EOC activities actively contributes to career development by enabling ECRs to develop valuable soft skills such as networking, communication and interdisciplinary knowledge. A pilot survey on EOC engagement highlighted that those who organise events also gain leadership skills such as team management. We discuss several factors contributing to the success of APECS in training the next generation of polar leaders. These include the geographical rather than discipline-specific focus of the organisation, utilisation of online resources, including social media, and the strong links with partner organisations. These examples demonstrate how the EOC legacy of IPY has continued due to APECS’ targeted efforts to create EOC opportunities and provide skills and leadership training for ECRs.

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A decade of shaping the futures of polar early career researchers: A legacy of the International Polar Year

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“…The width of the MIZ and its variability are important drivers of marine habitat selection for a broad range of biota (Ribic et al 1991;Perrette et al 2010;Post et al 2013;Williams et al 2014), including Antarctic minke whales (Williams et al 2014). Finally, changes in the MIZ also impact human accessibility to the Arctic, as broken ice in the MIZ is more navigable than dense inner pack ice (Stephenson et al 2011;Schmale et al 2013;Rogers et al 2013). Strong (2012) introduced an objective and automated method for identifying and measuring the width of the MIZ from satellite-retrieved sea ice concentrations.…”

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On the Definition of Marginal Ice Zone Width

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Sea ice features a dense inner pack ice zone surrounded by a marginal ice zone (MIZ) in which the sea ice properties are modified by interaction with the ice-free open ocean. The width of the MIZ is a fundamental length scale for polar physical and biological dynamics. Several different criteria for establishing MIZ boundaries have emerged in the literature-wave penetration, floe size, sea ice concentration, etc.-and a variety of definitions for the width between the MIZ boundaries have been published. Here, three desirable mathematical properties for defining MIZ width are proposed: invariance with respect to translation and rotation on the sphere; uniqueness at every point in the MIZ; and generality, including nonconvex shapes. The previously published streamline definition is shown to satisfy all three properties, where width is defined as the arc length of a streamline through the solution to Laplaces's equation within the MIZ boundaries, while other published definitions each satisfy only one of the desired properties. When defining MIZ spatial average width from streamline results, the rationale for averaging with respect to distance along both MIZ boundaries was left implicit in prior studies. Here it is made rigorous by developing and applying the mathematics of an analytically tractable idealization of MIZ geometry-the eccentric annulus. Finally, satellite-retrieved Arctic sea ice concentrations are used to investigate how well streamline-based MIZ spatial average width is approximated by alternative definitions that lack desirable mathematical properties or local width values but offer computational efficiency.

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Future Arctic Research: Integrative Approaches to Scientific and Methodological Challenges

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A decade of shaping the futures of polar early career researchers: A legacy of the International Polar Year

A decade of shaping the futures of polar early career researchers: A legacy of the International Polar Year

On the Definition of Marginal Ice Zone Width

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