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Changes of north-western Spitsbergen glaciers as the indicator of contemporary transformations occuring in the cryosphere

2017/25/B/ST10/00540

Keywords:

cryosphere glaciers snow outflow environmental changes Svalbard

Descriptors:

  • ST10_7: Geomorphology, cryosphere, global and regional changes of the Earth's landscape
  • ST10_2: Climatology, meteorology, climate change

Panel:

ST10 - Earth sciences: Earth system science, atmospheric sciences, climatology, geochemistry, geodesy, geoecology, geophysics, physical geography, geoinformatics, planetary geology, pedology, mining, chemical and physical oceanology, environmental protection

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Wydział Nauk o Ziemi

woj. kujawsko-pomorskie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Ireneusz Sobota 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 4

Call: OPUS 13 - announced on 2017-03-15

Amount awarded: 638 360 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2018-02-06

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2023-07-05

Project duration:: 65 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Note - project descriptions were prepared by the authors of the applications themselves and placed in the system in an unchanged form.

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Komputer (2 szt.) (7 000 PLN)
  2. Licencja wieczysta UgCS-pro.
  3. Rejestrator wieloparametrowy HOBO.
  4. Stacja automatyczna do pomiarów meteorologicznych na lodowcu (20 000 PLN)
  5. Digital Gravelometer (2 900 PLN)
  6. Próbnik osadów zawieszonych, typ Delft (2 000 PLN)
  7. Miernik prędkości przepływu wody (20 000 PLN)
  8. Suszarka laboratoryjna.
  9. Waga laboratoryjna.
  10. Flurometer (30 000 PLN)
  11. Sprzęt zamykający zlewnię badawczą rzeki lodowcowej (czujniki HOBO) (15 000 PLN)
  12. Łapacz do pomiaru objętości rumowiska wleczonego w rzekach proglacjalnych (18 000 PLN)
  13. Kamera poklatkowa (3 szt.) (6 000 PLN)
  14. Odbiornik GNSS Zenith 35 TAG (50 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (10)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (2)
  1. Controls on downstream variation in surficial sediment size of an outwash braidplain developed under high Arctic conditions (Kaffiøyra, Svalbard).
    Authors:
    Weckwerth Piotr, Greń Katarzyna, Sobota Ireneusz
    Academic press:
    Sedimentary Geology (rok: 2019, tom: 387, strony: 75-86), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.03.019 - link to the publication
  2. The role of dead ice in transforming glacier forelands under the rapid climate warming of recent decades, Oscar II Land, Svalbard
    Authors:
    Błaszkiewicz, Mirosław, Andrzejewski Leon, Dudek Justyna, Sobota Ireneusz, Czarnecki Kamil
    Academic press:
    Land Degradation & Development (rok: 2023, tom: -, strony: 45309), Wydawca: Wiley Online Library
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1002/ldr.4780 - link to the publication
  3. Spatial and temporal changes in ablation, distribution and evolution of glacial zones on Irenebreen, a small glacier of the High Arctic, Svalbard
    Authors:
    Kornelia Anna Wójcik, Ireneusz Sobota
    Academic press:
    Polar Science (rok: 2020, tom: 23, strony: 25-36), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
  4. UAV and GPR Data Integration in Glacier Geometry Reconstruction: A Case Study from Irenebreen, Svalbard
    Authors:
    Janis Karušs, Kristaps Lamsters, Jurijs Ješkins, Ireneusz Sobota and Peteris Džerins
    Academic press:
    Remote Sensing (rok: 2022, tom: 14(3), 456, strony: 45310), Wydawca: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/rs14030456 - link to the publication
  5. Surface Characteristics, Elevation Change, and Velocity of High-Arctic Valley Glacier from Repeated High-Resolution UAV Photogrammetry
    Authors:
    Kristaps Lamsters, Jurijs Ješkins, Ireneusz Sobota, Janis Karušs and Peteris Džerinš
    Academic press:
    Remote Sensing (rok: 2022, tom: 14, 1029, strony: 45311), Wydawca: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/rs14041029 - link to the publication
