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An Outline of Polar Expeditions of the Scientists from Warsaw University of Technology
Andrzej Pachuta
Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Geodesy and
Geodetic Astronomy, 00-661 Warsaw, Pl. Politechniki 1, Poland
E-mail: pachuta@gik.pw.edu.pl
Abstract
Active exploration of polar area by scientists from Warsaw University of Technology began in the late fifties of the XX century. On the occasion of the III International Geophysical Year Jerzy Fellmann took part in the Spitsbergen Expedition. He has measured the movement of Werenskiold glacier in the area of Hornsund Fiord by photogrammetric methods. The most valuable and spectacular achievement of the first Polish geodetic Antarctic expedition to the Dobrowolski Station on Bunger Oasis was done by Janusz Sledzinski and Zbigniew Zabek during the Antarctic summer 1958/ 1959. They established the gravimetric point and the direct connection of this point to the Polish gravimetric network. Further geodetic studies at the A.B. Dobrowolski Station were carried out during the Antarctic expedition organized by Polish Academy of Sciences in 1978/1979. The geodetic network and gravimetric measurements have been made by Andrzej Pachuta. The first geodynamic expedition with students’ participation was organized to the Spitsbergen by Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography in the summer 1988. Andrzej Pachuta and Ryszard Preuss led this expedition. Dariusz Osuch, Piotr Wypych, Jaros3aw Kutyna, Artur Gustowski were the student participants. During this expedition Zdzislaw Kurczynski and Stanislaw Dabrowski made the photogrammetric measurements in fiord Hornsund. The second geodynamic expedition to the area around fiord Hornsund in Spitsbergena was organized in summer this year. Zdzislaw Kurczynski manages the expedition. Artur Adamek, Michal Sagan and Malgorzata Piskorz are the students from the Warsaw University of Technology participating in this expedition.
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