The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), the Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO), and the Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOP) Programme are pleased to announce that a Polar Early Career World Summit will be held in Boulder, Colorado, March 22-24, 2025.

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO)* Conference Travel Grant Program is now open for applications. Travel awards to attend and present polar-related work at a conference are open to polar early career scientists and educators. In this Fall 2024 funding cycle, PSECCO will be distributing $5,000 of awards. Apply by September 20, 2024; more details inside!

The Polar Early Career World Summit (PECWS) 2025 is collaboratively organized by the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), the Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO), and the Early Career Ocean Professionals Programme (ECOP Programme). The PECWS 2025 Organizing Committee is seeking enthusiastic polar early career scientists to join the PECWS 2025 Planning Team to help plan and steer the summit’s activities.

In the spring of 2024, the Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) funded 8 Conference Travel Grants for educators and Early Career Researchers (ECRs)! The Conference Travel Grant Program was created to help US-based ECRs and educators attend and present polar-related work at a conference. Here we are excited to share a few examples of funded Travel Conference Grants that have taken place this spring 2024!

On June 20th, 2024, the Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) and the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) collaborated with three National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs (OPP) Officers to host the first of two workshops in the 'How to write a one-pager' series.