Meeting in Fingrowa Huta 2026
In late June, we celebrated the start of summer together at Fingrowa Huta. The weather did not disappoint – it was a truly summer day, with temperatures reaching 35°C! This year, the theme of our annual outdoor gathering was an Indian feast prepared by our PhD students. There was also excellent vinho verde, refreshing swims […]
Publication in REC – landscape changes in paleolimnology
We are delighted to share that a new publication involving our colleagues has appeared in Regional Environmental Change. The authors are Alicja Bonk, Wojciech Tylmann, and Maja Łaska – our master’s student. Alicja is clearly on track for a record-breaking year! The article reconstructs the history of fires and environmental change in northern Poland based […]
Summer School in Borucino
From June 22–26, first-year students of Physical Geography with Geoinformation (pol. Geografia fizyczna z geoinformacją) took part in the summer school “Interdisciplinary Research on Transformations of the Natural Environment” (pol. „Interdyscyplinarne Badania Przekształceń Środowiska Przyrodniczego”), organized at the University of Gdańsk Centre for Monitoring and Protection of Waters (pol. Centrum Monitoringu i Ochrony Wód Uniwersytetu […]
CCHRI 2026 Annual Colloquium – Sambor Czerwiński
Between June 15–17, an international symposium, the “Climate Change and History Research Initiative (CCHRI) 2026 Annual Colloquium: Cultural-Biological Co-evolution and Climate Change in the Holocene,” was held in Toruń. Sambor Czerwiński took part in the conference, presenting a paper titled “Forest Recovery between the Baltic and the Danube during the Migration Period and the Early […]
Bliżej jezior conference – Wojciech Tylmann
The results of Holocene temperature reconstructions, based on long-term research at Lake Żabińskie, were presented at the “Closer to Lakes” (pol. „Bliżej jezior”; 22.05.2026) conference organized by the IMGW-PIB (Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research Institute) and the Polish Limnological Society (pol. Polskie Towarzystwo Limnologiczne). Wojciech Tylmann delivered a talk titled “Paleolimnological […]
Department seminar – Mariusz Bąk
On May 28, the final guest seminar of our department this academic year took place (only the doctoral students’ presentations now lie ahead). The series was brought to a close by our colleague Mariusz Bąk from the Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (pol. Instytut Geoekologii i Geoinformacji UAM). In […]
Study visit – Dawid Siemek
From May 18–22, we hosted Dawid Siemek at the department – a geomorphologist working on his doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Under the supervision of Karol Tylmann, Dawid worked both in our laboratories and in the field. Our guest gained valuable knowledge on sampling […]
Department seminar – Darrell Kaufman
On May 21, our department hosted an “extra” scientific seminar – a welcome addition to our regular schedule. The guest speaker was none other than Darrell Kaufman from Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona, USA). During his talk titled “Glacier and Climate Changes from Alaskan Proglacial Lakes,” Darrell discussed why studying climate and glacier changes in […]
Field course “Coasts and Lakelands” 2026
Every year in May we find ourselves asking all kinds of questions about teaching methods – for example: “Can a lecture on aeolian processes take place in a deflation hollow at the foot of a dune slope, right in the heart of Słowiński National Park?” Of course it can, and that is what makes studying […]
Second PAP interview with Alicja Bonk
Following her comments on the recent wildfires in southern Poland, Alicja Bonk was approached by the editors of Science in Poland (pol. Nauka w Polsce, the Polish science news service run by PAP) to discuss fire events from the more distant past. In her statement, Alicja presented a perspective spanning 13,000 years, drawing on varved […]