Karol Witkowski

Place of employment:

Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Department of Geoenvironmental Research

Participation in research projects and expert opinions:

• Monstrous Rivers: Investigating the Environmental History of Modern European Floods through Literary Sources, no. 2023/49/B/HS3/04329 (NCN), principal investigator A. Barcz.
• Preparation of base materials for the implementation of the Historical Atlas of Poland. Red Ruthenia in the second half of the 16th century – preparation of detailed maps in digital form and editing of sources, no. 0390/NPRH9/H11/88/2021 (NPRH), head A. Janeczek, task manager on the part of IGSO PAS J. WOLSKI.
• Transformation of channel patterns of Carpathian rivers in the 19th-21st Centuries, no. 2022/06/X/ST10/00397 (NCN), own project.
• Geoarchaeological expertise of the shoreline zone of the Vistula floodplain in the vicinity of the Church of the Holy Spirit and the Benedictine monastery on the Philadelphia Boulevard in Toruń, (2024, Municipality of the City of Toruń), head J. Szmańda.
• Geomorphological and sedimentological expertise of the area of the former pond and the western moat of the outer bailey, (2024, Castle Museum in Malbork), head J. Szmańda.

• [With K. Meus] “The Oder-Vistula-Dniester Canal – the infrastructural legacy of the Habsburg Empire”, Journal of Historical Geography, 86 (2024), pp. 149–162.
• “The development of the use of water energy in the mountain catchment from a sociohydrological perspective”, Energies, 15(20), 2022, p. 7770.
• “Reconstruction of nineteenth-century channel patterns of Polish Carpathians rivers from the Galicia and Bucovina map (1861–1864)”, Remote Sensing, 13(24), 2021, p. 5147.
• “The Galician Canal – An unrealized project that changed the rivers in the northern part of the Carpathians”, River Research and Applications, 37(9), 2021, pp. 1343–1356.
• “Man’s impact on the transformation of channel patterns (the Skawa River, southern Poland)”, River Research and Applications, 37 (2021), pp. 150–162.
• [With J. Szmańda, P. Gierszewski, M. Habel, M. Luc, S. Bortnyk, O. Obodovskyi] “Response of the Dnieper river fluvial system to the river erosion caused by the operation of the Kaniv hydro-electric power plant (Ukraine)”, CATENA, 202 (2021), p. 105265.
• [With J. Szmańda] “Morphometric parameters of  Krumbein grain shape charts – a critical approach in light of the automatic grain shape image analysis”, Minerals, 11, 9 (2021), p. 937.
• [With A. Chrobak, J. Szmańda] “Assessment of the educational values of geomorphosites based on the expert method, case study: the Białka and Skawa Rivers, the Polish Carpathians”, Quaestiones Geographicae, 39, 1 (2020), pp. 45–57.