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"European University of the Seas - SEA-EU" the Research Potential Database and the Shared Infrastructure Database have been developed

Changed on Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 10:54

Within the framework of the project "European University of the Seas - SEA-EU" the Research Potential Database and the Shared Infrastructure Database have been developed. They are available at https://sea-eu.pl/.

We encourage you to use the available information, as well as to complete them with data on research teams and resources you would like to make available to partners. The purpose of the platform is, among others, to promote teams and to facilitate mutual contacts.

The UG Visiting professors program - the second call for applications has started

Changed on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 - 14:48

We are pleased to announce that the second call for applications for the "UG Visiting professors" competition was launched on 17 January. The program aims to strengthen the didactic and scientific potential and to develop the quality of education of the University students by inviting outstanding scientists as visiting professors from renowned foreign centres.

Public defence of Ms Anne Ausems

Changed on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 - 14:54

The Chair of the Scientific Council of Biological Sciences and the Doctoral Committee of the Scientific Council of Biological Sciences of the University of Gdańsk kindly notify that on 15 October 2021 at 10:00 a.m. in Gdańsk, 59 Wita Stwosza Street, Auditorium Biologicum (C/105), a public defence will take place of the doctoral dissertation of

Ms Anne Ausems

on the topic:

"Reconstructing important phases of the annual cycle of four species of storm-petrels using stable isotope analyses and ptilochronology",

A new infraorder of sternorrhynchan bugs described by researchers from the Museum of Amber Inclusions

Changed on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 - 15:01

An international research team with the participation of Dr hab. Jacek Szwedo, prof. UG and Dr Dagmara Żyła from the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology UG published a paper – Drohojowska, J., Szwedo, J., Żyła, D., Huang, D.-Y., Müller, P. (2020) Fossils reshape the Sternorrhyncha evolutionary tree (Insecta, Hemiptera.) Sci Rep 10, 11390. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68220-x – in which a new infraorder of these bugs was described (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha).

Contaminants in the Arctic

Changed on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 - 15:02

EN: Exposure of a small Arctic seabird, the little auk (Alle alle) breeding in Svalbard, to selected elements throughout the course of a year

 

Aneta Dorota Pacyna-Kuchta, Dariusz Jakubas, Marcin Frankowski, Żaneta Polkowska, Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas

Science of The Total Environment, Available online 3 May 2020, 139103.

 

The results of study on Antarctic seabirds in "Science of the Total Environment”

Changed on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 - 15:03

The results of study on Antarctic seabirds [effect of the collaboration between our faculty researchers (Ph.D. student and two researchers from Department of Vertebrate Ecology and Zoology) and the researcher from the University of Western Australia], funded by National Science Centre, Poland, have just been published in the “Science of the Total Environment”.

New holotypes in the collection of Museum of Amber Inclusions

Changed on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 - 15:04

Museum of Amber Inclusions, established in 1998, is intergral part of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Entomology and Museum of Amber Inclusions, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology at Faculty of Biology University of Gdańsk. The Museum collection enriched recently with subsequent holotypes – the specimens on which scientific names are based, in this case – extinct dipterans preserved as inclusion in the Eocene Baltic amber. Holotypes and paratypes are the most precious specimens in scientific collections, Museum of Amber Inclusions houses now 82 type specimens.