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What will our cities look like in the future?

The study of the transformation of urban landscapes has both a scientific and an applied purpose. Learning about currently occurring processes gives the opportunity to forecast future changes and prevent their negative effects in space in the future. PhD Katarzyna Pukowiec-Kurda in research, using the mathematical indices of the Index of Landscape Change (ICh) and...

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The Paleo-Mystery of The Tiny Tetrapod Tracks

Tetrapods leave their tracks in soft sediments that become harder with time and may enter the fossil record: the Book of Life on Earth. The tracks are messages from the past left by animals who went extinct thousands and millions of years ago – a magnet for paleontologists who seek to uncover secrets of the...

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What is the future of mountain meadows and glades in the Western Beskids?

We live in times of the Great Acceleration. The intensification of human activity is reflected in landscape changes that accelerated worldwide after World War II. These changes concern not only areas where human activity intensifies but also marginal areas where humans abandon their activities. As a result of both processes, the range of traditional landscapes...

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Lectures of prof. Ola Fredin in the Institute of Earth Sciences

We invite you to open lectures as part of the Faculty’s scientific meetings, delivered by Professor Ola Fredin (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Geoscience and Petroleum). The lectures will be delivered on October 25, 2023 (Wednesday) in room 128 of the WNP building at ul. Będzińska 60. Lecture 1 (9:45-11:15) entitled Remnants...

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Lecture of prof. Kazuyuki Saito in the Institute of Earth Sciences

prof. Kazuyuki Saito, Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan Meteorological Agency; Tokyo, Japan In the coming days prof. Kazuyuki Saito will visit the Institute of Earth Sciences. Prof. Saito is an employee of the Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan Meteorological...

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Tourism Landscape Footprint in the Archaeological Landscape

Archaeological sites are increasingly attracting the interest of tourists, and the landscape of these places is being increasingly transformed by tourist infrastructure. Research conducted, using selected archaeological landscapes in Poland as examples, introduces the concept of Tourism Landscape Footprint (TLF) in the context of physiognomic changes occurring due to the location of tourist facilities. Current...

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Snow cover in a city

The state of snow cover is the result of simultaneous impact and variability of many meteorological elements and factors, such as air temperature, precipitation, solar radiation, and indirectly also atmospheric circulation. Snow cover can therefore be considered as an indicator comprehensively reflecting the conditions of the winter period, and its changes and variability – as...

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Sedimentary and structural record of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet margin dynamics at the SE part of the Głubczyce Plateau, a foreland of the East Sudetes Mountains (S Poland)

The paper presents a rare case of a push-moraine formed in front of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet margin at the forefield of mountains. The studied succession, which is composed of tills and sands deposited at the surface of the glacier’s marginal fan, developed in the culmination zone of a hill, the base of which constitutes...

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