Cezary Kabała

Prof. Cezary Kabała

(full Professor)

Institute of Soil Science and Environmental Protection

Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences

Grunwaldzka 53, 50-357 Wroclaw

e-mail: cezary.kabala@gmail.com

I am a soil scientist. I hold my MSc (1993) and PhD (1997) in agriculture and soil science from the Wroclaw University of Agriculture (currently: Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences). Since 1993 I am the member of the Polish Society of Soil Science and since 2011 I hold the position of vice-president of the PSSS. I have several research interests, as everything associated with soil is interesting... My main interest is, however, focused on:

- soil origin, morphology and properties in accordance to the geologic, morphological and climate factors,

- soil classification, including the applications of WRB,

- soil properties and productivity of forest and agro-ecosystems,

- soil contamination with trace elements and remediation techniques,

- monitoring of soil quality.

Some recent Research Projects:

2008-2011 – „Dynamics of the trace elements in the reforested contaminated soils, with special attention on the soil solution” (head)

2009-2011 - „Correlations between slope cover bed series and morphology and properties of soils in the Sudeten Mts.” (team member)

2008-2012 –”Geoecological conditions for the natural environment in the Stolowe Mountains National Park” (team member)

2009-2013 - "The influence of spruce monocultures and mixed stands on the properties of soils developed from various rocks in the Stolowe Mountains” (team member)

2011-2013 - "Influence of organic matter on the solubility and forms of trace metals and arsenic in the contaminated soils under reclamation” (team member)

2013-2016 - "Origin, properties, occurrence and habitat value of Albeluvisols (FAO-WRB 2006) i=under geoecological conditions of the south-western Poland" (head)

Some of my recent papers:

Kabala C., Plonka T., Przekora A. 2015. Vertic properties and gilgai-related subsurface features in soils of south-western Poland. Catena 128, 95-107.

Jäger H., Achermann M., Waroszewski J., Kabała C., Malkiewicz M., Gärtner H., Dahms D., Krebs R., Egli M. 2015. Pre-alpine mire sediments as a mirror of erosion, soil formation and landscape evolution during the last 45ka. Catena 128, 63-79.

Waroszewski J., Malkiewicz M., Mazurek R., Labaz B., Jezierski P., Kabala C. 2015. Lithological discontinuities in Podzols developed from sandstone cover beds in the Stolowe Mountains (Poland). Catena 126, 11-19.

Waroszewski J., Kabala C., Jezierski P. 2015. Relief-induced soil differentiation at the sandstone-mudstone contact in the Stołowe Mountains, SW Poland. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 59, Supplementary Issue 1, 209 – 224.

Kabala C., Karczewska A., Medynska-Juraszek A. 2014. Variability and relationships between Pb, Cu, and Zn concentrations in soil solutions and forest floor leachates at heavily polluted sites. J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci. 177, 573-584.

Kabała C., Bojko O. 2014. Trends in trace element concentrations in Holocene bottom sediments of a lake Wielki Staw in the Karkonosze Mountains. Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 23, 2, 357-362.

Labaz B., Galka B., Bogacz A., Waroszewski J., Kabala C. 2014. Factors influencing humus forms and forest litter properties in the mid-mountains under temperate climate of southwestern Poland. Geoderma 230–231, 265-273.

Galka B., Labaz B., Bogacz A., Bojko O., Kabala C. 2014. Conversion of Norway spruce forests will reduce organic carbon pools in the mountain soils of SW Poland. Geoderma 213: 287-295.

Kabała C., Zapart J. 2012. Initial soil development and carbon accumulation on moraines of the rapidly retreating Werenskiold Glacier, SW Spitsbergen, Svalbard archipelago. Geoderma 175-176: 9-20.

Kabala C., Karczewska A., Szopka K., Wilk J. 2011. Copper, zinc, and lead fractions in soils long-term irrigated with municipal wastewater. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 42, 8: 905 - 919.

Karczewska A., Orlow K., Kabala C., Szopka K., Galka B. 2011. Effects of chelating compounds on mobilization and phytoextraction of copper and lead in contaminated soils. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 42, 12: 1379-1389.

Szopka K., Karczewska A., Kabala C. 2011. Mercury accumulation in the surface layers of mountain soils: A case study from the Karkonosze Mountains, Poland. Chemosphere 83, 11: 1507–1512.

Kabała C., Waroszewski J., Szopka K., Bogacz A. 2010. Geneza, właściwości i rozprzestrzenienie stagnobielic w Sudetach. Origin, properties and horizontal extent of Stagnic Podzols in the Sudety Mountains. Roczniki Gleboznawcze 61, 4: 1-15.

Kabała C., Buczak M., Gałka B., Chodak T. 2010. Antropogeniczne przekształcenia i klasyfikacja gleb parku dworskiego we Wrocławiu – Pawłowicach. Anthropogenic transformations and classification of soils in a rural park in Wrocław-Pawłowice. Roczniki Gleboznawcze 61, 4: 69-77.

Szopka K., Kabala C., Karczewska A., Bogacz A., Jezierski P. 2010. Pools of available nutrients in soils from different altitudinal forest zones located in a monitoring system of the Karkonosze Mountains National Park, Poland. Polish Journal of Soil Science, 43, 2: 173-188

Medyńska A., Kabała C. 2010. Heavy metals concentration and extractability in forest litters in the area impacted by copper smelter near Legnica. Ecolog. Chem. Engin. A, 17: 981-989

Kabała C., Zapart J. 2009. Recent, relic and buried soils in the forefield of Werenskiold Glacier, SW Spitsbergen. Polish Polar Research, 30, 2, 161-178.

Full list of papers and other information you can find on my www site.