Mgr. Anna Tichá, Ph.D.

Professional Experience

Education

Research Interests

• Multi-proxy paleolimnological reconstructions – complex history of lakes and landscape in the context of climatic changes based on diverse proxies (remains of organisms, geochemistry of sediments, sedimentology, …)
• Quantitative reconstructions of past conditions (pH, phosphorus level,…) in lakes based on diatom analysis (Bacillariophyceae)

Professional expertise

• Diatom analysis – lab treatment of sedimentary samples, diatom taxonomy, quantitative microscopy
• Quantitative palaeoecology – statistical analysis in Past and R softwares, modelling of past environmental conditions

Teaching

• MG422P10 Applied micropalaeontology
• MG420P02 Geobiology I
• MG421P18G Quaternary Geology
• MG422P11 Micropalaeontology

• MG422P01 Palaentology

• MG422P12 Systematic palaeontology I

Micropalaeontological collection

The micropalaeontological collections include material collected by generations of researchers and, first of all, holotypes of ostracodes (Ostracoda) and foraminifera (Foraminifera). Please, check out the catalogue in the case of interest.

Publications

Holcová, K., Scheiner, F., Havelcová, M., Kraft, P., Ackerman, L., Tichá, A., Česáková, K., Milovský, R. (2024): Quaternary floodings in the Zanzibar Channel (NW Indian Ocean, Tanzania) – Identifying palaeoceanographic patterns and palaeoenvironment using a multiproxy study. Marine Geology, 476: 107366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107366

Tichá, A., Vondrák, D., Moravcová, A., Chiverrell, R., Kuneš, P. (2023): Climate-related soil saturation and peatland development may have conditioned surface water brownification at a central European lake for millenia. Science of the Total Environment, 858: 159982. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159982

Moravcová, A., Tichá, A., Carter, V. A., Vondrák, D., Čtvrtlíková, M., Van Leeuwen, J. F. N., Heurich, M., Tinner, W. & Kuneš, P. (2021): Mountain aquatic Isoëtes populations reflect millennial-scale environmental changes in the Bohemian Forest Ecosystem, Central Europe. The Holocene, 31(5): 746–759. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683620988060

Tichá, A., Bešta, T., Vondrák, D., Houfková, P. & Jankovská, V. (2019): Nutrient availability affected shallow-lake ecosystem response along the Late-Glacial/Holocene transition. Hydrobiologia, 846: 87–108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-04054-7

Tichá, A., Buczkó, K. & Houk, V. (2017): Notes to the use of Aulacoseira taxa in the palaeoecological reconstruction of the Bohemian Forest lakes. Studia botanica hungarica 48(2): 173–188.

Awards

• 2024 Vojtěch Jarošík award (2^nd–3^rd place) for the best student’s publications granted by the Czech Ecological Society
• 2023 Purkyně award (Purkyňova cena) for the best popularizing article in the journal Živa in 2022
• 2010 1^st place at national round of SOČ in category Geology and Geography (a competition of Czech secondary school student’s works), Thesis: Paleoecology of Early Badenien marine sediments from locality Židlochovice based on foraminifera
• 2009 1^st place at national round of SOČ in category Geology and Geography, Thesis: Foraminifera from island Rab

Personal identificators

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7037-9974

Scopus ID: 57210958209