🎉 We’re excited to share that Dr. Dominika Łuców received Narodowe Centrum Nauki #SONATINA 9 funding for her project on biodiversity and the use of freshwater testate amoebae for environmental reconstruction in Central Europe’s agricultural regions! 🌍 #NCN #ecology #TestateAmoebae #lake

Łukasz Quirini-Popławski took part in #ICOHT2025 in Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾, presenting—together with colleagues from 🇵🇱—a paper on the digital documentation of built cultural heritage using GIS & mobile apps. 📽️ Watch our short video: youtube.com/watch?v=eoTfxF… #heritage #tourism #GIS

We collected some peat cores for physico-chemical analyses. Our #Mireclim sites are very diverse. And the last photo – that used to be a Tomst logger. Looks like the animals had a party. Again 🙂

HOW DOES PUBLIC PARTICIPATION LOOK IN RURAL POLAND? 🌾🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Study: 👉 No demographic link in strategic planning 👉 Strong ties of spatial planning with education & migration Read: sciendo.com/pl/article/10.… #igipzpan #publicparticipation #spatialplanning #ruralareas #Poland

Ewa Karolina Korcelli-Olejniczak & Karolina Witeska-Chmielewska published in European Planning Studies Case study: Radom subregion & the unique “chocolate flint” 🪨 📖 doi.org/10.1080/096543… 🎥 youtube.com/@igipzpan #ruralinnovation #livinglab #RUSTIK #ruraldevelopment

🆕 New article by Łukasz Sobechowicz et al. in The Anthropocene Review: 👉 With or against the #river? Tracing changes & relationships between social & ecological systems on the central #Vistula floodplain (last 200 yrs) 🌊 📖 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… #Anthropocene #floodplain

Dominika Łuców has just completed a 10-month research fellowship at Carleton University 🇨🇦, under the #NAWA #Bekker program 🔬😀 Her work on #TestateAmoebae in #Newfoundland led to exciting results — including a potential new species! #WomenInScience #InternationalResearch

📰 New article out! One lake—three worlds for plankton: a case of dystrophic lakes published in Hydrobiologia. Insights into plankton diversity in dystrophic lakes. 🌊🦠 Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Call for Papers! Join our panel Institute of Geography & Spatial Organization PAS AnthroGeoLAB “Haunted landscapes: landforms and water bodies from a geo-folklore perspective” at International Society for Folk Narrative Research Jane Doe American Folklore Society 👉 nomadit.co.uk/conference/isf…

📍 Timișoara, Romania | The Regional Conference on Geomorphology “Geomorphology for Society: Challenges and Opportunities” has begun, with 249 participants from 33 countries. IGSO PAS is represented by colleagues from Kraków & Toruń 😃🌍 #Geomorphology

📍 Lublin | The Polish Geography Congress 2025 “Geography without Borders” — the largest event for geographers in Poland. IGSO PAS was strongly represented by our colleagues 😃 👏 Huge thanks to the organizers! 🌍 #Geography

🚨 New publication in Journal of Rural Studies! What happens when urban newcomers meet long-rooted rural residents? ✍️ Maria Bednarek-Szczepańska (IGiPZ PAN) & Krzysztof Janc (UWr) 💡 Funded by Narodowe Centrum Nauki 👉sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #igipzpan #NCN #knowledgetransfer #urban #rural

🌍 The our team actively represented us at the #EUGEO Congress 2025 in #Vienna 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Our colleagues chaired sessions, presented research on rural transitions, living labs, and political behaviour in small towns — sharing insights from international & Narodowe Centrum Nauki - funded projects.

🎥 New on our YouTube channel! 👉 How migration reshapes Poland? Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=Gf26am… #igipzpan #migration #Poland #YouTube

🚨 NEW ARTICLE! Exploring changes in Lower Poland after the recession of the Vistulian glacier! 🌳❄️ Research team led by Dr. Mateusz Kramkowski Funded by Narodowe Centrum Nauki Link: doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70…

🏅Prof. Marek Więckowski has been honoured with the Prof. Jerzy Kondracki Medal! Prof. Więckowski was recognised for his outstanding contributions to the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies at Warsaw University 🌳🏙️ Congratulations Marek, and thank you to Uniwersytet Warszawski🙌

🚨NEW ARTICLE! A reconstruction and analysis of permafrost thaw from a Western Siberian peatland! Research team Agnieszka Halaś Milena Obremska Dominika Łuców Michał Słowiński Published in Biogeosciences Funded by Narodowe Centrum Nauki Link: bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/47… #Peatland #Permafrost #Siberia