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New international partnerships at the faculty

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Dr hab. Edyta Kalińska-Nartiša and dr hab. Piotr Hulisz with dr hab. P.rzemysław Charzyński, NCU professors became the laureates of the competition for international partnerships (emerging fields) organized as a part of  "Excellence Initiative - Research University" program.

The aim of Edyta Kalińska’s project (EF Global environmental changes) is to strengthen the international cooperation between two geo-departments: Department of Geology, Lund University, Sweden and Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, who carry similar research interest about firm establishing the time of diagnostic markers in the geological past with a special focus at the optically stimulated luminescence dating (OSL) method. This cooperation has been already set because E. Kalińska worked at Lund University twice (in years 2014-16) along with short laboratory visits in years 2016-20. The next step is to make this cooperation even stronger by increasing a number of processed samples, speeding up their procedure and raising the publication record with Prof. Helena Alexanderson, the lab’s head. This will be possible through several ca. 2-week lab visits in years 2021-23, brainstorming about the problematic samples that mostly come from the glacial megaflood sediments in NE Poland along with planned Q1 and Q2 publications.

The project of Piotr Hulisz and Przemysław Charzyński (EF Soil science, microbiology, agricultural genetics and food quality) is focused on the development of cooperation with the Department of Environmental Horticulture, University of Seoul, South Korea. Contacts with soil scientists from this University, especially with prof. John Kim, who is also the chairman of the International Union of Soil Sciences SUITMA (Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic and Mining an Military Areas) working group, has started many years ago and the combination of different experiences and research potential of partners is undoubtedly a good starting point for the development of a new approach in the study of threats to the urban environment at various scales (it is possible thanks to the analysis of urban centers of various sizes, e.g. in Toruń and Seoul), with particular emphasis on identifying problems related to the accumulation of plastics in soils. It is currently one of the newest and very important research trends in the world. The following activities are planned in the period from 2021 to 2023 under this project: bilateral research visits, organization of an two editions of the annual international SUITMA Seminar in Toruń (January 2022 and January 2023) to disseminate joint research achievements and publication of joint articles in renowned research journals.

 

 

 

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