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Students in Polar and Alpine Research Conference 2020 - preface Dear colleagues from within the polar and alpine research community, Today we are once again honoured to host the international Students in Polar and Alpine Research Conference, already in its sixth year. The conference has been held despite the ongoing unfavourable circumstances of the global CoViD-19 pandemic, which has forced us to move largely to online streaming. Nonetheless, we were able to meet also in person, albeit in smaller numbers than the previous years, on the premises of the Department of Geography, Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia. The topics covered include the fields of both geosciences and biosciences, as well as interdisciplinary studies. We believe this conference has given us a glimpse of hope that we will soon be able to return to our researches and field works in those unforgiving, yet beautiful environments of the polar and alpine regions. A total of 40 contributions were presented during the two days of the conference, including 4 keynote lectures, 30 oral presentations and 10 posters. We would like to thank all the participants, including the young scientists who have presented their interesting research topics and the keynote speakers for sharing their knowledge and experience with us. We are happy to welcome old friends as well as colleagues participating for the first time, yet who will hopefully come again in next years. There is a website dedicated to Students in Polar and Alpine Research Conference, which you can find on https://sparc-brno.webnode.cz. We sincerely hope that we will meet again in Brno in the near future. Brno, 21 September 2020 Jan Kavan, Matěj Roman