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Photos and news from 2011 Svalbard expedition
CENTRE FOR POLAR ECOLOGY
Centre for Polar Ecology (CPE) is part of the Department of ecosystem biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. The main purpose of CPE is ensuring regular university courses of Polar Ecology and similar science topics. Foundation of the Centre for Polar Ecology was a logical consequence of the project supported by Czech ministry of education called: „Biologická a klimatická diverzita centrální části arktického souostroví Svalbard" ( INGO LA 341). This project was carried out by the CPE members in colaboration with Institute of Botany in Třeboň (Czech Academy of Sciences) and Masaryk university, Brno during the years 2007-2010. Nowadays, the university courses and research activities in Arctic are supported by funding of Czech ministry of education as a part of the project "LM2010009 – Projekt CzechPolar – České polární stanice" Stavba a operační náklady".
NEWS CPE in MEDIA
Summer term beginning with first seminar and lecture: Radek Vodrážka: "Fossil treasures of Larsen basin - Czech paleontology in Antarctica" - 14th of March, 15:00 in CPE lecture room. invitation available HERE
Download the Billefjorden photos in original quality as your monitor wallpaper!
1 - !!! as a celebration of the 100 year anniversary of reaching the south pole by R. Amundsen, CPE organises friendly discussion with photograph presentation on Monday 20th December 18:00 - invitation available here !!!
2 - report on Polar Ecology field course now available HERE. Report on research program carried out in 2011 in Petuniabukta is available HERE.
3 - CzechPolar project introduction in CzechTV with Josef Elster and Oleg Ditrich - follow the link here interview with arctic ecologist Josef Svoboda in Czech TV - follow the link here
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Bertilbreen - discharge measurement Bertilbreen is one of the largest galciers in the neigbourhood of the Czech reserach station in Petuniabukta area. A complex monitoring of the Bertil glacier dynamics has been estabilseh in 2011. This includes glacier mass balance monitoring with ablation stykes and glacier velocity monitoring with help of both GPS and geodetic measurements in the lower part of glacier tongue An important part of such study is discharge monitoring as well. This figure captures a discharge measurement approximately 300 meters below the glacier front. Discharge measurements have been done in the same locality during the whole summer. Hydrostatic pressure sensor has been installed in the stream to measure changes in water level continuously average discharge in the period from 11th July till 18th September was 1,2 m3/s. Highly turbulent character of the river stream together with high velocity of the flow is quite obvious from the picture. During the most intensive meltdown period, the velocity reached almost 2 m/s, water temperature reacted quite quickly on the atmospheric conditions and was as high as 2,5°C during July and dropped down to 0,1°C in September. (Hanka Beitlerová on the picture) Jan Kavan
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