Research fields:
Groundwater Resources
Hydrogeological Map of Poland
Groundwater Captures
Scope of operations:
- hydrogeological cartography - 1:50,000 Hydrogeological map of Poland: database, updating and verification of MUMF information layers, original versions of First Aquifer - Occurrence and Hydrodynamics (FA-OH), and First Aquifer - Sensitivity and Quality (FA-SQ) maps, data sharing, 1:250,000 Hydrogeological map of Poland;
- preparing instructions and methodology recommendations, as well as developing and coordinating the preparation of serial and thematic hydrogeological maps in detailed and overview scales, and regional hydrogeological summaries in the form of atlases and monographs;
- Major Groundwater Reservoirs - documentation and establishing protected areas, and effectiveness assessment of protection programmes;
- groundwater resources - documentation of available resources, database maintenance, data sharing, maintaining a list of groundwater resources available for use;
- groundwater withdrawal - documentation of recorded withdrawal and estimated of non-recorded withdrawal, structure of groundwater withdrawal in Poland, including actual returnable and non-returnable withdrawal;
- Central Hydrogeological Data Bank (HYDRO Bank) - database maintenance, verification, updating and sharing of data on hydrogeological objects;
- mathematic modelling of hydrogeological processes, particularly groundwater flow under natural or anthropogenically transformed conditions;
- groundwater balancing - designing works, conducting research and preparing hydrogeological documentation for identification and determination of groundwater resources, as well as compiling hydrogeological balance sheets for the purposes of managing groundwaters;
- safe field-operating groundwater resources - gathering and processing of data for the purpose of statistical reporting;
- cooperation with the PGI-NRI Information Services Department.