Working under the auspices of the Ministry of Infrastructure, an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research Institute and Ecco-Logic, in cooperation with PGW Wody Polskie, has developed an innovative method to eliminate the development of golden algae.
The leaders of the team are prof. dr hab. Robert Czerniawski – director of the Institute of Biology of the University of Szczecin and Krzysztof Gliński, president of the board of Ecco-Logic. Dr. Lukasz Sługocki of the Institute of Biology of the University of Szczecin, also participated in the work on reducing fish kills.
The team successfully completed two months of work on the use of the experimental SinStop method, the aim of which was to reduce golden algae blooms and fish kills in the Gliwice Canal. The SinStop preparation invented by Polish scientists is completely natural and based on silicon. During the tests, a clearly positive effect of the proposed solution was observed and no negative impact of the preparation on animal organisms was found. The use of this method on a large scale can significantly reduce the risk of further ecological disasters.
Based on the obtained observations, it can be concluded that the tested method is a safe and effective way to reduce fish kills and the overall phenomena referred to as water eutrophication. The lack of negative environmental effects combined with the high effectiveness of the method suggests that this is currently the only available technology that combines a number of the advantages described above and does not cause any identified negative effects – confirms Prof. Robert Czerniawski.
The project team members: Krzysztof Gliński (president of the board of Ecco-Logic), prof. dr hab. Robert Czerniawski (IMGW-PIB, Uniwersytet Szczeciński), prof. dr hab. inż. Małgorzata Kacprzak (Politechnika Warszawska), dr hab. inż. Bogdan Wziątek (Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski), dr Dariusz Włóka (GreenBack sp. z o.o.), dr Michał Łopata (Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski), dr hab. Łukasz Sługocki (Uniwersytet Szczeciński) dr Justyna Kobos (Uniwersytet Gdański), Agata Glińska (Ecco Logic), dr inż. Urszula Dmitruk (IMGW- PIB), mgr Weronika Głąb (IMGW- PIB), dr inż. Agnieszka Jancewicz (IMGW- PIB), inż. Michał Mierzejewski (IMGW- PIB), Marianna Narkiewicz (IMGW- PIB), dr Urszula Stawiecka (IMGW- PIB), dr hab. Paweł Wilk, prof. IMGW (IMGW- PIB), dr hab. Paulina Orlińska-Woźniak, prof. IMGW (IMGW- PIB).
