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MINISTRY
OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Warsaw, 14 May 2008
15 May 2008 - the 89th
Anniversary of Establishment of the Polish Geological Institute
Professor Maciej Nowicki,
Minister of the Environment participates to ceremonial celebration the
89th Anniversary of Establishment of the Polish Geological Institute. The
ceremony is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Stanisław Doktorowicz-Hrebnicki
of the Polish Geological Institute, who was outstanding specialist in the
scope of geology of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin. Special exhibition commemorates
his achievements in this field. The agenda includes also a scientific session
with topical presentations including the utility hard coal deposit surveys
within the Basin as the activities managed by Professor S. Doktorowicz-Hrebnicki
and the development of geological cartography of the Upper Silesia Region
in the second half of the 20th Century. Special awarded are to be granted
during the ceremony to the individuals who put outstanding merits for geology.
An outdoor exhibition is a traditional characteristic of such type celebration.
This year it is titled "Geology - Profile and En-face". It includes a photo-outlook
of really attractive in terms of nature and geology the terrain features
of the Earth surface in Poland and worldwide.
| The Polish Geological Institute
is the major scientific and research institution active in the field of
geology in Poland. Founded under Resolution adopted yet in May 1919 by
the Legislative Parliament, thus just half a year after Poland regained
its independence the Institute is then one of the oldest Polish scientific
institutions. It carries out various cross-sectoral surveys on domestic
geological structure, the results of that have been applied for the purpose
of the national economy and the protection of the environment. Apart from
its scientific and research activities carried out in all fields of contemporary
geology, the Institute plays also the role of the Polish Geological and
Hydro-Geological Survey securing the national economic stability in the
domains of both mineral and groundwater resources management, monitoring
of the geological environment and it secures emergency warning on any related
hazards. Its studies have provided for discovery of the principal mineral
deposits in Poland such as copper, silver, native sulphur, hard coal, lignite,
rock salt, potassium salt, and iron, titanium, vanadium, zinc and lead
ores, as well as natural gas and petroleum deposits. The Polish Geological
Institute is the leading establishment to produce and publish the geological
maps, both surveying and topical ones, including those on paleogeology,
hydrogeology, geo-economy and geochemistry. Thanks to its studies, Poland
ranks among those few countries which offer complete knowledge on their
natural environment. While acting on behalf of the State Treasury, the
Polish Geological Institute manages for collection and storage of the country-wide
geological data. Such computerised databases as Digital Geological Database,
Midas, Infogeoskarb, Inventory of Mining Areas, Hydro-Bank, contain millions
of the information items, including archive records and mineral core samples,
maps, and aerial and satellite images. That data undergoes processing and
is being made available to the end users via relevant networks and specialised
software packages. The accredited Central Geochemical Laboratory of the
Polish Geological Institute is one of the biggest of such type establishments
in Poland. Being provided with the state-of-the-art analytic equipment
it carries out hundreds of thousands analytical determinations annually.
The Institute manages also for the international cooperation with the respective
geological institutions in 30 countries, and it participates to the Community
framework programmes, as well as to such ones as the Leonardo da Vinci,
INTERREG and PHARE. It has also a membership of the EuroGeoSurveys international
organisation of geological surveys - Centre of Excellence - Research on
Abiotic Environment (REA) that provides for integration of the Institute's
activity into the European Scientific Area. http://www.pgi.gov.pl |
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