Research groups

• Projekt: Monitorowanie zmian zachodzących w środowisku, w archiwach kontynentalnych w ostatnich wiekach w Europie: zmienność o charakterze naturalnym i ingerencje antropogeniczne
• Projekt: Experiment and general understanding on polysaccharide synthesis in plant life cycles
• Projekt: Application of modern technology in environmental research -mass spectrometry ESI-MS/MS analysis of wood components (WAR/342/73)
• Projekt: Instrumental Mass Spectrometry for Biomacromolecules Marie Curie Fellowship (HMPT-CT-2001-00366)
• Projekt: Drzewa jako bioindykatory przemysłowych zanieczyszczeń powietrza w okresie wdrażania pro-ekologicznej polityki na obszarze Śląska. (UMO-2011/03/D/ST10/05251)
• Projekt: Zastosowanie metod spektrometrii masowej do badania składu izotopów stabilnych węgla i tlenu w α-celulozie i glukozie z rocznych przyrostów drzew jako bioindykatorów środowiska (projekt badawczy –promotorski; N N305 016636)
• Method of anthropogenic CO2 emission monitoring using annual tree-rings growthw
• Trees as isotope archives of climate and human impact on environment in Central Europe mountain areas
• Absolute Time scales and Isotope Studies for investigating events in Earth and human history (ATIS)
• Gliwice Absolute Dating Methods Centre (GADAM)

Publications

• Barbara Sensuła, Natalia Piotrowska, 2020. Carbon Isotopic Research of Pinus Sylvestris L. Growing in the Southern Poland (near Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Dąbrowa GÓrnicza Katowice and Olesno). Radiocarbon: 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2019.130 [Crossref]
• Natalia Piotrowska, Anna Pazdur, Sławomira Pawełczyk, Andrzej Z Rakowski, Barbara Sensuła, Konrad Tudyka, 2020. Human Activity Recorded in Carbon Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric CO2 in Gliwice Urban Area and Surroundings (Southern Poland) in the Years 2011–2013. Radiocarbon: 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2019.92 [Crossref]
• Sensuła Barbara, Michczyński Adam, Piotrowska Natalia, Wilczyński Sławomir, 2018. Anthropogenic CO2 emission records in Scots pine growing in the most industrialized region of Poland from 1975 to 2014. Radiocarbon. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2018.59 [ResearcherID]
• Sensuła B., Wilczyński S., 2018. Tree-ring widths and the stable isotope composition of pine tree-rings as climate indicators in the most industrialised part of Poland during CO2elevation. Geochronometria 45(1): 130–145. https://doi.org/10.1515/geochr-2015-0094 [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Sensuła B., Wilczyński S., Monin L., Allan M., Pazdur A., Fagel N., 2017. Variations of tree ring width and chemical composition of wood of pine growing in the area nearby chemical factories. Geochronometria 44(1): 226–239. https://doi.org/10.1515/geochr-2015-0064 [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Sensuła B., Wilczyński S., 2017. Climatic signals in tree-ring width and stable isotopes composition of Pinus sylvestris L. Growing in the industrialized area nearby Kȩdzierzyn-Koźle. Geochronometria 44(1): 240–255. https://doi.org/10.1515/geochr-2015-0070 [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Sensuła B.M., Wilczyński S., Piotrowska N., 2016. Application of dendrochronology and mass spectrometry in bio-monitoring of Scots pine stands in industrial areas,Zastosowanie metod dendrochronologicznych oraz spektrometrycznych w monitorowaniu drzewostanów sosnowych na obszarach przemysłowych. Sylwan 160(9): 730–740. [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Sensuła B.M., 2016. The Impact of Climate, Sulfur Dioxide, and Industrial Dust on δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C in Glucose from Pine Tree Rings Growing in an Industrialized Area in the Southern Part of Poland. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 227(4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-016-2808-0 [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Sensuła B.M., 2016. δ¹³C and Water Use Efficiency in the Glucose of Annual Pine Tree Rings as Ecological Indicators of the Forests in the Most Industrialized Part of Poland. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 227(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-016-2750-1 [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Sensuła B., Opała M., Wilczyński S., Pawełczyk S., 2015. Long- and short-term incremental response of Pinus sylvestris L. from industrial area nearby steelworks in Silesian Upland, Poland. Dendrochronologia 36: 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2015.08.001 [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Sensuła B.M., 2015. Spatial and Short-Temporal Variability of δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N and Water-Use Efficiency in Pine Needles of the Three Forests Along the Most Industrialized Part of Poland. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 226(11). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-015-2623-z [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Sensuła B., Wilczyński Sł., Opała M., 2015. Tree Growth and Climate Relationship: Dynamics of Scots Pine (Pinus Sylvestris L.) Growing in the Near-Source Region of the Combined Heat and Power Plant During the Development of the Pro-Ecological Strategy in Poland. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 226(7). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-015-2477-4 [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł B., Kołaczek P., Piotrowska N., Michczyński A., Łokas E., Wachniew P., Woszczyk M., Sensuła B., 2014. High-Resolution Age-Depth Model of a Peat Bog in Poland as an Important Basis for Paleoenvironmental Studies. Radiocarbon 56(01): 109–125. https://doi.org/10.2458/56.16467 [ResearcherID]
• Pazdur A., Kuc T., Pawełczyk S., Piotrowska N., Sensuła B., Rozanski K., 2013. Carbon isotope composition of atmospheric carbon dioxide in southern Poland: Imprint of anthropogenic CO2 emissions in regional biosphere. Radiocarbon 55(2-3): 848–864. https://doi.org/10.2458/azu_js_rc.55.16286 [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Sensuła B., Pazdur A., 2013. Influence of climate change on carbon and oxygen isotope fractionation factors between glucose and α-cellulose of pine wood. Geochronometria 40(2): 145–152. https://doi.org/10.2478/s13386-013-0104-y [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Sensuła B., Pazdur A., 2013. Stable carbon isotopes of glucose received from pine tree-rings as bioindicators of local industrial emission of CO2in Niepołomice Forest (1950-2000). Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 49(4): 532–541. https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2013.865026 [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Sensuåa B.M., Pazdur A., Marais M.-F., 2011. First application of mass spectrometry and gas chromatography in investigation of α-cellulose hydrolysates: The influence of climate changes on glucose molecules in pine tree-rings. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 25(4): 489–494. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.4882 [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Sensuła B.M., Pazdur A., Bickerton J., Derrick P.J., 2011. Probing palaeoclimatology through quantitation by mass spectrometry of the products of enzyme hydrolysis of α-cellulose. Cellulose 18(2): 461–468. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-010-9490-y [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Sensula B.M., Derrick P.J., Bickerton J.C., Pazdur A., 2009. Mass spectrometric study of glucose and cellobiose produced during enzymatic hydrolysis of a-cellulose extracted from oak late-wood annual ringsy. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 23(13): 2070–2074. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.4089 [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Pazdur A., Nakamura T., Pawełczyk S., Pawlyta J., Piotrowska N., Rakowski A., Sensuła B., Szczepanek M., 2007. Carbon isotopes in tree rings: Climate and the suess effect interferences in the last 400 years. Radiocarbon 49(2): 775–788. https://doi.org/10.1017/S003382220004265X [Scopus - Elsevier]
• Sensuła B., Böttger T., Pazdur A., Piotrowska N., Wagner R., 2006. Carbon and oxygen isotope composition of organic matter and carbonates in recent lacustrine sediments. Geochronometria 25: 77–94. [Scopus - Elsevier]