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Is the snow on Svalbard’s glaciers contaminated with radionuclides? It was studied by an international group of scientists, including Dr. Bartłomiej Luks and Dr. Adam Nawrot from the Polar Research and Marine Department of the Institute of Geophysics PAS. The group’s work has just been published in the highly ranked Journal of Hazardous Materials.

We cordially invite you to prepare manuscripts for the special issue “Mathematical Modeling in Geophysics: Concepts and Practices”. Prof. Mariusz Białecki, Head of the Department of Geophysical Imaging at IG PAS, will be the guest editor of this issue. The journal “Mathematics” is currently on the 21st position on the list of 333 journals scored in the JCR Category Mathematics (Q1, impact factor 2.592).

During the UN 2023 Water Conference the International Science Council (ISC) presented a new document concerning water policy. Prof. Paweł Rowiński, Head of Hydrology and Hydraulics Department at IG PAS, was a co-author of this document.

This autumn, SIOS offers a training course on how to effectively use UAVs in Svalbard research. The training will be delivered by UAV experts from SIOS member institutions, international researchers, and experts from the industry.

We congratulate on the new paper published in the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences entitled “Influence of vegetation maintenance on flow and mixing: case study comparing fully cut with high-coverage conditions.”

On 14 February, the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, signed the nomination of Director Mariusz Majdanski as a professor.

A new study published in Nature Communications identified meteorological conditions resulting in a rare cyclone formation near the equator.

Our research paper titled “Applying UAV-Based Remote Sensing Observation Products in High Arctic Catchments in SW Spitsbergen” presents a novel approach to monitoring and analysing the hydrological systems in High Arctic catchments.

The fifth edition of SIOS Polar Night Week (PNW) was held in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen (Svalbard) from January 23-27.