dr Adam Nawrot

Assistant Professor

Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences

ul. Księcia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warszawa

tel. +48 22 6915 843,

e-mail: anawrot@igf.edu.pl

ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-6478

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Academic degrees:

  • 2011 – PhD in Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (thesis title.: „Operation of the small glaciated catchment geosystem (Arie, Spitsbergen)”)

  • 2005 – MSc in Geomorphology, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (thesis title: „Denudacja chemiczna i mechaniczna Górnej Parsęty i Młyńskiego Potoku w roku hydrologicznym 2003”)

Publications:

  • Zdanowicz, C., Salvatori, R., Gallet, J.-C., Malnes, E., Isaksen, K., Hübner, C., Lihavainen, H., Bradley, J., Cooper, E., Deshpande, M., Di Mauro, B., Eckerstorfer, M., Elster, J., Engeset, R., Ferrighi, L., Fihol, S., Godøy, Ø., Hancock, H., Hunstad, I., ..., Luks, B., Nawrot, A.,… Zhang, J. (2021). An agenda for the future of snow research in Svalbard - a multidomain approach. Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6415927
  • Cappelletti, D., Ežerinskis, Ž., Šapolaitė, J., Bučinskas, L., Luks, B., Nawrot, A., Larose, C., Tuccella, P., Gallet, J.C., Crocchianti, S., Bruschi, F., Moroni, B., Spolaor, A., 2023. Long-range transport and deposition on the Arctic snowpack of nuclear contaminated particulate matter. Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 452, 131317, ISSN 0304-3894,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.131317
  • Koziol, K., Kallenborn, R., Xie, Z., Larose, C., Spolaor, A., Barbaro, E., Kępski, D., Nikulina, A., Zawierucha, K., Pearce, D., Cockerton, L., Nawrot, A., Pawlak, F., Pakszys, P., Cappelletti, D., 2023. Harmonising Environmental Research and Monitoring of Priority Pollutants and Impurities in the Svalbard Atmosphere. SESS report 2022 - The State of Environmental Science in Svalbard - an annual report, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System, Longyearbyen, pp. 62-77 (ISBN 978-82-93871-08-8)  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7406842
  • Di Mauro, B., Cappelletti, D., Moroni, B., Mazzola, M., Gilardoni, S., Luks, B., Nawrot, A., Lewandowski, M., Dagsson Waldhauserova, P., Meinander, O., Wittmann, M., Kaspari, S., Khan, A ., 2023. Dust in Svalbard: local sources versus long-range transported dust. SESS report 2022 - The State of Environmental Science in Svalbard - an annual report, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System, Longyearbyen, pp. 62-77 (ISBN 978-82-93871-08-8) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7377518
  • Wróbel, M., Stan-Kłeczek, I., Marciniak, A., Majdański, M., Kowalczyk, S., Nawrot, A., Cader, J., 2023. Integrated Geophysical Imaging and Remote Sensing for Enhancing Geological Interpretation of Landslides with Uncertainty Estimation—A Case Study from Cisiec, Poland. Remote Sens. 15, 238. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15010238
  • Laska, M., Luks, B., Kępski, D., Gądek, B., Głowacki, P., Puczko, D., Migała, K., Nawrot, A., Pętlicki, M., 2022. Hansbreen Snowpit Dataset – over 30-year of detailed snow research on an Arctic glacier. Scientific Data, 9, 656, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01767-8
