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 […]
EGU 2026
From May 3 to 8, Vienna hosted the annual conference of the European Geosciences Union – EGU General Assembly 2026. Our department was represented by Karol Tylmann, who presented a poster on the legends and myths surrounding Poland’s largest erratic boulders (pol. legendy i mity dotyczące największych głazów narzutowych Polski). The light yet compelling topic […]
Summer School POLCA 2.0
Between May 4 and 13, 2026, Gdynia hosted the second edition of the International Summer School on Pollution in Coastal Areas – POLCA 2.0 (pol. Międzynarodowa Szkoła Letnia – Zanieczyszczenia w Strefie Brzegowej 2.0), organized by the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography of the University of Gdańsk with the support of the Polish National Agency […]
SGP Awards
The Polish Association of Geomorphologists (Stowarzyszenie Geomorfologów Polskich, SGP) has just announced the results of its annual competition for the best student thesis. The Leszek Starkel Award is given in two categories: bachelor’s/engineering theses and master’s theses defended in a given calendar year. We are delighted to announce that in the bachelor’s thesis category, first […]
Damian Moskalewicz for Polsat TV
In recent days, news spread across Poland that new land had “appeared.” The reference is to a new spit that has developed at the tip of the Hel Peninsula. Damian Moskalewicz appeared on Polsat television to discuss the causes behind the development of this ephemeral landform. The report is available at: https://www.polsatnews.pl/wideo-program/wydarzenia-1850-05042026_6862517/ (the relevant segment […]
Collaboration with the University of Malta
We are pleased to announce that Damian Moskalewicz and Patryk Sitkiewicz have established a collaboration with Ritienne Gauci from the University of Malta (L-Università ta’ Malta). The project SHORE MALTA: A Pilot Study on Sedimentary Heritage for the Observation and Reconstruction of Embayments in Malta is funded by the SEA-EU alliance, of which the University […]
Publication in Coastal Research – Beachmeter and AI in coastal areas
A new article by Patryk Sitkiewicz has just been published in the Coastal Research series (Springer). In this work, the author presents the first attempt at semi-automated monitoring of coastal morphodynamics. Patryk developed and applied his own tool, Beachmeter, and trained an artificial intelligence model capable of independently interpreting the results of GIS analyses. The […]
International Geomorphology Week 2026
At the beginning of March, we celebrated the International Geomorphology Week. As in previous years, we actively took part in the events marking this occasion. On March 3, the Commission on Innovative Research Methods in Geomorphology organised a session for young geomorphologists entitled “Innovations and New Methods in Geomorphology”, during which representatives of four academic […]
International Sedimentological Congress – Wellington (NZ)
We hadn’t been there before! A three-person delegation from our department arrived in Wellington, New Zealand. Between 25 and 30 January, Alicja Bonk, Karol Tylmann and Wojciech Tylmann took part in the International Sedimentological Congress (ISC). Alicja, Karol and Wojtek delivered three presentations in total and co‑authored several others. Moreover, Alicja co‑chaired the session “Varved […]
Publication in Catena – landslide dating in Sudety Mts.
Karol Tylmann together with his colleagues, is presenting landslide-related research in Sudety Mountains. Although it may seem unusual, their article published in Catena features beryllium. This is essentially the first application of beryllium-based landslide dating in the Sudetes. The studied landslide turned out to be remarkably old – its age is estimated at 50–60 thousand […]