LABORATORY OF MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY

Head – Professor Lucyna Falkowska

tel: +48 58 523 6832, fax: +48 58 523 6678

e-mail: lucyna.falkowska@ug.edu.pl

Website: http://www.ocean.ug.edu.pl/pages/pl/o-instytucie/zaklady/zchmiosm/zespol/pchmia.php

Research areas:

• Transformation of the chemical composition of the atmosphere in the sea and land contact zone
• Toxic and harmful substances in aerosols in the seaside atmosphere under the influence of different synoptic conditions
• Elemental and organic carbon in fine aerosols (<1 and 2,5 um) in the air of the Tricity conurbation
• Mercury and organic derivatives of chlorine, bromine and phenol in the marine food web, accumulation and detoxification of substances from fish, mammals and birds
• Bioaccessibility of organic mercury from muscle and liver of Baltic fish by in vitro digestion method
• Allocation of pollutants by sea birds in the Baltic region
• Defining the contribution of anthropogenic sources (industry, transport, construction, agriculture) to the atmospheric pollution in the coastal zone of the southern Baltic