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Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:26 |
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The construction of an Adam Mickiewicz University’s polar station at Spitsbergen has been completed. It is probably the most northerly located Polish research place.
Poznań polar research in the Petunia Bay at Spitsbergen began in 1983. The new station was being constructed by six scientists from the Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation of the Faculty of Geographical and Geological Science: Grzegorz Rachlewicz (head of the expedition), Agata Buchwał, Marek Ewertowski, Jakub Małecki, Krzysztof Rymer and Aleksandra Tomczyk
The construction of the new Spitsbergen station lasted all July long. Adam Mickiewicz University Polar Station - the AMUPS is located at the end of Billefjord, in the picturesque Petunia Bay and is probably the most northerly located Polish research place: it is situated only 1300 km away from the North Pole! The station is made up of two houses in the area of 10 m2 each, placed 10m away from each other. Up to eight scientists can conduct researches simultaneously.
The research conducted in the Petunia Bay (from this year on based on AMUPS) concern many aspects of the Earth sciences. The projects being currently implemented in cooperation with institutions, among others from Norway and Switzerland, are inseparably connected with the climate changes and their impact on particular components of the polar geoecosystem, including mineral deposits, glaziers, long-term permafrost, flora and others. Each component regulates the climate changes in other manner, and combining the information in one whole provides the possibility of reaching further in the past and future of the environmental changes in the Arctic. |
The construction of an Adam Mickiewicz University’s polar station at Spitsbergen has been completed. It is probably the most northerly located Polish research place.
