University of Silesia in Katowice

The journal of the University of Silesia ‘Environmental & Socio-economic Studies’ was included in the Journal Citation Reports 2023 and for the first time received the Impact Factor – 1.1. This resulted in the journal being included on the so-called Philadelphia list—a prestigious list of journals indexed in the bibliographic databases of the Institute of...

The first Landscape Reading Station in Poland was launched at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Silesia in Sosnowiec. The official opening will take place on 21 April 2023 during the ‘GeoPiknik at Żyleta’. The station was built on the roof of Żyleta on the initiative of the Landscape Research Team, led...

Urszula Myga-Piątek, PhD, DSc, Associate Professor from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Silesia, Chair of the Polish Geographical Society, was appointed by the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences as a member of the Council of Scientific Societies at the presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the 2023-2026...

The book entitled Regionalna geografia fizyczna Polski (Regional Physical Geography of Poland) commissioned by the General Directorate for Environmental Protection (GDOŚ) has been published. Among the authors of the publication were Urszula Myga-Piątek, PhD, DSc, Associate Professor and Jerzy Nita, PhD, DSc, employees of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Silesia. The...