New UNESCO Global Geopark in Poland
The Land of Extinct Volcanoes Geopark has officially joined the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network. It is the third area in Poland with this title, alongside the UNESCO Holy Cross Mountains Geopark and the UNESCO Muskau Arch Geopark.
Trans-Atlantic collaboration in the research network "Renewable Resilience: City-Scale Geothermal Energy Everywhere"
„Renewable Resilience: City-Scale Geothermal Energy Everywhere” is a research network operating since 2023 under the terms of the John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, which is a part of the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Activities of the network are related to low-temperature geothermal energy and various underground geothermal energy storage systems.
PGI-NRI at WarmeGUT project workshop on statistics in low-temperature geothermics
W dniu 27 lutego 2024 r. w Offenburgu w Niemczech odbyły się międzynarodowe warsztaty pt. „Warsztaty statystyczne dotyczące płytkiej energii geotermalnej w Europie”, realizowane w ramach niemieckiego projektu WärmeGut.
PGI-NRI tests new research method
The media spread the news about the search for critical raw materials in the Suwałki region. However, this is not a reliable information. Yes, the Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute (PGI-NRI) is conducting research in this area (Krzemianki and Udryń area - Suwałki anorthosite massif), but these are not exploration studies, because the deposits of iron, vanadium and titanium occurring in this area are already well recognized with an exceptionally large number of drillings.