Assistant Professor

Instytut Geofizyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk

ul. Księcia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warszawa

tel. +48 22 6915 894, e-mail: luks@igf.edu.pl

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Principal research domains:

• snow cover stratigraphy
• snow cover spatial distribution
• snow hydrology
• climatology
• glaciology

Academic degrees:

• 2013 - PhD in Earth Sciences, Instytut Geofizyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk (thesis title: "Dynamika zamian pokrywy śnieżnej w rejonie południowo-zachodniego Spitsbergenu”)

• 2005 - MSc in Environmental Protection, Uniwersytet Warszawski (thesis title: „Wpływ Polskiej Stacji Polarnej w Hornsundzie na zanieczyszczenie i degradację pokrywy glebowej”)

Publications:

• Spolaor, A., Larose, C., Luks, B., Gallet, J.-C., Salzano, R., Pohjola, V.A. and Costa, D., 2023. Editorial: Pan-Arctic snow research. Frontiers in Earth Science. 11:1266810. doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.1266810
• 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, 452, 131317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.131317
• Gumsley, A. P., de Kock, M., Ernst, R., Gumsley, A., Hanson, R., Kamo, S., Knoper, M., Lewandowski, M., Luks, B., Mamuse, A., & Söderlund, U. (2024). The Mutare–Fingeren dyke swarm: the enigma of the Kalahari Craton’s exit from supercontinent Rodinia. Geological Society Special Publication, 537(1). https://doi.org/10.1144/sp537-2022-206
• Keuschnig, C., Vogel, T. M., Barbaro, E., Spolaor, A., Koziol, K., Björkman, M. P., Zdanowicz, C., Gallet, J.-C., Luks, B., Layton, R., & Larose, C. 2023. Selection processes of Arctic seasonal glacier snowpack bacterial communities. Microbiome, 11(1), 35. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-023-01473-6 
• Kachniarz, K., Grabiec, M., Ignatiuk, D., Laska, M., Luks, B., 2023. Changes in the Structure of the Snow Cover of Hansbreen (S Spitsbergen) Derived from Repeated High-Frequency Radio-Echo Sounding. Remote Sensing. 15(1).189. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15010189
• 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.: Newly identified climatically and environmentally significant high latitude dust sources, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 11889–11930, 2022 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
• Błaszczyk, M., Jania, J.A., Ciepły, M., Grabiec, M., Ignatiuk, D., Kolondra, L., Kruss, A., Luks, B., Moskalik, M., Pastusiak, T., Strzelewicz, A., Walczowski, W., Wawrzyniak, T., 2021. Factors controlling terminus position of Hansbreen, a tidewater glacier in Svalbard. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125, e2020JF005763. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005763
• Barbaro, E., Koziol, K., Björkman, M. P., Vega, C. P., Zdanowicz, C., Martma, T., Gallet, J.-C., Kępski, D., Larose, C., Luks, B., Tolle, F., Schuler, T. V., Uszczyk, A., & Spolaor, A., 2021. Measurement report: Spatial variations in ionic chemistry and water-stable isotopes in the snowpack on glaciers across Svalbard during the 2015–2016 snow accumulation season. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(4), 3163–3180. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3163-2021
• Zdanowicz, C., Gallet, J.-C., Björkman, M. P., Larose, C., Schuler, T., Luks, B., Koziol, K., Spolaor, A., Barbaro, E., Martma, T., van Pelt, W., Wideqvist, U., & Ström, J., 2021. Elemental and water-insoluble organic carbon in Svalbard snow: a synthesis of observations during 2007–2018. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(4), 3035–3057. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3035-2021
• Jawak, S.D., Andersen, B.N., Pohjola, V., Godøy, Ø., Hübner, C., Jennings, I., Ignatiuk, D., Holmén, K., Sivertsen, A., Hann, R., Tømmervik, H., Kääb, A., Błaszczyk, M., Salzano, R., Luks, B., Høgda, K.A., Storvold, R., Nilsen, L., Salvatori, R., Krishnan, K.P., Chatterjee, S., Lorentzen, D.A., Erlandsson, R., Lauknes, T.R., Malnes, E., Karlsen, S.R., Enomoto, H., Fjæraa, A.M., Zhang, J., Marty, S., Nygård, K.O., Lihavainen, H., 2021. SIOS’s Earth Observation (EO), Remote Sensing (RS), and operational activities in response to COVID-19. Remote Sensing, 13, 712, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040712
