Achievements, History and Challenges in Geophysics

History and Achievements.- Best practices in Earth Sciences. The national and international experience of the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.- On the roots of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences.- 50 Years of Palaeomagnetic Studies in the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences.- Natural variations of the geomagnetic field - observations and application to study of the Earth's interior and ionosphere.- Half century of the ozone observations at the Central Geophysical Observatory, IGF PAS, Belsk, Poland.- Forty years of water research at the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences.- Changes in catchment hydrology caused by changes in the environment - a contribution of the Water Resources Department, Institute of Geophysics PAS.- Five Polish seismic expeditions to the West Antarctica (1979-2007).- Department of Polar and Marine Research: the Hornsund Station and Other Activities in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions.- Seismology and Earth Dynamics - a Variety of Scientific Approaches .- Sixty Years of Publishing with the Institute of Geophysics.- Exemplary Current Research and Geophysical Methods. -Discharge Measurements in Lowland Rivers: Field Comparison between an Electromagnetic Open Channel Flow Meter (EOCFM) and an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP).- Random Domino Automaton - Modeling Macroscopic Properties by Means of Microscopic Rules.- Continental Passive Margin West of Svalbard and Barents Sea in Polish Arctic Seismic Studies.- Selected Theoretical Methods in Solid Earth Physics - Contribution from the Institute of Geophysics PAS.- Application of Passive Hydroacoustics in the Studies of Sea-Ice, Icebergs and Glaciers: Issues, Approaches and Future Needs.- Pigeon navigation model based on a vector magnetometer.- Analysis of surface ozone variations based on the long-term measurement in Kraków (1854-1878), (2005-2013) and Belsk (1995-2012).- Dissolved oxygen in rivers:concepts and measuring techniques.- Gradient-based similarity in the stable atmospheric boundary layer.- Asymmetric Continuum Theory: Fracture Processes in Seismology and Extreme Fluid Dynamics.- Time scales: Towards Extending the Finite Difference Technique for Non-homogeneous Grids.