Adam Porowski

Adam Porowski is a licensed hydrogeologist at the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ING PAN) in Warsaw, Poland. His principal research interests concern the application of isotopic methods in hydrogeology and hydrogeochemistry. He obtained a hydrogeological license according to the Polish Geological and Mining Law from the Ministry of Environment of Poland. Dr. Porowski was granted doctoral scholarships at the Kent State University, USA, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany. He is also alumnus of the prestigious program Top 500 Innovators - Entrepreneurship & Commercialization of Scientific Research hosted by Haas School of Business, Berkeley University, California, granted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He completed several courses concerning various aspects of applied hydrogeology and modern methods of groundwater sampling, groundwater dating, borehole measurements, hydrogeological and geochemical data acquisition, processing and interpretation, e.g., summer school of geothermal exploration (Izmir, Turkey), tracers in hydrogeology (University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poland), ICDP drilling course (Windischeschenbach, Germany), dating of geological materials (GADAM Centre, Gliwice, Poland). He is the author of many scientific papers, coeditor of one book, leader or principal investigator of three research grants sponsored by the National Committee for Scientific Research and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland, and author and coauthor of several studies performed for the industrial sector.Actually, he is a secretary of the Commission on Mineral and Thermal Waters of IAH, member of IGA, Top 500 Association. Current applied research is focused on the origin and hydrogeochemistry of mineralized and thermal waters, origin and formation of oil-associated waters, water -rock interactions, groundwater dating, chemical and isotopic evolution of deep circulating waters, occurrence and application of REE in groundwaters. Dr Porowski currently has one patent application submited to Polish Patent Office. Specialties: isotope hydrology, hydrogeology and hydrogeochemistry, mineral and termal water origin, drainage mine water origin and management, groundwater dating, water-rock interaction, groundwater exploration and extraction, water resources management. Innovations: new methods of determination of isotopic composition of saline waters and brines, optimizations of automatic CO2-H2O equilibration systems.

Selected Publications

• Porowski A., 2012 - Thermal conditions in the eastern part of Polish Carpathians inferred from geochemical and isotopic studies of dehydration-type mineralized water, SE Poland. Geothermics [under review]
• Porowski A., 2012 - Chemical and isotopic characteristics of thermal waters in the Carpathian Region, South Poland: implication to the origin and resources. In: Balderer W., Porowski A., Idris H., LaMoreaux J. (eds) Thermal and Mineral Waters: Origin, Properties, Applications. Springer, 250 p. [in press]
• Dowgiałło J., Porowski A., 2011 - Determination of residence time of drainage waters of KGHM PM S.A. copper mines with reference to observed development of cones of depression. 107 p. [in Polish, unpublished].
• Porowski A., Dowgiałło J., 2009 - Application of selected geothermometers to exploration of low-enthalpy thermal water: the Sudetic Geothermal Region in Poland. Environmental Geology 58 (8): 1629-1638
• Porowski A., Kowski P, 2008 - Determination of δ2H and δ18O in saline oil-associated waters: the question of simple vacuum distillation of water samples prior to isotopic analyses. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 44 (2): 227-238
• Porowski A., 2006 - Origin of mineralized waters in the Central Carpathian Synclinorium, SE Poland. Studia Geologica Polonica 125: 67p
• Dowgiałło J., Halas S., Porowski A., 2005 - Isotope temperature indicators of thermal waters in South-Western Poland. Proceedings World Geothermal Congress, 24-29 April, Antalya, Turkey.
• Porowski A., 2003 - Isotopic evidence of the origin of marginal oil-field waters within the Central Carpathian Synclinorium, SE Poland. Environmental Geology 46: 661-669