BALTARCTIC research cruise
By Marek Grzybowski
Scientists from the SEA EU University and the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences will conduct research in the Arctic.
SEA EU scientists will conduct research on the R/v Oceanograf. A research ship from the University of Gdańsk set off on a 33-day expedition to the Arctic Circle. The destination port is Bodø. Over the next few weeks, an international research team from SEA-EU universities and scientists from the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences will conduct scientific research on the Arctic environment.
The goal of the cruise is to study brackish water masses, along with their physico-chemical properties and asscociated biota, flowing out from the Baltic Sea towards the Arctic – informed SEA EU.
Poland has two national polar stations: Prof. Stanisław Siedlecki Hornsund station in Arctic and Henryk Arctowski station in Antarctica, as well as several seasonal stations located mainly on Spitsbergen – the largest island of the arctic Svalbard Archipelago. Research vessel s/y Oceania, owned by the Institute of Oceanology of PAS in Sopot, has undertaken regular research cruises to Spitsbergen for the past 38 years, conducting hydrological measurements and sampling organisms, water, and sediments from the Nordic Seas and Spitsbergen fjords on its way.