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From initial assessment to continuous monitoring – continuation of hydrogeological research in Zgorzelec

Hydrogeologists from the Institute of Earth Sciences are continuing their fieldwork in Zgorzelec as part of the CRossWATER project, funded under the Interreg Poland-Saxony programme. Following the first pilot studies carried out in summer 2025, which included extensive investigations, field measurements and chemical analyses of groundwater and surface water on both sides of the Polish-German...

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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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