Being a Member

BENEFITS TO MEMBERSHIP
APECS encourages all students, post-docs, early career faculty, and research associates with an interest in interdisciplinary and international polar and cryosphere research to become involved with the organization.

As an international organization, the major connecting point for our association is our website. Being an APECS member gives you access to resources that will be helpful for your career development, along the continuum of undergraduate through to successful polar researcher. Our discussion board allows you to interact with the larger community regarding a variety of issues such as questions regarding laboratory procedures, finding out where to get polar experience, sharing stories and tips and discussing recent publications. You also have access to a variety of RSS feeds regarding polar research all in one place – from recent news stories to the latest polar related Science paper. We have a database of polar related job openings and several RSS feeds from other job databases. One of the most useful benefits of membership is the membership database itself. Using this tool can help you find other people in your field asking similar questions, allowing you to meet new international colleagues, or find additional resources to help your research and career development.

Being an APECS member also gives you access to the many early career workshops and meetings that will be held in the coming months and years, as well as opportunities to serve on science planning and conference organizing committees as the voice of early career polar researchers. The APECS meetings allow rare face-to-face contact with those involved in the field, which is both professionally and personally rewarding. Each of these workshops will have a different focus, from very technical and technique specific to broad career development strategies. Many of these workshops will have limited openings, and being an active APECS member will give you higher priority in the application process.


HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER OF APECS
Becoming a member is easy. Simply go to http://arcticportal.org/apecs/forum and under the APECS logo click on register. This will enter you into our system so you can start receiving information immediately and helps us stay connected. In the coming months this area will be improved to contain membership profiles where you can enter more information about yourself and search for other members with similar interests to start new collaborations or ask for help on whatever you are working on.