Projects

Projects

• 2026–2027 — exPLo AI – Intelligent tourism activity analyzer (Project No. INFOSTRATEG8/3/2025). NCBR project "Advanced Information, Telecommunication, and Mechatronic Technologies" – INFOSTRATEG VIII. Thematic scope (submitted by the Ministry of Sport and Tourism): Advanced AI tools and algorithms based on public data supporting economic development in the tourism sector (GIS spatial analysis expert).
• 2023–2024 — Identification of World War II air campaign remnants in the Koźle Basin soils - verification of the usefulness of geophysical methods (Swoboda Badań III, University of Silesia in Katowice, contractor). Result: Waga et al. 2026. DOI: 10.14746/quageo-2026-0004 ↗
• 2022–2023 — Anthropogenic landforms derived from LiDAR data in the woodlands of Koźle Basin (Southern Poland) (Małe Projekty 2022, University of Silesia in Katowice, contractor). Results: Waga et al. 2023. DOI: 10.2478/environ-2023-0009 ↗; Waga et al. 2022a. DOI: 10.1007/s10761-022-00672-5 ↗; Waga et al. 2022b. DOI: 10.3390/s22218328 ↗; Waga et al. 2022c. DOI: 10.2478/environ-2022-0005 ↗; Waga et al. 2022d. DOI: 10.12657/czageo-93-05 ↗; Waga et al. 2022e. ResearchGate ↗
• 2021–2027 — A nationwide project of the Association of Polish Geomorphologists aimed at producing Digital Geomorphological Map of Poland 1:500,000 and publishing the work ‘Regional Geomorphology of Poland’ (leader of the implementation team from the University of Silesia in Katowice).
• 2021–2023 — Landscape audit of the Silesian Province. Project carried out on behalf of the Silesian Voivodeship (National Foundation for Environmental Protection, Contract CRU WSL nr 1462/GN/2021, contractor)
• 2020–2024 — Travel and Mobility in Hellenistic and Early Roman Palestine (National Science Centre 2020/38/E/HS3/00031, Sonata BIS 10, contractor). Results: Marciak et al. 2025. DOI: 10.31743/ba.18331 ↗; Marciak et al. 2023a. DOI: 10.3390/rs15184545 ↗; Marciak et al. 2023b. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-023-01820-6 ↗
• 2019–2020 — The study of transboundary pollution of river sediments on the examples of Odra and Olza Rivers (PPN/BIL/2018/1/00124/U/00001) (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, University of Science and Technology Cracow, University of Silesia in Katowice, cooperation). Result: Faměra et al. 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.ancene.2021.100286 ↗
• 2016–2017 — Digitization of the Geomorphological Map of the Upper Silesian Industrial Region (GOP) 1:50,000, 1959 (Student GIS Research Club; project coordinator and digital map editor). Result: Szypuła B. (ed.), 2017. Geomorphological Map of the GOP 1:50,000 - digital version. Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Sosnowiec. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9904679.v1 ↗
• 2013–2014 — Development of technical conditions for carrying out thematic cartographic studies in the form of digital geomorphological maps (Association of Polish Geomorphologists, regional coordinator and scientific consultant for the implementation team from the University of Silesia in Katowice). Result: Jania J., Dulias R., Szypuła B., Tyc A., 2014. Digital Geomorphological Map of Poland 1:100,000 – Katowice Sheet. GUGiK, Warsaw.
• 2006–2007 — Analysis of morphometric conditions of navigation on the Odra River in the reach: Chałupki to confluence with the Warta River (WWF World Wildlife Fund Project No. 542100/54000/no. 07149, contractor). Result: Brański J., Czajka A., Kadłubowski A., Maciążek E., Mierkiewicz M., Sasim M., Szypuła B., Żelaziński J., 2007. Hydrological and morphological effects and consequences of the development of the Oder waterway. Research and implementation project, WWF. 89 p.
• 2005–2008 — Changes in the course of sedimentation of the Upper Oder overbank sediments in the Racibórz Basin during the historical period (Grant MNiSW 2 P04E 05529, contractor).
• 2004–2007 — Extreme meteorological and hydrological events in Poland (evaluation of events and forecasting their effects on the human living environment) (Grant PBZ-KBN-086/PO4/2003, cooperation).