Wiktor Piech

Wiktor Piech is a researcher focusing on sedimentological and geomorphological processes in Western Russia, particularly in the Serteyka River Valley. His work examines Holocene-era landscape transformations, emphasizing the interplay between natural climatic fluctuations (e.g., Medieval Climate Anomaly, Little Ice Age) and anthropogenic deforestation in driving slope and fluvial dynamics.

Research Interests:

• Decoding sedimentary sequences in Eastern European fluvial systems
• Climate-erosion linkages during the Holocene
• Human-induced geomorphological changes in post-medieval periods
• Multi-proxy analysis (pollen, plant macrofossils, geochemistry) of biogenic deposits

Key publications explore overbank flood sedimentation, colluvial stratigraphy, and the timing of deluvial fan formation (17th–18th centuries AD) with implications for regional climate-human-landscape interactions.