INQUA Peribaltic Group meeting – Harz, Germany
From August 25th to 29th, a strong team from the Geomorphological Reconstruction Laboratory — Piotr Woźniak, Karol Tylmann, Olga Reutt, and Sanjaya Gurung — took part in the regular conference of the INQUA Peribaltic Working Group. This time, enthusiasts of glaciations, boulders, clay, sand, and gravel of all kinds gathered in the picturesque Harz Mountains […]
Bachelor defense – Anastazja Mastylak
On Tuesday, September 9th, our student Anastazja Mastylak successfully defended her bachelor’s thesis, officially joining the ranks of our graduates. Her thesis, titled “Assessment of the usefulness of dating detrital zircon grains in provenance studies of glacial clays in the southwestern part of the area affected by the last Scandinavian glaciation” (Pol. „Ocena przydatności datowania […]
Visit in Spain – Alicja Bonk
Between September 1st and 4th, Ala Bonk visited Spain, where she met with Pablo Corella from the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid and Graciela Gil-Romera from the Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología in Zaragoza. She brought back two short sediment cores from Lake Arreo – the first step toward collaborative research on the history […]
Field course – geomorphology
Some time ago, at the turn of June and July, second-year geography students, under the supervision of Karol Tylmann, and later Olga Reutt and Łukasz Elwirski, took part in field course in geomorphology. Quaternary landforms and deposits of various origins around Borucino hold no secrets for them.
Biebrza NP – fieldwork
A few days ago, Alicja Bonk, together with our recent graduate Ola Orłowska and future bachelor’s degree recipient Barbara Biały, visited Biebrza National Park. The purpose of the trip was to collect research material following the extensive fire that swept through this unique area in April of this year. We extend our heartfelt thanks to […]
Summer School – Romania
From July 7th to 11th, Karol Tylmann joined a group of second-year geology students for a summer school organized under the ERASMUS+ program by the Faculty of Geography at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The school was held under the theme “Dendrogeomorphology”, and students attended introductory lectures on the first day at the university in […]
Defenses – 2025 alumns
Today we had the immense pleasure of releasing another generation of geographers from under our geomorphological wings! Final-year undergraduate and graduate students defended their theses — and they all nailed it! We’re incredibly proud of you and hope to cross paths again on future stages of your academic journey! Our bachelor’s graduates this year: Wiktoria […]
Publication in JoPl – Lake Gorzyńskie chronology
In recent days, the first paper on Lake Gorzyńskie, our new site with varved sediments, was published. In an article in the Journal of Paleolimnology, we present the chronology of the sediments, an initial look at their chemical composition, and our preliminary thoughts on the potential of this unique archive—our record extends back approximately 13,250 […]
Highlights 2024
This year, we’re excited to share a summary of our activities from the past calendar year for the very first time! Inside our calendar, you’ll discover a selection of events highlighting the life of the department in 2024. On behalf of the department’s head, we warmly invite you to explore our “board magazine” (in Polish). […]
Szymon Świątek – Seminar
Some time ago, as part of our departmental scientific seminars, we had the pleasure of hosting Szymon Świątek from the Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences at Adam Mickiewicz University. Szymon presented us with the results of his research, which are part of the doctoral dissertation he is preparing. In his speech entitled “Novel Methods […]