cycling of biogenic elements in the marine environment
carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus budget
CO2 system
Projects
Detect2Protect (D2P) — New approaches in determining the impacts of chemical pollution to protect the biodiversity of the Baltic Sea, 2023-2026, investigator
RAW — retreat and wither" — what is the influence of glaciers recession from tidewater to land-based on the marine biological production and biogeochemistry in the arctic?, 2021-2024, investigator
PROSPECTOR — do Permafrost-Released OrganicS amPlify ocEan aCidificaTiOn in the aRctic? National Science Center, 2020–2024, investigator
CLIMB — Climate change impacts on structure and functioning of benthic communities at the fjord-shelf boundary hotspots, 2020-2023, investigator
Impact of melting Arctic glaciers on the CO2 system and seawater pH in the adjacent fjords (Spitsbergen), The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange — The Bekker Programme, 2020 – 2021, project leader
COmEBACk — Coastal Ecosystem functioning under different antropogenic pressure — linking Benthic communities And biogeochemical Cycling in the southern Baltic Sea, Polish National Science Centre SONATA BIS 2017/26/E/NZ8/00496, 2018 – 2022, investigator
CONTRAST — The cycling of biogenic elements in the marine environment. Determination the efficiency of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus burial rate of bottom sediments in two fjords of the West Spitsbergen (Hornsund and Kongsfjord), Polish National Science Centre PRELUDIUM 2015/19/N/ST10/01652, 2016 – 2018, project leader
Publications
Koziorowska-Makuch K., Szymczycha B., Thomas H., Kuliński K., 2023, The Marine Carbonate System Variability In High Meltwater Season (Spitsbergen Fjords, Svalbard), Progress in Oceanography, 102977, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.102977
Borawska Z., Szymczycha B., Silberberger M.J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Szczepanek M., Kędra M., 2022, Benthic fluxes of dissolved silica are an important component of the marine Si cycle in the coastal zone, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Volume 273, art. 107880, ISSN 0272-7714, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2022.107880.
Cui X., Mucci A., Bianchi T.S., He D., Vaughn D., Williams E.K., Wang C., Smeaton C., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Faust J.C., Plante A.F., Rosenheim B.E., 2022, Global fjords as transitory reservoirs of labile organic carbon modulated by organo-mineral interactions, Science Advances, Vol 8, Issue 46, pages Pages eadd0610, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add0610
Silberberger M. J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Borawska Z., Szczepanek M., Kędra M., 2022, Disentangling the Drivers of Benthic Oxygen and Dissolved Carbon Fluxes in the Coastal Zone of the Southern Baltic Sea, Estuaries and Coasts, 45 (8), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-022-01074-w
Szczepanek M., Silberberger M. J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Kędra M., 2022, Utilization of riverine organic matter by macrobenthic communities in a temperate prodelta, Front. Mar. Sci., Sec. Marine Ecosystem Ecology, 9:974539. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.974539
Silberberger M. J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Kuliński K., 2021, Kędra M., Stable isotope mixing models are biased by the choice of sample preservation and pre-treatment: implications for studies of aquatic food webs, Front Mar Sci 2021, 7. DOI:10.3389/fmars.2020.621978
Szczepanek M., Silberberger M. J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Nobili E., Kędra M., 2021, The response of coastal macrobenthic food-web structure to seasonal and regional variability in organic matter properties, Ecological Indicators, 132(1689):108326. DOI:10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108326
Szymańska N. K., Łącka M., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Kuliński K., Pawłowska J., Kujawa A., Telesiński M., Zajączkowski M., 2021, Foraminifera‐derived carbon contribution to sedimentary inorganic carbon pool: A case study from three Norwegian fjords, Geobiology, 19 (1). DOI:10.1111/gbi.12460
Bianchi T.S., Arndt S., Austin W.E.N, Benn D.I., Bertrand S., Cui X., Faust J.C., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Moy C.M., Savage C., Smeaton C., Smith R.W., Syvitski J., 2020. Fjords as Aquatic Critical Zones (ACZs). Earth-Science Reviews, 203, 103145.
Kuliński K., Szymczycha B., Koziorowska K., Hammer K., Schneider B. 2018. Anomaly of total boron concentration in the brackish waters of the Baltic Sea and its consequence for the CO2 system calculations. Marine Chemistry 204: 11-19, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2018.05.007.
Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J. 2018. Deposition, return flux, and burial rates of nitrogen and phosphorus in the sediments of two high-Arctic fjords. Oceanologia 60 (4): 431-445, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2018.05.001.
Pacyna A., Koziorowska K., Chmiel S., Mazerski J., Polkowska Ż. 2018. Svalbard reindeer as an indicator of ecosystem changes in the Arctic terrestrial ecosystem. Chemosphere 203: 209-218, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.03.158.
Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J. 2018. Comparison of the burial rate estimation methods of organic and inorganic carbon and quantification of carbon burial in two high Arctic fjords. Oceanologia 60 (3): 405-418, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2018.02.005.
Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J. 2017. Distribution and origin of inorganic and organic carbon in the sediments of Kongsfjorden, northwest Spitsbergen, European Arctic. Continental Shelf Research 150: 27-35, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2017.08.023.
Pawłowska J., Łącka M., Kucharska M., Szymańska N., Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Zajączkowski M. 2017. Benthic foraminifera contribution to fjord modern carbon pools: A seasonal study in Adventfjorden, Spitsbergen. Geobiology 15 (5): 704-714, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12242.
Szymczycha B., Winogradow A., Kuliński K., Koziorowska K., Pempkowiak J. 2017. Diurnal and seasonal DOC and POC variability in the land-locked sea. Oceanologia 59 (3): 379-388, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2017.03.008.
Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J. 2016. Sedimentary organic matter in two Spitsbergen fjords: terrestrial and marine contribution based on carbon and nitrogen contents and stable isotopes composition. Continental Shelf Research 113: 38-46, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2015.11.010.
Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J. 2016. Accuracy and precision of selected analytical methods used in marine geochemical studies. Inżynieria Morska i Geotechnika 3: 123-129.
Awards
Scholarship START 2019 funded by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), Poland, 2019
Award for an outstanding presentation presented by a young scientist during the 1st Scientific Conference of Polish Sea Researchers 2017, Sopot
Award for an outstanding poster presentation at the 11th Conference "Chemia, Geochemia i Ochrona Środowiska Morskiego ", 2015, Sopot.