Department of Environmental Paleobiology

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal data

Adam T. Halamski
Born 26th Dec, 1975 in Warszawa (Warsaw), Poland


Titles and memberships

• 2004 Ph. D., Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw / docteur ès sciences de la Terre, Université Lyon 1 (tutors: Andrzej Baliński and Patrick R. Racheboeuf)
• 2001 member of the Lyons Linnaean Society (Société linnéenne de Lyon)
• 1999 M. Sc. summa cum laude in palaeontology at Warsaw University (Middle Devonian Brachiopods of the Świętomarz-Śniadka section)
• 1996 B. Sc. in biology and earth sciences at Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris VI)

Research grants

• 2010–2012     Biotic and functional structure of submarine vent ecosystems in the Devonian of Morocco – N307 016237 (leader: Professor Zdzisław Bełka) [current]
• 2009–2011     Dynamics, palaeoecology, and systematic composition of latest Cretaceous leaf floras from southern and south-eastern Poland – N N303 151637 (leader: Dr Adam T. Halamski) [completed]
  
  

Teaching

• 2012- Evolutionary biology – lecture for biology students (3rd year) at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (formerly Faculty of Agriculture, SGGW) [info]
  
• 2012- Palaeobotany – practical course for palaeontology students (4th year) at the Faculty of Geology (Warsaw University) [info]
  
• 2011- Plant and Earth’s vegetation evolution – lecture for Ph.D. students (2nd year) at the Institute of Paleobiology [info]
  
• 2006-2011 Plant Evolution – a part of the Evolutionary biology lecture for biology students (3rd year) at the Faculty of Agriculture in Warsaw (SGGW)
• 2001-2005 co-tutor of Students’ of Field Palaeobiology Learned Society at Warsaw University (Koło Naukowe Paleobiologów Terenowych UW)
• 1999 teaching during the field course for the Ist year students (Warsaw University, Faculty of Geology): general geology, elements of palaeontology, regional geology of the Holy Cross Mountains

Research interests

• Cretaceous leaf floras from Poland
• Devonian Brachiopods from Morocco (grant N307 016237, see above)
• Devonian Brachiopods from the Holy Cross Mountains
• Microspecies of the Ranunculus auricomus complex – taxonomy and ecology.
  
• Hypochromatism and micromorphology in Orobanche.
  

Publications

Monographs

Halamski, A. T., 2009. Middle Devonian Brachiopods from the northern Part of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland in relation to selected coeval faunas. Part I: Introduction, Lingulida, Craniida, Strophomenida, Productida, Protorthida, Orthida.  Palaeontographica, Abteilung A, 287 (1/3): 41–98, pls 1–16.  [Abstract]

Scientific papers

Halamski, A. T., in press. Latest Cretaceous leaf floras from south-eastern Poland and western Ukraine. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica [http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0024] [Abstract][Uncorrected proof]

Halamski, A. T., in press. Diversity of the Schizophoria lineage (Brachiopoda: Orthida) in the Lower and Middle Devonian of Poland and adjacent areas. Paläontologische Zeitschrift [Open access full text]

Halamski, A. T., 2011. Orobanche hederae Vaucher ex Duby (Orobanchaceae) – phenotypic plasticity and seed micromorphology. Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnénne de Lyon, 80: 195–203. [Résumé (français)]

Halamski A. T. & Baliński A., 2009. Latest Famennian brachiopods from Kowala, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 54 (2): 289-306.[Abstract][Full Text]

Halamski, A. T. & Piwowarczyk R., 2008. Graines d’Orobanches comme critère taxonomique - information sur les travaux en cours. (Orobanches - seeds and taxonomy.) Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, 77 (3-4): 37-40.

Halamski, A. T., 2008. Palaeobiogeographical Signature of the Middle Devonian Łysogóry Region Brachiopod Fauna. Fossils and Strata, 54: 87-98.

Halamski, A. T., Zapalski, M. K., Brice, D., & Mistiaen, B., 2007. Brachial apparatus of brachiopods - G. Dubar’s (1896-1977) collection. Przegląd Geologiczny, 55 (12/2): 1117-1118, 1172. [Text][Plate]

Halamski, A. T. & Segit, T., (2006). A transitional stringocephalid from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, and its evolutionary and stratigraphic significance. Acta Geologica Polonica, 56(2):171-176.

Halamski, A. T. & Zapalski M. K., 2006. Les schistes à brachiopodes de Skaly – un niveau exceptionnel. Première partie : Inventaire faunistique. Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnénne de Lyon 75 (3): 145–150.

Halamski, A. T., 2006. Orobanche lucorum introduced in the Botanical Garden of the Warsaw University. Biuletyn Ogrodów Botanicznych, Muzeów i Zbiorów, 14: 115-117 [Full Text]

Halamski, A. T. & Racki, G., 2005. Supplements 2005. In: K. Weddige (ed.), Devonian Correlation Table. With 24 Table-columns. Senckenbergiana lethaea, 85 (1): 191–200. [Full Text]

Halamski, A. T., 2005. Annotations to the Devonian Correlation Table, R220dm05: Poland; Holy Cross Mts; Łysogóry Region. Senckenbergiana lethaea, 85 (1): 185-187. Frankfurt am Main. [Full Text]

Halamski, A. T., 2005. Contribution à la connaissance de la flore de la région lyonnaise. Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnénne de Lyon, 74 (4): 148–149.

Halamski, A. T., 2004. Deliella, a new Devonian craniid brachiopod. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 2004 (3): 181–192.

Halamski, A. T. & Religa, D., 2004. PPolish journals have an international impact. Nature, 427 (6976): 677. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/427677b][Abstract]

Halamski, A. T., 2003. Deux approches de la paléontologie. Deuxième partie : Paléontologie comme science nomothétique. Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnénne de Lyon, 72 (1): 13-16.

Halamski, A. T., 2002. Deux approches de la paléontologie. Première partie : Paléontologie comme science idiographique. Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnénne de Lyon, 71 (3): 102-104. 

Book reviews

Takhtajan, A., 2009. Flowering Plants. Springer. Review by A.T. Halamski (in French, 2010): Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnénne de Lyon, 79: 179–182.

Babin, C., 2005. Autour du catastrophisme. Des mythes et légendes aux sciences de la vie et de la terre. Librairie Vuibert ADAPT, Paris. Review by A.T. Halamski (in French, 2006): Géobios, 39 (4): 585–586. [Text]

Contact

Adam T. Halamski
Institute of Paleobiology PAS
ul. Twarda 51/55
00-818 Warsaw, POLAND
e-mail: ath@twarda.pan.pl
phone (+4822) 6978-875; room 125