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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Publication in Biogeosciences – peatland in Solska Forest
After conferences and seminars, it is time for another publication co-authored by Dominika Łuców. The authors traced over 2,300 years of transformation in a peatland in Puszcza Solska (Lublin Voivodeship), which evolved from a stable alder carr dominated – nomen omen – by alder, to a bog pine forest with a predominance of pine. Drawing […]
PAP interview with Alicja Bonk
Wildfires are a “burning” issue that we face more and more often. Alicja Bonk gave an interview to Nauka w Polsce (pol. “Science in Poland”), the science news service of the Polish Press Agency (PAP), in which she commented on the fires that recently affected southern Poland. In the same interview, Ala also offered a […]
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 […]
PalaeOpen Workshop
From April 27 to 30, we had the pleasure of organizing and hosting participants of a workshop held as part of the COST Action “PalaeOpen.” The workshop, titled “XRF & Biomarkers Workshop in Gdańsk,” brought together 16 participants and – as the name suggests – focused on topics related to XRF core scanning and, to […]