Department Seminars – Dominika Łuców
On Thursday, December 18, the last scientific seminar of this year was held at our Department of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology. Our guest was Dominika Łuców from the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In her presentation entitled “Eutrophication of lakes: the case of biodiversity assessment and potential use […]
Publication in ESSD – global peat depth database
How can we better understand the role of peatlands in the Earth system? The answer lies in Peat-DBase v1.0 – the largest and most comprehensive peat thickness database in the world. In a study published in Earth System Science Data, co-authored by Sambor Czerwiński, more than 200,000 measurements from across the globe were compiled – […]
Publication in Quaternary International – reflectance in paleofire studies
An article titled “Assessing the usage of flammability experiments and charcoal reflectance for interpreting the late Holocene record of fire” has just been published in Quaternary International. The first author of the publication is Alicja Bonk, and the co-author team includes Wojciech Tylmann. The authors proposed a new approach to reconstructing past fires by combining […]