Human activity largely determines the condition and quality of soils and can also affect adverse environmental processes in bodies of water. An inappropriate way of cultivating crops, focused only on obtaining high yields, which are generated by intensive and unbalanced soil fertilisation, leads to a number of unfavourable phenomena.
Currently, research on fertilisers with controlled release is being performed in the Department of Biomaterials and Composites at the Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics at the AGH University, the effect of which is the creation of an original CRF fertiliser. It was possible to optimise the production process of such fertilisers and also to study and assess their properties in time comparing them to analogous conventional mineral fertilisers. Research on the effect of the developed CRF fertilisers was carried out based on crop farms, among others, of phacelia, oat, and millet under laboratory conditions.
Dr Piotr Szatkowski
Assistant professor in the Department of Biomaterials and Composites at the Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics at the AGH University. His main research topics are composite materials, carbon materials, and materials of natural origin. In addition to developing, creating, and studying composite materials, an important aspect of his work is conducting advanced research, among others on complex thermal analysis and mechanical research. At present, his interests are more focused on environmental protection and materials which could benefit this field of knowledge.
“Without a doubt, human influence contributed to global warming of the atmosphere, oceans, and lands. There have been widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and biosphere," is the first sentence of the latest sixth report of the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Dr Łukasz Chmura will speak about what the observations of climate change show and where our development path leads us. We will see how the climate changes globally but also locally based on the meteorological observations at the Kasprowy Wierch Observatory. Not only the state of the atmosphere has been measured in this location (by the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research Institute), but also the concentrations of the main greenhouse gases for almost 30 years now (in the KASLAB laboratory managed by the Environmental Physics Team of the Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science at the AGH University). The speaker will show how to measure the concentrations of trace gases and how the measurement methods evolved over time.
Dr Łukasz Chmura
Graduate of the Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science at the AGH University. Since his studies, he has been associated with the Environmental Physics Team at the faculty. He specialises in atmospheric physics, especially with the measurement of gas in the greenhouse effect. Mainly, but not only, in the KASLAB laboratory on Kasprowy Wierch. Since 2009, he has worked for the meteorological observatory on Kasprowy Wierch owned by the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research Institute. Besides performing the duties of a meteorological observer, he is also the manager of this observatory.