Beata Sternal

Dr. Beata Sternal is an assistant professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, affiliated with the Geohazards Research Unit. Her research focuses on marine geology, particularly sedimentation processes in coastal and shelf environments across diverse regions including the Vietnamese Shelf of the South China Sea, Thailand Coast of the Indian Ocean, Sendai Plain in Japan, SW Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean, and Northern Norway's fjords. She employs sedimentological (grain-size, X-ray imaging), geochemical (radioisotopes, TOC, SEM-EDS), and mineralogical (heavy and clay minerals) methods.

• Education: BSc and MSc in Geology (Vietnamese Shelf studies), PhD in Earth Sciences (Arctic Ocean/SW Spitsbergen research).

Her publications highlight expertise in heavy mineral analysis, mine tailing dispersion, and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. She has contributed to understanding human-induced environmental changes in Arctic fjords and sediment dynamics from catastrophic events like the 2004 Indian Ocean and 2011 Tohoku tsunamis.