“As part of her Doctoral Research Grants at the University of Łódź (UŁ), Marta Rudna is investigating the history of geographical and biological changes shaping the place where we live over a period of 2,000 years”, announces on Twitter Paweł Śpiechowicz, spokesperson for the UŁ.

During her PhD at the University of Łódź, Marta Rudna is focusing on reconstructing rapid climatic changes in central Poland at the turn of the Pleistocene and Holocene. 

For this purpose, she will analyse the remains of Diplostraca (microscopic crustaceans living in the bottoms of freshwater bodies) at selected sites using radiocarbon dating methods and palynological analysis. 

The latter method will help to refine palaeoecological data on episodes of transitions from cold to warm conditions and vice versa. The studies will also contribute to broadening the knowledge on conditions in the Polish Lowlands at the turn of the last glaciation and Holocene.