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Report on National activities, 2012 Poland Waldemar Walczowski SAON Board Meeting, 1-2 October 2012 Potsdam.

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1 Report on National activities, 2012 Poland Waldemar Walczowski SAON Board Meeting, 1-2 October 2012 Potsdam

2 3 main observations areas: 1.Round year land investigations on the basis of the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund maintained by the Institute of Geophysics PAS; 2.The seasonal stations in the western Spitsbergen, maintained mostly by universities and other scientific institutions; 3.Ship-borne observations by the Institute of Oceanology PAS in Sopot during the yearly cruises of R/V Oceania to the Nordic Seas and Spitsbergen fjords. Polish Arctic activity is coordinated by The Committee on Polar Research PAS

3 Polish Polar Station in Hornsund Round year land investigations:  permanent meteorological observations (meteorological station),  geophysical investigations,  glaciological observations. During the winter station is maintained by the permanent staff (10 persons and 2 dogs) In the summer station provides support for several national and international expeditions (usually occupied by up to 30 persons). Seasonal Stations During the summer the geological, glaciological and climatological investigations has been carried in 5 stations.

4 Oceanography 192 hydrographical stations (CTD, LADCP) at 12 sections between Northern Norway and Fram Strait (physical oceanography, biological, chemical and meteorological observations); Spitsbergen fjords - the physical, geological and ecological investigations from the R/V ‘Oceania; Hornsund - the oceanographic observations on the basis of the Polish Polar Station; Moored array north of Svalbard - 2 moorings in the 9 moorings array in collaboration with NPI and WHOI Educational activity about polar environment on the Maritime Academy vessel Horyzont II.

5 Poland is a member of organizations and projects aimed to coordinate networks and platform access as FARO, Eurofleet, GOOS. Participation in the European initiative SIOS (Svalbard Integrated Observing System) focused on coordination of the research activity around the Svalbard. Role of the SAON in coordination across networks and platforms: - to disseminate information about and support 'partner matching' within the new and on-going networking initiatives; - to encourage the access of smaller partners to existing networks; - to maintain and disseminate the information database about existing platforms focused on possible collaboration topics, shared use of available resources, minimizing duplications of efforts and maximizing the scientific outcome; - to play an advisory role through collecting and distributing information about open calls and other funding possibilities relevant for the Arctic observation platforms and networks. Coordination across networks and platforms for research and monitoring

6 Access to data Poland supports open data policy for data obtained both in the international and national projects. Data should be released on a short term basis (with a necessary delay for processing and QC). NRT data should be strongly supported if available. SIOS aims in development of the Knowledge Centre with a database dedicated for the Svalbard research activities, Poland as the SIOS partner joined this initiative. Sustained Arctic data archives are essential (since all project databases are short living)  one centralized data archive with capabilities to adopt the projects' databases after the end of a project ('databases repository') would be necessary;  including also historical data archives. A platform focused on Arctic origin multidisciplinary data is the key issue Data sets (data items) should be linked to individual DOIs (citable data sets) Easily accessible and user friendly reporting system for meta information necessary Learn from existing data archives like ICES database, PANGAEA database, etc. Linking data archives (passive systems) with data information centers (active distribution of information on newly available data sets – newsletters, data alert services, open data forum for processing and QC) Encouraging the national databases to establish and promote the Arctic data collections


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