Environmental Geochemistry Research Team and Uranium-Series Laboratory (LUT)

Head of the LUT.: dr hab. Michał Gąsiorowski
Institute of Geological Sciences PAS

Research Center in Warsaw

Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warsaw (Poland)
Phone: (48) 22 6978-742 
e-mail: mgasior@twarda.pan.pl

 


Research fields:

  1. Anthropogenic changes in the natural environment
  2. Paleoenvironmental reconstructions based on speleothem records
  3. Analysis of the distribution and migration of pollutants in natural ecosystems
  4. Study of transport and deposition of natural and artificial radioactive isotopes in the environment
  5. Dating lake sediments using the 210Pb and 137Cs methods
  6. Study of 3H activity in various components of the natural environment
  7. Using isotopes studies to model geochemical processes
  8. Isolating of collagen from fossil bone samples
     

Team members:

  1. Dr .hab. Michał Gąsiorowski, Professor of the Institute
  2. Dr. Hab. Helena Hercman, Professor of the Institute
  3. MSc. Paula Sierpień, Laboratory Menager
  4. Dr. Jacek Pawlak, Adjunct
  5. Dr. Marcin Błaszczyk, Adjunct
  6. Dr. Ilona Sekudewicz, Adjunct
  7. Dr. Maciej Swęd, Adjunct
  8. MSc. Anna Mulczyk, Technician Expert
  9. MSc. Paula Sierpień, Technician
  10. M.Eng. Jacek Stienss, Assistant
  11. M. Eng. Karolina Kaucha, Assistant
  12. M.Eng. Zuzanna Krzynówek, Assistant

Current research projects:

2024 - 2027: Project NCN, Preludium 22, "Experimental verification of correction methods of U-series ages used in case of dating secondary carbonates contaminated by detritus". Principal investigator: M.Sc. Paula Sierpień

2022 - 2025: Project NCN, Preludium 20, 'Migration of radioactive isotopes in sediments of lakes affected by acid mine drainage - an experimental approach'. Principal investigator: Dr Ilona Sekudewicz

2022 - 2025: Project NCN, Preludium 20, '(Bio)weathering of waste from zinc and lead mining'. Principal investigator: Dr Maciej Krzysztof Swęd


Selected publications:

  • 2024:

C. Durlet, V. Bichet, J. Buoncristiani, Š. Matouskova, P. Sierpień and N. Bondon. “Discovery and deciphering of a long intra-till cave (Jura mountains, France)”, 2024,  Geomorphology 461(1):109319, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109319

  • 2021:

M. Gąsiorowski, J. Stienss, E. Sienkiewicz, and I. Sekudewicz, “Geochemical Variability of Surface Sediment in Post-Mining Lakes Located in the Muskau Arch (Poland) and Its Relation to Water Chemistry,” Water. Air. Soil Pollut., vol. 232, no. 3, pp. 1–12, Mar. 2021.

I. Sekudewicz, A. M. Dąbrowska, and M. D. Syczewski, “Microplastic pollution in surface water and sediments in the urban section of the Vistula River (Poland),” Sci. Total Environ., vol. 762, p. 143111, Mar. 2021.

N. Zupan Hajna et al., “Pliocene to Holocene chronostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental records from cave sediments: Račiška pečina section (SW Slovenia),” Quat. Int., vol. 605–606, pp. 5–24, Dec. 2021.

J. Pawlak, M. Błaszczyk, H. Hercman, and Š. Matoušková, “Palaeoenvironmental conditions during MIS 6/MIS 5 transition recorded in speleothems from the Tatra Mountains,” Boreas, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 224–241, Jan. 2021.

A. R. Paine et al., “The trace-element composition of a Polish stalagmite: Implications for the use of speleothems as a record of explosive volcanism,” Chem. Geol., vol. 570, p. 120157, Jun. 2021.

M. Błaszczyk, H. Hercman, J. Pawlak, and J. Szczygieł, “Paleoclimatic reconstruction in the Tatra Mountains of the western Carpathians during MIS 9–7 inferred from a multiproxy speleothem record,” Quat. Res., vol. 99, pp. 290–304, Jan. 2021.

M. Gąsiorowski, E. Sienkiewicz, U. Ciołko, K. Kaucha, M. Kupryjanowicz, and M. Szal, “Cultural eutrophication of a Central European lowland lake from the Bronze Age to the present recorded in diatom and Cladocera remains,” CATENA, vol. 204, p. 105404, Sep. 2021.

  • 2020:

H. Hercman, M. Gąsiorowski, J. Pawlak, M. Gradziński, Š. Matoušková,  P. Zawidzki, P. Bella. Atmospheric circulation and the differentiation of precipitation sources during the Holocene inferred from five stalagmite records from Demänová Cave System (Central Europe), The Holocene, 30, pp. 834-846, 2020.

J. Szczygieł, H. Hercman, G. Hoke, M. Gąsiorowski, M. Błaszczyk, A. Sobczyk. No valley deepening of the Tatra Mountains (Western Carpathians) during the past 300 ka. Geology, 48, pp. 1006–1011, 2020.

J. Pawlak, H. Hercman, P. Sierpień, P. Pruner, M. Gąsiorowski, A. Mihevc, N. Zupan Hajna, P. Bosák, M. Błaszczyk, B. Wach. Estimation of the durations of breaks in deposition – Speleothem case study, Geochronometria, 47, pp. 154–170, 2020.