David Uličný

David Uličný

I am a sedimentologist and stratigrapher interested in past sea level and climate changes and tectonic evolution of sedimentary basins. I emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to studying the sedimentary record, in broad collaboration with specialists from many areas of Earth Science. Combining geophysical, sedimentological, geochemical, and paleontological data, and both numerical and analogue modelling, we can visualize and interpret many processes on the interface between the Earth’s crust and its surface.
In 2018-2020, I led the Department of Geodynamics at the Institute of Geophysics and from 2021 to 2023, the Sedimentary Basins Team which from January 2024 onwards has become a part of the Surface Processes and Paleoclimate Team (SPP). Since 2019 I have served as Deputy Director of our institute. I have contributed to strategic development of the Institute of Geophysics since 2018, including its structural change and internationalization.
Since autumn 2019, I have reduced my FTE at the institute to 0.8 because of my part-time employment at the Faculty of Science, Charles University. Through teaching, student supervision, invited seminars, direct research collaborations and other activities I am contributing to closer ties between the Academy of Sciences and the Charles University, which I consider key to the long-term viability of geoscience research in our country.

Current and recent research projects

Czech Science Foundation / GAČR – 22-13980S Geodynamic controls on continental rifting in Cenozoic central Europe: insights from the Eger Rift, Bohemia; role: Principal Investigator (2022-24)
Czech Science Foundation / GAČR – 17-10982S Sea-level change and global carbon cycle in greenhouse climate: trans-Atlantic correlation of Turonian (mid-Cretaceous) sedimentary archives; role: Principal Investigator (2017-19)

Recent publications

Laurin, Jiří – Uličný, David – Waltham, D. – Toman, P. – Warsitzka, Michael – Sageman, B. B., 2023. Contrasting response of sea-level change to orbital eccentricity in greenhouse and icehouse climates. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, art. No.118421. ISSN 0012-821X. E-ISSN 1385-013X. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118421

Plint, A. G. – Uličný, David – Čech, S. – Walaszczyk, I. – Gröcke, D. R. – Laurin, Jiří – Shank, J. A. – Jarvis, I., 2022. Trans-Atlantic correlation of Late Cretaceous high-frequency sea-level cycles. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 578, art. No. 117323. ISSN 0012-821X. E-ISSN 1385-013X doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117323.

Walaszczyk, I. – Čech, S. – Crampton, J. S. – Dubicka, Z. – Ifrim, C. – Jarvis, I. – Kennedy, W. J. – Lees, J. A. – Lodowski, D. – Pearce, M. – Peryt, D. – Sageman, B. B. – Schissler, P. – Todes, J. – Uličný, David – Voigt, S. – Wiese, F. – Linnert, C. – Püttmann, T. – Toshimitsu, S., 2022. The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Coniacian Stage (Salzgitter-Salder, Germany) and its auxiliary sections (Słupia Nadbrzeżna, central Poland, Střeleč, Czech Republic and El Rosario, NE Mexico). Episodes, 45, pp. 181-220. ISSN 0705-3797. doi:10.18814/epiiugs/2021/021022.

Laurin, Jiří – Uličný, David – Čech, S. – Trubač, J. – Zachariáš, J. – Svobodová, Andrea, 2021. Chronology and eccentricity phasing for the Early Turonian greenhouse (~93-94 Ma): constraints on astronomical control of the carbon cycle. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36, art. No. e2020PA004188. ISSN 2572-4517. E-ISSN 2572-4525. doi:10.1029/2020PA004188.

Chroustová, M*. – Holcová, K. – Laurin, Jiří – Uličný, David – Hradecká, L. – Hrnková, M. – Čech, S. – Hrouda, F. – Jarvis, I., 2021. Response of foraminiferal assemblages to precession-paced environmental variation in a mid-latitude seaway: Late Turonian greenhouse of Central Europe. Marine Micropaleontology, 167, art. No. 102025. ISSN 0377-8398. E-ISSN 1872-6186 doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2021.102025. (*supervised student)

Čech, S. – Uličný, David, 2021. The Turonian-Coniacian stage boundary in an expanded siliciclastic succession: Integrated stratigraphy in deltaic through offshore facies, Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. Cretaceous Research. 117, art. No. 104576. ISSN 0195-6671. E-ISSN 1095-998X doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104576.

Teaching – regular courses at Charles University

• Sedimentary geology (MG421P14) – BSc and MSc level, in Czech
• Sequence stratigraphy (MG420P04) – MSc and PhD level, in English
• Geology of sedimentary basins (MG421P38) – MSc and PhD level, in English

Guest instructor in courses:

• Geotektonika a desková tektonika (MG440P15 Jeřábek)
• Excursion of sedimentary geology (MG421T15, Martínek)
• Geobiology – MG420P02 (Holcová et al.) – winter semester, lecture + seminar

Research student supervision and co-supervision

M. Chroustová, PhD thesis, co-supervisor; started 2016, defended 2021: Foraminifera and Ostracoda as palaeoenvironmental and biostratigraphical indicators in the Upper Cretaceous, Bohemian Cretaceous Basin

K. Voženílková, MSc thesis, supervisor; started 2021, defended 2023: Short-term cyclic paleoenvironmental variations in Middle Turonian hemipelagic deposits, Bohemian Cretaceous Basin

J. Bohadlo, MSc thesis, supervisor; started 2021; ongoing (defense postponed due to ERASMUS stay):
Transgressions and regressions in the upper Turonian of the Bohemian Cretacecous Basin: record of changes in sea level and sediment supply governed by orbital cycles

F. Havlíček, MSc thesis, supervisor; started 2022; ongoing: The role of paleostress and inherited basement structures in evolution of the Ohře Rift

J. Bohadlo, BSc. thesis, supervisor; started 2020, defended 2021: Stratigraphic correlation between nearshore and hemipelagic lithofacies – sedimentological, geochemical, and geophysical criteria

F. Havlíček, BSc. thesis, supervisor; started 2021, defended 2022: Role of inherited crustal structures in rift basin geometry

Editorial duties and other service to professional community

Convener of Special Session on “Understanding a greenhouse Earth”, T05-SS03 – 35th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Prague 2021, June 25 (Co-convener: Sietske Batenburg)

Member of organizing committee, 35th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Prague, June 2021

2009-2012 Associate Editor, Sedimentology

2014 guest co-editor, Zeitschrift des deutchen Gesselschafts der Geowissenschaften. Volume 165, No. 4

reviews for peer-reviewed journals: Sedimentology; Geological Society of America Bulletin; Earth Science Reviews; Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology; Sedimentary Geology; Journal of the Geological Society (London); Bulletin of Geosciences; Geologica Carpathica; IAS Special Publications; SEPM Special Publications.

Since 2012 – member, Board of the Institute of Geophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences;

Since 2013 – member, Council for collaboration of the Czech Academy of Sciences with universities;

Duties in international professional bodies: IAS (International Association of Sedimentologists), Vice-President, 1998-2004; 2019 – member, Twenhofel Award Committee (SEPM); 2008-2010 member, Wilson Award Committee (SEPM)