XX Polar Symposium : man impact on Polar environment : Lublin, Poland, June 3-5, 1993

CONTENTS.
Preface.
PLENARY SESSION.
J. Machowski: Changes in the Antarctic environment under the impact of anthropopression and the legal means to counteract them.
T. Niedźwiedź: Long-term variability of the atmospheric circulation over Spitsbergen and its influence on the air temperature.
M. E. Jasinski: Aspects of archaeological research on Svalbard.
L. Roll: The remains of the early industrialisation of Svalbard as cultural heritage.
HISTORY AND MAN ACTIVITY IN ARCTIC.
M. E. Jasinski, V. F. Starkov: Archaeological investigations of a cultural layer in moraine deposits of Renard Glacier, Recherchefjorden, Svalbard. Field season 1992.
M. E. Jasinski, V. F. Starkov, V. I. Zavyalov, E. N. Zimin: Archaological sites at Cape Renard, Bellsund, Spitsbergen.
S. M. Matalewski: Centennial of the Norwegian Polar Expedition on board of the M. Fram 1893-1896.
V. F. Starkov: Russian sites on Spitsbergen.
V. J. Zavyalov, P. Y. Chemosvitov: The Pomors' site Ekrolhamna.
W. Ziaja: Discovery of remains of settiement in Bettybukta, SE Sorkapp Land, Spitsbergen.
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES.
L. Bielecka: Cyclopoida of the Bransfield Strait (Antarctica, October-November 1986).
M. Bölter: Microbial biomass in soils and on plants of King George Island (Arctowski Station, Maritime Antarctic).
E. Dubiel: Distribution of vascular plants in Sørkapp Land (Spitsbergen).
Z. Duriš: On a collection of Crustacea decapoda from the Southeastem Svalbard.
M. Godlewska: Natural and man induced variations in krill biomass (Western Antarctic, 1981-1989).
K. Jażdżewski, J. Siciński, P. Presler: Remarks on the bottom fauna of Admiralty Bay, South Shetlands, Antarctica.
Z. Jóźwik: Antagonism of bacteria isolated from the soils of Western Spitsbergen, Bellsund region.
Z. Jóźwik, J. Magierski: VII. Contents of Cu, Mn, Zn, Pb and Cd in plants and soil on Western Spitsbergen — Bellsund region.
A. Kompowski: The state of the blackfin icefish (Chaneocephalus aceratus (Lönnberg, 1906), (Pisces, Channichthyidae) stock off South Georgia (Antarctic) in 1988-1992.
A. Krzyszowska: Human impact around polar stations on Fildes Peninsula (King George Island, Antarctica).
G. G. Matishov, L. G. Pavlova: The anthropogenic factors in the dynamics of shelf and the Barents Sea coastal ecosystems.
D. G. Matishov, J. Szczypa: Gamma emitters in the Barents Sea area.
E. Moczydłowski, E. Pirożnikow: The temperatures in the plan communities of the Ariekammen-Fugleberget catchment area (West Spitsbergen).
J. Rokicki, M. H. El Mehlaw: Notes on the development of parasitic copepoda Eubrachiella Antarctica (Quidor, 1906).
J. Rokicki, J. O. Strömberg, M. H. El Mehlaw: The occurrence of Eubrachiella Antarctica (Quidor, 1906) on the antarctic fish Champsocephalus Gunnari (Lönnberg, 1905).
F. Święs, K. Karczmarz: Bryophytes collected in Arctic tundra of the Lyellstranda region (Western Spitsbergen) in 1987 and 1988.
M. I. Żmijewska: Seasonal changes in the vertical distribution and stage structure of the population of Metridia gerlachei in Croker Passage, Antarctic Peninsula.
EARTH SCIENCES.
S. Bartoszewski: Dynamics of underground waters in Calypsostranda region m 1990 (Western Spitsbergen).
J. Bednarek, S. Rudowski, S. M. Zalewski: The tectonics sketch of the offshore area within Homsund region, Spitsbergen.
K. Birkenmajer: Contemporaneous volcanoes of Bransfield Rift, West Antarctica.
J. Czerny, A. Kieres, A. Manecki, M. Manecki, J. Rajchel: The Geological Map (l :25 000) of the SW part of Wedel Jarlsberg Land.
J. Czerny, B. Kwiecińska, M. Manecki: TEM and SEM studies of organie forms in anthraxolite coal from Krakken (Spitsbergen).
J. Demek: Natural resources of the Northern Polar regions: its use and protection.
A. Gaździcki: Geology and paleobiology of Cocburn Island, Antarctic Peninsula.
A. Górniak, J. Wojtanowicz: Geochemistry of niveo-eolian sediment in northem part of Wedel Jarlsberg Land, Spitsbergen.
M. Harasimiuk, T. Król: Development of fluvial system of the Dunder Basin (Western Spitsbergen).
W. Jezierski: Development of southem Bellsund beaches (Western Spitsbergen).
A. Kamiński, J. Wach: The ground temperature of permafrost active layer in the Fugleberget catchment basin (SW Spitsbergen) in the winter season 1985/1986.
M. Kejna: Types of atmospheric circulation in the region of H. Arctowski Station (South Shetland Islands) in the years 1986-1989.
Z. Klimowicz, S. Uziak, J. Melke: Soil studies in the region of southem Bellsund area (Western Spitsbergen).
P. Kłysz: Discussion on the basis including naled sheets processes producing ice-cored moraine ridges.
W. E. Krawczyk, J. Wach: Winter outflows of waters from the Werenskiold Glacier in the hydrological year 1985/1986 .
Y. Ohta: Precambrian history of Svalbard in the light of new radiometric age determinations.
J. Reder: Contemporary deglaciation of the Recherche and Renard Glaciers in the Bellsund region (Western Spitsbergen).
B. E. Ryden: Energy flow to Arctic tundra surface and experiences of induced disturbances.
J. G. Samoilovich, G. G. Matishov, G. A. Tarasov: Late Weichselian deglaciation and glaci-marginal formations in the Murman offshore, the Barents Sea.
R. Szczêsny: Differentiation of neotectonic movements in western Sorkapp Land (Spitsbergen) on the ground of photointerpretation.
A. Szponar: Degradation of ice-moraine ridges in natural conditions.
G. A. Tarasov: Some questions of the Pleistocene sedimentation on the Barents Sea shelf.
J. Wojtanowicz: Dusty deposits (loesses) of the contemporary Arctic zone.
A. Wójcik, W. Ziaja: Marine and gladal Quaternary deposits of the southem Sørkapp Land, Spitsbergen.
W. Ziaja: Landscape differentiation and development of the south-eastem Sorkapp Land, Spitsbergen.
VARIA.
Z. Duriš: A report on the Czechoslovak Biological Diving Expedition "Arctic'92".
J. Giżejewski: 14th Spitsbergen-Hornsund 91/92 Expedition Report.