Mr Sylvester Werczynski
Staff Profile
Role at ANSTO
Mr Werczynski is an environmental physicist in the Isotopes in Climate and Atmosphere Program of the ANSTO Institute for Environmental Research (IER). Sylvester graduated with a Masters of Applied Geophysics Degree from the University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, Poland in 1986.
Since joining ANSTO in 2001 Mr Werczynski has developed expertise in field measurement techniques and logistics in the atmosphere and subsurface gas transport and with analytical techniques related to radon and thoron and their progeny. His interests and work are focused on applications of naturally occurring radionuclide tracers for transport processes in the lower atmosphere at different spatial and temporal scales. He manages the runnning and continuous development of the radon analytical laboratory and an international network of radon detectors in support of internationally recognised scientific research.
Publications
Crawford, J., Zahorowski, W., Cohen, D.D., Chambers, S., Stelcer, E., and Werczynski, S., 2013: ‘Estimating the near-surface daily fine aerosol load using hourly Radon-222 observations’, Atmospheric Pollution Research 4, 1-13. DOI: 10.5094/APR.2013.001
Zahorowski, W., Griffiths, A.D., Chambers, S., Williams, A.G., Law, R.M., Crawford, J., and Werczynski, S., 2013: 'Constraining annual and seasonal radon-222 flux density from the Southern Ocean using radon-222 concentrations in the boundary layer at Cape Grim', Tellus B 2013 65, 19622. http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v65i0.19622
Williams, A.G., W. Zahorowski, S. Chambers, A. Griffiths, J.M. Hacker A. Element, S. Werczynski, 2011: The Vertical Distribution of Radon in Clear and Cloudy Daytime Terrestrial Boundary Layers. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68, 155-174. DOI:10.1175/2012JAS3576.1
Griffiths, A. D., W. Zahorowski, A. Element, and S. Werczynski, 2010: A map of radon flux at the Australian land surface. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 10, 8969-8982.
Zahorowski, W., S.D. Chambers, T. Wang, C.-H. Kang, I. Uno, S. Poon, S.-N. Oh, S. Werczynski, J. Kim and A. Henderson-Sellers. Radon-222 in boundary layer and free tropospheric continental outflow events at three ACE-Asia sites. Tellus B, 57, 124-140,2005.