Barbara FIAŁKIEWICZ-KOZIEŁ
ABOUT ME
I am environmental geochemist, studying broadly understood human impact on the Earth; more particularly I am peat geochemist. I use peat as environmental medium to assess the pathways and level of past pollution.
2005-2010 doctoral studies and PhD dissertation entitled: Dynamic of heavy metals concentrations in ombrotrophic peat bogs of the Orawa-Nowy Targ Basin, University of Silesia Katowice, Poland (2010)
2010 – present - Assistant Professor in the Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Currently, I am the PI of Opus 14 project entitled:
„EARTH - Anthropocene - Rare earth elements, isotopes and anthropogenic particulates long-range transport in Northern Hemisphere – implications for defining Anthropocene”.
This project aims to determine the global patterns of deposition of geochemical and mineralogical proxies in different peatlands of the Northern Hemisphere (NH). Their application to define the new period will be assessed.
The international network between Poland, Russia, China, Iceland, Estonia has been developed for better recognition of local and global deposition pathways of investigated markers.
Na Równi pod Śnieżką peat profile sampling
© Barbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł
Iceland – Barbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł
© Barbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł
Iceland field trip
From the left: Edyta Łokas, Barbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, Beata Smieja-Król
© Barbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł
Coring Na Równi pod Śnieżką, The Sudetes (Krzysztof Kozieł and Marek Król)
© Barbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Fiałkiewicz – Kozieł B., Łokas E., Gałka M., Kołaczek P., De Vleeschouwer F., Le Roux G., Smieja-Król B. Influence of transboundary transport of trace elements on mountain peat geochemistry (Sudetes, Central Europe). Quaternary Science Reviews 230, 106162.
Smieja-Król, B., Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, B., Michalska, A., Krzykawski, T., Smołka Danielowska, D., 2019- Deposition of mullite in peatlands of southern Poland: Implications for recording large-scale industrial processes. Environmental Pollution 215: 717-727.
Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł B., De Vleeschouwer F., Mattielli N., Fagel N, Palowski B., Pazdur A. Smieja-Król,B., 2018- Record of Anthropocene pollution sources of lead in disturbed peatlands from Southern Poland. Atmospheric Environment 179:61-68.
Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł B., Smieja-Król B., Frontasyeva M., Słowiński M., Marcisz K., Lapshina E., Gilbert D., Buttler A., Jassey V.E.J., Kaliszan K., Laggoun-Defarge F., Kołaczek P., Lamentowicz M., 2016- Anthropogenic and natural sources of dust in peatland during the Anthropocene. Scientific Reports 6: 38731.
Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł B., Smieja-Król B., Ostrovnaya T.M., Frontasyeva M., Siemińska A., Lamentowicz M., 2015- Peatland Microbial Communities as Indicators of the Extreme Atmospheric Dust Deposition. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 226: 97-103.
Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł B., Smieja-Król B., Piotrowska N., Sikorski J,. Gałka M., 2014- Carbon accumulation rates in two poor fens with different water regimes: Influence of anthropogenic impact and environmental change. Holocene 24(11), 1539-1549.
Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł B., Kołaczek P., Piotrowska N., Michczyński A., 2015- The construction of a reliable absolute chronology for the last two millennia in an anthropogenically disturbed peat bog: Limitations and advantages of using a radioisotopic proxy and age-depth modelling. Quaternary Geochronology 25:83-95.
Fialkiewicz-Koziel B., Kolaczek P., Piotrowska N., Michczyński A., Łokas E., Wachniew P., Woszczyk M., Sensuła B., 2014 -High-resolution age-depth model of a peat bog in Poland as an important basis for palaeoenvironmental studies. Radiocarbon 56(1): 109-125.
Smieja-Król B., Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł B., 2014 - Quantitative determination of minerals and anthropogenic particles in some Polish peat occurrences using a novel SEM pointcounting method. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment186: 2573- 2587.
Smieja-Król B., Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł B., Sikorski J., Palowski B. (2010): Heavy metal behaviour in peat – A mineralogical perspective. Science of the Total Environment 408, 5924–5931.
Milecka K., Kowalewski G., Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł B., Gałka M., Lamentowicz M., Chojnicki B.H., Goslar T., Barabach J., 2017- Hydrological changes in the Rzecin peatland (Puszcza Notecka, Poland) induced by anthropogenic factors: Implications for mire development and carbon sequestration. Holocene 27(5): 651-664. (IF=2.419)
Loisel J., Yu Z., Beilman D., Camill P., Alm J., Anderson D., Andersson S., Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł B., Barber K., Belyea L., Bunbury J., Chambers F., Charman D., de Vleeschouwer F., Finkelstein S., Garneau M., Hendon D., Holmquist J., Hughes P., Jones, Miriam Klein E, Kokfelt U., Korhola A., Kuhry P., Lamarre A., Lamentowicz M., Large D., Lavoie M., MacDonald G., Magnan G., Gałka M., Mathijssen P., Mauquoy D., McCarroll J., Moore T., Nichols J., O’Reilly B., Oksanen P., Peteet D., Richard P., Robinson S., Rundgren M., Sannel B., Tuittila E.S., Turetsky M., Valiranta M., van der Linden M., van Geel B., van Bellen S., Vitt D., Zhao Y., Zhou W., 2014 - A synthesis of existing data for northern peatland soil properties and Holocene carbon accumulation. Holocene 24 (9): 1028-1042.(IF=2.283)
Gallego-Sala, A.V., Charman, D.J., Brewer, S., Page, S.E., Prentice, I.C., Friedlingstein,P., Moreton, S., Amesbury, M.J., Beilman, D.W., Björck, S., Blyakharchuk, T., Bochicchio, C., Booth, R.K., Bunbury, J., Camill, P., Carless, D., Chimner, R.A., Clifford, M., Cressey, E., Courtney-Mustaphi, C., De Vleeschouwer, F., de Jong, R., Fialkiewicz-Koziel, B., Finkelstein, S.A., Garneau, M., Githumbi, E., Hribjlan, J., Holmquist, J., Hughes, P.D.M., Jones, C., Jones, M.C., Karofeld, E., Klein, E.S., Kokfelt, U., Korhola, A., Lacourse, T., Le Roux, G., Lamentowicz, M., Large, D., Lavoie, M., Loisel, J., Mackay, H., MacDonald, G.M., Makila, M., Magnan, G., Marchant, R., Marcisz, K., Martínez Cortizas, A., Massa, C., Mathijssen, P., Mauquoy, D., Mighall, T., Mitchell, F.J.G., Moss, P., Nichols, J., Oksanen, P.O., Orme, L., Packalen, M.S., Robinson, S., Roland, T.P., Sanderson, N.K., Sannel A.B.K., Silva- Sánchez, N., Steinberg, N., Swindles, G.T., Turner, T.E., Uglow, J., Väliranta, M., van Bellen, S., van der Linden, M., van Geel, B., Wang, G., Yu, Z., Zaragoza-Castells, J., Zhao, Y., 2018. Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming. Nature Climate Change 8(10): 907-913.