Are you concerned with field safety while conducting work in the polar regions? Whether you’ve organized fieldwork for years or you’re participating in your first field campaign, knowledge of basic field safety skills is of the utmost importance. In order to increase field safety awareness, the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS; http://www.apecs.is/) is hosting a series of webinars on field safety throughout the 2015 Arctic summer field season.
The webinars will begin on Monday May 18th @ 11am EDT (3pm UTC) with an overview on basic field safety presented by Dr. Seth Campbell, research geophysicist at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, research assistant professor at the University of Maine, wilderness EMT, and SOLO wilderness medicine instructor. The webinar will include general field safety and injury prevention tips, rules to live by to ensure a safe field season, basic injury assessment skills, and emergency training opportunities for researchers. The webinar will be hosted through the GoToWebinar platform and can be accessed using the following link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7964187497875988225 (Webinar ID: 157-696-131).
The APECS field safety webinars and supporting information will be archived on the APECS website (http://www.apecs.is/research/member-research-areas/field-safety.html) as they become available. Please contact Ellyn Enderlin (ellyn.enderlin [at] gmail.com), co-chair of the APECS US national committee, if you have any questions or if you would like to contribute to the webinar series or supporting website content.