Today, a series of meetings with direct inclusions from the Ice Continent of Bulgarian scientists from the 33rd Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition begins. On January 18 at 6:30 p.m. “Scene Centralni Hali“ invites all those tempted by travel, research and discovery of new and unknown lands, on a trip to Livingston Island.
A special guest at the meeting will be the head of the Bulgarian Antarctic expeditions, Prof. Hristo Pimpirev, and four of the Bulgarian scientists will join the direct connection, who will present the progress in their polar projects.
Eng. Tsvetan Parov and Dr. Yordanka Donkova will tell the guests of the event whether the glaciers in Antarctica are melting and at what speed this is happening. For the second year in a row, they are placing temperature sensors in the cracks of the glaciers at a depth of 21 meters to check whether the huge ice masses absorb and retain heat from the ground atmosphere and whether this leads to their melting.
Why the glaciers do not move at a constant speed and whether seismic activity is observed on the Ice Continent will be told by a team from the Faculty of Physics of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski“ - Senior Assistant Professor Dr. Gergana Georgieva and physicist Vasil Gurev - one of the doyens in the expedition. Is there a connection between the speed of movement of the glaciers and the water that flows from them and how many seismic stations are placed in Antarctica - a small part of the curious details that the guests will learn about the first “live“ connection with their native polar explorers