Dr Marcin Błaszczyk

Position: Assistant Professor

Research interests:

  • Paleoclimatology
  • Speleology
  • Karst processes
  • Geochronology
  • Isotope geochemistry

Address:
Instytut Nauk Geologicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk 
Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
Ośrodek Badawczy w Warszawie - Research Centre in Warsaw
Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, POLAND 
 

Tel.: (+48) 22 6978-758
E-mail: marcin.blaszczyk@twarda.pan.pl

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Education:

University of Warsaw, 10/2007 – 07/2010, bachelor studies in geology, Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw. Thesis: ‘Formacje złożowe rud żelaza w Polsce.’, supervisor: Associate Professor UW Ryszard Sałaciński.

University of Warsaw, 10/2010 – 07/2012, master studies in geology, specialization in Department of Mineral Deposits and Economic Geology, Thesis: ‘Pegmatyty i żyły granitoidowe z rejonu masywu suwalskiego - studium mineralogiczno-petrologiczne na przykładzie materiału z wierceń Jeleniewo IG-5 i Łopuchowo IG-1’, supervisor:  D.Sc. Krzysztof Nejbert.

Institute of Geological Sciences, 2022 – obtained Ph.D. degree in Earth and environmental sciences. Thesis: ‘Reconstruction of paleoclimatic conditions of the Middle Pleistocene based on cave speleothems from selected caves in Central Europe.’, supervisor: Associate Professor Helena Hercman.
 

Professional career:

08/2012 -  08/2015, Laboratory technician in the Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences

09/2015 -  08/2017, Geochemist in the Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences

09/2017 -  03/2024, Assistant in the Institute of Geological Sciences, PAS

04/2024 - until now, Assistant professor in the Institute of Geological Sciences, PAS
 

Publications:

  • Gąsiorowski, M., Hercman, H., Pruszczyńska, A., Błaszczyk, M., 2015. Drip rate and tritium activity in the Niedźwiedzia cave system (Poland) as a tool for tracking water circulation paths and time in karstic systems. Geochronometria 42, 210–216, 10.1515/geochr-2015-0025.
  • Błaszczyk, M., Hercman, H., Pawlak, J., Gąsiorowski, M., Matoušková, Š., Aninowska, M., Kicińska, D., Tyc, A., 2018. Low to middle Pleistocene paleoclimatic record from the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland (Poland) based on isotopic and calcite fabrics analyses. Geochronometria 45, 185–197, 10.1515/geochr-2015-0096.
  • Pawlak, J., Błaszczyk, M., Hercman, H., Matouskova, S., 2019. A continuous stable isotope record of last interglacial age from the Bulgarian Cave Orlova Chuka. Geochronometria 46, 101–87, 10.1515/geochr-2015-0107.
  • Hercman, H., Gąsiorowski, M., Pawlak, J., Błaszczyk, M., Gradziński, M., Matoušková, Š., Zawidzki, P., Bella, P., 2020. 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, 834–846, 10.1177/0959683620902224.
  • Hercman, H., Błaszczyk, M., Mulczyk, A., Bella, P., 2020. Uranium isotopic composition and its implication for uranium-uranium dating and water circulation studies – case study from speleothems and carbonate rocks of the Demänová Cave System (Nízke Tatry Mts., Slovakia). Geologica Carpathica 71, 61–72, 10.31577/GeolCarp.71.1.5.
  • Szczygieł, J., Hercman, H., Hoke, G., Gąsiorowski, M., Błaszczyk, M., Sobczyk, A., 2020. No valley deepening of the Tatra Mountains (Western Carpathians) during the past 300 ka. Geology 48, 1006–1011, 10.1130/G47635.1.
  • Pawlak, J., Hercman, Sierpień, P., H., Pruner, P., Gąsiorowski, M., Mihevc, A., Zupan Hajna, N., Bosák, P., Błaszczyk, M., Wach, B., 2020. Estimation of duration for deposition breaks – hiatuses  Geochronometria 47, 154–170, 10.2478/geochr-2020-0022.
  • Błaszczyk, M., Hercman, H., Pawlak, J., Szczygieł, J., 2021. Paleoclimatic reconstruction in the Tatra Mountains of the western Carpathians during MIS 9–7 inferred from a multiproxy speleothem record. Quaternary Research 99, 290–304, 10.1017/qua.2020.69.
  • Pawlak, J., Błaszczyk, M., Hercman, H., Matoušková, Š., 2021. Palaeoenvironmental conditions during MIS 6/MIS 5 transition recorded in speleothems from the Tatra Mountains. Boreas 50, 224–241, 10.1111/bor.12472.
  • Błaszczyk, M., Hercman, H., 2022. Palaeoclimate in the Low Tatras of the Western Carpathians during MIS 11-6: Insights from multiproxy speleothem records, Quaternary Science Reviews, 275, 107290, 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107290.
  • Hercman, H., Gąsiorowski, M., Szczygieł, J., Bella, P., Gradziński, M., Błaszczyk, M., Matoušková, Š., Pruner, P., Bosák, P., 2023. Delayed valley incision due to karst capture (Demänová Cave System, Western Carpathians, Slovakia), Geomorphology 437, 108809, 10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108809. 
  • Pawlak, J., Hercman, H., Gąsiorowski, M., Pruner, P., Błaszczyk, M., Sierpień, P., Matoušková, Š., Kdýr, Š., Schnabl, P., Zupan Hajna, N., Mihevc, A., Bosák, P., 2024. Matuyama/Brunhes magnetic reversal recorded in flowstone from the Račiška pečina Cave (Slovenia). Quaternary International 686–687, 4–17, 10.1016/j.quaint.2023.05.002. 

