Education:
 2002 – 2007: M.Sc. at the University of Gdansk; Biology, Geography and Oceanology
Faculty
M.Sc thesis : “Suspended matter in the Hornsund fjord, Spitsbergen”
 2007 – present: PhD study at the Institute of Oceanology PAS, Sopot, Poland
Department of Marine Ecology
Main scientific interests:
 ecology of polar zooplankton
 arctic planktovirous birds and zooplankton
Ongoing projects:
 “The influence of climate change on zooplankton structure, populations of planktonand fish -eating seabird colonies and function of the Arctic terrestrial ecosystem”
(project KBN - N304 039 32/1883), running in years 2007-2009
Courses:
 2008: workshop at The North Pacific Marine Science Organization conference,
Dalian, China
“Status of marine ecosystems in the sub-arctic and arctic seas – Preliminary results of
IPY field monitoring in 2007 and 2008”
 2008: PhD students workshop at the Arctic Frontiers conference, Tromso, Norway
“Petroleum activity in the Arctic and sound management – the need for research”
 2006: “Foraminifera – Biodiversity and Ecology”, Bergen, Norway
 2006: “Summer School on Diversity of Coastal Habitats”, Sylt-Helgoland, Germany
Research experience:
 R/V Oceania, Spitsbergen , June - August 2004, 2005 and 2006
 Hovercraft Gryfon, Archipelago of Finland - March 2006 (Fresh water influence on
pelagic system - Archipelago of Finland)
 R/V Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, July 2007 (an international project COPOL aiming to
study and compare uptake and transfer of contaminants in food webs representing
different water masses (Arctic and Atlantic))