Cezary KABAŁA

Prof. Dr. Cezary Kabała Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (WUELS) Institute of Soil Science, Plant Nutrition and Environmental Protection cezary.kabala(at)upwr.edu.pl Office: 50-375 Wrocław, ul.Grunwaldzka 53, Building C-1, room 112 +48 71 3201943 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9796-3716

Research interests 

• soil origin and transformation in relation to soil forming factors in various latitude and altitude zones,
• development of soil classification, including international systems, in particular World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB),
• soil properties and productivity of forest and agro-ecosystems,
• soil degradation and remediation,
• soil health and monitoring of soil quality.

Current positions

• Head (director) of the Institute of Soil Sciences, Plant Nutrition and Environmental Protection at WUELS
• Chair of the research discipline council of Agriculture and Horticulture at WUELS
• Vice President of the Soil Science Society of Poland
• Chair of the IUSS Working Group WRB
• Chair of the research council of the Stolowe Mountains National Park, member of the research council of the Karkonosze Mountains National Park

Professional affiliations

• Soil Science Society of Poland (board member)
• German Soil Science Society (corresponding member)
• International Union of Soil Sciences
• Polish Society of Forest Sciences
• Polish Society of Humic Substances
• Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw Branch, Committee for Agricultural Sciences 

Publications

• SCOPUS profile
• Web of Science profile
• Google Scholar profile
• WUELS Science Database (Baza Wiedzy UPWr) 

Research projects (selected)

• Genesis and transformation of chernozemic soils in Poland as influenced by climate changes and human activity since Neolithic period, 2019-2021, principal investigator: Beata Łabaz (WUELS)
• Origins of mollic-bearing soils on loess areas in the south-west of Poland in the context of environmental change and human expansion in the Holocene, 2015-2018, principal investigator: Cezary Kabała
• Physicochemical properties of soils around the sites of the failures of salt water pipelines, 2022-2023, principal investigator: Cezary Kabała 
• Innovative technologies for the control of saline groundwater migration to surface waters in surroundings of the tailings impoundent Zelazny Most, 2020-2022, principal investigator: Stanisław Czaban
• Influence of biological crusts on soil development under semi-dry climate: carbon and nitrogen sequestration in high-mountain ecosystems, 2018-2020, principal investigator: Małgorzata Suska-Malawska (Warsaw University)
• Origin, properties, occurrence and habitat value of Albeluvisols (FAO-WRB 2006) in geoecological conditions of south-western Poland, 2013-2016, principal investigator: Cezary Kabała
• Agrotechnical, environmental and technological aspects of sorghum fertilization with nitrogen, 2013-2015, principal investigator: Józef Sowiński (WUELS)
• Relations between cover-bed series and the morphology and properties of soils in the Sudetes Mts., 2009-2011, principal investigator: Cezary Kabała
• The impact of spruce monocultures and mixed stands on the properties of soils developed from various parent materials in the Stolowe Mountains, 2009-2013, principal investigator: Bernard Gałka (WUELS)
• The role of forest litter in trace metal cycling in the afforested post-agricultural soils influenced by copper industry, 2009-2011, principal investigator: Cezary Kabała
• Trace elements dynamics in the afforested post-agricultural contaminated soils, with special interest in the quality of soil solutions, 2008-2011, principal investigator: Cezary Kabała
• Phytoremediation of soils contaminated with emissions from copper smelting by the method of induced phytoextraction, 2005-2008, principal investigator: Anna Karczewska (WUELS)
• Soil properties and soil transformation under variable bio-geochemical conditions in the Lower Silesia region, 1998-2000, principal investigator: Cezary Kabała
• Influences of great flood in 1997 on the properties of soil under agricultural management, 1998-1999, principal investigator: Leszek Szerszeń
• Soil quality on the area of a large-scale forest decay in the Izerskie Mountains, 1995-1997, principal investigator: Cezary Kabała
• Transformation and mobility of selected trace elements in lysimetric soil experiments, 1993-1997, principal investigator: Leszek Szerszeń (WUELS)
• Documentation of soil and crop contamination with heavy metals in the surroundings of the tailings pond Zelazny Most, 1995-2024, principal investigator (since 2006): Cezary Kabała

Educational projects (selected)

• ERASMUS+ Blended Intensive Program in Food Sustainability and Climate Change
• Erasmus+ Share Your Soils (SYStem) 
• Erasmus+ Freely Accessible Central European Soil (FACES) 
• Erasmus Lingua Franca for European Soils (LiFES) 

Research stays and field excursions/workshops

• Austria (2006, 2014, 2015) 
• Brazil (2018)
• Czechia (2002, 2015, 2017, 2022)
• Estonia (2016, 2017)
• Germany (2000, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2020)
• Greece (2010)
• Great Britain (2010, Scotland 2022)
• Hungary (2010, 2013, 2017)
• Iceland (2022)
• Ireland (2014)
• Italy (2011, 2012, 2022)
• Latvia (2016, 2017, 2022)
• Lithuania (2008, 2017)
• Mexico (2022)
• Moldova (2019)
• Mongolia (2019)
• Norway (1999/2000, Svalbard 2005)
• Portugal (2021)
• Romania (2018)
• Russia (2009, 2013, 2014, 2016)
• Slovenia (2017, 2021)
• Slovakia (2016, 2023)
• Spain (2021, 2023)
• South Africa (2016)
• Sweden (2005)
• Switzerland (2014)
• Tajikistan (2019)
• USA (2011, 2012, 2023, Alaska 2012)
• Uzbekistan (2021)