  • Meinander, O., Dagsson-Waldhauserova, P., Amosov, P., Aseyeva, E., Atkins, C., Baklanov, A., Baldo, C., Barr, S., Barzycka, B., Benning, L., Cvetkovic, B., Enchilik, P., Frolov, D., Gassó, S., Kandler, K., Kasimov, N., Kavan, J., King, J., Koroleva, T., Krupskaya, V., Kusiak, M., Laska, M., Lasne, J., Lewandowski, M., Luks, B., McQuaid, J., Moroni, B., Murray, B., Möhler, O., Nawrot, A., Nickovic, S., O’Neill, N., Pejanovic, G., Popovicheva, O., Ranjbar, K., Romanias, M., Samonova, O., Sanchez-Marroquin, A., Schepanski, K., Semenkov, I., Sharapova, A., Shevnina, E., Shi, Z., Sofiev, M., Thevenet, F., Thorsteinsson, T., Timofeev, M., Umo, N. S., Uppstu, A., Urupina, D., Varga, G., Werner, T., Arnalds, O., and Vukovic Vimic, A. 2022. Newly identified climatically and environmentally significant high latitude dust sources, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 11889–11930.  https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11889-2022
  • Sanchez-Cid, C., Keuschnig, C., Torzewski, K., Stachnik, Ł., Kępski, D., Luks, B., Nawrot, A., Niedzielski, P., Vogel, T.M., Larose, C., 2022. Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors Shape the Snow Microbiome and Antibiotic Resistome. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13:918622. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.918622
  • Buda, J., Poniecka, E.A., Rozwalak, P., Ambrosini, R., Bagshaw, E. A., Franzetti, A., Klimaszyk, P., Nawrot, A., Pietryka, M., Richter D., Zawierucha K., 2021. Is Oxygenation Related to the Decomposition of Organic Matter in Cryoconite Holes?. Ecosystems 25, 1510–1521. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00729-2
  • Jóźwiak, B., Nawrot, A., 2021. Report on the execution of Sørkapp Marine Litter Cleanup project in 2021. Fundacja forScience, pp. 32. ISBN 978-83-956002-3-4
  • Kozak,  L., Souza,  J. S., Nawrot,  A., Proch,  J., Kaźmierski,  M., Zawieja,  A., Niedzielski, P., 2021. Handheld ED-XRF spectrometers in geochemical investigation: Comparative studies for glacial deposits from Spitsbergen. Polish Polar Research 42(3):163. DOI: 10.24425/ppr.2021.137141
  • Marciniak, A., Kowalczyk, S., Gontar, T., Owoc, B., Nawrot, A., Luks, B., Cader, J., Majdański, M., 2021. Integrated geophysical imaging of a mountain landslide –A case study from the Outer Carpathians, Poland. Journal of Applied Geophysics,191,104364, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2021.104364
  • Nawrot A., Kusiak M.A., Lewandowski, M., Otto, K., Sielski, W., Ruszczak, M., Piotrowski, W., Malmur, Ł., Zawierucha, K., Łepkowski P., 2021. Wznowienie badań na Antarktydzie Wschodniej, czyli kilka słów o planach rewitalizacji Polskiej Stacji Antarktycznej im. A.B. Dobrowolskiego, Oaza Bungera (Antarktyda Wschodnia). BIULETYN POLARNY 23-25. ISSN 1234-1754
  • Spolaor, A., Moroni, B., Luks, B., Nawrot, A., Roman, M., Larose, C., Stachnik, Ł., Bruschi, F., Kozioł, K., Pawlak, F., Turetta, C., Barbaro, E., Gallet, J.-C., Cappelletti, D., 2021. Investigation on the Sources and Impact of Trace Elements in the Annual Snowpack and the Firn in the Hansbreen (Southwest Spitsbergen). Frontiers in  Earth Science, 8, 536036. doi:10.3389/feart.2020.536036
  • Kavan, J., Láska, K., Nawrot, A. and Wawrzyniak, T., 2020. "High Latitude Dust Transport Altitude Pattern Revealed from Deposition on Snow, Svalbard" Atmosphere 11, no. 12: 1318. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11121318
  • Lewandowski, M., Kusiak, M.A., Werner, T., Nawrot, A., Barzycka, B., Laska, M. Luks, B., 2020. Seeking the Sources of Dust: Geochemical and Magnetic Studies on “Cryodust” in Glacial Cores from Southern Spitsbergen (Svalbard, Norway), Atmosphere, 11(12), 1325, https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11121325
