dr hab. Monika Mętrak
Problematyka badawcza
- Biogeochemia
- Toksykologia środowiska
- Badania paleośrodowiska
- Analizy statystyczne
Projekty badawcze
- wykonawca w grancie „Wpływ biologicznych skorup glebowych na rozwój gleb w warunkach klimatu półsuchego: ocena sekwestracji C i N w ekosystemach wysokogórskich.” (2017/25/B/ST10/00468), 2017-2021
- zastępca delegata do Komitetu Zarządzającego oraz lider grupy roboczej w ramach projektu COST Action 16233 “Drylands facing change: Interdisciplinary research on climate change, food insecurity, political instability”, 2017-2021
- wykonawca w grancie Protection and fertility restoration of Kazakhstan soils. Subject No. 2.3. Monitoring of heavy metals and organic pollutants in soils irrigated with GIS use. Development of methods to increase the soils protective properties against pollution,2015-2018
- wykonawca w grancie „Mokradła Pamiru Wschodniego: występowanie, charakterystyka przyrodnicza i stan zachowania” (2013/09/B/ST10/01662), 2014-2017,
- obsługa administracyjna w grancie “Adapting to climate change: food security in Central Asia. Remote tools for assessing and fighting soil salinity in the Aral Sea Basin” Twinning Grants: IncoNet CA (F-428), 2015-2016
- Kierownik projektu „Zmiany przyrodnicze zachodzące w wyniku odtwarzania się mokradeł w krajobrazie porolnym i ich waloryzacja” (MNiSZWN N305 034637), 2009-2012
Współpraca z innymi ośrodkami /popularyzacja
- Finalistka konkursu FameLab w 2012 roku (http://www.famelab.org.pl/)
- Współpracowniczka sieci uniwersytetów dziecięcych UNIKIDS (http://www.unikids.pl/)
- Uczestniczka Festiwalu Nauki Małego Człowieka (http://minifestiwal.edu.pl/)
- Uczestniczka Festiwalu Nauki (https://festiwalnauki.edu.pl/), Nocy Biologów (http://www.nocbiologow.pl/noc/index.php) oraz Dnia Fascynującego Świata Roślin (http://www.plantday.com.pl/)
- Współautorka scenariuszy wystaw popularno-naukowych m.in. dla Świętokrzyskiego Parku Narodowego oraz dla Centrum Popularyzacji Nauki i Innowacji UWM „Kortosfera”
Publikacje
- Berto C., Krajcarz M.T., Moskal-del Hoyo M., Komar M., Sinet-Mathiot V., Zarzecka-Szubińska K., Krajcarz M., Szymanek M., Wertz K., Marciszak A., Mętrak M., Suska-Malawska M., Wilcke A., Kot M., 2021. Environment changes during Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in southern Poland (Central Europe). A multiproxy approach for the MIS 3 sequence of Koziarnia Cave (Kraków-Częstochowa Upland). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 35:102723, DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102723
- Kabala C., Chachulski Ł, Gądek B., Korabiewski B., Mętrak M., Suska-Malawska M., 2021. Soil development and spatial differentiation in a glacial river valley under cold and extremely arid climate of East Pamir Mountains. Science of the Total Environment 758, DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144308
- van Pinxteren B., Emirhafizović M., Dailidienė I., Figurek A., Hălbac-Cotoară-Zamfir R, Mętrak M., 2020. Education for Resilience: How a Combination of Systemic and Bottom-Up Changes in Educational Services Can Empower Dryland Communities in Africa and Central Asia. Journal of Asian and African studies, DOI:10.1177/0021909620960177
- Sulwiński M., Mętrak M., Wilk M., Suska-Malawska M., 2020. Smouldering fire in a nutrient-limited wetland ecosystem: Long-lasting changes in water and soil chemistry facilitate shrub expansion into a drained burned fen. Science of the Total Environment 746:141142, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141142
- Mętrak M., Pokarowski P., Sulwiński M., Gantumur A., Suska-Malawska M., Plant response to N availability in permafrost-affected alpine wetlands in arid and semi-arid climate zones. Science of the Total Environment 721: 137791, DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137791
- Mętrak M. Chapter: Health and social consequences of the Aral Lake disaster, In book: Współczesne badania nad stanem środowiska i leczniczym wykorzystaniem roślin, Editors: Chwil M., Skoczylas M., pp.99-108. Springer International Publishing, ISBN 978-83-7259-310-8 (eBook) DOI: 0.24326/mon.2019.2
- Mętrak M., Szwarczewski P., Bińka K., Rojan E., Karasiński J., Górecki G., Suska-Malawska M., 2019. Late Holocene development of Lake Rangkul (Eastern Pamir, Tajikistan) and its response to regional climatic changes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 521: 99-113, DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.02.013.
