SPARC 2023

The SPARC 2023 conference is over. Thank you very much to everyone for participating. We had a chance to hear very interesting talks about the present Polar and Alpine research. Our special thanks go to the keynote speakers Stanislava Bezdíček Králová, Martin Margold, Océane Hames, and Jiří Bárta for joining us. We hope everyone enjoyed the conference programme and field trip, including the Moravian Karst visit. We are trying to prepare the proceedings, which we hope will be published as soon as possible. Finally, we believe this event will serve as a basis for further international scientific cooperation. Your SPARC organiser team.

SPARC 2023 - Programme

SPARC 2023 - 2nd announcement

SPARC 2023 - 1st announcement

Already for the 8th time, the Students in Polar and Alpine Research Conference will be held at the Department of Geography, Masaryk University, in Brno, Czechia, on the 14 and 15 September 2023.

Whether you are an undergraduate/PhD student or early-career researcher (less than 5 years after the PhD defence) working in the fields of geosciences or biosciences in the Polar and alpine environments, you are most welcome to attend our conference.

We encourage you to register and prepare your contributions! Several talks from the last year's conference can be seen here.

How to contribute

The conference is free of charge for all participants. The registration form and further information including abstract guidelines can be found here.

Important dates

27 August 2023                                      Deadline for registration and abstract submission

14 - 15 September 2023                     SPARC - oral and poster presentations, keynote lectures

Invited keynote speakers

Stanislava Králová (University of Vienna) - Exploring the Icy Treasures - Biosynthetic potential of Antarctic bacteria from James Ross Island

Jiří Bárta (University of South Bohemia) - Buried but not dead - microbiome of Arctic cryosols

Martin Margold (Charles University) - Deglaciation of the last North American Ice Sheet Complex

Océane Hames (Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos) - Investigating small-scale drifting snow processes in the polar environments with OpenFOAM

SUPPORT

The conference is organised with financial support from the Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno.