Amber in Poland and in the world
The second, revised edition of the book by Prof. Barbara Kosmowska-Ceranowicz is available at the Amber Museum.
“Amber in Poland and in the world” by prof. dr. hab. Barbara Kosmowska-Ceranowicz is a Polish-English publication showing the beauty, history and properties of amber. Written in a simple and accessible way. Thanks to the wealth of information, this book can be used as a textbook for students and researchers of the faculties of earth sciences at universities and technical colleges. It is written in a simple and accessible way and is also addressed to people professionally involved in the processing of fossil resins and a large group of lovers of this particular mineral, enjoying become extremely popular in our country. He discusses the genesis, occurrence, naming and processing of succinite and other fossil resins in a global perspective, the history of their presence in our culture and the traditions associated with them, as well as the study of organic material contained in fossil resins.
Prof. Barbara Kosmowska-Ceranowicz – a geologist by training – is an outstanding amber researcher. Since 1956 she has worked at the Museum of the Earth of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw – in 1974–2007 and 2008–2010 as head of the Amber Department, and earlier as head of the Geology Department. Her research focuses on amber deposits and their distribution around the world, and now also on the identification of fossil resins and methods of determining them.
Barbara Kosmowska-Ceranowicz is a member of the Polish Geological Society. She was a founding member of the Working Group of Organic Minerals of the International Mineralogical Society, which has been active since 1985 for nearly 25 years. He is a founding member and expert in the field of amber and other fossil resins of the Polish Gemological Society, the International Amber Association and the World Amber Council in Gdańsk, as well as a member of Bernstein Arbeitskreis in Hamburg. Since 1993, he also cooperates with the organizers of the “Amberif” fair in Gdańsk, and since 2001 the “Gold, Silver, Time” fair in Warsaw in the field of promoting knowledge about amber. She is the author of about 250 scientific and popular science publications on amber and numerous scenarios for domestic and foreign exhibitions. He consults many Polish and international research works. Initiates and coordinates national and international interdisciplinary cooperation among amber researchers.
