Adriana Holušová

I studied my PhD in Environmental Geography at University of Ostrava, Faculty of Science, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology. In my research, I am focusing on gravel bar formation and evolution in regulated rivers including the influence of vegetation cover and hydrological events. Besides my focus on gravel bars, I also collaborated on research involving Ecosystem services of river landscape, large wood in rivers or assessment of river sediment properties for salmonid fish. I am interested in river landscape changes and responses to different pressures including human impact or events resulting from climate change.

• 2026 (Ph.D.) Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava (Environmental Geography)
• 2023 (Summer school) University of Lyon and LTSER Rhône (ZABR) France
• 2023 (Short-term internship) Faculty of Science, University of Padova, Italy
• 2019 (Master’s degree) Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Landscape Formation and Protection
• 2018 (Erasmus+) School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, Manchester UK
• 2016 (Bachelor’s degree) Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Landscape Formation and Protection
• 2015 (Lifelong learning) Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ostrava, Japanese philology: Japanese language and culture

• 2025 non-academic researcher, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava
• 2024 assistant professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, UJEP
• 2024–2024 external collaboration, Envicons s.r.o.
• 2020–2023 non-academic researcher, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava

• HOLUŠOVÁ, A., Galia, T., 2025. Impact of river regulation on gravel bar decline and vegetation expansion over recent decades. CATENA 254, 108910. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2025.108910
• Połedniková, Z., HOLUŠOVÁ, A., Vaverka, L., Galia, T. (2025). Effects of policy changes in the last 80 years on LU/LC and ecosystem services: A case study of the Odra River floodplain (Czech Republic). Morav. Geogr. Rep. 33, 91–105. https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2025-0007
• Połedniková, Z., HOLUŠOVÁ, A., Galia, T., Vaverka, L., Garcia, X., 2025. Assessing Cultural Ecosystem Services of Riverscapes Using Artificial Intelligence and Photographs. Aquat. Conserv. Mar. Freshw. Ecosyst. 35, e70261. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.70261
• Galia, T., Škarpich, V. HOLUŠOVÁ A., Hradecký J. (2024): Short-term geomorphic adjustments of bars in the Elbe, a large regulated river in Czechia. AUC Geographica, Univerzita Karlova 59(1). https://doi.org/10.14712/23361980.2024.7
• HOLUŠOVÁ, A., Połedniková, Z., Vaverka, L. and Galia, T., 2023. Spatiotemporal dynamics and present perception of gravel bars in natural and regulated environments. Science of The Total Environment 892, 164711. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164711
• HOLUŠOVÁ, A., Galia, T. (2020): Downstream fining trends of gravel bar sediments: a case study of Czech Carpathian rivers. Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Geographica. Univerzita Karlova 55(2). DOI:10.14712/23361980.2020.17

• 2025-2027 GAČR: Hydrogeomorgologická dynamika tváří v tvář změně klimatu: dopady po sobě jdoucích povodní na říční koryta ve Středomoří. Ostravská univerzita, Přírodovědecká fakulta, Katedra Fyzické geografie a geoekologie.
• 2021-2023 The dynamic fluvial landscape of the Odra river: the relation between river morphodynamics and society. Interní grantová soutěž DGC (DOC4U), University of Ostrava (funded by EU and MŠMT). Principal investigator.
• 2023-2024 Sediment regime analysis of gravel-bed Kamenice river (the Elbe tributary) and Chřibská Kamenice river (the Kamenice tributary), Czechia. For Bohemian Switzerland National Park, processed by University of Ostrava.
• 2024 Study of ecological restoration of the Morava river and floodplain between Leština and Mohelnice. For Envicons s.r.o. in cooperation with experts from the Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, University of Ostrava

• ČAG – Czech association of Geomorphologist (2019-)