Chair of Physical Geography

Research interests

 

Geomorphology and paleaogeography

 

Mass wasting process in various climatic zones.

Imapct of frost and fluvial processes on riverbank erosion.

Natural and anthropogenic drivers of contemporary channel change in the Carpathians.

Beaver impact on fluvial systems.

River restoration.

Identification of sedimentary environments of loess like sediments in Polish Carpathian basins.

Methodology of automatic grain size analysis.

 

Hydrology

 

Water resources in national parks.

Hydrological parameters of floods generated by short-duration heavy rainfall,

Flood risk management in small catchments prone to flash flood occurrences.

Parameters of the active drainage system and its influence on flood parameters.

Environmental effects of land use and land cover (LULC) changes in mountain catchments.

Functioning of wetlands within the Sandomierz Basin and the Nida Basin.

 

Remote sensing

Use of the remote-sensing tools and products to assess the changes land cover in peat bogs.

 

Head:

 

dr hab. Tomasz Bryndal, prof. UKEN

www.tbryndal.up.krakow.pl

ul. Podchorążych 2, room 534

tel. +48 12 662 6266

e-mail: tomasz.bryndal@up.krakow.pl

ORCID: 0000-0003-4953-2756

 

Research and teaching staff:

 

dr Karol Augustowski

ul. Podchorążych 2, room 433

tel. +48 12 662 6253

e-mail: karol.augustowski@up.krakow.pl

ORCID: 0000-0001-8437-2984

 

dr Dorota Chmielowska-Michalak

ul. Podchorążych 2, room 427

tel. +48 12 662 6271

e-mail: dorota.chmielowska-michalak@up.krakow.pl

ORCID: 0000-0002-7332-3359

 

dr Witold Jucha

ul. Podchorążych 2, room 424

tel. +48 12 662 6248

e-mail: witold.jucha@up.krakow.pl

ORCID: 0000-0002-2204-8721

 

dr Rafał Kroczak

ul. Podchorążych 2, room 433

tel. +48 12 662 6253

e-mail: rafal.kroczak@up.krakow.pl

ORCID: 0000-0002-6268-7843

 

dr Paweł Kroh

ul. Podchorążych 2, room 433

tel. +48 12 662 6253

e-mail: pawel.kroh@up.krakow.pl

ORCID: 0000-0002-8332-7572

 

Prof. dr hab. Józef Kukulak

ul. Podchorążych 2, room 427

tel. +48 12 662 6271

e-mail: jozef.kukulak@up.krakow.pl

ORCID: 0000 0001380 6680

 

Prof. dr hab. Roman Soja

ul. Podchorążych 2, room 433

tel. +48 12 662 6253

e-mail: roman.soja@e.up.krakow.pl

 

dr hab. Joanna Zawiejska, prof. UKEN

ul. Podchorążych 2, room 534

tel. +48 12 662 6266

e-mail: joanna.zawiejska@up.krakow.pl

ORCID: 0000-0002-1242-1094

 

Engineering and technical staff:

mgr inż. Szymon Biały

ul. Podchorążych 2, room 423

tel. +48 12 662 6246

e-mail: szymon.bialy@up.krakow.pl