“Just over a year ago, the conference opening the EPOS-PL+ project took place, and today we are meeting remotely (on-line) to summarize the first year of working together in the project”, said Prof. Stanisław Prusek, Director of the Central Mining Institute (GIG) – an institution that is the leader of the EPOS-PL+ project – while opening this year’s project conference.
The EPOS PL+ conference was held on March 25, 2021, online. It was divided into four sessions on: IS-EPOS Platform, Centre for Induced Seismicity Research Infrastructure (CIBIS); The Geophysical Safety System for Mining Protection Pillars for long-life corridor excavation in mines; Center for Research Infrastructure of Geomagnetic and Magnetotelluric Observations (CIBOGM) and Center for Research Infrastructure of Analytical Laboratories (CIBAL); ground level deformation monitoring systems, which presented issues related to the integration of research infrastructure: GNSS Data Center (CIBDG), Satellite Data Center (CIBDS), Gravimetric Observation Center (CIBOG) and Global Geodetic Observation System in Poland (GGOS-PL ++).
During the conference, their papers were delivered, among many others by :
- Prof. Beata Orlecka-Sikora (IG PAS), who introduced the history and concept of the EPOS project in Europe and Poland, i.e. the creation of a virtual platform / forum aimed at enabling cooperation of scientists in the field of environmental hazards, in particular seismic hazards, and integrating research infrastructure in the field of Earth Sciences.
- MSc. Michał Lelonek (IG PAS), took the conference participants on a virtual “tour” of the IS-EPOS Platform (https://tcs.ah-epos.eu/) – a platform integrating data, specialized software and library materials regarding geophysical hazards associated with exploitation of georesources.
- Assoc. Prof. Łukasz Rudziński (IG PAS), gave a lecture on the observation of tremors in mines with the use of broadband seismometers – CIBIS.
- Dr. Szymon Oryński, Dr. Katarzyna Dudzisz (IG PAS) – lecture entitled Monitoring of the migration of post-industrial pollutants using the conductometric method and electrofusion tomography.
- Dr. Sylwia Dytłow, Dr. Katarzyna Dudzisz, Dr. Tomasz Werner (IF PAS) – presented the use of a field laboratory for environmental research to analyze the level of pollution (particulate matter, black carbon) and magnetic susceptibility in urban environment and in post-industrial areas.
The conference was closed by Assoc. Prof. Adam Lurka, EPOS-PL+ project manager, who thanked for the interesting presentations and wished further success in the implementation of the tasks planned in the project.
