Topics of the Institute's own (degree) research carried out in the years 2004-2005:
Projects commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Science (formerly the Committee for Scientific Research):
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Department of Biogeography and Paleoecology:
- Geology and paleoecology of water bodies and peatlands of Pomerania and Wielkopolska
- Paleoecology of north-eastern Poland
- Contemporary geomorphological processes in various morphoclimatic zones: controls, course, and effects for the natural environment
- Morphodynamic functions of relief in West Pomerania
- Circulation of mineral matter in the terrestrial geoecosystem of Admiralty Bay; the Antarctic
- Slope morphodynamics in postglacial areas
- Formation and evolution of a river network in postglacial areas
- Evaluation of geographical instruction methods employed in the process of formation of geographical notions in bilingual Polish-French education
- Changes in the land-use pattern in the Parsęta valley
- Differences in soil erosion by water on slopes in agricultural use
- Effect of vegetation on chemical denudation processes (West Pomerania)
- Functioning of the geoecosystem of the Lake Gardno catchment (Wolin Island)
- Character and functioning of closed basins in the landscape of a postglacial zone (West Pomerania, the upper Parsęta)
- Morphogenetic seasons in West Pomerania in the light of its weather types
- Fieldwork in regional education
- Morphodynamics of the Wolin Island cliff coasts
- Differences in the course and effects of aeolian processes in postglacial areas
- GIS-assisted analysis of morphodynamic functions of relief in a postglacial area
- Stratigraphy of the Vistulian and Holocene
- Fluvial paleohydrology
- Net eolian transport of sand material on the beach of the Gardno-Łeba Bar
- Stratigraphy of tills and glaciotectonic structure of the Gardno end moraine (Słowino Coast)
- Gardno Stage ice-marginal lake in the lower Łupawa valley
- History of change in the littoral zone of the Southern Baltic in the light of diatom analysis
- History of change in the littoral zone of the Southern Baltic in the light of geochemical analysis
- Formation of Lake Gardno and its paleoecological transformations following the Holocene transgression of the Southern Baltic in the light of diatom studies
- Transformation of a lacustrine lagoon environment on the example of Lake Sarbsko.
- Morphogenesis of south-western Wielkopolska in the light of lithofacies analysis
- Geomorphology and deposits of littoral zones of selected lakes on the Brda outwash plain
- Variety of alimentation sources of indicator erratics of the Odra lobe glacial deposits
- Geomorphological development of the Głogów-Barucka Pradolina
- Wind-polished stones as indicators of periglacial zones of various ages
- Model of sedimentation of the Vistulian ice-sheet in the Wielkopolska Lowland
- Late-Pleistocene loess deposits on selected glacial series of north-western Poland and their paleogeographical significance
- Relief of Pleistocene and contemporary morphogenetic zones in western Poland
Department of Geoecology:
Department of Quaternary Geology and Paleogeography:
Department of Geomorphology:
Projects commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Science (formerly the Committee for Scientific Research):
- "Extreme meteorological and hydrological events in Poland (assessment of the events and a forecast of their impact on man's living environment)". Co-ordinator: Prof. Jacek Jania (Silesian University)
- Task 3.2. Verification, supplementation and standardisation of the existing databases. Co-ordinator: Dr Alfred Stach
- Task 5.5. Lakelands. Co-ordinator: Dr Zbigniew Zwoliński
- "Structure, evolution and dynamics of the lithosphere, cryosphere and biosphere in the European sector of the Arctic and in the Antarctic". Co-ordinator: Prof. Aleksander Guterch (Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences).
- Tasks II.2 and 7. Field study of geoecosystems in Spitsbergen. Co-ordinator: Dr Grzegorz Rachlewicz
- Task II.5. Field study of geoecosystems in the Antarctic. Co-ordinator: Dr Zbigniew Zwoliński
- Integrated Monitoring of the Natural Environment in Poland. Co-ordinator: Prof. Andrzej Kostrzewski
- Programme P1: Land cover and use. Co-ordinator: Dr Zbigniew Zwoliński (together with Prof. Jan R. Olędzki, Department of Remote Sensing of the Natural Environment, Warsaw University)
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