On May 20th, 2025 the Conference on reconstructing landscape evolution with radioactive isotopes took place at the Institute of Geophysics PAS in Warsaw. The meeting was opened by the Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs, dr hab. Rafał Junosza-Szaniawski.

The meeting was opened by the Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs, dr hab. Rafał Junosza-Szaniawski. The conference was split into three blocks: rock coasts, soft coasts and cold environments, and mountains. Nine speakers from Poland and abroad presented their research that uses radioactive isotopes in reconstructing geomorphological processes at a range of temporal scales. The meeting was concluded with a vivid discussion. The opportunity to gather the experts in the field was the bilateral PAN-CNRS Imternational Emerging Action project “Rock Coast Cosmogenics (RoCoCo): Long-term coastal cliff retreat rates from cosmogenic 10Be concentrations” conducted by the Institute of Geophysics PAS and Géosciences Environnement Toulouse.

The list of presentations:

  • Recent progress in rock coast cosmogenics, dr Zuzanna Świrad, Institute of Geophysics PAS
  • Reconstructing long-term coastal cliff retreat rates, dr Vincent Regard, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, France
  • Dynamic modelling of rock coast evolution, dr Martin Hurst, University of Glasgow, UK
  • Dating the southern fringe of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet using cosmogenic nuclides: lessons from DatErr and ideas for DatErr 2.0, dr Karol Tylmann, University of Gdańsk, Poland
  • Application of 210Pb and 137Cs in studies of coastal sedimentary processes and dating, prof. Witold Szczuciński, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
  • The interplay between elevated natural and anthropogenic radioactivity and microbial communities on the surface of glaciers, dr Jakub Buda, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
  • Relationship between regolith formation and valley flanc erosion rate in the Andes, prof. Sebastien Carretier, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, France
  • Filling the missing gaps in landscape evolution history – lessons from cosmogenic burial dating of Polish caves, dr Artur Sobczyk, University of Wroclaw, Poland
  • How speleothems dating can be used for paleoseismology and neotectonics, dr hab. Jacek Szczygieł, Uniwersytet Śląski