Ewa Roniewicz

This discovery had a large impact on the palaeontological community mainly because they had classified a new type of dinosaur that was vastly different from anything paleontologists had discovered at the time.

These multi-week annual coral searches took place from the 1950s to 1970s, and spanned the regions of Western Pomerania, Pomeranian glacial gravels, the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, as well as the Świętokrzyskie and Tatra mountain ranges.

Beginning in the 1960s, Roniewicz also traveled for several four-week periods to foreign Academy of Science centers, universities, and other institutions in order to personally engage with geologists and palaeontologists conducting similar research on corals and other materials of Jurassic reef structures.

These short-term, so-called "exchange weeks" included visits to Prague, Georgia, and Romania, during which she met with researchers Dr. Helena Eliašová, Prof. Nina S. Bendukidze, and Dr. Aurelia Bărbulescu.

Every few years between 1977 and 1995, Roniewicz was invited to study the large collections of Rhaetian corals at the Natural History Museum in Vienna by Prof. Helmuth Zapfe at the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

She also studied the Triassic corals of the Dachstein massif in collaboration with geologists Dr. Harald Lobitzer and Dr. Gerhard W. Mandl from the Geologische Bundesanstalt in Vienna.

In order to complete a collection of Triassic corals for study, Dr. Roniewicz made several returns to the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitaet in Berlin and the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in the years 1975, 1996, and 2005.

Ewa Roniewicz’s study on “Photosymbiosis in Late Triassic scleractinian corals from the Italian Dolomites”[2] was written in partnership with Katarzyna Frankowiak and Jarosław Stolarski in March 2021.