Aleksandra Osika is one of the beneficiaries of the competition for funding student and PhD candidates mobility within the HarSval project. She received 2010 PLN funding for the specialized course: 13th ESA Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing – snow and glaciers.

Enjoy reading her report below:
“The support from the HarSval project allowed me to participate in the 13th Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing: Snow and Glaciers organized by the European Space Agency in cooperation with the University of Innsbruck on the 16-20th of September 2024. This 5-days course with a venue at the campus of the University of Innsbruck was aimed at Master and PhD students and postdocs. The programme included lectures and exercises on remote sensing methods in cryosphere studies, such as monitoring of the glacier extent, mass balance and dynamics, as well as snow thickness, liquid water content and snow albedo. The training course was led by specialists affiliated with the University of Zurich, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos, ENVEO – ENVironmental Earth Observation IT GmbH, Eurac Research and much more. During the Lightning Talks session, I presented the current results of my PhD project in a short talk New evidence of surges of Hansbreen (Svalbard). The programme also included a field excursion to the ice cave (The Nature’s Ice Palace) in the Hintertux Glacier, which was discovered in 2007 at c. 3000 m a.s.l.

The course has broadened my knowledge of data sources and methods in the studies of glacier dynamics, which I will use in my PhD project and further work. I thank HarSval for supporting my stay.”