Conference Program
The Global Water Future 2026 • Borucino, Poland
| Day 1 • Wednesday, 23 September 2026 | |||
| 9:00–10:00 | 📋 Registration | ||
| 10:00–10:30 | 🎤 Opening Ceremony | Julita Dunalska, Włodzimierz Golus | University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland |
| 10:30–11:30 |
★ Keynote Lecture Helen Greaves | Helen Greaves | University College London, London, England |
| 11:30–12:00 | ☕ Coffee break | ||
| Session I • Lakes and Reservoirs | |||
| 12:00–12:20 | Insights for adaptive management of eutrophic lakes on the example of a protected eutrophic lake (Lake Góreckie, Wielkopolski National Park, Poland) | Mariusz Pełechaty, Sarkhan Ibrahimov, Renata Dondajewska-Pielka, Lech Kaczmarek, Aleksandra Pełechata | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznań, Poland |
| 12:20–12:40 | Century-Scale Hydrological Transformation of an Urban Lake: The Case of Lake Czerniakowskie | Agnieszka Bańkowska-Sobczak, Michał Wasilewicz | Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland |
| 12:40–13:00 | Proposals for the restoration of Lake Rogoźno based on 25 years of observations | Przemysław Benz | Rogozińskie Lake Association, Rogoźno, Poland |
| 13:00–14:00 | 🍽️ Lunch | ||
| Session II • Aquatic Risks and Changing World | |||
| 14:00–14:20 | Prymnesium parvum Harmful Algal Blooms during the Oder River disaster in summer 2022, and after-effects in aquatic ecosystem | Agnieszka Napiórkowska-Krzebietke | National Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Olsztyn, Poland |
| 14:20–14:40 | Legal protection of rivers in crisis situations: the case of ecological disaster on the River Oder | Elżbieta Zębek | University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland |
| 14:40–15:00 | The influence of elevated temperature on the germination success of aquatic plants | Joanna Rosińska, Eric Puche, Manuel Muñoz-Colmenares, Maria A. Rodrigo, Julia Gostyńska, Dariusz Halabowski | Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland; University of València, València, Spain; University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland |
| 15:00–15:20 | Diatom communities of springs in the coastal zone of northern Poland | Iwona Bubak, Izabela Chlost | University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland |
| 15:20–15:50 | ☕ Coffee break | ||
| Session III • Ecology, Water Quality and Management | |||
| 15:50–16:10 | The role of seasons in influencing the variability of physicochemical characteristics of wastewater from the Płaszów Wastewater Treatment Plant in the context of reducing eutrophication potential | Justyna Pyssa, Magdalena Piech, Dominika Uchmanowicz, Laura Węgrzyn, Ewa Pyssa, Agnieszka Orzechowska-Zięba, Eliza Wolak, Katarzyna Styszko | AGH University of Kraków, Kraków, Poland; Coca-Cola HBC Polska sp. z o.o., Poland; Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Kraków, Poland |
| 16:10–16:30 | Environmental impact assessment of inland aquaculture facilities: legal framework, best practices and recommendations | Anna Małgorzata Wiśniewska, Dorota Fopp-Bayat | University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland |
| 16:30–16:50 | Enrichment of the sea-surface microlayer with dissolved organic matter across various regions of the Baltic Sea | Violetta Drozdowska | Institute of Oceanography, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland |
| 16:50–17:10 | A settlement gap or an evidence gap? High-resolution multiproxy palaeoecology and archaeology reveal landscape dynamics during the first millennium CE in Greater Poland (western Poland) | Sambor Czerwiński, Piotr Kołaczek, Jakub Niebieszczański, Mariusz Gałka, Katarzyna Marcisz, Oliwia Kubiak, Maurycy Żarczyński, Mariusz Lamentowicz | University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland; Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznań, Poland; University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland |
| 18:00 | 🍽️ Conference Dinner / Social Event | ||
| Day 2 • Thursday, 24 September 2026 | |||
| 8:00–9:30 | 🍽️ Breakfast | ||
| Session I • Young Scientists | |||
| 9:30–9:50 | A New Lens on Baltic Plankton: Applying PlanktoScope in Routine Research | Adam Makatun, Justyna Kobos, Agata Weydmann-Zwolicka | University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland |
| 9:50–10:10 | Enrichment of the Sea Surface Microlayer in Selected Contaminants in Low and High Anthropopressure Region – a Comparative View | Joanna Buch, Martyna Malinowska, Marta Staniszewska, Anita Lewandowska | University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland |
| 10:10–10:30 | Surface Water Contamination by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Selected Norwegian Seaports and on the Transect Between Them | Filip Blejczak, Anita Lewandowska, Marta Staniszewska | University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland |
