Current open surveys!
The UK Polar Network is committed to ensuring that membership is a valuable asset for all our members. To achieve this, we want to better understand what you, our membership base, want from us as an organisation. Surveys are a great way for us to do that. Please participate in the following:
UKPN Member Training Survey
What skills would you like to develop? Fieldwork? Coding? Proposal writing? We are asking you to complete a very short survey (less than 5 minutes) to help us understand what specific training you are interested in. Thank you for your input, the survey deadline is 17th January 2025 (extended).
UKPN IPY Horizon Scan and Member Benefit Survey
We are conducting a horizon scan to understand the anticipated needs of the UK Polar Early Career Researchers (ECR’s) as we look forward to the International Polar Year (IPY) in 2032/33 as UKPN has been asked to provide input about ECR needs to various committees. We want to make sure that the input we are providing is based on feedback from the community so we want to hear from our members about what they think their needs will be over the lead up to the IPY in order that they can take advantage of all the IPY has to offer. Deadline: 18th January 2025.
International Polar Year and membership horizon scan
This is an opportunity for you to help to shape the science and structure of a new SCAR biological research programme.
The aim of the new SCAR scientific programme concentrating on all areas of biology and ecology, Changes in Circumpolar Antarctic Gradients in Ecosystems (C-CAGE), is to use the natural environmental gradients in temperature, ice cover, and other physical drivers that exist in different parts of Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic (with latitude, longitude, altitude, and depth) to better predict the likely outcomes for life as the region’s habitats change.
C-CAGE is at the programme planning group stage and looking for input from the scientific community and we need your help to establish who is interested in being part of C-CAGE and what it should be focusing on. We ask you to fill out a short survey (less than 10 minutes of your time) to help us narrow down these big themes and questions to those that are relevant to current and future work by the SCAR biological research community: