APECS Past Events
Workshop on Fieldwork and Environmental Impact!
By the Swiss Polar Institute
Event Timing: March 27th 2023. 4pm - 5:30pm (online)
Information and registration: https://swisspolar.ch/event/fieldwork-and-environmental-impact/
Hope to see you there :D
Visit to Jungfraujoch!
Kindly funded by the Swiss Polar Institute
Image from www.jungfrau.ch
Event Timing: Saturday, November 12th 2022
Number of attendees: Maximum 15
For questions, please contact us at: apecs.switzerland@gmail.com
Schedule:
10:30 Arrival at Grindelwald Terminal
11:00 Departure from Grindlwald Terminal to Jungfraujoch
12:00 -Group photo / lunch
- Going on the glacier
- Visit the research station- with a guided tour of the building
- Access to the sphinx observatory- visit to the meteorological station and terrace observatory. (90 min)
- Possible visit to glacier cave (non-touristic cable car)
16:00 Departure from Jungfraujoch
- Apéro in the train
17:00 - Arrival in Grindelwald Terminal to return home
*** IMPORTANT INFORMATION ***
! Please bring your own lunch.
! Please be aware we will be at 3500 m and you will be required to use stairs to access parts of the station.
! APECS Switzerland will pay for the jungfraujoch experience, but please purchase the train to Grindelwald Terminal yourself.
! This event is organised for 15 attendees, it will be on a 'first come first serve basis'. If you register but find you can no longer attend, please email us (apecs.switzerland@gmail.com) so we can give the place to someone else. Thank you!
! The above schedule and regulations may be subject to change
As fellow early career researchers, we look forward to meeting you and celebrating the end of a successful year!
Nico, Adrien, David and Amy
02.09.2022 Swiss Polar Day 2022
The slides can be found here and the event recording can be found below
09.03.2022 Virtual member meeting
We had our annual virtual member meeting on 9th of March! Join us again next year!
01.10.2021 Swiss polar day 2021
The event recording can be found below. With APECS Switzerland's presentation at 1:26:00
29.09.2021 Online workshop: data management in the field
Managing data and samples whilst undertaking field work in remote, high-altitude and polar regions requires careful and thorough planning.
A workshop on Wednesday 29th September 14:00 CEST, organised by APECS Switzerland and the Swiss Polar Institute, will discuss good data management practice and provide tips on how to plan and undertake data management in the field. Topics will include:
- storing and backing-up data
- file management
- recording metadata
- hand-collected data, automated data collection and sample collection
- planning data management before the field trip, in the field and what to do upon return.
There will also be time for discussion, sharing experiences and questions.
Please find more information here.
19.03.2021 Virtual member meeting
We had a virtual member meeting on 19th of March.
24.04.2019 Workshop on Public Outreach
07.09.2017 Swiss Polar Day
APECS Switzerland organized a one-day symposium on polar research, the “Swiss Polar Day” that took place in Zürich on September 7th 2017 at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL.
The symposium provided a broad overview on all Polar research topics taking place universities/ institutions in Switzerland. For the first time, representatives of most Swiss universities or research institution presented their university's’ activities in Polar research, informed about research platforms and future plans in Polar research, such as planned expeditions or projects.
The first part of the day was filled with presentations open for the larger interested public. The second part of the day was reserved for a round table and networking event of the representatives of the universities/ institutes.
Around 60 people took part in this meeting and the feedback was very positive. Most participants agreed on the need of such event on a regular basis. The Swiss Polar Institute will organize similar events in the future based on this first meeting and we are very happy that stronger national connections will be made in the future!
11.05.2017 APECS CH annual meeting
The APECS Swiss National Committee annual meting took place at the Alpine Museum in Bern on the 11th of Mai 2016.
Around 15 members, representing most Swiss Universitites were present. In the afternoon, one person per university/research institute gave a small presentation on the different projects currently going on in their respective group. Afterwards, a discussion on future plans and activities of APECS CH took place.