• 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
• Salzano, R., Killie, M.A., Luks, B., Malnes, E., 2021. A multi-scale approach on snow cover observations and models. In: Moreno-Ibáñez et al (eds) SESS report 2020, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System, Longyearbyen, pp 252-256. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4294092
• Salzano, R., Aalstad, K., Boldrini, E., Gallet, J.C., Kępski, D., Luks, B., Nilsen, L., Salvatori, R., Westermann, S., 2021. Svalbard snow and sea-ice cover: comparing satellite data, on-site measurements, and modelling results. In: Moreno-Ibáñez et al (eds) SESS report 2020, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System, Longyearbyen, pp 236-251. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4294084
• Killie, M.A., Aaboe, S., Isaksen, K., Van Pelt, W., Pedersen, Å.Ø., Luks, B., 2021. Svalbard snow and sea-ice cover: comparing satellite data, on-site measurements, and modelling results. In: Moreno-Ibáñez et al (eds) SESS report 2020, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System, Longyearbyen, pp 220-235. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4293804
• Wolken, G.J., Wouters, B., Sharp, M., Andreassen, L.M., Burgess, D., Kohler, J., Luks, B., 2020. Glaciers and Ice Caps Outside Greenland. [in: Arctic Report Card 2020, Thoman, R.L., Richter-Menge, J., Druckenmiller, Eds.], 79-86, DOI: 10.25923/nwqq-8736 
• 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
• Noël, B., Jakobs, C.L., van Pelt, W.J.J., Lhermitte, S., Wouters, B., Kohler, J., Hagen, J.O., Luks, B., Reijmer, C.H., van de Berg, W.J., van den Broeke, M.R., 2020. Low elevation of Svalbard glaciers drives high mass loss variability, Nature Communications, 11, 4597, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18356-1
• Wolken, G.J., Wouters, B., Sharp, M., Andreassen, L.M., Baker, E.H., Burgess, D., Kohler, J., Luks, B.,  O’Neel, S., 2020. Glaciers and ice caps outside Greenland [in “State of the Climate in 2019"], Bulletin of American Meteoroligical Society, 101 (8), S260–S263, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0086.1
• Schuler, T.V., Kohler, J., Elagina, N., Hagen, J.O., Hodson, A.J., Jania, J., Kääb, A., Luks, B., Malecki, J., Moholdt, G., Pohjola, V.A., Sobota, I., Van Pelt, W., 2020. Reconciling Svalbard Glacier Mass Balance, Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00156
• López-Moreno, J.I., Leppänen, L., Luks, B., Holko, L., Picard, G., Sanmiguel‐Vallelado, A., Alonso‐González, E., Finger, D.C., Arslan, A.N,., Gillemot, K., Sensoy, A., Sorman, A., Cansaran Ertaş, M., Fassnacht, S.R.,  Fierz, C., Marty, C., 2020. Intercomparison of measurements of bulk snow density and water equivalent of snow cover with snow core samplers: Instrumental bias and variability induced by observers. Hydrological Processes, 1–14, https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13785
• Schuler, T.V., Glazovsky, A., Hagen, J.O., Hodson, A., Jania, J., Kääb, A., Kohler, J., Luks, B., Malecki, J., Moholdt, G., Pohjola, V., Van Pelt, W., 2020. New data, new techniques and new challenges for updating the state of Svalbard glaciers (SvalGlac). In: Van den Heuvel et al. (eds): SESS report 2019, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System, Longyearbyen, pp. 108 - 134
• van Pelt, W., Pohjola, V., Pettersson, R., Marchenko, S., Kohler, J., Luks, B., Hagen, J. O., Schuler, T. V., Dunse, T., Noël, B., and Reijmer, C., 2019. A long-term dataset of climatic mass balance, snow conditions and runoff in Svalbard (1957–2018), The Cryosphere, 13, 2259-2280, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-53