  6. Where will widening occur in an outwash braidplain? A new approach to detecting controls on fluvial lateral erosion in a glacierized catchment (NW Spitsbergen, Svalbard)
    Authors:
    Piotr Weckwerth, Ireneusz Sobota, Katarzyna Greń
    Academic press:
    Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (rok: 2021, tom: 46, strony: 942-967), Wydawca: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1002/esp.5069 - link to the publication
  7. Vegetation type is an important predictor of the arctic summer land surface energy budget
    Authors:
    Jacqueline Oehri, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Jin-Soo Kim, Raleigh Grysko, Heather Kropp, Inge Grünberg, Vitalii Zemlianskii, Oliver Sonnentag, Eugénie S. Euskirchen, Merin Reji Chacko, Giovanni Muscari, Peter D. Blanken, Joshua F. Dean, Alcide di Sarra, Richard J. Harding, Ireneusz Sobota, Lars Kutzbach, Elena Plekhanova, Aku Riihelä, Julia Boike, Nathaniel B. Miller, Jason Beringer, Efrén López-Blanco, Paul C. Stoy, Ryan C. Sullivan, Marek Kejna, Frans-Jan W. Parmentier, John A. Gamon, Mikhail Mastepanov, Christian Wille, Marcin Jackowicz-Korczynski, Dirk N. Karger, William L. Quinton, Jaakko Putkonen, Dirk van As, Torben R. Christensen, Maria Z. Hakuba, Robert S. Stone, Stefan Metzger, Baptiste Vandecrux, Gerald V. Frost, Martin Wild, Birger Hansen, Daniela Meloni, Florent Domine, Mariska te Beest, Torsten Sachs, Aram Kalhori, Adrian V. Rocha, Scott N. Williamson, Sara Morris, Adam L. Atchley, Richard Essery, Benjamin R. K. Runkle, David Holl, Laura D. Riihimaki, Hiroki Iwata, Edward A. G. Schuur, Christopher J. Cox, Andrey A. Grachev, Joseph P. McFadden, Robert S. Fausto, Mathias Göckede, Masahito Ueyama, Norbert Pirk, Gijs de Boer, M. Syndonia Bret-Harte, Matti Leppäranta, Konrad Steffen, Thomas Friborg, Atsumu Ohmura, Colin W. Edgar, Johan Olofsson & Scott D. Chambers
    Academic press:
    Nature Communications (rok: 2022, tom: 13, strony: 6379), Wydawca: Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41467-022-34049-3 - link to the publication
  8. Drainage system and thermal structure of a High Arctic polythermal glacier: Waldemarbreen, western Svalbard
    Authors:
    Jānis Karušs, Kristaps Lamsters, Ireneusz Sobota, Jurijs Ješkins, Pēteris Džeriņš and Andrew Hodson
    Academic press:
    Journal of Glaciology (rok: 2021, tom: -, strony: 45305), Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1017/jog.2021.125 - link to the publication
  9. Meteorological conditions on Kaffiøyra (NW Spitsbergen) in 2013–2017 and their connection with atmospheric circulation and sea ice extent.
    Authors:
    Kejna Marek, Sobota Ireneusz
    Academic press:
    Polish Polar Research (rok: 2019, tom: 40(3), strony: 175-204), Wydawca: PAN, ISSN: 0138-0338 ; eISSN: 2081-8262
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.24425/ppr.2019.129670 - link to the publication
  10. Rain-On-Snow (ROS) events and their relations to snowpack and ice layer changes on small glaciers in Svalbard, the high Arctic
    Authors:
    Ireneusz Sobota, Piotr Weckwerth, Tomasz Grajewski
    Academic press:
    Journal of Hydrology (rok: 2020, tom: 590, strony: 45302), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
  1. Scientific Applications of Unmanned Vehicles in Svalbard (UAV Svalbard)
    Authors:
    Richard Hann, Barbara Altstädter, Peter Betlem, Kajetan Deja, Katarzyna Dragańska-Deja, Marek Ewertowski, Filip Hartvich, Marius Jonassen, Astrid Lampert, Michał Laska, Ireneusz Sobota, Rune Storvold, Aleksandra Tomczyk, Kacper Wojtysiak, and Piotr Zagórski
    Book:
    The State of Environmental Science in Svalbard – an annual report (rok: 2021, tom: -, strony: 78-103), Wydawca: SIOS
    Status:
    Published
  2. ATLAS OF CHANGES IN THE GLACIERS OF KAFFIØYRA (Svalbard, the Arctic)
    Authors:
    Ireneusz Sobota - edytor
    Book:
    ATLAS OF CHANGES IN THE GLACIERS OF KAFFIØYRA (Svalbard, the Arctic) (rok: 2021, tom: -, strony: 216), Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
    Status:
    Published