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 […]
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 […]
Department seminar – Torsten Haberzettl
On May 14, we had the pleasure of hosting Professor Torsten Habberzettl from the University of Greifswald (Germany) at our departmental seminar. During his talk, entitled “Unlocking Climate Archives on the Roof of the World: From Multi-Lake Studies to an ICDP Deep Drilling” Torsten shared his experiences and findings from the International Continental Scientific Drilling […]
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 […]
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 […]
Department Seminar – Haidee Cadd
On the last day of April, as is our Thursday tradition, we had the pleasure of hosting Haidee Cadd from the University of Wollongong (Australia). In her talk titled “The ecological legacy of fire in flammable landscapes – understanding the past to improve our future,” Haidee presented the challenges Australia faces in the context of […]
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 […]
Publication in QSR – crater lake in Mexico
In a recent publication co-authored by Wojciech Tylmann, the authors studied the crater lake Laguna de Santa Maria del Oro, located within the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (pol. Transmeksykański Pas Wulkaniczny). Drawing on sediments spanning the last 1,500 years and combining mineralogical and geochemical analyses (XRD and XRF), the authors reconstructed changes in hydroclimatic conditions in […]
World Earth Day at CZRUG
On April 22, we celebrated World Earth Day. The Centre for Sustainable Development of the University of Gdańsk organized an event aimed at secondary school students and university students alike. The Prof. Janusz Sokołowski Auditorium, located in the Main Library, was filled with young attendees who had the opportunity to listen to a series of […]