Workshop at the Experyment Science Centre
Even though it’s summer break, we haven’t put teaching on hold – this time in a slightly different format, and for a younger audience than usual. On August 14–15, Aleksandra Orłowska and our master’s student Anastazja Mastylak led workshops at the Experyment Science Centre (Centrum Nauki Experyment) in Gdynia. The workshops were part of our […]
Publication in Boreas – varves in Argentina
A new paper co-authored by Wojciech Tylmann has appeared in Boreas, focusing on the varved sediments of proglacial Lago Frías in the North Patagonian Andes (Argentina). Radiometric dating, tephra layers and varve counting on computed tomography images yielded a chronology for 1960–2019 and a floating chronology for 1803–1893, separated by a tephra from the 1893 […]
Publication in QSR – Alaskan glaciers
In a new paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews, a team of authors including Maurycy Żarczyński examined Holocene changes in the extent of mountain glaciers in the catchment of Eklutna Lake. Using a broad set of geochemical and sedimentological data together with statistical methods, the team showed that glaciers were relatively small until about 5,500 […]
Interreg Wildfire CE – Alicja Bonk in scientific committee
Alicja Bonk has been invited to join the scientific committee of the Central European Wildfire Symposium, an international meeting to be held on March 17–18, 2027, at TUD Dresden University of Technology (Technische Universität Dresden) as part of the Interreg Wildfire CE project. Interreg Wildfire CE is an international cooperation project aimed at better preparing […]
Publication in CATENA – carbon burial in tropical lakes
We are pleased to announce that a new publication co-authored by Wojciech Tylmann and Paweł Etmański has appeared in Catena. The study focuses on five crater lakes located within the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt in Central Mexico and asks how their primary production and organic carbon burial rates have changed over the past century. All five […]
Publication in QSR – Late Glacial in Lake Gorzyńskie
Varved sediments from Lake Gorzyńskie in western Poland form a unique archive of environmental change spanning the transition from the last glaciation to the Holocene. Detailed sedimentological, geochemical, and paleobiological analyses made it possible to trace how forests, the catchment, and the lake responded to climate change. The research shows that during cooling, vegetation changes […]
Bachelor exams 2026
The season of thesis defenses and diploma exams is in full swing. July 2nd was a busy day at our Department. Our bachelor’s graduates were certainly stressed, but every defense ended in success. Thank you all for your cooperation over the past months, and we wish you nothing but success in your academic and professional […]
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 […]