报告题目：HYDRO-GEOMORPHOLOGICAL ISSUES OF HIGH ARCTIC. EXAMPLES FROM SPITSBERGEN (SVALBARD)
报告人：Grzegorz Rachlewicz 博士、教授（波兰波兹南密茨凯维奇大学）
主持人：吴乃成 博士、教授
报告时间：2024.04.09（星期二）9:30-11:30
报告地点：宁波大学西校区载物楼315会议室
报告人简介：Professor, Cryosphere Research Unit, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, POLAND.
Prof. dr. Grzegorz Rachlewicz is a physical geographer with specialization in geomorphology and Quaternary paleogeography. Studied at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland (AMU) where he defended PhD (1998) in Earth sciences on glacial relief development during past-Atlantic period on King George Island, Antarctica. He completed DSc from the same university in 2010, presenting as a scientific achievement a monograph «Contemporary sediment fluxes and relief changes in high Arctic glacierized valley systems (Billefjorden, Central Spitsbergen)» and gained the position of associate professor at AMU. From 2017 to 2020 was employed at the same position at the Department of Public Health and Environmental Sciences Xi’an Jiaotog – Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. After returning at AMU received full professorship in 2022. Prof. Rachlewicz’s main areas of interest are focusing on research of environmental changes in polar regions, mainly related to the impact of climate warming on glaciers and effects of their melt. He participated in expeditions to Spitsbergen, Greenland, Siberia and Antarctica. Adam Mickiewicz University is owning a research station in Petuniabukta (central Spitsbergen), which he organized and was the first manager, where the environmental monitoring is conducted for almost 40 years, covering various elements of the cryosphere, in this meteorological, hydrological, geo-bio-chemical, glaciers mass balance and permafrost observations are performed, with special attention paid to geohazards and the impact of changes on Arctic vegetation studied in the scope of dendrochronology and dendrogeomorphology of polar shrubs. His publications appeared in renowned journals as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Global Change Biology, Geomorphology. He led grants obtained from Polish Science Foundation and participated in projects founded by national and European agencies. Dr. Rachlewicz is experienced academic teacher and held many administrative positions, from the Head of Cryosphere Research Department, through the Director of the Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, to the acting Dean of the Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences AMU.