Paweł Terefenko

University of Szczecin · Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences

Polish coastal zone is thought to be one of the most exposed to sea level rise in Europe. With mean sea levels expected to increase between 28 and 98 cm by the end of the century, and storms increasing in severity, accurate estimates of the consequences of those phenomena are needed. Recent advances in quality and availability of spatial data in Po...

In Międzyzdroje, a coastal town in Poland, significant cliff retreat has been observed in recent times. It used to be considered mainly a response to storm events with particularly high water levels and wave energy. However, morphology of cliff coasts is shaped not only by the most extreme storm surges or by a number of accompanying processes such...

Formation of notches is an important process in the erosion of seaside cliffs. Monitoring of coastal notch erosion rate and processes has become a prime research focus for many coastal geomorphologists. Observation of notch erosion rate considers a number of characteristics, including cliff collapse risk, distinction of historical sea levels, and r...

Rock cliffs are a significant component of world coastal zones. However, rocky coasts and factors contributing to their erosion have not received as much attention as soft cliffs. In this study, two rocky-cliff systems in the southern Baltic Sea were analyzed with Airborne Laser Scanners (ALS) to track changes in cliff morphology. The present contr...

Winter storms are an important factor affecting the Polish coast. Short-term water-level variations caused by winter storms significantly alter the coast in the non-tidal Baltic Sea, where extreme water levels depend on the volume of water flowing in from the North Sea. If the Baltic does not have the time to “fill in,” high wind speeds and wave he...

Assessing long-term trends in flood losses and attributing them to climatic and socioeconomic changes requires comprehensive and systematic collection of historical information. Here, we present flood impact data for Europe that are part of the HANZE (Historical Analysis of Natural HaZards) database. The dataset covers riverine, pluvial, coastal, a...

As pension benefits from statutory public schemes become less generous and many countries face pension-savings crises, the willingness to participate in supplementary retirement-saving instruments becomes crucial for sustainable financial well-being. The study highlighted factors influencing participation in auto-enrollment and private supplementar...

The following paper focuses on evaluating the quality of image prediction in the context of searching for plants of a single species, using the example of Heracleum sosnowskyi Manden, in a given area. This process involves a simplified classification that ends with a segmentation step. Because of the particular characteristics of environmental data...

Long-term trends in flood losses are regulated by multiple factors including climate variation, demographic dynamics, economic growth, land-use transitions, reservoir construction and flood risk reduction measures. The attribution of those drivers through the use of counterfactual scenarios of hazard, exposure or vulnerability first requires a good...

Long-term trends in flood losses are regulated by multiple factors including climate variation, demographic dynamics, economic growth, land-use transitions, reservoir construction and flood risk reduction measures. Attribution of those drivers through the use of counterfactual scenarios of hazard, exposure or vulnerability first requires a good rep...

Assessing long-term trends in flood losses and attributing them to climatic and socio-economic changes requires comprehensive and systematic collection of historical information. Here, we present flood impact data for Europe that is part of the HANZE (Historical Analysis of Natural HaZards) database. The dataset covers riverine, pluvial, coastal an...

The Coastal Cliffs Morphology Analysis (CCMORPH) Toolbox is a collection of PYTHON scripts and a JavaScript tool to produce georectified information specifically tailored for the generation and quantitative analysis of coastal cliffs’ morphology. Although experts have employed numerous methods to extract coastal indicators from digital elevation mo...

Coastal zone areas are important parts of the environment, very often subject to constant change [...]

A prerequisite for solving issues associated with surf zone variability, which affect human activity in coastal zones, is an accurate estimation of the effects of coastal protection methods. Therefore, performing frequent monitoring activities, especially when applying new nature-friendly coastal defense methods, is a major challenge. In this manus...

Coastal regions are susceptible to rapid changes as they constitute the boundary between the land and the sea [...]

Financial knowledge is the main element of financial literacy, which is important for the sustainable development of individuals and society. Sustainability is a complex concept that spans many fields, including financial knowledge for all ages. Financial knowledge requires significant scientific research showing its impact on individuals and the e...

Coastal erosion is a major issue facing Europe that will only worsen under future climate change and the resulting sea level rise. One effect of erosion is the loss of ecosystem services, which are provided by coastal areas, such as provisioning, regulating, habitat, and cultural services. These services can be quantified in monetary terms. Here, w...

Coastal regions are dynamic environments that have been the main settlement destinations for human society development for centuries. Development by humans and environmental changes have resulted in intensive land cover transformation. However, detailed spatiotemporal analyses of such changes in the Polish Baltic coastal zone have not been given su...

The choice of payment instrument, which is used every day to make life easier, comprises one of the consumer financial decisions influenced by several factors. To investigate when, where, and for what amount customers use different forms of payment an interview of statistically representative group of 1005 consumers from all over Poland have been r...

