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Professor Monika A. Kusiak has begun a research project with NASA, aiming to explore Earth’s origins by studying extraterrestrial materials. The prestigious Fulbright Senior Award supports her four-month residency at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

On November 8, 2024, at 11:00 a.m., a doctoral defense was held for the dissertation titled “Processing and interpretation of new and vintage multi-channel reflection seismic data offshore Poland.” The dissertation was authored by Nguyen Duy Quang, who prepared the work under the supervision of Professor Michał Malinowski from the Geophysical Imaging Department, IG PAS.

October was Doctoral Students Month at our Institute. On this occasion, on October 18th, an integration meeting took place with participation from both PhD candidates and staff members of the Institute of Geophysics PAS. This event provided an excellent opportunity to officially welcome new PhD students, establish connections, and celebrate the start of the new academic year together.

On October 17–19, 2024, Reykjavik hosted the prestigious Arctic Circle Assembly conference, attracting over 2,400 attendees and more than 700 speakers from around the globe. Among the Polish delegation were Professor Piotr Głowacki and Dr. Zuzanna Świrad from the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, who participated in discussion panels organized by the Polish Polar Consortium.

From 21–25 of October, a summer school was organized in Corinth, Greece within the Geo-INQUIRE project. The meeting was attended by employees and doctoral students of IG PAS, which is one of the project partners.

The Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IG PAS) has signed a cooperation agreement with Universitas Andalas in Padang, Sumatra, one of Indonesia’s leading research centres.

Between October 14 and 17 Michael Nones and Yiwei Guo attended the IAHR APD Congress in Wuhan (China), a bi-annual event dedicated to present the state of the art on water-related issues in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

You are cordially invited to the seminar ‘Longitudinal dispersion in the environment’ – an exploration of the constituent elements, hosted by Professor Ian Guymer, Professor of Civil Engineering.

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