- Suska-Malawska, M., Sulwiński, M., Wilk, M., Otarov, A., Mętrak, M., 2019. Potential eolian distribution to accumulation of selected heavy metals and rare earth elements in the aboveground biomass of Tamarix sp. from saline soils in Kazakhstan. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 191: 57-68, DOI: 10.007/s10661-018-7179-0.
- Mętrak, M., Chibowski, P., Sulwiński, M., Pawlikowski P., Suska-Malawska M., 2018. CNP stoichiometry and productivity limitations in high-altitude wetland ecosystems of the Eastern Pamir. Mires and Peat 21, DOI: 10.19189/MaP.2017.OMB.297
- Mętrak M., Welc F., Szwarczewski P., Suska-Malwska M., 2017. Chapter: From Deserts to Glaciers: Magnetometry in Paleoenvironmental Studies in Central Asia, In book: Magnetometry in Environmental Sciences. Editors: Jeleńska M., Łęczyński L., Ossowski T., GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60213-4_4
- Borgulat J., Mętrak , Staszewski T., Wiłkomirski B., Suska-Malawska M., 2018. Heavy Metals Accumulation in Soil and Plants of Polish Peat Bogs. Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2018;27(2):537–544, DOI: https://doi.org/10.15244/pjoes/75823
- Mętrak M, Chachulski Ł., Navruzshoev D., Pawlikowski P., Rojan E., Sulwiński M., Suska-Malawska M., 2017. Nature’s patchwork: How water sources and soil salinity determine the distribution and structure of halophytic plant communities in arid environments of the Eastern Pamir. PLoS ONE 12(3), DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174496
- Sulwiński M., Mętrak M., Suska-Malawska M., 2017. Long-term fire effects on organic soils of the drained open fen. Archives of Environmental Protection 43/1, 11-19, DOI: 10.1515/aep-2017-0002
- Gantamur A., Mętrak M., Wiłkomirski B., Suska-Malawska M. 2017. Environmental and social consequences of gold mining in Mongolia. Monitoring Środowiska Przyrodniczego: 19/1, s. 11-15. [ISSN: 1734-6762].
- Mętrak M., Ekonomiuk A., Staszewski T., Wiłkomirski B., Suska-Malawska M., 2016. Interspecific differences in foliar PAHs load between Scots pine, birch and wild rosemary from three polish peat bogs. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 188: 456, DOI: 10.1007/s10661-016-5465-2
- Welc F., Toychiew K., Suska-Malawska M., Marks L., Mętrak M., 2016. Paleoclimatological and Geoarchaeological Significance of the Holocene Loess – Soil Successions of the Tien Shan Foothills of Uzbekistan. Studia Quaternaria 33(1):57-68. DOI: 10.1515/squa-2016-0006
- Mętrak M., Chmielewska M., Sudnik-Wójcikowska B., Wiłkomirski B., Staszewski T., Suska-Malawska M., 2015. Does the Function of Railway Infrastructure Determine Qualitative and Quantitative Composition of Contaminants (PAHs, Heavy Metals) in Soil and Plant Biomass? Water, Air and Soil Pollution 226 (8), DOI: 10.1007/s11270-015-2516-1.
- Mętrak M., Suska-Malawska M., Reconstruction of a raised bog development: Which geochemical parameters of peat are the most convenient for preliminary analyses? Polish Journal of Environmental Studies. Vol. 24., No. 3 (2015), 249-257.
- Mętrak M., Chmielewska M., Sudnik-Wójcikowska B., Wiłkomirski B., Staszewski T., Suska-Malawska M., 2015. Does the Function of Railway Infrastructure Determine Qualitative and Quantitative Composition of Contaminants (PAHs, Heavy Metals) in Soil and Plant Biomass? Water, Air and Soil Pollution 226 (8), DOI: 10.1007/s11270-015-2516-1.