  • Osuch, M., Wawrzyniak, T., Nawrot, A., 2019. Diagnosis of the hydrology of a small Arctic permafrost catchment using HBV conceptual rainfall-runoff model. Hydrology Research; 50 (2): 459–478. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/nh.2019.031
  • Zawierucha, K., Buda, J., and Nawrot, A., 2019. Extreme weather event results in the removal of invertebrates from cryoconite holes on an Arctic valley glacier (Longyearbreen, Svalbard). ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH 34, 370–379. https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.1276
  • Stachnik, Ł., Yde, J., Nawrot, A., Uzarowicz, Ł., Łepkowska, E., and Kozak, K., 2019. Aluminium in glacial meltwater demonstrates an association with nutrient export (Werenskiöldbreen, Svalbard). HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES 33, 1638–1657. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13426
  • Araźny, A., Przybylak, R., Wyszyński, P., Wawrzyniak, T., Nawrot, A. & Budzik, T., 2018. Spatial variations in air temperature and humidity over Hornsund fjord (Spitsbergen) from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015,Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography,100:1,27-43,DOI: 10.1080/04353676.2017.1368832
  • Wawrzyniak, T., Osuch, M., Nawrot, A., & Napiorkowski, J., 2017. Run-off modelling in an Arctic unglaciated catchment (Fuglebekken, Spitsbergen). Annals of Glaciology,58(75pt1), 36-46. doi:10.1017/aog.2017.8
  • Nawrot, A.P., Migała, K., Luks, B., Pakszys, P., Głowacki, P., 2016. Chemistry of snow cover and acidic snowfall during a season with a high level of air pollution on the Hans Glacier, Spitsbergen, Polar Science, 10, 249-261, doi:10.1016/j.polar.2016.06.003
  • Stachnik, Ł., Majchrowska, E., Yde, J. C., Nawrot, A., Cichała-Kamrowska, K., Ignatiuk, D., & Piechota, A., 2016. Chemical denudation and the role of sulfide oxidation at Werenskioldbreen, Svalbard. Journal of Hydrology, 538, 177–193, http://doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.03.059
  • Zawierucha, K., Ostrowska, M., Vonnahme, T. R., Devetter, M., Nawrot, A. P., Lehmann, S., & Kolicka, M., 2016. Diversity and distribution of Tardigrada in Arctic cryoconite holes. Journal of Limnology, 75(3), 545–559. https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1453
  • Kies, A., Hengesch, O., Tosheva, Z., Nawrot, A. P., and Jania, J., 2015. Overview on radon measurements in Arctic glacier waters, The Cryosphere Discuss., 9, 2013–2052, https://doi.org/10.5194/tcd-9-2013-2015
  • Stachnik Ł., Toscheva Z., Nawrot A., Ignatiuk D., 2014. Comparison between sulphide oxidation and carbonation in glaciated basin by geochemical modelling in PHREEQC (Werenskioldbreen, SW Svalbard). [W:] Drzymała J. (red.) Interdyscyplinarne zagadnienia w górnictwie I geologii, tom V
  • Owczarek P., Nawrot A., Migała K.,Malik I.,Korabiewski B., 2014. Floodplain responses to contemporary climate change in small High-Arctic basins (Svalbard,Norway). Boreas, Volume 43, Issue 2, pages 384– 402. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12061
  • Lapazaran J., Petlicki M., Navarro F., Machío F., Puczko D., Głowacki P., Nawrot A., 2013. Ice volume changes (1936-1990-2007) and ground-penetrating radar studies of Ariebreen, Hornsund, Spitsbergen. Polar Research, 32, 11068. https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v32i0.11068
  • Stankiewicz, P., Goździk, A., Juńczyk, T., Lotkowski, L., Mikulska, A., Nawrot, A., Ostrowska, A., Piotrowski, W., 2015. Moving schools closer to the world of science. Innovative solution for education from the EDUSCIENCE project. Instytut Geofizyki PAN, American Systems sp. z o.o., Edukacja Pro Futuro sp. z o.o., Warsaw, ISBN 978-83-88765-92-6

