Supporting and Empowering Polar Early Career Scientists through the Polar Science Early Career Community Office

位于博尔德的科罗拉多大学将为极地早期职业科学家协会（APECS）提供支持，以加快国家和国际极地劳动力的发展。这一努力将使APECS领导办公室首次来到美国，并支持美国-APECS办公室的职能。APECS办公室为约3800名早期职业极地科学家的跨学科国际成员提供组织支持。目标是为极地科学学生和博士后提供领导力发展，培训，网络和声音。这三项关键活动是：1）在美国建立一个APECS办事处，为网络提供基础设施和专业知识，2）通过旅行赠款和USAPEC国家委员会的支持，建立美国早期职业极地科学能力，以及3）直接支持有影响力的倡议，支持极地科学中的归属，可及性，正义，公平，多样性和包容性（BeAJEDI）。位于CU Boulder的APECS办公室将利用现有的NSF投资来提升极地科学的知名度，并将早期职业科学家与国际极地研究工作联系起来，例如大型实地和建模活动，以及旨在改善北极研究中当地和土著声音的纳入的努力。美国极地研究将受益于连接到这个国际和多元化的早期职业科学家池，创造新的合作和机会的途径，并接触到新的声音。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

The University of Colorado at Boulder will provide support for the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) to accelerate national and international polar workforce development. This effort will bring the APECS leadership office to the USA for the first time and support the US-APECS office functions. The APECS office provides organizational support to the trans-disciplinary international membership of ~3800 early career polar scientists. The goal is to provide leadership development, training, networking and a voice to polar science students and postdocs. The three key activities are to: 1) establish an APECS office in the USA to provide infrastructure and expertise to the network, 2) build US early career polar science capacity through travel grants and support of the USAPECS national committee, and 3) directly support impactful initiatives that support Belonging, Accessibility, Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (BeAJEDI) in polar science. The CU Boulder-based APECS office will leverage existing NSF investments to elevate the visibility of polar science and connect early career scientists to international polar research efforts, such as large field and modelling campaigns, and efforts aimed at improving the inclusion of local and Indigenous voices in Arctic research. US polar research will benefit by connecting to this international and diverse pool of early career scientists, creating pathways to new collaborations and opportunities and being exposed to new voices.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.