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Tomáš Pánek is affiliated with the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic and focuses on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their scholarly work covers multiple subfields, notably Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Geophysics, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The principal topics of their research include:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Geological Formations and Processes Exploration
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies

Tomáš Pánek has contributed extensively to academic publications, particularly in several key venues such as Geomorphology, Landslides, Earth-Science Reviews, Quaternary Science Reviews, and The ISME Journal. They have published 12 papers in Geomorphology, 4 in Landslides, and contributed to other journals with multiple works as well.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Tomáš Pánek include:

  • "Recent technological and methodological advances for the investigation of landslide dams," 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Revisiting biocrystallization: purine crystalline inclusions are widespread in eukaryotes," 2022, The ISME Journal
  • "Post-LGM faulting in Central Europe: LiDAR detection of the >50 km-long Sub-Tatra fault, Western Carpathians," 2020, Geomorphology
  • "Deep learning reveals one of Earth's largest landslide terrain in Patagonia," 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Complex causes of landslides after ice sheet retreat: Post-LGM mass movements in the Northern Patagonian Icefield region," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors including Michal Břežný, Diego Winocur, Karel Šilhán, Oliver Korup, and Elisabeth Schönfeldt, reflecting a network of research partnerships across their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Recent progress in landslide dating A global overview

    Tomáš Pánek

  • Temporal behavior of deep-seated gravitational slope deformations: A review

    Tomáš Pánek;Jan Klimeš

  • Gravitationally induced caves and other discontinuities detected by 2D electrical resistivity tomography: Case studies from the Polish Flysch Carpathians

    Tomáš Pánek;Włodzimierz Margielewski;Petr Tábořík;Jan Urban

  • Catastrophic slope failure and its origins: Case of the May 2010 Girova Mountain long-runout rockslide (Czech Republic)

    Tomáš Pánek;Karel Šilhán;Petr Tábořík;Jan Hradecký

  • Deep-seated gravitational slope deformations in the highest parts of the Czech Flysch Carpathians: Evolutionary model based on kinematic analysis, electrical imaging and trenching

    Tomáš Pánek;Petr Tábořík;Jan Klimeš;Veronika Komárková

  • Rainfall-induced landslide event of May 2010 in the eastern part of the Czech Republic

    Tomáš Pánek;Rudolf Brázdil;Jan Klimeš;Veronika Smolková

  • Recent technological and methodological advances for the investigation of landslide dams

    Xuanmei Fan;Anja Dufresne;Jim Whiteley;Jim Whiteley;Ali P. Yunus

  • Holocene reactivations of catastrophic complex flow-like landslides in the Flysch Carpathians (Czech Republic/Slovakia)

    Tomáš Pánek;Veronika Smolková;Jan Hradecký;Ivo Baroň

  • Complex landslide terrain in the Kamienne Mountains, Middle Sudetes, SW Poland.

    Piotr Migoń;Tomáš Pánek;Ireneusz Malik;Jan Hrádecký

  • Tree-ring analysis in the reconstruction of slope instabilities associated with earthquakes and precipitation (the Crimean Mountains, Ukraine)

    Karel Šilhán;Tomáš Pánek;Jan Hradecký

  • Investigation of recent catastrophic landslides in the flysch belt of Outer Western Carpathians (Czech Republic): progress towards better hazard assessment

    J. Klimeš;I. Baroň;T. Pánek;T. Kosačík

  • Geomorphological, pedological and dendrochronological signatures of a relict landslide terrain, Mt Garbatka (Kamienne Mts), SW Poland

    Piotr Migoń;Andrzej Kacprzak;Ireneusz Malik;Marek Kasprzak

  • Deep-seated gravitational slope deformations and their influence on consequent mass movements (case studies from the highest part of the Czech Carpathians)

    Jan Hradecký;Tomáš Pánek

  • Fossil and recent debris flows in medium-high mountains (Moravskoslezské Beskydy Mts, Czech Republic).

    Karel Šilhán;Tomáš Pánek

  • Late Holocene catastrophic slope collapse affected by deep-seated gravitational deformation in flysch: Ropice Mountain, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Pánek;Jan Hradecký;Jozef Minár;Jozef Minár;Oldrich Hungr

  • Landslides and Quaternary climate changes—The state of the art

    Tomáš Pánek

  • The largest prehistoric landslide in northwestern Slovakia: Chronological constraints of the Kykula long-runout landslide and related dammed lakes

    Tomáš Pánek;Jan Hradecký;Veronika Smolková;Karel Šilhán

  • Spatio-temporal patterns of recurrent slope instabilities affecting undercut slopes in flysch: A dendrogeomorphic approach using broad-leaved trees

    Karel Šilhán;Tomáš Pánek;Ondřej Turský;Rudolf Brázdil

  • Large landslides and deep-seated gravitational slope deformations in the Czech Flysch Carpathians: New LiDAR-based inventory

    Tomáš Pánek;Michal Břežný;Veronika Kapustová;Jan Lenart

  • The dating of bedrock landslide reactivations using dendrogeomorphic techniques The Mazak landslide, Outer Western Carpathians Czech Republic

    Karel Šilhán;Tomáš Pánek;Radek Dušek;Daniel Havlů

  • Landscapes and Landforms of the Czech Republic

    Tomáš Pánek;Jan Hradecký

  • Rainfall-induced landslide event of May 2010 in the eastern part of the Czech Republic - case study of the recurrent Girová landslide

    J. Hradecký;T. Pánek;R. Brázdil;K. Šilhán

Frequent Co-Authors

Julius Lukeš
Julius Lukeš Czech Academy of Sciences
Andrew J. Roger
Andrew J. Roger Dalhousie University
Rudolf Brázdil
Rudolf Brázdil Czech Academy of Sciences
Oliver Korup
Oliver Korup University of Potsdam
Régis Braucher
Régis Braucher Aix-Marseille University
Michael W. Gray
Michael W. Gray Dalhousie University
B. Franz Lang
B. Franz Lang University of Montreal
Alastair G. B. Simpson
Alastair G. B. Simpson Dalhousie University
Martin Danišík
Martin Danišík Curtin University
Markus Stoffel
Markus Stoffel University of Geneva

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