- Mętrak M., Suska-Malawska M., 2015. Reconstruction of a Raised Bog Development: Which Geochemical Parameters of Peat are the Most Convenient for Preliminary Analyses? Polish Journal of Environmental Studies 3, DOI: 10.15244/pjoes/33200.
- Mętrak M., Sulwiński M., Chachulski Ł., Wilk M, Suska-Malawska M., 2015. Creeping Environmental Problems in the Pamir Mountains: Landscape Conditions, Climate Change, wise Use and Threats. In: Climate Change Impacts on High-Altitude Ecosystems, Eds: Öztürk, M., Hakeem, K.R., Faridah-Hanum, I., Efe, R., Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12859-7
- Szymańska H., Krzyk A., Mętrak M., 2015. Some species of Oedogoniales (Chlorophyceae) from small astatic water bodies in the post-agricultural landscape (Masurian Landscape Park, NE Poland). Phytotaxa 192(3), 121-144.
- Pawłowska J., Wilk M., Śliwińska-Wyrzychowska A., Mętrak M., Wrzosek M., 2014. The diversity of endophytic fungi in the above-ground tissue of two Lycopodium species in Poland. Symbiosis 63(1).
- Brzeziński M., Mętrak M., 2014. Spring migration rates and community structure of amphibians breeding in an old and newly established midfield ponds. Folia Zoologica 63(3), 161-170.
- Mętrak M., Pawlikowski P., Suska-Malawska M., 2014. Age and land use as factors differentiating hydrochemistry and plant cover of astatic ponds in post-agricultural landscape. Journal of Water and Land Development 21, 29-37.
- Koperski P., Narożniak E., Mętrak M., 2014. Composition of mollusk communities as a proxy in studies on seasonal dynamics of astatic water bodies. Monitoring Środowiska Przyrodniczego 15, 37-46.
- Suska-Malawska M., Pawlikowski P., Mętrak M., 2014. Assessment of indicative value of Typhetum latifoliae communities in small ponds in post-agricultural area (Masurian Landscape Park). Monitoring Środowiska Przyrodniczego 15, 99-106.
- P.W. Crous, M.J.Wingfield, J.Guarro, R. Cheewangkoon, M. van der bank, W.J. Swart, A.M. Stchigel, J.F. Cano-Lira, J.Roux, H. Madrid, U.Damm, A.R. Wood, L.A. Shuttleworth, C.S. Hodges, M. Munster, M de Jesus Yanez-Morales, L. Zuniga-Estrada, E.M. Cruywagen, G.S. de Hoog, C. Silvera, J. Najafzadeh, E.M. Davison, P.J.N. Davison, M.D. Barret, R.L. Barrett, D.S. Manamgoda, A.M. Minnis, N.M. Kleczewski, S.L. Flory, L.A. Castlebury, K. Clay, K.D. Hyde, S.N.D. Mausse-Sitoe, Shuaifei Chen, C. Lechat, M.Hairaud, L. Lesage-Meessen, J. Pawłowska, M. Wilk, A. Śliwińska-Wyrzychowska, M. Mętrak, M. Wrzosek, D. Pavlic-Zupanc, H.M. Maleme, B. Slippers, W.P. Mac Cormac, D.I. Archuby, N.J. Grunwald, M.T., Telleria, M. Duenas, M.P. Martin, S. Marincowitz, Z.W. de Beer, C.A. Perez, J. Gene, Y. Marin-Felix, J.Z. Groenewald, 2013. Fungal Palnet description sheets: 154 – 213. Persoonia 31, 188-296.
- Mętrak M., Malawska M., Kamiński J., Błocka A., Wiłkomirski B., 2008, Plant secondary succession patterns after 2002 wildfire in the Biebrza National Park, Phytopedon (Bratislava), Vol. 7, 2008/1, 109-114
- Błocka A., Mętrak M., 2008, Statistical approach to assess forest health status in Poland, Phytopedon (Bratislava), Vol. 7, 2008/1, 167-170
- Mętrak M., Malawska M.,Kamiński J., Wiłkomirski B., 2006, Geochemical changes of peat soils and plant succession on the deeply burnt mires, Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, Vol. 15, No. 5D Part I (2006), 57-66