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Participation of Employees and Students of the Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography in Polar Research
Reports on Geodesy and Geoinformatics, 2016 This year the Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw University of Technology celebrates its 95th jubilee, which provides an opportunity to present the Faculty’s rich traditions in polar research.
Pasik Mariusz +7 more
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Trash on Arctic beach: Coastal pollution along Calypsostranda, Bellsund, Svalbard [PDF]
Polish Polar Research, 2018 Beach pollution is one of the most common hazards in present-day anthropogenic environments. Even in the remote Svalbard Archipelago, pollution impacts the beach system and can pose environmental threats.
Marek Wojciech Jaskólski +4 more
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Peroxodisulfate‐Enhanced Leaching of Deep‐Sea Manganese Crusts and Sulfides
Chemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.Ammonium peroxodisulfate enables efficient leaching of deep‐sea manganese crusts and massive sulfides while offering electrolytic recycling. High leaching yields for V, Mn, Co, Mo, Sn, and W, along with complete leaching of As and Sb, highlight its potential as a powerful and sustainable oxidant for marine resource processing.
Bastian Hansel +5 more
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Геологія і корисні копалини Світового океану, 2023 The newly obtained results of the frequency-resonance (FR) technologies application for the study of the sources and processes of seeps and pockmarks formation in the Arctic Region (Norwegian, Barents Sea) and the North Sea are considered.
V.D. Solovyov +2 more
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Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, EarlyView.Abstract There is increasing concern regarding pollutants disrupting the vertebrate thyroid hormone (TH) system, which is crucial for development. Thus, identification of TH system–disrupting chemicals (THSDCs) is an important requirement in the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) testing framework.
Lisa Gölz +9 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.Glaciers are receding at unprecedented rates worldwide, exposing large areas of barren sediment that are quickly colonized by microbes. Nutrient availability is a critical driver of early ecosystem succession, but in the High Arctic its role has remained uncertain.
Steven K. Schmidt +12 more
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Food plant diversity in a rapidly changing world
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Diversity in food plants is essential to human and planetary health. On farms, in diets, and in many other areas of food systems, this diversity has undergone enormous change globally, including significant decline. We describe major trends in how food plant diversity has been changing, note the responses from conservation communities, highlight gaps ...
Colin K. Khoury +8 more
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Barotropic instability in the West Spitsbergen Current [PDF]
, 2010 Barotropic instability in the shoreward branch of the West Spitsbergen Current is investigated on the basis of data from an array of current meter moorings along 78.83°N, across the upper continental slope and shelf break west of Svalbard.
Teigen, Sigurd Henrik +5 more
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Geographical investigations in the management of the svalbard environment
Quaestiones Geographicae, 2019 The paper concerns specific features of exploration, geographical recognition, exploitation of natural resources, and economy of the archipelago. Development of the Svalbard system of nature protection areas and its impact on the environment and human ...
Ziaja Wiesław
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Лëд и снег, 2016 Thickness of the upper cold ice layer in the ablation area of the polythermal glacier Grønfjordbreen (Spitsbergen) was estimated by means of numerical modeling.
A. V. Sosnovsky +3 more
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