DAY 1: 24 September 2024
10.00 Opening ceremony
– Invitation of participants by the Organizing Committee
– Welcome address from the President of the Polish Limnological Society
– Welcome address from the President of Gdańsk
– Welcome address from the Rector of the University of Gdańsk
– Welcome address from the Dean of the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography of the University of Gdańsk
– Welcome address from the Romanian Limnogeographical Association
– In memory of an exceptional limnologist and our friend, Dariusz Borowiak (1962–2022)
Plenary Lecture: John P. Smol. Lakes in the Anthropocene: Arctic ecosystems as sentinels of climatic and other environmental changes
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 14.00 Oral Session I (Chairs: Petre Bretcan, Michał Rybak)
15 min presentation + 5 min discussion
12.00 – 12.20 Tylmann W., Bonk A., Borowiak D., Głowacka P., Nowiński K., Piłczyńska J., Szczerba A., Żarczyński M. Decade-long investigations of limnological processes and modern sedimentation at Lake Żabińskie, northeast Poland
12.20 – 12.40 Serban G., Sabău D., Bătinaș R., Bretcan P., Dunea D., Tudose T., Vele D., Tanislav D. Hydrological modelling of the peatlands to understand their effects on the flash floods
12.40 – 13.00 Kornaś-Dynia M., Nowicka B., Strojna N., Urbanek P. Possibilities of assessing ice phenomena on lakes on the example of Lake Śniardwy
13.00 – 13.20 Nowak M. Open-source hardware based ROV and USV platforms for lake water quality surveying – outcomes from practical field assessment
13.20 – 13.40 Kornaś-Dynia M., Chmist-Sikorska J. An attempt to use satellite data to calculate lake evaporation – case study from Northern Poland
13.40 – 14.00 Nagy P., Zeleňáková M., Kubiak-Wojcick K. Assessment of the effects of climate change on building structures with emphasis on hydrological risks
14.00 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00 – 16.20 Oral Session II (Chairs: Martina Zelenakova, Katarzyna Barańczuk)
15 min presentation + 5 min discussion
15.00 – 15.20 Bassam A., Stenger-Kovacs C., Kalman T. Community-level response of benthic algae to environmental constraints in a riverine network using different identification approaches
15.20 – 15.40 Klimaszyk P., Kuczyńska-Kippen N., Szeląg-Wasielewska E., Rybak M., Niedzielski P., Gołdyn B., Kaczmarek Ł. Biological and chemical diversity of arctic ponds in Svalbard
15.40 – 16.00 Czegledi I., Specziar A., Preiszner B., Boros G., Bano B., Mozsar A., Takacs P., Eros T. Stable isotope analysis reveals diet niche partitioning between native species and the invasive black bullhead (Ameiurus melas)
16.00 – 16.20 Rücker J., Kruschinski A., Nixdorf B. Phototrophic sulfur bacteria as indicators of complex trophic changes in stratified lakes
16.20 – 16.40 Coffee break
16.40 – 18.00 Oral Session III (Chairs: Brigitte Nixdorf, Piotr Rzymski)
15 min presentation + 5 min discussion
16.40 – 17.00 Kalman T., Frederic R., Ciric M., Ballot A., Laplace-Tryture Ch., Lemmonier C., Alric B., Phytool v3 reference library for the taxonomic and trait assignment of phytoplankton 23S rRNA barcodes
17.00 – 17.20 Gal B., Weiperth A., Farkas J., Schmera D., How do road crossings affect the functional diversity of aquatic macroinvertebrates?
17.20 – 17.40 – Rybak M., Szymkowiak J., Wejnerowski Ł., Woźniak M., Joniak T., Klimaszyk P., Ratajczak I., Mandy V. Stoichiometric flexibility of Myriophyllum spicatum in response to environmental variability
17.40– 18.00 Zawierucha K. Biodiversity and Fate of Glacial Organisms
19.00 – Gala Dinner
DAY 2: 25 September 2024
10.00 – 11.00 Plenary Lecture: Miquel Lurling. Eutrophication and System Analysis Guided Lake Restoration: Examples from The Netherlands
11.00 – 12.00 Short Communications Session I (Chairs: Gheorghe Serban, Michał Łopata)
5 min presentation + 3 min discussion
Barańczuk K., Barańczuk J. Effects of climate change on ice cover in lakes in Europe – future scenarios
Rybak M., Woźniak M., Kamiński O., Belniak G., Dziuba K. M., Wejnerowski Ł. The ecological stoichiometry of bloom-forming cyanobacteria under different climate change scenarios
Rosińska J., Puche E., Munoz-Colmenares M., Rodrigo M.A. How do iron coagulants and warming affect the germination rates of aquatic plants?
