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Systematic research and excavation has been underway in the Owadów-Brzezinki quarry
on the northwestern margin of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains
when Adrian Kin and Błażej Błażejowski (PHACOPS Geoscience Friends Association and the Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw) announced the discovery of a new
unique Fossil-Lagerstätte (fossil deposit) in the commune of Sławno
The palaeontological site contains a documented complex of well-preserved Late Jurassic fossils of marine organisms (e.g
The bulk of the fossils represent hitherto unknown species and their scientific description constitutes an important contribution to our knowledge of the history of these animal groups
The findings have thus far been outlined in several dozen scientific publications
The site at Owadów-Brzezinki sheds a completely new light on the geological past (the so-called taphonomic window) of the organic world in the Late Jurassic (between the Early and the Late Tithonian)
redrawing the picture not only of the evolution of living organisms
but also the paleogeography of Europe in that period
The palaeontological findings in the Owadów-Brzezinki quarry indicate that in the Late Jurassic
the Sławno region was a paleobiogeographical node that connected the terrestrial and marine fauna of the north and the south of the continent
The rock layers uncovered in the quarry also preserve the record of an environmental shift from a more open shelf sea to a shallow lagoon that occurred in the Late Jurassic
The Owadów-Brzezinki Geopark has all it takes to not only successfully activate the region through natural heritage tourism
but also to integrate the local community into various activities and geoeducational projects
He serves as the President of the PHACOPS Geoscience Friends Association
which aims to develop and promote initiatives
attitudes and actions that foster scientific thought
create an atmosphere of trust and respect for the natural environment
and disseminate broadly conceived geological knowledge
He graduated from the Faculty of Geology of the University of Warsaw (1998) and the International Doctoral School for Biological Science at the Museum & Institute of Zoology
He earned a PhD degree (2008) and completed his habilitation (2018) in geoscience at the Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw
He has participated in many polar research expeditions
He has won the Artur Rojszczak Award from the Club of the Foundation for Polish Science Scholars (2009) and the National Geographic TRAVELERY award for the “Scientific Discovery of the Year” (2015)
He is also a delegate of the Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences to the Council of the Polish Polar Consortium (since 2018)
member and consultant of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (since 2015)
Deputy Head of the Scientific Board of the Museum of the Earth
PAS (since 2019) and a member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Paleobiology