  • Giżejewski J., Nawrot A., Birkenmajer K., Głowacki P., Karczewski A., Luks B., Migała K., Pirożnikow E., Puczko M., Skiba S., Stempniewicz L., Wawrzyniak T., 2013. Środowisko geograficzne otoczenia Polskiej Stacji Polarnej im. Stanisława Siedleckiego w Hornsundzie [Geographical environment surrounding the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund]. [In] Zwoliński Z., Kostrzewski A., Pulina M. (red.) Dawne i współczesne geoekosystemy Spitsbergenu [Ancient and modern geoecosystems of Spitsbergen]. Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe. pp. 456, ISBN 978-83-63400-54-5

  • Kies A., Nawrot A., Tosheva Z. and Jania J., 2011. Natural radioactive isotopes in glacier meltwater studies. Geochemical Journal, Vol. 45 (No. 6), pp. 423-429. https://doi.org/10.2343/geochemj.1.0141
  • Kies A., Hengesch O., Tosheva Z., Jania J., Nawrot A. 2010. Natural Radioactive Isotopes in Glacier Studies. [W] 10th International Workshop on the Geological Aspects of Radon Risk Mapping. Czech Geological Survey. Prague: 162-172, ISBN 978-80-7075-754-3;
  • Owczarek P., Nawrot A., Pętlicki M., 2008: „Współczesny rozwój doliny Arie w świetle badań dendrochronologicznych. Spitsbergen – Hornsund”. [In] Kostrzewski A., Paluszkiewicz R. (Eds), Geneza, Litologia i Stratygrafia Utworów Czwartorzędowych, t.V. Seria Geografia nr 88. 367-382, ISBN 978-83-232-2097-8
  • F. Navarro, M. Grabiec, D. Puczko, U. Jonsell, A. Nawrot, 2008:“Internal structure of Ariebreen, Spitsbergen, from radio-echo sounding data.” [In] Oerlemans, J., Tijm-Reijmer C.H (Eds.), The Dynamics and Mass Budget of Arctic Glaciers Extended abstracts. Workshop on the dynamics and mass budget of Arctic glaciers / GLACIODYN (IPY) meeting. Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht Utrecht University, The Netherlands: 78-81
  • A.Kies, A. Nawrot, H. Surbeck, Z. Tosheva, J. Jania, 2008. “Radon, Natural Radionuclide in Glacier Meltwater, as Useful Tracer.” [In] Oerlemans, J., Tijm-Reijmer C.H (Eds.), The Dynamics and Mass Budget of Arctic Glaciers Extended abstracts. Workshop on the dynamics and mass budget of Arctic glaciers / GLACIODYN (IPY) meeting. Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht Utrecht University, The Netherlands: 65-68
  • Nawrot A., Pętlicki M., 2007. Assumption and realization of Arie catchment measuring system. [In] Kostrzewski A., Zwoliński Z. (Eds.), Landform Analysis, vol. 5, 2007 - Published by the Association of Polish Geomorphologists: 60-62
  • Kies, A., Tosheva, Z., Nawrot. A., 2007:“Natural Radioactive Isotopes in Glacier Studies”. [In] Chuang P-Ch., Hong W-L., Chung L., Yang T. F. (Eds.), 9th International Conference on Gas Geochemistry ICGG 9, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan: 230-233

 

Research and educational projects:

  • 2022–2024 – "A. B. Dobrowolski Polish Antarctic Station, Bunger Oasis, East Antarctica". Ministry of Education and Science, participant

  • 2022 – "Dust in Svalbard:local sourcesversus long-rangetransported dust (SVALDUST)". SIOS for SESS - participant

  • 2021–2023 – "Fossil fuel contribution to Black Carbon deposition on Svalbard Glaciers (BC14)". Research Council of Norway (RCN) (SSF Svalbard Strategic Grant) - participant

  • 2021–2023 – "Czynniki antropogeniczne wpływające na wyzwalanie osuwisk w środowisku zmodyfikowanym w wyniku zmian klimatu - badania geofizyczne". Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN) - participant

  • 2020–2022 – "Harmonizing Environmental Research and Monitoring of Priority Pollutants in the Svalbard Atmosphere (HERMOSA)" - Research Council of Norway, SSF Svalbard Strategic Grant - partner representative

  • 2020–2022 – "Microbial anthropogenic footprint in snow-dominated Karkonosze catchments". Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, NAWA PHC Polonium - project leader (Poland)

  • 2019–2022 – "Rewitalizacja Polskiej Stacji Antarktycznej im. A.B. Dobrowolskiego, Oaza Bungera, Antarktyda Wschodnia". Ministerstwo Edukcaji i Nauki - participant

  • 2018–2021 – “Sørkapp Marine Litter Cleanup”. Svalbard Environmental Protection Fund. RiS-ID 11230 - participant, expedition leader

