Research Group Seminar at AMUPS, Svalbard

During the expedition, we held a research group seminar to present the projects currently being carried out at the AMUPS Polar Station and to give an overview of its facilities. The meeting was attended online by undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students from our laboratory, as well as an intern from Wrocław University of Science and […]

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7.08.2026

Polar expedition 2026

Continuing a long-standing research effort, researchers from our group: Prof. Niedzielski, Dr. Proch, Dr. Souza-Kasprzyk, MSc. Tkachenko, and MSc. Zawrzykraj with technical support from MEng. Emil Kasprzyk, are conducting fieldwork at the AMUPS Polar Station in Petuniabukta from 28 July to 8 August. The team is investigating the biogeochemistry of Arctic soils as part of […]

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3.08.2026

Scientific cooperation with the Wrocław Zoo

As part of the international project “Trophodynamics of pollutants in captive penguins through the analysis of feathers, feces, and eggs”, a scientific collaboration was established with the Wrocław Zoo through its Research Coordinator, Paweł Borecki. To date, the zoo has transferred more than 130 biological and environmental samples to AMU, including eggs, feathers, feces, fish […]

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3.08.2026

Research Mobility at the University of Minho, Portugal

Between 20 June and 18 July 2026, Dr Juliana Souza-Kasprzyk completed a research mobility at the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal), under the supervision of Dr Janeide de Assis Guilherme Padilha. The mobility was funded through the ID-UB Excellence Initiative – Research University at Adam Mickiewicz University under Task 60 – Support for the Internationalization […]

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3.08.2026

Pioneering analyses of amber artifacts

From April 20-30, 2026, Dr. Jędrzej Proch participated in unique research on amber artifacts from one of the most important Bronze Age graves (discovered in Mycenae by Heinrich Schliemann). The team also included other scientists from the Faculty of Archaeology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Prof. Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, and Prof. Janusz Czebreszuk. As part of the project, […]

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17.06.2026

Spring foreign interns

In April, another two doctoral students, Liz from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Ivo from Masarykova University (Czech Republic), began their internships in our research group. This is a great opportunity to exchange experiences and knowledge in an international environment and to strengthen scientific relationships (networking), leading to joint projects and publications. […]

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1.06.2026

Scientific cooperation with the Gdańsk Zoo

As part of the international project “Trophodynamics of pollutants in captive penguins based on the analysis of feathers, feces, and eggs”, conducted by the Faculty of Chemistry at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in collaboration with the Centre for Molecular and Environmental Biology at the University of Minho (Portugal), a scientific cooperation has been established with the Gdańsk Zoo. On […]

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20.04.2026

Student Internship

At the turn of January and February 2026, another five students from the Józef Piłsudski Technical School No. 19 in Poznań completed a month-long internship with our research group. The interns learned about laboratory work practices, occupational health and safety procedures, and basic methods for analyzing environmental samples. The students participated in preparing samples, performing simple […]

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19.04.2026

40th Polar Symposium

Prof. Przemysław Niedzielski and Dr. Juliana Souza-Kasprzyk took part in the 40th International Polar Symposium – Arctic and Antarctic at the Tipping Point, held at the Polar Research Museum in Puławy from November 4–7, 2025. The event was organized by Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, the Polar Research Museum, the Polish Polar Consortium, and the […]

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2.12.2025

Internship at the Atomic Spectrometry Laboratory (Brno, Czech Republic)

PhD student Anna Różewska completed an internship at the atomic spectrochemistry laboratory at the Faculty of Chemistry, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, from September 21st to October 4th, 2025. The main goal of the internship was to evaluate the efficiency and comparability of analyses based on LIBS (laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy) technology. Comparisons were performed […]

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30.11.2025