On June 8th 2017 we hosted at the Hydrobiological Station in Mikolajki Mr. Bernard Moreau and Mrs. Anne-Marie Szlawski-Reignoux, co-chairmens of the Franch-Polish Association of Indre (Association France-Pologne de l’Indre), cooperating with the Masurian Landscape Park and with the other institutions from Warmia and Mazury. Our guests were extremely interested in the current educational and scientific activity of the Station and its history (TJ). Czytaj dalej

On June 6-7 2017  the outgoing Executives Meeting of the Nencki Institute was held at the Hydrobiological Station in Mikolajki, with the participation of: Prof. Adam Szewczyk, Prof. Hanna Fabczak, Witold Konopka PhD, Anna Jachner-Miśkiewicz PhD and Hanna Michalska and staff of the Station: Assoc. prof. Jolanta Ejsmont-Karabin, Tomasz Janecki PhD and Irena Sawicka. Czytaj dalej

On June 5th 2017, the hydrobiological workshops was organized at the Station for youth, taking a part in the green school. Students listened to the lectures, sampled theyself a plankton samples and then learned how to identify the basic species of leke zooplankton using microscopes with 3D (TJ)… Czytaj dalej

On 31.05-01.06, a scientific conference entitled “40 Years of Masurian Landscape Park – Biodiversity and Culture” was held in the “Mazurski Raj” Holiday Resort in Piaski on the Bełdany Lake, dedicated to the functioning, shaping and protection of environment of the Masurian Landscape Park. This meeting gathered and summarized current information about the scientific research and knowledge about the biological and cultural diversity of the Masurian Landscape Park. The first day of the conference was devoted to the cultural, social and historical topics of the region (5 lectures), and the second –  of the Park’s biodiversity (16 lectures). On the first day there was also a poster session. Czytaj dalej

On May 13, 2017, an open science workshop “Ecology of spring” was held at the Station, which we organized jointly with the Mazurian Landscape Park. During the classes the participants learned what interesting they can see in spring in the still cold waters of Lake Mikołajski (using 3D imaging microscopes), learned how to recognize the most common aquatic invertebrates, familiarized themselves with the equipment used for hydrobiological studies, measured the basic parameters of water etc. (TJ)… Czytaj dalej

“The Magic of Big Blue” – on rainy Saturday (March 18th 2017), with the people who visited our Station we had a long film-journey through the several continents. We have seen amazing scenes: from schools of colorful reef fish of Australia, by meeting with the whale sharks in the Galapagos Islands, the meeting with dangerous leopard seal with majestic icebergs of the Antarctic, to the great hunt for sardines off the coast of South Africa. This unique production on a global scale was made by a Pole – Darek Sepioło – a man who managed to combine a passion for diving and professional photography (TJ)… Czytaj dalej

On Saturday (11th Feb 2017) the second edition of the Winter Workshop For Teachers of Biology was organized jointly with scientists from the Nencki Institute PAS at the Hydrobiological Station. In a cozy atmosphere our visitors deepened their knowledge about the causes of obesity and diabetes, about the evolution of the nervous system, about GMOs and about the long-lived animals from the Arctic Ocean (TJ). Czytaj dalej

It was an inauguration of educational activities in 2017. On 11. January we hosted at the Station students of the University of the Third Age in Mikolajki. This time, appropriately for the weather outside the subject of classes was: “Antarctica and research of marine ecosystems carried out at the Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station” (TJ). Czytaj dalej

In the past year we finalized the signing of the Agreement of Cooperation in science and education between Mazurian Landscape Park and the Nencki Institute PAS (the Hydrobiological Station in Mikolajki). In 2016, we jointly organized a few educational events at the Hydrobiological Station and we actively participated in several events (lectures, warkshops, symposium) in the headquarters of the Mazurian Landscape Park in Krutynia (TJ). Czytaj dalej

The second edition of the Winter Workshop of the lakes ecolog held at the Hydrobiological Station on 7th and 8th December 2016. We organized it together with the Foundation for the Preservation of the Great Mazurian Lakes for high school students from our region. More than a hundred (in total) young students took place in workshop, listened to lectures and took an active part in laboratory classes (TJ)… Czytaj dalej