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Jerzy Weber's Homepage
Hi, you are warmly welcome to visit
this homepage. My name is Jerzy Weber.
I am professor of soil science at
the Department of Soil Science & Agricultural Environment Protection, of
the Agricultural University of Wroclaw, Poland.
My background and history of life
Click here to find 
how to contact me.
If you click here 
you will get more
information on the University. You have a possibility to visit 
some really exciting
scientific utilities/websites prepared by several soil labs around the world,
as well as several 
tutorial
websites.
Just a few
words what I do at the University
Since the educational system of universities in Poland differ from these in the US and western countries, I guess I have to make a short explanation.
The base course of the soil science is given at the undergraduate level. In AUW separate soil science courses are given to the students of agronomy, environmental protection, geodesy, environmental engineering and agricultural engineering. Students can continue several specialized courses on soil science (optional) at the graduate level. Each course of undergraduate level is taught as lectures and classes (laboratory and field practices). The lectures are given to all the students gathered to a large audience by only one professor or associated professor, while classes are given by several professors and/or assistant professors to small groups of students. Consequently, the all of us have to teach all aspects of soil science, from bases of mineralogy and petrography, through soil physics, soil chemistry, soil taxonomy, to soil cartography and applied soil science. As you can easily recognize, we are (or at least we should be) broadly educated soil scientists.
I teach soil science classes for
students of agronomy, and I do geology lecturing and classes for students
of environmental protection. Additionally I give short courses for graduate
students on soil micromorphology as well as a new approaches in the
investigation of heavy metal polluted soils. You can follow some tutorial
materials that I have prepared together with some of my graduate students, if
you click here .
Professors are also expected to do some
research, from time to time. My primary interest over
several years centers on the processes operating in the soil environment
polluted by the industrial emissions. I have especially concentrated on the
investigations of the submicroscopic properties (using an electron scanning
microscopy) of heavy metal bearing particles existed in soils polluted by the
copper industry. Are you interested how some of them look like? Just click
here
Another area of interest are soils
of deforested territory of ecological disaster in the Sudeten Mountains (SW
Poland), the ecological aspects of the application of composts produced from
municipal solid wastes as well as changes of humic substances undergoing in
soil profiles and composts. To find out what I have done in these areas you can
have a look at my recent
papers
If you are already bored, I don't want to keep you longer, you are free
to hit the "back" button any time you wish.
Are you still with me?
If so, I am very pleased.
Usually homepages include some
information what author likes to do. There are a lot of things that I like to
do, but I am absolutely convinced that I love travelling. My naive students'
efforts to feel free as a bird or a lonely sail in the communistic reality have
been described on my background and history of life page. Although later on,
I have enjoyed together with my family several caravaning (driving with a
trailer) to France, Germany, Spain and Italy; my great travels were connected
mainly with my professional activity, i.e. 
sabbatical
& visits and 
conferences.
Attending conferences and visits to
labs helps a lot in your professional life and, of course, position. You have
more and more friends and finally the day comes when you are invited to give a
lecture or to be a member of the advisory board and/or committee. The same was
with myself, although I have never know "how and why" (the most
probably just by case). If you are interested where I have been invited to, you
are welcome to peruse my page on 
advisory
boards & societies
Any way I am still interested in visiting different countries, especially in warm and exotic regions. So, do not hesitate to contact me, if your University or soil laboratory have a free research fellow position for a period of 1 - 3 years.
I am looking
forward to meet you some day and somewhere.
The list of pages:
how to contact me
link to the Agricultural University
of Wroclaw
tutorial materials
photos of soil heavy metal bearing particles
recent papers
my background & history of life
sabbatical & visits
conferences attended
ISEB 15
advisory boards & societies