  • 2018–2022 – "Spatial Distributions of Black Carbon and Mineral Dust in Air and Snow Surface Layers upon Svalbard Glaciers – BC-3D". Research Council of Norway SSF Svalbard Strategic Grant - participant

  • 2014–2015 – “Pan Stanisław – czyli szkoła w kosmosie” – Educational project (www.panstanislaw.edu.pl); Participant“Pan Stanisław – czyli szkoła w kosmosie” – Educational project (www.panstanislaw.edu.pl); participant

  • 2014–2014 – “Opracowanie koncepcji systemu monitorowania dachów pod kątem zagrożeń związanych z warunkami atmosferycznymi”; "Staż Sukcesem Naukowca", Projekt realizowany w woj. małopolskim w ramach Poddziałania 8.2.1 Programu Operacyjnego Kapitał Ludzki, funded by the European Union, Poznański Akademicki Inkubator Przedsiębiorczości, Participant

  • 2014–2015 – “SMACS – Snow Monitoring using Automatic Camera Systems at Svalbard key sites”. The Research Council of Norway - participant

  • 2013–2016 – „AWAKE-2 – Arctic climate system study of ocean, sea ice and glaciers interaction in Svalbard area”. Norway Grands, NCBiR Pol-Nor/198675/17/2013 - partner representative, Steering Committee Member

  • 2013–2014 – “Increasing school pupils' competence in the field of mathematics, natural and technical sciences with the application of innovative methods and technologies – EDUSCIENCE” (www.eduscience.pl); Project co-financed by the European Union under the European Social Fund “Człowiek – najlepsza inwestycja”; Leader of the abiotic group

  • 2012–2014 – „Habitat preferences, population size and colony distribution of the Little auks on the West Spitsbergen in the context of heterogeneous oceanographic-climatic and environmetnal conditions in the Arctic”. National Science Centre of Poland, participant

  • 2011–2016 – "Reconstruction of the post ’Little Ice Age’ geomorphological processes in glacial environments – sedimentological and morphological record of glacial landsystems’ reactions to environmental changes". National Science Center of Poland, participant

  • 2011–2013 – „ChemArctic – The compound model of chemical denudation in the polythermal basin of Werenskioldbreen
    (Svalbard Archipelago)". Ministry of Science and Higher Education, participant

  • 07–2010 – „ALKEKONGE – Response of marine and terrestrial ecosystems to climate changes in Arctic – links between physical environment, biodiversity of zooplankton and seabird populations”; Norway Grants, participant

  • 2008–2010 – „The functioning of present-day polar geoecosystems in the vicinity of Petunia Bukta. Current state, threats, protection (Billefjorden, Central Spitsbergen)”. Grant of Ministry of Science and Higher Education Republic of Poland, participant

  • 2009–2010 – Mobility Grant “ARGLA – Investigations on Arctic Glaciers through multiparameter investigation of meltwater”. FNR/09/AM2c/08. Finansowane przez Fonds Nationale de la Recherche Luxembourg Laboratoire Physique des Radiations, Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication University of Luxembourg - principal investigator

  • 2009–2009 – Individual Mobility Grant„Projekt badawczy „Bilans energetyczny zlewni małych lodowców Arktyki”, FSS/2008/V/D3/W/0014, w ramach Stypendium Indywidualnego współfinansowanego ze środków pomocy technicznej Mechanizmu Norweskiego EOG i Norweskiego Mechanizmu Finansowego w ramach Funduszu Stypendialnego i Szkoleniowego. Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Geosciences University of Oslo - project leader

  • 2007–2010 – "Functionality of a small Arctic glacier catchment geoecosystem (Ariebreen, Spitsbergen)". Grant of Ministry of Science and Higher Education, project leader and principal investigator

Memberships:

  • 2022 – The Polish Polar Consortium - representative of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences

  • 2020-present – SCAR - National Representatives in the Physical Sciences Group

  • 2019-2022 – Scientific Board of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

  • forScience Foundation

  • The Association of Polish Geomorphologists (SGP)

  • Stowarzyszenie Naukowców Polarnych U Progu Kariery w Polsce (APECS Polska)

 

Honors & awards

  • 2014 – Stefan Kozarski Award from the Association of Polish Geomorphologists for the best Ph.D. Thesis within the domain of geomorphology in 2011