Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences

Between June and September, rain precipitation samples are collected every month from rain gauges located around the Hornsund fiord. Usually Bogstranda, Lorchbreen valley, Bautabreen valley, Gåshamna and Lisbetdalen. The totalizer rain gauges are located in the seacoast region.

In 2015, the Polish Polar Station Hornsund monitoring programme was expanded to include an additional sample spot – Arieskaret, located at the 390 m a.s.l.
Arieskaret - Pass between Fugleberget and Ariekammen southernmost in Wedel Jarlsberg Land.

The Polish Polar Station Hornsund (Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences) is running long-term hydrological and hydrochemical monitoring in the Hornsund region. Since 2010, monitoring has included water samples collection and discharge measurements within the non-glacierized Fuglebekken catchment (Fuglebekken brook).
Fuglebekken - brook running below Fugleberget along the western marginal moraine of Hansbreen to Isbjørnhamna, southernmost in Wedel Jarlsberg Land.

Since 2004, snow and rain samples have been collected in the Fuglebekken catchment in close vicinity of the Polish Polar Station Hornsund.

Ariebreen surface mass balance monitoring reestablished in 2016 and since then is run under the umbrella of Polish Polar Station Hornsund owned by IG PAS.

The imagery covers the lower part of Fuglebekken catchment and the coastline of Isbjørnhamna

Hansbreen surface mass balance monitoring programme started in 1988 on the initiative of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Since the beginning of XXi century programme is run under the umbrella of Polish Polar Station Hornsund owned by IG PAS. Hansbreen (HAB) is a medium-sized (56 km2) tidewater glacier located in the southern part of Wedel Jarlsberg Land, close to the Polish Polar Station in the fjord Hornsund. The glacier is ~16 km long, and elevations extend up to 550 m a.s.l. Surface mass balance monitoring started in 1988/89. Over the period of 1989-2017, the net surface mass balance has been continuously decreasing, with a mean of -0.36 m w.e. a-1. Frontal ablation, measured along the c. 1.5 km long ice cliff shows that mass loss by calving contributes substantially to the total mass loss (23-50%, i.e. additional ablation by an equivalent of c. -0.7 m w.e. a-1 on average) and varies interannually. SMB data are reported on a yearly basis to the World Glacier Monitoring Service.

Seismometer placed in the concrete fundament protected by the small wooden house is located in the vicinity of Polish Polar Station in Hornsund.
Seismometer is powered using PSP resources. The data is transfered by cable to PSP and published online in open access catalogues, e.g.: https://ds.iris.edu/mda/PL/HSPB/