APECS perspectives on MEASO and priorities for future research

Topic	Information
Lead authors	César Soares de Oliveira, Madeleine Brasier, Stacey McCormack
Other authors	Nicole Hellessey, Roshni Subramaniam, Emma Cavan, Phoebe Lewis, Jess Ericson, Svenja Halfter, Narissa Bax, Jilda Caccavo, Juan Hofer, Jennifer Freer, Alyce Hancock, Jake Wallis, Christine Weldrick, Peter Puskic, Cassandra Brooks?
Suggested mentors (to be acknowledged)	Rowan Trebilco, Jess Melbourne-Thomas, Lyn Goldsworthy, Karen Alexander
Proposed title	The role and perspectives of early career researchers in the first MEASO and priorities for future research
Plain language summary	Early career researchers have been central to the MEASO process, but what are their perspectives on this involvement. What have the gained and what would like have liked to gain from these opportunities. As the Antarctic science community of the future what do ECRs need from projects such as MEASO and the greater scientific community to progress and achieve in this competing field.
Extended abstract	Introduction (very brief!) The presence of ECRs within the Antarctic Science community (APECS, SCAR etc) The role of ECRs in MEASO - Policy forum, statistics from the conference, ECR prize winners (and what has come of these projects now e.g. published?), SOKI content and reviewers and leads/co-authors in the special issue What are the opportunities and impediments for ECRs to participate in projects such as MEASO Main body (perspectives and opinions) ECR perspectives on the future of Antarctic science (Call for comments via twitter and MEASO ECR mailing list) What motivates ECRs to work on Southern Ocean ecosystems? (general interest, earth systems, social orientation, conservation etc.) Research topics/approaches the ECRs are proposing, whats new? What are the issues they see as being the most important What are the types of opportunities are needed for ECRs to push these future directions and new ideas? What might be preventing progress. E.g. How much do you think middle career go-getters are impacting innovation and breadth of engagement. Level of leadership provided by the community - are your ideas reflected in current research priorities Any other opinions, concerns, perspectives ECRs want to bring to the table (this is an opportunity to be constructively critical and raise your voice!) How to move forward - what are the key messages/actions for current/future projects from ECRs and for ECRs
Proposed visual/tabular messaging/summaries

Definition of ECR = SCAR generally consider early career to be within 5 years of a terminal degree

Additional information (if needed)

Table 1: Breakdown of attendance of MEASO 2018 by region, gender and experience (Early Career Researchers - ECR, and the rest)


	North America	South America	Asia	Australia / NZ	Europe	Grand Total
Female	4	4	2	51	14	75
ECR		2	2	24	8	36
Rest	4	2		27	6	39

Male	9	4	19	49	17	98
ECR	2	2	9	6	2	21
Rest	7	2	10	43	15	77

Grand Total	13	8	21	100	31	173

ECR prizes

The winners of the student/ECR talk and poster prizes, and to all the students and ECRs for the universally excellent standard of talks and posters. We have now passed along written feedback, where it was provided by our judges (for those of you who have not heard from us, there is no feedback).

Talks: Jen Freer (winner), Alyce Hancock (runner-up). Honourable mentions: Emma Cavan; Charlene Guillaumot; Leena Riekkola; Jess Ericson

Posters: Christine Weldrick (winner), Stacey McCormack (runner-up). Honourable mentions: Alyce Hancock, Ayuko Kagesawa

Publications/other outputs emerging from prized talks/posters (please add):

Weldrick, C.K., Trebilco, R., Davies, D.M., & Swadling, K.M. (2019) Trophodynamics of Southern Ocean pteropods south of the Kerguelen Plateau. Ecology & Evolution, 9(14), 8119-8132. doi: 10.1002/ece3.5380

Ericson, J. A., Hellessey, N., Kawaguchi, S., Nicol, S., Nichols, P. D., Hoem, N. & Virtue, P. (2018). Adult Antarctic krill proves resilient in a simulated high CO 2 ocean. Communications Biology, 1, 190. doi: 10.1038/s42003-018-0195-3 (also awarded "Editor's Choice" for Communication's Biology's 1st year anniversary edition)

ECR involvement in MEASO organisation

Volunteers from APECS: Jilda Alicia Caccavo, Emma Cavan, Adrian Dahood, Laura Falkenberg, Jennifer Freer, Alexa Hasselman, Juan Höfer, César Soares de Oliveira
Local organisation volunteers: Stacey McCormack, Jake Wallis, Nicole Hellessey, Abigail Smith, Roshni Subramaniam
Local volunteers (front desk, bag packing): Javed Riaz, Elisa Andrade, Paige Kelly

ECR involvement in SOKI

x 15 ECR reviewers for Soki biota pages (may change)

ECR in special issue

ECR leads - Sian Henley, Madeleine Brasier, Jilda Caccavo, Stacey McCormack, Juan Hofer, Christine Weldrick (6 of 15 core papers)

ECR co-authors - TBC

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