| 10:30–10:50 | Physicochemical and Toxicological Assesment of Sediment Contamination in Deep-Water Pockmarks of the Gdańsk Basin | Maja Starzyńska, Katarzyna Łukawska-Matuszewska, Bartłomiej Michał Cieślik, Aleksandra Brodecka-Goluch, Jakub Idczak | University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland |
| 10:50–11:20 | ☕ Coffee break | ||
| Session II • Young Scientists (continuation) | |||
| 11:20–11:40 | Gdańsk-Elbląg Fairway Project and Its Influence on Water Quality of the Western Vistula Lagoon | Filip Molendys, Dorota Pryputniewicz-Flis, Krzysztof Pawlikowski, Ryszard Kornijów, Dorota Burska | University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland |
| 11:40–12:00 | Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Intermittent Rivers: A Meta-analysis and Field Study of the Mała River | Wiktoria Aneta Leśniewska, Mateusz Grygoruk, Agnieszka Bańkowska-Sobczak | Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland |
| 12:00–12:20 | Environmental Controls on Macrophyte Contributions to Softwater Lake Sediments: A Bayesian Isotope Mixing Model Approach | Eugeniusz Pronin, Krzysztof Banaś, Rafał Chmara, Rafał Ronowski, Marek Merdalski, Anne-Lise Santoni, Olivier Mathieu | University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland; Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France |
| 12:20–12:40 | Assessment of Changes in Groundwater Quality in the Vicinity of the Jeziorsko Retention Reservoir | Kinga Mikołajczyk, Mateusz Urbaniak, Roksana Kruć-Fijałkowska | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznań, Poland |
| 12:40–13:40 | 🍽️ Lunch | ||
| Session III • Young Scientists (continuation) | |||
| 13:40–14:00 | Holocene Environmental Changes in Eastern Carpathians: Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Varved Sediments of Lake Synevyr | Anugrah Chettintavida, Wojciech Tylmann, Maurycy Żarczyński | University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland |
| 14:00–14:20 | Blue-Green Infrastructure in Urban Areas: Trends, Tools, and Challenges | Julia Tarasek, Julita Dunalska, Włodzimierz Golus | University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland |
| 14:20–14:40 | Verification of the Possibility of Using Graph Models to Forecast Changes in Lake Water Quality | Rafał Głuszewski | University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland |
| 14:40–15:10 | ☕ Coffee break | ||
| 15:10–17:40 | 🛠️ Workshop 1 | ||
| 17:40–18:40 • Poster Session | |||
| 1 | Environmental Contamination of Recreational Beaches in Northern Poland with Soil-Transmitted Helminths: A One Health Study | Sara Drobińska, Hubert Armin Cielica, Mikołaj Wybański, Karolina Rysak, Anna Lass, Maciej Grzybek | Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland |
| 2 | Floating between two worlds – tychoplanktonic species occurring in plankton and benthos | Oliwia Gorgoń, Iwona Bubak | University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland |
| 3 | Environmental microplastics as vectors of pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment – studies on the adsorption of selected compounds | Eliza Wolak, Agnieszka Orzechowska-Zięba, Elżbieta Vogt, Dominika Uchmanowicz, Laura Frydel, Justyna Pyssa, Irena Brunarska, Katarzyna Styszko | AGH University of Kraków, Kraków, Poland; Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland |
| 4 | Occurrence of selected pharmaceuticals in the bottom sediments of aquatic environments determined by UHPLC-MS/MS | Agnieszka Orzechowska-Zięba, Eliza Wolak, Elżbieta Vogt, Dominika Uchmanowicz, Laura Węgrzyn, Justyna Pyssa, Anabela R. Reis, Rosa Rego, Katarzyna Styszko | AGH University of Kraków, Kraków, Poland |
| 5 | Changes in Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Composition of Organic Matter in Bottom Sediments Following A Cyanobacterial Bloom | Adriana Trojanowska-Olichwer, Marta Jakubiak | University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland |
| 6 | Degradation of Small Water Bodies in a Post-Glacial Lake District Undergoing Progressive Urbanisation | Zuzanna Kroenka, Włodzimierz Golus | University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland |
| 7 | Phosphate sorption on the modified expanded clay reactive material BioKer | Krzysztof Kobus, Katarzyna Pikuła | Koszalin University of Technology, Koszalin, Poland |
| 8 | Water quality and quantity assessment in the context of agro-hydrosystem – what about the water future? | Agnieszka Napiórkowska-Krzebietke | National Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Olsztyn, Poland |
| 18:40 | 🍖 Grill and social gathering | ||
| Day 3 • Friday, 25 September 2026 | |||
| 8:00–9:30 | 🍽️ Breakfast | ||
| 9:30–12:30 | 🛠️ Workshop II | ||
| 12:30–13:00 | ☕ Coffee break | ||
| 13:00 | 🎤 Closing ceremony | ||