Michal Janouch - Polární setkání en

He was an important Czech climatologist and polar scientist, a participant in the 19th Antarctic expedition of the Polish Academy of Sciences to the Henryk Arctowski station in South Shetland.

He graduated from the Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography in Brno.

Since 1991 he worked at the Solar and Ozone Observatory of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute in Hradec Králové.

He served as chairman of the Polar Section of the Czech Geographical Society. Under its auspices, he organized international meetings of polar explorers working on the Arctic-Alpine tundra and polar explorations in the Arctic, Antarctica, Spitsbergen and Siberia.

He visited Antarctica several times, where he and a science team installed the Brewer spectrophotometer at the Marambio base in Argentina to measure total ozone in the atmosphere and ultraviolet radiation from the Sun in 2010. The data were regularly submitted to the WOUDC global ozone measurement database.

For this work, the Czech Republic received an award from the United Nations Environment Programme in 2012.

Michal Janouch was also closely associated with the Giant Mountains. He participated in long-term measurements at the Labská bouda meteorological station and was a member of the scientific section of the Council of the Krkonoše National Park.

He contributed significantly to the preservation and promotion of the legacy of the Czech polar explorer Václav Vojtěch, a participant in Byrd's expedition to Antarctica.

Janouchová, with whom he had two daughters, Anna and Sonia.