About me

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I am geologist with expertise in active and paleo processes in karst environments and am recently employed as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Salamanca (USAL) within USAL4EXCELLENCE programme, where I currently lead COSCA research project within USAL4EXCELLENCE programme. I obtained my PhD in 2011 at University of Zagreb (UniZg), Faculty of Science and until current post at USAL I was employed at UniZg Faculty of Agriculture (AFZ) since 2008 (as Associate Professor in Geology).

My research aims to understand and explain landforms, records and processes in the natural environment, with a special focus on karst areas. I strongly believe, that in order to better understand these processes, one should have a holistic approach. Therefore, my research covers ample range of disciplines focused on better understanding karst dynamics. In that sense I can distinguish several topics that I believe are essential to study in order to explain past and current evolution of environments: 1) rock weathering and karst morphology, (2), records of karst paleo-processes and paleoclimate, including stratigraphy of those records (3) impact of moisture sources on oxygen isotope composition of precipitation, with application to interpretations of stable isotopes paleoclimate records, (4) quantification of active processes (environmental and sedimentological), and (5) continuous monitoring of karst environments, with special emphasis on the role of CO2 in the carbonate system within a global warming context.

I am engaged in professional societies as a member of steering committee of INQUA Croatia, member of the Stratigraphy and Geochronology Commission (SACCOM), member of Geosciences Union and Croatian Society of Soil Science.

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Contact:

krklec@usal.es