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Representatives of the Department of Polar and Marine Research and the Department of Hydrology and Hydrodynamics of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, presented their research at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026, which took place on 22–27 February in Glasgow.

On January 29, 2026, the Central Geophysical Observatory in Belsk was visited by dr Jaroslav Jánský from the Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic). The meeting was part of dr Jánský’s visit to the Institute of Geophysics PAS as part of the ERASMUS+ scholar mobility program.

We are pleased to announce that in February 2026 the latest Issue of the journal Acta Geophysica (Issue I/2026) was published.

After China, it was time for another Asian direction – India, the NGRI (National Geophysical Research Institute) in Hyderabad, in the state of Telangana in southern India. At the invitation of the NGRI authorities and Professor Harsh Gupta, IG PAS was represented in India by Professor Beata Orlecka-Sikora, Head of the Seismology Department, and Ms Anna Leśnodorska, Director of the TCS AH Consortium.

On February 3, 2026, the public defense of Izabela Nowaczyńska’s doctoral dissertation entitled  Identification of Characteristic Features of Seismic Processes as a Tool for Differentiating Tectonic Phenomena from Human Induced Events took place at the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

On 27th January 2026 took place another seminary in the Institute of Geophysics PAS.The seminar was devoted to the presentation of selected topics from the long-term collaboration between colleagues from Department of Seismic Research and JAMSTEC, focusing on crustal-scale seismic imaging.

We are pleased to introduce Eslam Mohamed, a PhD candidate at the Seismic Research Department, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, GeoPlanet Doctoral School & SEG of Exploration Geophysicists Vice President at IG, PAS.

In early December, a delegation of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences visited the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, where a two-day workshop entitled “Extended Full Waveform Inversion” was held on December 2-3 in Mumbai, India.

“Without predictable investment in infrastructure and support staff, it is extremely hard to develop strong research environments” – says Prof. Paweł Rowiński, IG PAS Director and ALLEA President in his talk with Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ (MTA) representatives.