As a community doing Polar research we take part in the APECS* International Polar Week of March 2019 to promote international polar research.

*APECS: Association of Polar Early Career Scientists

This year the March Polar Week runs from the 17th until the 23rd of March 2019.

What is Polar Week?

Except from the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists Website

Part of this week-long celebration on social media, South Africa’s National Committee for APECS, APECS South Africa, is running a photo competition.  You are ALL encouraged to enter!

The categories is as follow: Data, Landscape, Wildlife and Fieldwork.

For more details, click on the photo below…

Anché Louw, Antarctic Legacy of South Africa, 18 March 2019