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On July 1-23, 2024, as part of grant G65, a research trip of employees of the Department of Polar and Marine Research, Prof. Monika A. Kusiak and Dr. Eng. Paulina Zieja to the Centre for Earth Sciences (Indian Institute of Sciences) located in Bangalore in India took place.

We would like to invite you to the international workshop on the modeling the Global Atmospheric Electric Circuit (GEC) in September 11-13, 2024, in Warsaw. This workshop is dedicated to two main topics: the role of the aerosol and the electrical coupling with the magnetosphere and the ionosphere.

The 20th SEISMIX Symposium – International Symposium on Deep Seismic Profiling of the Continents and their Margins, which this year took place in Uppsala, Sweden, has just ended.

We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Nones, Associate Professor at the Department of Hydrology and Hydrodynamics IG PAS, has received the 2023 Hydrological Sciences Journal Associate Editor Award.

We are very proud to announce that Prof. Monika A. Kusiak from the Department of Polar and Marine Research IGF PAN has received a prestigeous MAESTRO grant for the implementation of the project entitled “At the crossroads: Paleogeographic position of the Bunger Hills, East Antarctica”.

We are very pleased to announce that Assoc. Prof. Michael Nones from the Hydrology and Hydrodynamics Department IG PAS has been awarded the SONATA BIS grant for the project “Impact of global warming on large river sinuosity.”

On the occasion of the Day of the Department of Polar and Marine Research, we cordially invite you to a screening of the film “Once the ice is gone”, directed by Kuba Witek (2024).

The General Assembly of ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, convened in Berlin to commemorate its 30th anniversary and inaugurate a new president and board. Paweł Rowiński assumed the role of the organisation’s eighth president, taking over from Antonio Loprieno, who led ALLEA from 2018 onwards. Additionally, the assembly welcomed three young academies as new members thereby expanding ALLEA’s total membership to 59.

Understanding floods is paramount, as they profoundly impact communities and ecosystems alike. Hossein Hamidifar, Michael Nones, and Pawel Rowinski, from the Department of Hydrology and Hydrodynamics, IGF, have recently co-authored two compelling papers.