APECS Oceania Stats at a glance (as of March, 2019):

• 74% female members and 26% male members (globally APECS is 58% female, 41% male and 1% prefer to not say);
• ~5% of all global APECS members!;
• 56% PhD Students, 14% Post-doctoral, 12% Master Students;     
• 128 members (82 from Australia and 46 from New Zealand).

What APECS Oceania is doing to celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion:

This year APECS Oceania will be joining up with @PolarPride and @500QS (500 Queer scientists) to help promote diversity, equity and inclusion throughout APECS Oceania from events, online news and social media output as well as at talks, symposiums, workshops and conferences.

APECS Oceania also wants to get more members connected to polar events. If there is a talk, lecture or another public event that you want to participate in, but you cannot attend due to logistics (an event in New Zealand, meanwhile you live in Broome, for instance), please contact us and we will try organise a Zoom meeting so that you can have an online presence. Please keep in mind this is not a guarantee nor may it apply to paid conferences.

This Polar Week (March, 2019), reach out to your known members to celebrate not only polar research, but also diversity, equity and inclusion. In Hobart, we are encouraging all members who can make it to attend a local catch-up that will be held at the Hobart waterfront. It will be a “bring a plate” style picnic, celebrating diversity in people, culture and food requirements, equity in contribution, and inclusion of all members (of course logistics can restrict participation). The picnic will be on Saturday the 23rd of March at 3pm. Please contact us with any enquiries.

If you have any ideas on how to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in APECS Oceania please Contact Us, jump on our website or visit our Facebook page .

Membership:

Don’t forget membership to APECS and APECS Oceania is free, so tell all your fellow budding polar science peeps to join in! We encourage researchers of all three poles to join (North, South and Himalayas). To join, visit our Join Us page or go to the APECS International website.

APECS Affiliates:

APECS is affiliated with SCAR, IASC, CliC, Antarctic Science Ltd., the Alfred Wegner Institute, The Norwegian Polar Institute, and many more! Visit the APECS International website for a full list of partners and sponsors globally as well as to find job opportunities, scholarships, conferences and much, much more!!