Bretcan P., Dunea D., Serban G., Tanislav D., Aleksandrescu D., Glod-Lendvai A-M, Sabau D., Batinas R., Tudose T., Vele D., Pastor I. Evaluation of the relationships between the water circulation system and the state of the ecosystems in the Razim-Sinoie Lake Complex
Jakubiak P., Klimaszyk P. The impact of pharmaceutical pollution and elevated temperature on freshwater mussels
Nadolna M., Dondajewska – Pielka R., Domek P., Rybak M., Kaczmarek L. Benthic invertebrates structure, with emphasis on Ephemeroptera as bioindicators, against environmental conditions (water quality, bottom sediments, submerged macrophytes) in a shallow urban pond
Augustyniak-Tunowska R., Grochowska J., Łopata M., Tandyrak R., Karczmarczyk R. Phosphorus fractions in the sediment of the meromictic lake, restored by P inactivation (Klasztorne Małe Lake, Kashubian Lakeland, Poland)
12.00 – 12.30 Coffee break
12.30 – 13.30 Short Communications Session II (Renata Augustyniak-Tunowska, Joanna Rosińska)
5 min presentation + 3 min discussion
Bătinaș R., Pop A-M., Gheorghe H., Gheorghe S. Implementing Restoration Works on Degraded Peatlands from North-Western Romania
Grochowska J., Łopata M., Augustyniak-Tunowska R., Tandyrak R., Kaczmarczyk R. The influence of restoration techniques on the environmental conditions of Lake Klasztorne Małe in Kartuzy
Łopata M., Augustyniak-Turowska R., Grochowska J., Tandyrak R. The effects of restoration have passed – what’s next? A case study of small eutrophied urban lake
Pasztaleniec A., Kolada A., Kutyła S., Ochocka A., Hobot A. Protecting lakes under the art. 139 of the Water Law – rules for lake prioritization
Wojtal A. Z., Buczek K., Pociecha A. Environmantal changes and human impact on landslide Zawadowskie Pond (Gorce Mts., South Poland)
Mihu-Pintilie A., Constantin S. C., Urzica A. Investigation of a landslide-triggered debris flow and dam formation in the Eastern Carpathians, Romania
Goździejewska A.M, Kruk M., Glińska-Lewczuk K. Response of zooplankton network indicators to land use in a river catchment
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.30 Plenary Lecture: Jan M. Węsławski. Baltic: The sea of changes
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.40 Oral Session V (Chairs: Wojciech Tylmann, Kamil Nowiński)
16.00 – 16.20 Le Cor F., Choffel Q. Microplastic contamination of small water bodies: a reflection of their watershed characteristics?
16.20 – 16.40 Zawierucha K. Microscopic invertebrates on snow patches
16.40 – 17.00 Piwowarska D., Kiedrzyńska E., Kiedrzyński M. Analysis of transport of anthropogenic pollutants along the continuum of the largest Polish rivers
17.00 – 17.20 Kubiak-Wójcicka K., Solarczyk A. Assessment of water quality in small water reservoirs in urban areas
17.20 – 17.40 Polechońska L., Almeida C.M.R Absorption of lead and copper on polyethylene microplastics in freshwater
17.40 – 18.00 Szklarek S., Górecka A, Wojtal-Frankiewicz A. The impact of salinization on freshwater ecosystems
18.00 Closing Ceremony
DAY 3: 26 September 2024
8.30 – 18.00 Field trip to the Slowinski National Park
8.30 Departure by bus in front of the Uphagen Mansion Hotel
17.30 Stop at Gdansk Main Railway Station
18.00 Arrival at the Uphagen Mansion