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Science and stories from literally the coolest places on the planet! It’s said that the poles are the thermometer for the rest of the planet- what happens to the rest of us, has already been happening there for years. It’s easy with the state of the world currently to bunker down in a little private bubble, but its more essential than ever that we broaden our horizons and remember that there’s a world out there that is incredible- and needs us! And if that sounds too heavy for you then instead why not join us to escape as we take to on audial adventures to these strange and remote and beautiful places? We’ll speak to guests who’ve looked polar bears in the eye, who drive 12k ton ships through ice 9ft thick or who spend years doing science with no-one but three other people and thousands of penguins for company! These are Polar Times we live in. Join us, and we’ll take you there! An APECS Production (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists). Music credits: ”Scuba” - Metre Unaltered License: CC BY-NC-SA
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Friday Nov 06, 2020
Friday Nov 06, 2020
Hello and welcome back! Today on Polar Times we have a palaeoclimatologist from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey.
Join Jack Buckingham to hear all about her adventure to Sherman Island, drilling for ice cores as part of the Wacswain project (WArm Climate Stability of West Antarctic ice sheet in the last INterglacial!) and how we can use these icy time capsules to better predict what might happen to our climate in the future.
Email us at thesearepolartimes@gmail.com if you have any questions, recommendations or if you are a polar person who would like to be on PT!
Tweet APECS: @Polar_Research
Find the Wacswain group on Twitter: @wacswain
Read this guests excellent blog to find out more about their fieldwork at: https://blog.esc.cam.ac.uk/?author=36
Episode edited by Elise Gallois
Cover art by Matthew Nelson
Music "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Hi from Polar Times! Today's guest is marine biologist/conservation ecologist Jilda Caccavo of the Alfred Wegner Institute (AWI) and the Berlin Centre for Genomics in Biodiversity Research.
Your host once again is Jack Buckingham who chats to Jilda this week about Chilean sea bass a.k.a toothfish, managing fisheries in the Southern Ocean, target catch ratios (more interesting than they sound in Jilda's own words!) and securing scientific funding as an early career researcher!
Email us at thesearepolartimes@gmail.com if you have any questions for polar people or any guest recommendations, or tweet APECS at @Polar_Research.
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Cover art: Matthew Nelson
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Hello and welcome back to Polar Times! Our guest today is non-fiction documentary filmmaker Amy Richman of the University of Colorado Boulder.
Join Jack Buckingham once again to chat to her about her film "Drifting North: Into the Polar Night", filming it onboard a research vessel trapped in Arctic ice and what it's like being an artist on board a ship full of scientists!
If you have any questions for polar people or recommendations for whom you'd like to hear as a podcast guest, you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.co), tweet us (@Polar_Research) or message us on Instagram (@apecs.polar).
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Cover art: Matthew Nelson
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Our first ever guest on Polar Times is marine biogeochemist and microplastic researcher Kirstie Jones-Williams (IG: @kirstiejoneswilliams) of the British Antarctic Survey and University of Exeter!
Join host Jack Buckingham to chat to her about microplastic in the Southern Ocean, hot-springs in Antarctica and making the most of PhD opportunities!
If you have any questions or recommendations for whom you'd like to hear as future guests on the podcast you can email APECS (info@apecs.is), Tweet us (@Polar_Research) or message on Instagram (apecs.polar).
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
A new podcast brought to you by APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists). Science and stories from the coolest places on the planet. Literally...
In this trailer we just give you a bit of background on how/why Polar Times was set up and what to expect from the coming series.
If you have any questions or recommendations for whom you'd like to hear as guests on the podcast you can email APECS (info@apecs.is), Tweet us (@Polar_Research) or message on Instagram (apecs.polar).
Thanks for joining and we hope you enjoy!
Polar Times Team
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
https://nultielrecords.blogspot.com/