Education:
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2012 - present: PhD student at the Institute of Oceanology PAS, Sopot, Poland
2012 Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdansk - Master of Earth Science, Student at
Faculty of Marine Biology
Scientific career:
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Participant of ESSEM COST Action ES1003 "Development and implementation of a
pan-European Marine Biodiversity Observatory System" (EMBOS) (from October
2013)
Participant of "COST Seagrass productivity: from genes to ecosystem managementWP4" (from February 2013)
Publications:
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Jankowska E., Włodarska-Kowalczuk M., Kotwicki L., Balazy P., Kuliński K., 2014,
Seasonality in vegetation biometrics and its effects on sediment characteristics and
meiofauna in Baltic seagrass meadows, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Sciences, doi:
10.1016/j.ecss.2014.01.003
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M. Cohen-Rengifo, R.E. Crafton, C. Hassenrück, E. Jankowska, S. Koenigstein, T.
Sandersfeld, M.S. Schmid, M. Schmidt, R. Simpson, R.M. Sheward, 2013, Module 1 Marine
Ecosystems and Climate Change. in: Dummermuth, A. and Grosfeld, K. (eds.): Climate
change in the marine realm : an international summer school in the framework of the
European Campus of Excellence , Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung = Reports on
polar and marine research, Bremerhaven, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine
Research, 662 , 75 p. . hdl:10013/epic.41554
On-going projects:
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Seagrass vegetation cover effect on biomass, biodiversity and food-web structure in
shallow coast of the Southern Baltic.
Professional interests:
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Seagrass meadows effects on sediment characteristics and biodiversity of benthic fauna.
Analyses of food-web structure using stable isotope and fatty acids.
Presentations/Posters:
Presentations:
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Emilia Jankowska, Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk "Seagrass meadows in Southern Baltic
Sea - seasonality and ecosystem engineering", August 2013, Baltic Sea Science
Congress, New Horizons for Baltic Sea Science, Klaipėda, Lithuania
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Emilia Jankowska "Ecosystem engineers in the southern Baltic Sea- seasonal changes in
eelgrass (Zostera marina) cover and its effects on sediment characteristics and zoobenthic
communities" March 2013, II Young Scentists Conference World Water Day
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Emilia Jankowska, "Underwater meadows in the Puck Bay- vegetation seasonality and its
influence on sediment characteristics and macrozoobenthos communities" November 2012,
XI Young Oceanographers Conference, Institute of Oceanography and Geography UG,
Gdynia
Posters:
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Emilia Jankowska, Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk, Lech Kotwicki, "Seagrass cover effects on
sediment characteristics in the Puck Bay (Southern Baltic)" September 2012, X
Anniversary Conference ,,Chemistry, Geochemistry and Marine Environmental Protection”
Institute of Oceanology PAS, Sopot
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Emilia Jankowska, Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk, Lech Kotwicki, "Seasonality in seagrass
(Zostera marina) cover effect on macrozoobenthic communities of the Puck Bay"
September 2012, 5th Russian-Polish School of Young Ecologists Organized by the Center
for Ecological Research PAS in Gdańsk
Participation in Baltic Science Festivals in Sopot, Gdynia and 16, 17 Science Picnic in
Warsaw (May, June 2011, 2012, 2013)
Research cruises:
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Baltic Sea, research cruise on r/v ''Oceania'' (May, August, November 2012, May 2013) within the scope of „Vistula River - the main supplier of suspensions to the Baltic Sea.
Transport and fate of terrygenic matter in the Gulf of Gdańsk” (project funded by NCN)experience in working on a research vessel, collecting benthos samples
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Baltic Sea, research cruise on r/v ''Oceania'' (March, October 2012) - as a part of
,,ChemSea" project (Chemical Munitions Search & Assessment, EU funded)- experience in
working on a research vessel, collecting benthos samples, working with aqustic equipment
(multi beam sonar, side sonar)
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Baltic Sea, research cruise on rfv ''Walther Herwig III'' (December 2011) - as a part of
,,ChemSea" project (Chemical Munitions Search & Assessment, EU funded)- experience in
working on a research vessel, collecting benthos samples, fish sampling and taxonomy
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North Atlantic, Greenland Sea, research cruise on r/v "Oceania" (July-August 2011) experience in working on a research vessel and collecting biological samples
Participation in courses/workshops:
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Course "Ecological Applications of Biomarkers in Aquatic Food Web Studies" Gent,
Belgium, organised by University of Gent (January 2013)
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Seminars ,,Use of statistics and data mining in sciences research" organised by StatSoft
Poland, Warsaw (October 2012)
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Training workshop ,,Analysis of variance" organized by StatSoft Poland, Krakow (October
2012)
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Course “Climate Change in the Marine Realm International Summer School in the ECE
framework” Westerland Sylt and Bremen (Germany) (September 2012)- funded by Stiftund
Mercator, organized by AWI.
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Workshop "ZOSTERA Reclamation of main ecosystem components of the inner Puck
Bay" Sopot (April 2011)
Volunteery work:
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Work in project „Vistula River - the main supplier of suspensions to the Baltic Sea.
Transport and fate of terrygenic matter in the Gulf of Gdańsk” (2012) -experience in
samples collection, taxonomic analysis of meio- and macrofauna
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Work in ,,NaGISA" project (Natural Geography in Shore Areas, a part of Census of Marine
Life) (2010) -experience in samples collection, taxonomic analysis of meio and macrofauna
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Work in Gdynia Aquarium as a volunteer (2007-2009)- aquarium and educational section