Member - Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization PAS

Dr. Katarzyna Wasak

Department of Geoenvironmental Research
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Education

2002-2008 – Inter-Faculty Studies in Environmental Protection, Warsaw University, M.Sc. in environmental protection. Master’s thesis: Development of initial soils in the Fláa Glacier foreland (SE Iceland)

2012-2016 – professional office-worker, Instytute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University
2017 – PhD in physical geography, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University. PhD thesis: Effect of vegetation and parent material on soil organic matter properties in the lower montane belt in the Western Tatras.

Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization PAS (IGiPZ PAN), since 2016:

2015 – intership at Norwegian Forest and Landscape Instytute in Ås, prof. Nicolas Clarke (Społeczeństwo, Technologie, Środowisko intership)
2013 – intership at Norwegian Forest and Landscape Instytute in Ås, prof. Ari Hietala (Praktyka Erasmus intership)
2011 – intership at Katedra Gleboznawstwa i Kształtowania Krajobrazu UMK in Toruń, prof. Sławomira Goneta

2017 – participation in soil and geomorphological studies In Centrall Massif (France) realized by Instytute of Geography and Spatial Management in cooperation with Université Clermont Auvergne

2017: participant in scientific project financed by Horizon 2020 INTERACT Chemical denudation in headwater areas in subarctic environment (N Finland)
2015-2017: participant of scientific project Assessment of the impact of large-scale windthrows on the hydro-chemical regime and denudationa of cathments located in forested mountainous areas financed by Polish National Forests in 2015, 2016, 2017; grant leader: dr hab. Mirosław Żelazny
2010-2013: Leader in scientific project financed by National Science Centre Effect of spruce monoculture on soils developer on calcarous material In the Tatra Mountains.

Kaczmarek H., Tyszkowski S., Bartczak A., Kramkowski M., Wasak K., 2019, The role of freeze-thaw action in dam reservoir cliff degradation assessed by terrestrial laser scanning: A case study of Jeziorsko Reservoir (central Poland), Science of the Total Environment, 690, s. 1140–1150.
Gus M., Wasak K., Stolarczyk M., Musielok Ł., 2018, The impact of natural disasters on soils of mountain regions - Field session guide, [w:] Red. Marcin Sykuła, The 3rd International Conference of Young Scientists "Soil in the Environment", Kraków - Poronin, 16-19.09.2018 : book of abstracts and field session guide, Department of Soil Science and Land Protection Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poznań,, s. 75-107.
Wasak K., Drewnik M., 2018, Sequestration of organic carbon in rendzinas – a review, Soil Science Annual, 69, 2, s. 75-87.

Płaczkowska E., Wasak K., 2018, Natural factors affecting water chemistry in headwater areas in subarctic environment (N Finland), International Geographical Union Regional Conference "Appreciating Difference", August 6-11 2018, Quebec City (Canada), Laval University, Quebec,1 s.

Wasak K., 2018, Konferencja Młodych Naukowców w Poroninie, Bez Pługa - Magazyn technologii bezorkowych, 6, s. 52-53.

Wasak K., 2018, Początki rolnictwa, Bez Pługa - Magazyn technologii bezorkowych, 3, s. 53-55.