The feedback from the members about this meeting was very positive and it was mentioned that having such information on a regular (annual) basis is useful.
After the meeting, most of us went for a beer :-)
01.12.2016: Antarctica Day
The Antarctica Day 2016 was held by the APECS Swiss National Committee on the 1st and 2nd of January. One early career scientist organized an event at the WSL institute in Zurich and another one in a primary school in Neuchâtel.
Antarctica Day @ WSL:
WSL is a federal research institute and 300 people are working there. On the 1st of December, two presentations were organized for the whole WSL. The first presentation was made by Konrad Steffen on the effect of climate change in Antarctica and future politic action by Switzerland in Polar regions. The second talk was held by Julia Schmale, from the Paul Scherrer Institute about her project on the oncoming Antarctica Circumpolar Expedition. The topic was related to atmospheric components in the Southern hemisphere.
In total, over 60 people took part of this event which is surprising as very few polar scientists are working in this institute. This showed the overall interest from many people for Antarctica and we had a very good feedback.
Antarctica Day in a primary school:
Four classes of a primary school took part of the Antarctica day. In the morning, a power point resuming the climate, geography, history and fauna was presented by the professors. The power point was prepared by the APECS members beforehand.
In the afternoon, an APECS member came and could answer all remaining questions about the continent, as well as present the scientific work done down south.
The questions were on very different topics and lasted over two hours. The APECS member also brought with her a “working suit” used by the scientists to work in very cold conditions. The students could try it on and realized how warm and heavy it is.
The week preceding the Antarctica day, the children had the exercise to draw an Antarctica flag. These flags are already on their way to Antarctica, with an APECS mentor (Julia Schmale) that will make a circumpolar expedition around Antarctica. She will display the drawings on the ship.
17.06.2016: APECS CH Excursion
We organized this year an APECS CH Excursion at the Jungfraujoch the 17th of June 2016!
This excursion was for every early career or interested person in cryospheric/polar topics. The aim was to regroup the early career from everywhere in Switzerland to encourage national connections and have fun! 20 people took part to the excursion, representing most of the universities and research institute in Switzerland. A success!
PROGRAM:
- Meeting point in Lauterbrunnen at 09h30: Take the Junfraujoch Bahn, arrival at the top at 11.20
- Start of the visit of the research station with our guide, Heinz Gäggeler
- Lunch
- Departure 15:00 from Jungfraujoch
- Small apéro in the train ;-)
- Arrival 16:50 in Lauterbrunnen
21.11.2015 APECS presentation and apéro at the SGM
APECS Switzerland took part at the 13th Swiss Geoscience meeting in Basel!
We presented the Swiss National Committee at the end of the Cryosphere session on Saturday and organised an apéro after the presentation, to close the conference. Around 50 people stayed for a beer and a chat!
27.06.15 IUGG- APECS Panel- How to become a successful researcher
Organizer: Martin Proksch, Saskia Gindraux, Erik Behrens and Gerlis Fugmann
Summary:
An APECS panel discussion had been successfully organized (Saturday, 27.6.2015) at the IUGG held in Prague (CZ). Dr. Charles Fierz, Dr. Eleanor Frajka-Williams and Dr. Daniel Farinotti, as speaker provided, interested young scientist (~80 participants), exciting insights in their professional life as scientist. The speakers with different scientific background (glaciology and oceanography) described their experiences during their career within detail and a lot of excitement. An active discussion with the audience developed and covered a broad range of challenging questions, where speakers not always found a consensus, but described their opinions. Most questions touched on the scientific career and the personal development of young scientist to become an independent researcher. (How important are publications? How to apply for a positions? How to change the scientific field? How to raise funding?) Questions also covered topics about work-life balance and how to bring family and scientific career together. After 90 minutes of active discussions and interesting side stories this event came to an end, but discussion and networking continued in a pub close to venue until late. All attendees provided a general positive feedback and agreed that this was a great opportunity to discuss, network and a successful event in general.