Michał Pawłowski is one of the beneficiaries of the competition for funding student and PhD candidates mobility within the HarSval project. He received 10000 PLN funding for the research trip: AutoSTAKE: instrumentation for real – time monitoring glacier mass balance and ice flow speed, Svalbard, Hornsund

Enjoy reading his report below:

“Thanks to funding from the HarSval programme, I participated in a research trip to Spitsbergen from 7 to 20 September 2024 as part of the AutoSTAKE: instrumentation for real-time monitoring of glacier mass balance and ice flow speed project. The project was carried out as part of the Svalbard Integrated Observing System (SIOS), in cooperation with the Norwegian Polar Institute and the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). I took part in the project thanks to cooperation with scientists from the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. During the trip, I had the opportunity to stay for a week at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, where I took part in the preparation of the AutoSTAKE automatic measuring station. The station is designed to monitor the velocity and direction of the Hans Glacier flow and its mass balance and to send the data via satellite transmission. The installation of the AutoSTAKE station on the Hans Glacier will allow to resume monitoring of its dynamics and obtain real-time data on it. My stay at the polar station also gave me the opportunity to participate in scientific research in hydrology and oceanography conducted by the participants of the 47th polar expedition and other scientists staying in Hornsund.”