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 […]
Summer School in Cluj-Napoca (2026)
On 6–10 July 2026, Karol Tylmann and our geography and geology students took part in the annual dendrogeomorphology school held in Romania. The school is slowly becoming a tradition – this was already the third edition! The event, which focuses on dendrogeomorphology and geohazards in mountain environments, is organized mainly by researchers from Babeș-Bolyai University […]
Publication in LUP – model of coastal evolution under tourism pressure
Summer is in full swing. Many of us find ourselves wondering: what if we headed to the Hel Peninsula and stayed at one of the campsites there? It is precisely the history of their development that formed the basis for a model of coastal evolution under tourism pressure, as well as for identifying gaps and […]
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 […]
INQUA Peribaltic 2026 – Łódź
Between fieldwork trips, and despite the changeable — if still summery — weather, we also find time for conference trips! A great opportunity to share our research results recently was the conference of the Peribaltic Group of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), which is held annually in a different country of the Baltic […]
Shasha Liu’s (Ludong University, China) visit
rom 28 to 30 June, our Department hosted Dr Shasha Liu from Ludong University, located in the city of Yantai on the Yellow Sea coast of China. Dr Liu conducts research on sustainable coastal management, including the development of nature-based solutions. She is part of a team responsible for developing plans and monitoring the effects […]