Natural Hazards

Alicja Bonk

Alicja Bonk is a researcher at the University of Gdańsk, Poland. She focuses on annually laminated lake sediments, especially in processes leading to varve formation, development of chronologies, as well as environmental transformations induced by natural drivers and anthropogenic activity. In her current project, she examines the long-term interactions among fire, climate, vegetation, and human activity to determine the drivers of fire regimes and their changes over the last 2000 years in northern Poland. Twitter: @AlicjaBonk

Fire impacts on Earth across space and time: a discussion-driven conference

Alicja Bonk and Judith Kirschner July 11, 2022

Boreal forest fire in Canada (Photo credit: Stefan Doerr, distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Earth is the only known planet with fire activity – everywhere else, there is not enough oxygen for this process to occur. Since fire appeared on Earth many millions of years ago, it has played a key role in the development of plant adaptation and the distribution of ecosystems. However, the natural occurrence of fire changed with the onset of human evolution. The purposeful use of fire for ...[Read More]