• Błaszczyk, M., Ignatiuk, D., Grabiec, M., Kolondra, L., Laska, M., Decaux, L., Jania, J., Berthier, E., Luks, B., Barzycka, B., Czapla, M., 2019. Quality Assessment and Glaciological Applications of Digital Elevation Models Derived from Space-Borne and Aerial Images over Two Tidewater Glaciers of Southern Spitsbergen, Remote Sensing, 11, 1121
• Leppänen. L., López-Moreno, J.I., Gillemot. K., Luks, B., Holko, L., Arslan, A.N., Azzoni, R., Dagsson-Waldhauserova, P., Finger, D., Marty, C.,. Sanmiguel-Vallelado, A., Sensoy Sorman, A., Soncini, A., Sorman, A., Vint, K., 2019. Uncertainty Estimation of Manual SWE Measurements: Experiences from three HarmoSnow Field Campaigns. In: Haberkorn, A. (Ed.), European Snow Booklet, 330-343, doi:10.16904/envidat.59
• Łupikasza, E.B., Ignatiuk, D., Grabiec, M., Cielecka-Nowak, K., Laska, M., Jania, J., Luks, B., Uszczyk, A., Budzik, T., 2019. The Role of Winter Rain in the Glacial System on Svalbard, Water, 11(2), 334
• Gallet, J.-C., Björkman, M., Borstad, C.P., Hodson, A.J., Jacobi, H.-W., Larose, C., Luks, B., Spolaor, A., Schuler, T.V., Urazgildeeva, A., Zdanowicz, C., 2019. Snow research in Svalbard: current status and knowledge gaps. In: Orr et al. (eds): SESS report 2018, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System, Longyearbyen, pp. 82 - 107
• Gallet, J-C., Björkman, M.P., Larose, C., Luks, B., Martma, T., Zdanowicz, C., 2018. Protocols and recommendations for the measurement of snow physical properties, and sampling of snow for black carbon, water isotopes, major ions and microorganisms, Kortrapport 46, Norsk Polarinstitutt, 27 pp.
• Opała-Owczarek, M., Pirożnikow, E., Owczarek, P., Szymański, W., Luks, B., Kępski, D., Szymanowski, M., Wojtuń, B., Migała, K., 2018. The influence of abiotic factors on the growth of two vascular plant species (Saxifraga oppositifolia and Salix polaris) in the High Arctic, CATENA, 163, 219-232, doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2017.12.018
• Laska, M., Barzycka, B., Luks, B., 2017. Melting Characteristics of Snow Cover on Tidewater Glaciers in Hornsund Fjord, Svalbard, Water, 9(10), 804, doi:10.3390/w9100804
• Lewandowski, M., Kusiak, M.A., Michalczyk, Ł., Szmigiel, D., Sledziewska-Gojska, E., Barzycka, B., Wawrzyniak, T., Luks, B., Thordarson, T., Wilde, S.A., Hoskuldsson, A., 2017. Message in a stainless steel bottle thrown into deep geological time. Gondwana Research 52, 139–141 doi:10.1016/j.gr.2017.09.005
• Kępski, D., Luks, B., Migała, K, Wawrzyniak, T., Westermann, S., Wojtuń, B., 2017. Terrestrial Remote Sensing of Snowmelt in a Diverse High-Arctic Tundra Environment Using Time-Lapse Imagery, Remote Sensing, 9(7), 733, doi:10.3390/rs9070733
• van Pelt, W.J.J., Kohler, J., Liston, G.E., Hagen, J.O., Luks, B., Reijmer, C.H., Pohjola, V.A., 2016. Multi-decadal climate and seasonal snow conditions in Svalbard, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 121, doi:10.1002/2016JF003999
• Kozak, K., Polkowska, Ż., Stachnik, Ł., Luks, B., Chmiel, S., Ruman, M., Lech, D., Kozioł, K., Tsakovski, S., Simeonov, V., 2016. Arctic catchment as a sensitive indicator of the environmental changes: distribution and migration of metals (Svalbard), International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 13(12), 2779–2796, doi: 10.1007/s13762-016-1137-6 
• 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 (3), 249-261, doi:10.1016/j.polar.2016.06.003
• Vikhamar-Schuler, D., Isaksen, K., Haugen, J.E., Tømmervik, H., Luks, B.,  Schuler, T.V., Bjerke, J.W., 2016. Changes in winter warming events in the Nordic Arctic Region, Journal of Climate, 29 (17), 6223-6244, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0763.1
• Laska, M., Luks, B., Budzik, T., 2016. Influence of snowpack internal structure on snow metamorphism and melting intensity on Hansbreen, Svalbard, Polish Polar Research, 37(2),  193-218
• Aas, K.S., Dunse, T., Collier, E., Schuler, T.V., Berntsen, T.K., Kohler, J., Luks, B., 2016. The climatic mass balance of Svalbard glaciers: a 10-year simulation with a  coupled atmosphere-glacier mass balance model, The Cryosphere, 10, 1089-1104

