BioBlitz - is a special event, where biologists are gathered in one place accessible to the public to identify as many as possible species within 24 hours. This is both important scientific data collected by professionals and a public event that shows how rich is the biodiversity even in the most trivial sites. Important observation is how many specialists one needs to identify all aorganisms - from uni cellular algae to bats and fish. No one knows all the species.
Within MARBEFES project we are going to organise such events in all of the four regions: Sopot (June 2023), Tromso (June 2024), Dublin and Sardinia (2025).
The first from the four planned MARBEFES BioBlitz actions was organized at the Baltic Sea shore in Sopot, Poland; altogether there were 37 scientists from diferent Institutions with diverse scientific backgroud involved in search and identification.
Zapraszamy do obejrzenia reportażu który, powstał na pokładzie s/y 'Oceania' podczas jednego z rejsów badawczych. Reporter Dzień Dobry TVN Marcin Sawicki wszedł na pokład wraz z ekipą, by dowiedzieć się, w jakim stanie jest nasze morze.
W dniu 12 października mieliśmy przyjemność gościć w IO PAN Ambasadora Królestwa Norwegii
Pana Oysteina Bo wraz z radcą ambasady d/s funduszy norweskich panią Aleksandrę Wacko.
Podczas prawie dwugodzinnej wizyty przedstawiliśmy współpracę IO PAN z norweskimi instytutami naukowymi. Pan Ambasador z racji osobistych doświadczeń był szczególnie zainteresowany naszą działanością na Svalbardzie.
On 4–5 October this year, Riga was being organising the 14th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR), where IO PAN actively participated in the topics of the dumped munitions and the MARBEFES project.
The Institute of Oceanology PAN has been participating in the Euro-Argo program for years, launching Argo floats in the European Arctic and the Baltic Sea. On September 24, 2023, the Argo-Poland consortium, of which IO PAN is the leader, deployed Biogeochemical Argo (BGC Argo) (WMO 1902683) for the first time. It is a much more complicated device than a core float. In addition to standard CTD measurements, our BGC Argo measures four additional seawater properties:
The float was deployed from the board of r/v Oceania in the Gdansk Deep. The device is the PROVOR type with the Iridium data transmission system. We invite everyone willing to cooperate.
Data can be found at: https://fleetmonitoring.euro-argo.eu/float/1902683
The inauguration of the next academic year of the Geoplanet Doctoral School will take place on October 12.
The inaugural lecture of the 2023/2024 academic year, titled “Poles together – missing link between Arctic and Antarctic early Earth record“, will be given by Prof. Monika A. Kusiak (Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences). The inauguration of the academic year will take place on October 12, 2023 at 11 a.m., at the Institute of Geophysics and online (hybrid event).