Coastal storms are highly unpredictable phenomena, fre- quently changing their characteristics and directly linked to global climate changes. They result in an intensive erosion processes and, are now a serious concern for the communi- ties inhabiting the littoral zones. However, owing to the tech- nical difficulties in registering morphological ch...

The World Health Organization (WHO) states that drowning is one of the most common reason of unintentional damage to health or loss of life constituting around 7% of all deaths. Although the problem of drowning has been widely discussed by world literature, no publications for Poland have undertaken research on the correlation between drowning and...

Natural hazards affect many types of tangible assets, the most valuable of which are often residential assets, comprising buildings and household contents. Yet, information necessary to derive exposure in terms of monetary value at the level of individual houses is often not available. This includes building type, size, quality, or age. In this stu...

Natural hazards affect many types of tangible assets, the most valuable of which are often residential assets, comprising buildings and household contents. Yet, information necessary to derive exposure in terms of monetary value at the level of individual houses is often not available. This includes building type, size, quality or age. In this stud...

Cliff coasts are dynamic environments that can retreat very quickly. However, the short-term changes and factors contributing to cliff coast erosion have not received as much attention as dune coasts. In this study, three soft-cliff systems in the southern Baltic Sea were monitored with the use of terrestrial laser scanner technology over a period...

Formation of notches is an important process in the erosion of seaside cliffs. Monitoring of coastal notch erosion rate and processes has become a prime research focus for many coastal geomorphologists. Observation of notch erosion rate considers a number of characteristics, including cliff collapse risk, distinction of historical sea levels, and r...

In coastal zones, interactions between oceans and lands are very dynamic. Coastal and flood protection has a great importance for the safety of people. One of the approaches to predict beach inundation is to use simple empirical equations which have been successfully adopted by the coastal engineering branch. This research is focused on the applica...

Sea level and coastline change are becoming increasingly important topics to the population living along the edge of the world’s oceans and seas. This is the case at the southern Baltic Sea coast where climate change and glacio-isostatic response cause a relative sea-level rise of up to 2 mm/y and where storms events lead to continuous coastal retr...

Polish coastal zone is thought to be of the most exposed to sea level rise in Europe. With climate change expected to raise mean sea levels between 26 and 200 cm by the end of the century, and storms increasing in severity, accurate estimates of those phenomena are needed. Recent advances in quality and availability of spatial data in Poland made i...

Advanced, multidimensional models are typically applied when researching processes occurring in the nearshore. Relatively simple, empirical equations are commonly used in coastal engineering practice in order to estimate extreme wave run-up on beaches and coastal structures. However, they were mostly calibrated to the characteristics of oceanic coa...

Routine monitoring has already become a legal obligation and apparent necessity for EU members, especially of such dynamic and important habitat as the Baltic Sea and its shores. One of the subsystems of SatBałtyk, a Polish research project for maritime observation, is dedicated to coastal monitoring. It focuses on recording and forecasting the con...

In order to assess the role of coastal exposure, wave force, and rock chemical resistance in marine notch development a study was undertaken along 28km of the Algarve region in southern Portugal between Gale and Portimao. Notches were identified in the field, and exposure to wave force was calculated on the basis of wave refraction estimates. Almos...

Comparison between historical maps from the 1900s, 1980s and a modern map from the 2000s of the Pomeranian Bight at the southern Baltic Sea indicates that a major part of the coastline has been suffering continuous erosion. This also holds for a major part of other coasts on a global scale. Quantifying coastal geomorphological changes on a decadal-...

A comparison between the historical maps at around 1900 AD and recent maps of the Pomeranian Bight at the southern Baltic Sea indicates that a major part of the coast have been suffering continuous erosion during the last 100 years. Study of the long-term sediment dynamics along the coast thus needs to be intensified for a further understanding of...

The Pomeranian Bay serves as an open field laboratory to understand natural and anthropogenic coastal processes in the tideless Baltic Sea. Although there are some sections of the coast with long-term strong accumulative tendency in the both sides of Swina gate, climatically controlled sea level rise causes permanent erosion of most of the coastlin...

Marine notches are undercut or groove forms, developing in vertical cliff profiles due to sea corrosion. The present contribution aims to study the spatial distribution and characteristics of notches on the Algarve rocky coast, combining in situ observations, rock sampling, laboratory analyses of chemical resistance and along-shore wave-power flux...

To assess coastal storm risks this paper compares existing hazards, associated risks, coastal management plans, and civil protection schemes from nine European countries. An evaluation made of specific study sites concludes that: (a) the definition of coastal hazard or risk varies between countries, regions and sites with no pan-European agreement;...