Polish polar community celebrated the 80th anniversary of Prof. Aleksander Guterch during the XXXVI Polish Polar Symposium in Lublin (8-10/06/2016). Prof. Guterch - representative of Poland in the European Polar Board is the outstanding specialist in seismology and the study of Earth's interior. He was the initiator and coordinator of the 7 scientific expeditions to polar regions: the West Antarctic and Spitsbergen.