Links/Resources
Find your community
A compilation of listservs and slack channels
- Cryolist: https://lists.cryolist.org
- Early Career Ocean Professionals Canada Slack channel: https://www.ecopdecade.org/canada/
- Polar Science Early Career Community Office: https://psecco.org/join-psecco-community
- Early Career Climate Network: https://earlycareerclimate.org/
- Association of Polar Early Career Scientists: https://www.apecs.is/
Attend a conference
List of websites that advertise upcoming conferences
- AMS meetings: https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/meetings-events/upcoming-meetings/annual-meeting/
- Gordon Research Conferences: https://www.grc.org/
- Arctic science-related conferences and events: https://www.arcus.org/events/arctic-calendar
- MEOPAR: https://meopar.ca/annual-meeting/
Academic resources
Useful references for the early career researcher
- Digital Research Alliance of Canada: https://alliancecan.ca/en/services/advanced-research-computing/account-management/apply-account
- How to do a great peer review (Nature Webcast): https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01044-5
- How to write a first-class paper (Nature Webcast): https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00593-z
Get that funding
Scholarships, grants, and funding opportunities
- Graduate funding opportunities (curated by JHU): https://research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-opportunities/graduate/
- Postdoc funding opportunities (curated by JHU): https://research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-opportunities/postdoctoral/
- Early career funding opportunities (curated by JHU): https://research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-opportunities/early-career/
- Weston Family Awards in Northern Research (Masters, PhD, Post-Doc): https://www.univcan.ca/programs-and-scholarships/weston-family-awards-in-northern-research/
- NSERC (undergraduate, graduate, post-doc): https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/index_eng.asp
- MEOPAR funding opportunities (Post-docs, training opportunities): https://meopar.ca/training/#fundingops
- Royal Canadian Geographical Society Research Grants and Scholarships (Masters, PhD): https://rcgs.org/programs/research-grants/
- Royal Canadian Geographical Society Trebek Initiative: https://www.trebekinitiative.com/
- Mitacs (undergraduate, graduate, post-doc): https://www.mitacs.ca/en
- Fulbright (undergraduate, graduate, post-doc/research fellow): https://www.fulbright.ca/programs
- Polar Knowledge Canada Fellowship Program 2023-2024 (post-doc, research fellow) https://www.canada.ca/en/polar-knowledge/fundingforresearchers.html#h2-1
Get Data
- Ocean Networks Canada: https://www.oceannetworks.ca/data/
- Canada Integrated Ocean Observing System: https://catalogue.cioos.ca/
- Polar Data Catalogue: https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/
- Environment and Climate Change Canada Historical Weather: https://climate.weather.gc.ca/historical_data/search_historic_data_e.html
- Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada Marine Environmental Data: https://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/isdm-gdsi/index-eng.html
- Climate Data Canada: https://climatedata.ca/
- Various remote sensing data: https://search.asf.alaska.edu/
- NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center: https://nsidc.org/data/data-programs/nsidc-daac
Relevant Government Agencies:
- Environment and Climate Change Canada (Meteorological Service, Canadian Ice Service, Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis, Air Quality Research Division)
- Department of Fisheries and Oceans
- National Research Council
- Canadian Space Agency
- Polar Knowledge Canada
- Transport Canada