Staff profile

• Application of Computed Tomography scanning in stalagmite-based research, Cave microclimate, Climate extremes, Natural variability and anthropogenic climate change, Holocene North Atlantic climate reconstructions using geochemistry of stalagmites from Spain and Bermuda

• 2024: Connecting Research Communities #6 conference: keynote lecture at Palacky University, Czech Republic
• 2023: Connecting Research Communities (CRC): International, interdisciplinary student conference organised in collaboration between Durham University and Palacky University, Czech Republic
• 2022: External Examiner at Teesside University for BSc Geology:
• 2017: Invited Speaker at Summer School on Speleothem Science (S4), Burgos, Spain:

Conference Paper

• Baldini, L. M., Walczak, I. W., Jamieson, R., Lechleitner, F., & Baldini, J. U. (2018, December). Reconstructing North Atlantic Climate over the Past Six Centuries Using a High Resolution Stalagmite Multi-Proxy Approach. Presented at Goldschmidt 2018, Boston, USA
• Walczak, I., Baldini, J., Baldini, L., Marsden, S., Richards, D., Standish, C., McDermott, F., & Andreo, B. (2014, December). The Onset of the Mediterranean Climate in Western Europe Inferred from Dating and CT Scanning of Un-Sectioned Stalagmite. Presented at Goldschmidt 2014, Sacramento, USA
• Walczak, I., Baldini, J., Macpherson, C., Marsden, S., Richards, D., Jamieson, R., Slater, J., Baldini, L., & Hugill, C. (2013, December). Reconstructing climate using the geochemistry and computed tomography of stalagmites. Presented at EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria

Journal Article

• Mathias, J., Walczak, I., & Leech, S. (2023). Widening participation students’ experience and perception of flipped learning statistics compared with traditional teaching in higher education. MSOR Connections, 21(2), 4-14. https://doi.org/10.21100/msor.v21i2.1390
• Baldini, J. U., Lechleitner, F. A., Breitenbach, S. F., van Hunen, J., Baldini, L. M., Wynn, P. M., Jamieson, R. A., Ridley, H. E., Baker, A. J., Walczak, I. W., & Fohlmeister, J. (2021). Detecting and quantifying palaeoseasonality in stalagmites using geochemical and modelling approaches. Quaternary Science Reviews, 254, Article 106784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106784
• Ridley, H., Baldini, J., Prufer, K., Walczak, I., & Breitenbach, S. (2015). High resolution monitoring of Yok Balum Cave, Belize: an investigation of seasonal ventilation regimes and the atmospheric and drip-flow response to a local earthquake. Journal of cave and karst studies, 77(3), 183-199. https://doi.org/10.4311/2014es0117
• Walczak, I., Baldini, J., Baldini, L., McDermott, F., Marsden, S., Standish, C., Richards, D., Andreo, B., & Slater, J. (2015). Reconstructing high-resolution climate using CT scanning of unsectioned stalagmites: A case study identifying the mid-Holocene onset of the Mediterranean climate in southern Iberia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 127, 117-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.06.013

Presentation

• Walczak, I. (2014, September). The onset of Mediterranean climate constrained using computed tomography-derived density variations in an Iberian stalagmite. Presented at Climate Change: The Karst Record 7th International Conference, Melbourne, Australia