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RESEARCH GROUP
| Biological environmental monitoring and bioanalitycs
Małgorzata RajfurUO
subject
Biological aspects of environmental change, including climate changedescription
The Team research since 2002 concerns the use of biological monitoring methods in assessing the state of environmental pollution. Research topics that We implement include issues related to, among others sorption properties of algae and aquatic plants and the possibility of their use in biological monitoring of heavy metal surface water pollution. We also study the possibilities of using various bioindicators, including lichens, mosses, tree bark in the monitoring of heavy metal pollution of atmospheric aerosol. Currently, we measure selected heavy metals in plants (we also mark analytes in soil, food products, human hair, invertebrates), but next year we will be measuring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and microplastics. Our interests include also the issues of broadly understood environmental bioanalytics.