Scientific projects:

  • Principal Investigator in projects:
                  Research project for young scientists entitled: ‘Chronologia krystalizacji polew w Jaskini Głębokiej (Wyżyna Krakowsko-Częstochowska) w okresie 7 - 6 stadium tlenowego (OIS).’, July 2015 - June 2016.
                  Research project number 2016/23/N/ST10/00067, entitled: ‘Paleoclimate conditions from MIS 7 to MIS 6 in The Tatras and The Low Tatras, based on speleothems studies.’; financed by Polish National Science Centre; 2017 – 2020.
  • Co-investigator in projects. Including:
                 ‘Reconstruction of paleoenviromental conditions for north and south sites of the Carpathian Mountains for Eemian Interglacial and its transition into the Vistulian.’ – coordinator: Associate Professor Jacek Pawlak, financed by Polish National Science Centre; 2016 – 2019.
                 ‘Evolution and age of the Central Western Carpathians morphology on the basis of a comprehensive caves study (caves morphology, neo-tectonic activity and age of caves' sediments)’ – coordinator: Associate Professor Helena Hercman, financed by Polish National Science Centre; 2017 – 2020.

Conference abstracts:

  • Nejbert, K., Matyszczak, W., Błaszczyk, M., 2012. Mineralogy of (Y,REE,U,Th)-(Ti,Nb,Ta) oxide minerals in a muscovite pegmatite from the Suwałki Anorthosite Massif, NE Poland. Mineralogia - Special Papers 40, 115–117.
  • Gąsiorowski, M., Hercman, H., Pruszczyńska, A., Błaszczyk, M., 2013. Drip rate and Tritium age of water in Niedźwiedzia Cave system (Sudetes, Poland) as a tool to tracking water circulation time in karstic system. LSC 2013. Advances in Liquid Scintillation Spectrometry. Book of Abstracts, 170–171.
  • Błaszczyk, M., Hercman, H., Pawlak, J., Gąsiorowski, M., Aninowska, M., Kicińska, D., Tyc, A., 2016. Palaeoclimatic record for Low - Middle Pleistocene flowstones from the Głęboka Cave (Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, Poland) basing on isotopic and calcite fabrics analysis. Materials 50 Speleological Symposium Kielce-Checiny, 100.
  • Błaszczyk, M., Hercman, H., 2018. Paleoclimate conditions from MIS 9 to MIS 7 in the Tatras recorded in stalagmite from Szczelina Chochołowska Cave, Quaternary Stratigraphy and Karst & Cave Sediments: program, abstracts & guide book, Postojna 2018, 13–14.
  • Hercman, H., Błaszczyk, M., Sierpień, P., Gąsiorowski, M., Pawlak, J., Bosák, P., Matoušková, Š., Pruner, P., Zupan-Hajna, N., Mihevc, A., 2018. Climate change at Brunhes - Matuyama boundary: multi-proxy record from flowstones from the cave Račiška pečina (SW Slovenia). Quaternary Stratigraphy in Karst and Cave Sediments, Postojna, 29–30.
  • Marcin Błaszczyk, Helena Hercman, 2019. Paleoclimate conditions during the MIS 7/MIS 6 transition recorded in stalagmite from Demänovská Cave of Liberty in Low Tatras (Slovakia). Summer School on Speleothem Science (S4).
  • Błaszczyk, M., Hercman, H., Mulczyk, A., 2019. Uranium concentrations and initial 234U/238U activity ratios in Demänova Cave System (Slovakia) and its significance for U-series dating and paleoclimate reconstructions, 13th International Conference "Methods of Absolute Chronology", Geochronometria Conference Abstracts Series, 2, 105.
  • Błaszczyk Marcin, Hercman Helena, Pawlak Jacek, 2019. Paleoclimate reconstruction for MIS 9 - MIS 7 period basing on speleothems records from selected caves in Tatra Mts. (Poland). 13th International Conference "Methods of Absolute Chronology", 62.
  • Jacek Pawlak, Helena Hercman, Marcin Błaszczyk, Paula Sierpień, Bartosz Wach, 2019. Estimation of age duration for deposition breaks (hiatuses). abstracts & program, Tarnowskie Góry.
  • Marcin Błaszczyk, Helena Hercman, Pavel Bella, 2022. The importance of local site-specific influences, during the interpretation of the variability of the oxygen isotope composition in speleothems and reconstruction of past climate changes. Materials 56 Speleological Symposium.
  • Marcin Błaszczyk, 2024. Paleoclimatic implications of The Tatra Mountains in Central Europe during MIS 11-6 based on multi-proxy speleothem records. Data acquisition and analysis in karst systems, Postojna 2024, 58–59.
     

Popularization of science and awards:

  • 2020 - order of M. Markowicz-Łohinowicz, Polish Society of Naturalists - Speleological Section for co-authorship of the article: Błaszczyk, M., Hercman, H., Pawlak, J., Gąsiorowski, M., Matoušková, Š., Aninowska, M., Kicińska, D., Tyc, A., 2018. Low to middle Pleistocene paleoclimatic record from the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland (Poland) based on isotopic and calcite fabrics analyses. Geochronometria 45, 185–197, 10.1515/geochr-2015-0096.
  • Polish Society of Naturalists - Speleological Section - membership since 2017.
  • Invited lecture at the Grochowski University of the Third Age (23 May 2023 – ‘Co warto wiedzieć o jaskiniach’). Invited lecture on 09.11.2024 concerning the work of a geologist and speleologist at: Domek Przedszkolaka, Nowotyska 11, 02-495 Warsaw.