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Sequential 1D Modelling as a Tool for Reconstructing the Polyphase Thermal History of the Collision Zone in the Western Carpathians

An article by M. Zielińska, K. Spunda, D. Plašienka and D. Botor entitled “Thermal records of Mesozoic and Cenozoic heat flow peaks as an expression of structural evolution interplay in the Western Carpathian northern suture” has been published in Marine Geoscience and Energy Resources (Elsevier; formerly Marine and Petroleum Geology). The study presents a quantitative...

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500 years of climate change in Greenland recorded in juniper wood. New research demonstrates the unprecedented rate of modern Arctic warming

Nature Communications has published a paper entitled ‘500-year paleoclimate record inferred from Greenland Juniper wood contextualises current climate warming’. It was prepared by an international team of researchers led by Dr Magdalena Opała-Owczarek, a professor at the University of Silesia. The article presents a reconstruction of summer temperature variability in southern Greenland over the past...

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A recipe for efficient management of riverbank filtration sites in a few steps

Members of the research team “Groundwater under human impact” (PhD student Krzysztof Janik and Dr Sławomir Sitek) in co-authorship with Dr Arno Rein (Technical University of Munich) published an article entitled “Towards efficient management of riverbank filtration sites: new insights on river–groundwater interactions from environmental tracers and high-resolution monitoring” in the prestigious journal Hydrology and...

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First joint water monitoring campaign under the CRossWATER project

In July 2025, the first water environment monitoring campaign of the CRossWATER project took place in Zgorzelec and Görlitz. With the support of the water supply companies from Görlitz and Zgorzelec, groundwater samples were collected from 40 locations, along with river water samples from the Lusatian Neisse and Czerwona Woda. Fieldwork also included measurements of...

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