• Kozak, K., Kozioł, K., Luks, B., Chmiel, S., Ruman, M., Marć, M., Namieśnik, J., Polkowska, Ż., 2015. The role of atmospheric precipitation in introducing contaminants to the surface waters of the Fuglebekken catchment, Spitsbergen, Polar Research 34, 24207

• Ignatiuk, D., Piechota, A., Ciepły, M., Luks, B., 2014, Changes of altitudinal zones of Werenskioldbreen and Hansbreen in period 1990 - 2008, Svalbard, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1618 (1), 275-280

• Bialik, R. J., Karpiński, M., Rajwa, A., Luks, B., Rowiński, P. M., 2014. Bedform Characteristics in Natural and Regulated Channels: A Comparative Field Study on the Wilga River, Poland, Acta Geophysica, 62(6), 1413-1434.

• Rajwa, A., Bialik, R. J., Karpiński, M., Luks, B., 2014. Dissolved oxygen in rivers: concepts and measuring techniques, in: Achievements, History and Challenges in Geophysics, Springer International Publishing, 337-350.

• Luks, B., Osuch, M., Romanowicz, R.J., 2011. The relationship between snowpack dynamics and NAO/AO indices in SW Spitsbergen, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 13, 646-654.

• Moller, M., Moller, R., Beaudon, E., Mattila, O.-P., Finkelnburg, R., Braun, M., Grabiec, M., Jonsell, U., Luks, B., Puczko, D., Scherer, D., Schneider, C., 2011. Snowpack characteristics of Vestfonna and De Geerfonna (Nordaustlandet, Svalbard) - a spatiotemporal analysis based on multiyear snow-pit data, Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography 93, 273-285.

  • Luks B., Głowacki P., 2007. Zanieczyszczenia gleby metalami ciężkimi w rejonie Polskiej Stacji Polarnej Hornsund. In: R. Przybylak, M. Kejna A. Araźny, P. Głowacki (Eds). Abiotyczne środowisko Spitsbergenu w latach 2005-2006 w warunkach globalnego ocieplenia. Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika i Instytut Geofizyki PAN, Toruń: 267-279.

  • Krajewski, K., Luks, B., 2003. Origin of “cannon−ball” concretions in the Carolinefjellet Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Spitsbergen, Polish Polar Research, 24 (3–4), 217-242.

Research projects:

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

• SIOS Pilot ACCESS & SESS „Snow Observation in Svalbard – SOS"

• Research Council of Norway SSF Svalbard Strategic Grant „Community Coordinated Snow Study in Svalbard – C2S3"

• Research Council of Norway SSF Svalbard Strategic Grant „Snow Monitoring using Automatic Camera Systems at Svalbard key sites – SMACS”

• NCBiR/PolarCLIMATE-2009/2-2/2010 „Sensitivity of Svalbard glacier to climate change – SVALGLAC”

• IGF PAS young researchers grant nr. 500-10-15 „Uwarunkowania hydrodynamiczne i geomorfologiczne natlenienia rzek i transportu tlenu rozpuszczonego w systemie rzecznym”

• Iuventus Plus „Struktura turbulencji oraz rozkład prędkości średniej przepływu nad dennymi formami rzecznymi: eksperymenty środowiskowe w zastosowaniach do analizy transportu sedymentu”

• Polish Ministry of Science and Hiher Education nr. N N306 787940 „Dynamika procesów akumulacji i ablacji pokrywy śnieżnej”

• Polish Ministry of Science and Hiher Education nr. 111/IPY/2007/01 „Zmienność wybranych elementów środowiska polarnego w Atlantyckim sektorze Arktyki określana na podstawie badań prowadzonych w trzech stacjach bazowych oraz na wybranych obszarach Svalbardu w okresie pomiędzy 3 MRG 1957–1958 a 4 MRP 2007–2009 – KINNVIKA”

• Polish Ministry of Science and Hiher Education nr. 1173/IPY/2007/01/2 „Wpływ zanieczyszczeń gazowych i pyłowych w troposferze na skład chemiczny opadów atmosferycznych i zmiany klimatu w Arktyce i Antarktyce – POLARCAT”

Memberships:

• Scientific Board, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences

• Association of Polar Early Career Scientist (APECS)

Honors & awards:

• 2009 Mazowieckie Stypendium Doktoranckie na rok akademicki 2008/2009 ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego oraz Budżetu Państwa w ramach Zintegrowanego Programu Operacyjnego Rozwoju Regionalnego (ZPORR)

 

 

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