Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Research projects currently conducted at the Institute:

• MINIATURA 1 (NCN): Sedimentary environments of Pleistocene glacigenic deposits of crevasse accumulation in eastern Poland
• MINIATURA 2 (NCN): Application of sedaDNA to increase the interpretational potential of rotifer resting eggs (Rotifera) in paleolimnological research
• MINIATURA 2 (NCN): Multidecadal variability of air temperature over East-Central Europe in the last millennium
• MINIATURA 3 (NCN): Impact of climate change on the dynamics of hydrological extreme events, Stage 1: Development of the project assumptions and methodology, scientific internship at the Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State University
• MINIATURA 3 (NCN): Methodological and practical aspects on humid heatwaves study
• MINIATURA 4 (NCN): Height of precipitation thresholds triggering mass processes in the western part of the Nałęczów Plateau
• MINIATURA 4 (NCN): Evaluation of the possibility of water retention on meliorated wetlands in the light of their use and contemporary climate change
• MINIATURA 5 (NCN): The occurrence of strong heat stress in hot and arid climate condition
• OPUS 14 (NCN): Intra-Eemian climate oscillations. Reconstruction based on multiproxy studies of fossil lacustrine deposits of Garwolin Plain (Central Poland)
  
• OPUS 16 (NCN): Global, regional and local factors determining the palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental record in the Ukrainian loess-soil sequences along the Dnieper valley - from the proximal areas to the distal periglacial zone
• OPUS 19 (NCN): Effect of leaching of natural phosphorus minerals from sedimentary rocks on the trophic potential of surface waters in selected areas of the Vistula and Bug interfluve
• SONATINA 3 (NCN): Study on modification of the chemism of surface and subsurface water, and transport of anthropogenic pollutants in the glacier-free Reindeer Creek catchment caused by variable alimentation with precipitation waters (Bellsund Fjord, Spitsbergen)
• SONATA 11 (NCN): The use of hyperspectral imaging for parametrization of the growing season in the context of the characteristics of soil cover
• Projekt CRIOS: Cryosphere Integrated Observatory Network on Svalbard