Dear Members and Friends
of the Oskar Halecki Institute in Canada,
The Oskar Halecki Institute in Canada together with the Association of Polish Engineers in Canada is pleased to invite you
to the lecture entitled:
SEA ICE IN CANADIAN WATERS AND THE SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN
by
Tomasz Adam Żagoń, B.E.S. (Honours Geography), Ice Physical Scientist
Meteorological Service Canada, ECCC Ottawa, Canada
This public lecture will occur
on Thursday, February 15, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. (EST) on the Zoom platform (please join from 7:15 p.m.).
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/
Meeting ID: 484 657 4530
Passcode: 1683
Please distribute this invitation to your friends. The poster is attached (with the link to the Zoom session).
_____________________________________________________________________________________Mr. Tomasz Adam Żagoń completed his B.E.S. (Honours Geography, remote sensing/sea ice) at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario in 1995.Initially, he worked in the private sector, at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) in Ottawa, and later at Fednav Group of Companies. From 2008 to the present he has been working in various research and managerial positions at Meteorological Services of Canada, ECCC, Ottawa, Canada.
His specialty is research into the utilization of new space-based sensors (onboard RADARSAT-2 and RCM) in providing information on sea ice in Canadian and other sea waters. He was a member of a series of studies on the Canadian Arctic including the Northwest Passage. He played a crucial role in the Parks Canada-led effort to findlost Franklin expedition vessels (2010-2016).
