Ongoing research projects

The list of institutional and research projects, which are currently investigated in the Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology.

Institutional projects

  • Cooperatio Geography

Research projects (Czech Science Foundation, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic), research projects supported by Czech ministries

  • Natural and Anthropogenic Georisks (Programme Johannes Amos Comenius, CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004605, Vojtěch Ettler, Jan Tumajer, 2024-2028)
  • Importance, Change and Practical Protection of Peatlands, Intereg Czech-Poland, CZ.11.01.02/00/23_011/0000161, 2025-2029 (main investigator: KRNAP, investigator for KFGG: M. Matoušková)
  • Quaternary glaciation of the central European uplands and its palaeoclimate implications (GAČR 25-17976S, Martin Margold, 2025-2027)
  • Mountain snowmelt and its importance for catchment storage and runoff (MountSnow) (GAČR and SNSF, GAČR 23-06859K, Michal Jeníček, 2023-2026)
  • Prediction, Evaluation and Research for Understanding National sensitivity and impacts of drought and climate change for Czechia (PERUN) (TAČR Prostředí pro život, SS02030040, Radim Tolasz, Bohumír Janský, 2020-2026)
  • DivLand: Landscape and Biodiversity Research Center (TAČR SS02030018, Prostředí pro život, Dušan Romportl, Jan Frouz, Václav Treml, 2021-2026)
  • Hydrological and hydrochemical responses of montane peat bogs to climate change (GAČR 22-12837S, Jakub Langhammer, 2022-2024)
  • Establishing the Chronology of the First Great Eurasian Ice Sheets (GAČR, GA22-13190S, John Jansen, Martin Margold, 2022-2024)
  • Insect induced tree mortality under climate change – Impacts on hydrology and geochemistry across scales (GAČR, GAČR 22-20422O, Ye Su, 2022-2025)
  • Using forward modelling to unravel the complex climatic control on intra-annual tree growth at cold distribution margins (GAČR 22-26519S, Jelena Lange, 2022-2024)
  • Tree-ring database as a tool for evidence and prediction of response of main forest species to climate change (TAČR SS0310134, Prostředí pro život, Václav Treml)

Ph.D. research projects (The Charles University Grant Agency)

  • Modelling of Snowmelt Water Distribution in the Critical Zone: A Multi-Catchment Analysis (GAUK 156125, Johnmark Nyame Acheampong, 2025-2027)
  • Chronology of early Laurentide Ice Sheet advances to the south (GAUK 96125, Ruben Bertels, 2025-2027)
  • Estimating pantropical peatland conditions under current and future anthropogenic change (GAUK 448325, Yarin Tatiana Puerta Quintana, 2025-2027)
  • Glacier dynamics of Caucasus mountains (GAUK 208223, Pragya Mehrishi, 2023-2025)
  • A novel approach to estimate vadose zone mass-fluxes and integrate pre-existing surface- and ground-water models for climate change assessment and mitigation studies (GAUK 246623, Veethahavya Kootanoor Sheshadrivasan, 2023-2025)
  • Impacts of a changing climate on past and future tree growth at the treeline (GAUK 217023, Francesco Marotta, 2023-2025)
  • Reconstructing the subglacial erosional history of the first Eurasian Ice Sheets (GAUK 152423, Kaleb Wagner, 2023-2025)
  • Universal methodology for GLOF hazard evaluation and its application for the temporal model (GAUK 258522, Jan Baťka, 2022-2024)
  • Snowmelt and its importance for catchment storage and runoff in mountain areas of central Europe (GAUK 354522, Dominik Míka, 2022-2024)
  • Inverse modelling of cosmogenic nuclides in geochronology (GAUK 310222, Lotta Kristiina Ylä-Mella, 2022-2024)