Film session: Polish Exploration of the Changing Arctic
Organized by: Centre for Polar Studies, Poland & Polish Polar Consortium 5. September 2017
Poland has a long and rich tradition of Arctic exploration and research. Nowadays, Poles are involved in numerous polar projects, manage the year-round Polish Polar Station Hornsund in Svalbard, operate the research vessel s/y Oceania, have well-trained and experienced polar researchers of all career stages studying crucial problems of the changing Arctic.
This session will show Polish Arctic exploration from different points of view: tough conditions during
Short films:
- Poles north of the Arctic Circle - Polish Polar Station Hornsund, directed by Piotr Łepkowski, Centre for Polar Studies, Poland
- Polish Exploration of the Arctic, directed by Piotr Łepkowski, Centre for Polar Studies, Poland
- A few people at the top of the world, directed by Robert Pogorzelski, Poland
Speakers:
- Marek Lewandowski, Head of the Department of Polar Research, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
- Anna Temp, PhD student of psychology, University of Edinburgh