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The public PhD defense of Magdalena Krajewska (PhD candidate of the Interdisciplinary Polar Studies)

on-line access (Firefox or Chrome):
https://jitsi.iopan.pl/Obrona_
Supervisors: prof. dr hab. inż. Grażyna Kowalewska – Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot
dr hab. inż. Małgorzata Szymczak-Żyła – Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot
IEDS Webinar Announcement – Aug, 13, 2020, 2 PM UTC+2!

Join IEDS Webinar for a chat about PhD projects, IEDS education programme and application process! Registration is required, available at the website: https://www.mssd.us.edu.pl/en/ieds_webinar/ (Aug, 13, 2020, 2 PM UTC+2)
For details on the IEDS – International Environmental Doctoral School please visit: https://www.mssd.us.edu.pl/en
PhD positions at the International Environmental Doctoral School!

We kindly ask you to read offer and invite you to apply to the International Environmental Doctoral School associated with the Centre for Polar Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice (IEDS) . Registration of candidates in the IRK system is available to 27 August 2020!
The IEDS educates young scientific staff at the highest standards in cooperation with the renowned scientific and academic centres.
The IEDS is a joint unit of the University of Silesia and Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences: the Institute of Geophysics, the Institute of Mathematics and the Institute of Oceanology.
The doctoral studies are carried out in three academic disciplines: Mathematics, Earth & related Environmental Sciences, and Materials Engineering.
For details on the IEDS and the admission process please visit: https://www.mssd.us.edu.pl/en
SIOS and UNIS support the fieldwork in Svalbard!

The ongoing pandemic has limited research activities in Svalbard, including the possibility of organizing the fieldwork campaign 2020 as part of the project „Hindcasting and projections of hydro-climatic conditions of Southern Spitsbergen” (RiS 11198) in the Werenskiold Glacier area (Wedel Jarlsberg Land, Spitsbergen).
The SIOS Logistics Sharing Notice Board platform proved to be a helpful solution! more about this form of cooperation -> https://sios-svalbard.org/logistic-notice-board and about fruitful fieldwork: https://sios-svalbard.org/News_20200703
as well as in the short movie:
Many thanks to
SIOS – Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System and UNIS – the University Centre in Svalbard
for excellent contribution and logistic & financial support!
Proposed PhD projects at the IEDS 2020/2021

Proposed PhD projects at the International Environmental Doctoral School have been published on the website:
https://www.mssd.us.edu.pl/en/application2020_2021/
We kindly ask you to read our offer and invite you to apply to the Doctoral School. Registration of candidates in the IRK system will be available from 30 June to 27 August 2020.
NVP International Summer school 2020 – Global Arctic
Opportunity for PhD and Post-Doc – an interdisciplinary summer school in Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Time: June 20th – 28th 2020.
Application deadline is 15th February 2020.
The selected candidates will be notified by the end of March 2020
More information – *.PDF and here:
SESS report 2019

The State of Environmental Science in Svalbard (SESS) report 2019 has been released during the SIOS Polar Night Week 2020 in Longyearbyen, January 2020.
The SESS report is published in two versions:
SESS report 2019 – Summary for Stakeholders
and
SESS report 2019 – Full report
See here: https://sios-svalbard.org/SESS_Issue2
The Invited Lectures on Polar Research – Dr. Ethan Welty
W E A R E P L E A S E D T O I N V I T E D T O L E C T U R E:
“Extracting glacier observations from time-lapse photographs”
by Dr. Ethan Welty
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder
to be held January 21, 2020 at 11:30 AM at the Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Silesia
room 002 (Będzińska st., 60, Sosnowiec)