Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Head of the department

Prof. dr hab. Wojciech Zgłobicki

Staff

• dr Piotr Bartmiński
• dr hab. Jacek Chodorowski, prof. UMCS
• prof. dr hab. Ryszard Dębicki, prof. em.
• dr Grzegorz Gajek
• dr hab. Leszek Gawrysiak, prof. UMCS
• dr inż. Miłosz Huber
• prof. dr hab. Waldemar Kociuba
• dr hab. Renata Kołodyńska-Gawrysiak
• prof. dr hab. Jerzy Nawrocki
• dr hab. Andrzej Plak, prof. UMCS
• prof. dr Jean Poesen
• dr Marcin Siłuch
• dr Małgorzata Telecka

Current research topics

• Dynamics of selected soil and sediment properties of the Bellsund region (Western Spitsbergen)
• Comprehensive environmental monitoring of Central Roztocze region
• Use of geophysical, petrographic, sedimentological, geochemical and statistical methods in environmental research
• Variability of selected properties of soils subjected to degradation processes in Poland SE
• Soil as a living environment
• Remote sensing monitoring of natural processes at different spatial and time scales
• Use of GIS programmes to analyse the morphometric differentiation of the Lublin Upland and Roztocze region
• Application of new measurement techniques and methods of their interpretation in regional hydrological and hydrochemical research
• Use of remote measurements to model and reconstruct historical objects
• Use of the area's geodiversity in tourism

Currently ongoing research projects:

• SONATA 11 (NCN): The use of hyperspectral imaging for parametrization of the growing season in the context of the characteristics of soil cover