Agnieszka Jędruch E-mail: ajedruch@iopan.pl

• 2018-2019 Postgraduate studies
  University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography
  Field: Geographic Information System (GIS) | Specialty: GIS Analyst
• 2012-2019 PhD studies
  University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography
  Field: Natural sciences | Discipline: Earth and related environmental sciences
  Thesis: Accumulation of mercury in the macrozoobenthic fauna of the coastal zone of the Gulf of Gdańsk
• 2010-2012 MSc studies
  University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography
  Field: Oceanography | Specialty: Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry
• 2007-2010 BSc studies
  University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography
  Field: Oceanography | Specialty: Marine Geology

• Aquatic biogeochemistry
• Trophodynamic of mercury and other trace elements in a marine food chain
• Impact of natural and anthropogenic stressors on environmental mercury and other pollutants
• Exchange of pollutants at the sediment-water and water-atmosphere interfaces
• Science-policy integration in a changing world

• MUNIMAP EU Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme ‘Baltic Sea Munitions Remediation Roadmap’ – participant
• MerABO NCN PRELUDIUM 20 – Mercury accumulation in benthic organisms from polar regions – participant
• MINIMA NCN OPUS 17 – Benthic organisms as indicators of mercury sources in the coastal zone of Antarctica (Admiralty Bay) – participant
• PRIMER NCN OPUS 23 ‘Primary producers as a key entry point of historical and present-day mercury into the estuarine trophic web’ – participant
• EROVMUS NCBiR MarTera ERA-NET Cofund ‘Enhanced Remote Operated Vehicle interface for MUnition Studies’ – participant
• AMMOTRACE NCBiR MarTera ERA-NET Cofund ‘AMMunitiOn exploration by surface- and underwater-based laser mass spectrometric TRACing tEchnology’ – participant
• ProBaNNt NCBiR MarTera ERA-NET Cofund ‘Professional intelligent ammunition assessment using 3D reconstruction and Bayesian neural networks’ – participant
• CONTRA EU Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme ‘Baltic Beach Wrack: COnversion of a Nuisance To a Resource and Asset’ – participant
• LAMB NCN PRELUDIUM 16 ‘Trophic transfer of labile mercury in benthic communities of a temperate marine ecosystem’ – principal investigator
• UG mini grant ‘Labile and stable forms of mercury in the benthic macrofauna of the coastal zone of the Puck Bay’ – principal investigator
• FitFood PRELUDIUM 8 ‘Evaluation of the effect of seagrass meadows recovery on the functioning of the coastal ecosystem of the southern Baltic’ – participant
• RECLAIM NCN OPUS 7 „Remobilization of mercury from land to the sea due to intense meteorological-hydrological phenomena’ – participant
• UG mini grant ‘Reemission from macrophytobenthos as an additional source of mercury in the marine coastal zone’ – principal investigator
• NCN OPUS 1 ‘Mercury in the marine environment on the background of weather anomalies’ – participant
• WISLA NCN OPUS 1 ‘Vistula – the main supplier of suspended matter to the Baltic Sea. Transport and fate of terrigenous material in the Gulf of Gdańsk’ – participant
• CHEMSEA EU Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme ‘Chemical Munition Search and Assessment’ – participant

• Korejwo E., Panasiuk A., Wawrzynek-Borejko J., Jędruch A., Bełdowski J., Paturej A., Bełdowska M., 2023. Mercury concentrations in Antarctic zooplankton with a focus on the krill species, Euphausia superba. Science of the Total Environment 905, 167239. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167239
• Kwasigroch U., Łukawska-Matuszewska K., Jędruch A., Brocławik O., Bełdowska M., 2023. Mobility and bioavailability of mercury in sediments of the southern Baltic Sea in relation to the chemical fractions of iron: Spatial and temporal patterns. Marine Environmental Research 191, 106132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.106132
• Jędruch A., Falkowska L., Saniewska D., Grajewska A., Bełdowska M., Meissner W., Kalisińska E., Duzinkiewicz K., Pacyna J.M., 2023. Mercury in the Polish part of the Baltic Sea: A response to decreased atmospheric deposition and changing environment. Marine Pollution Bulletin 186, 114426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114426
• Graca B., Jędruch A., Bełdowska M., Bełdowski J., Kotwicki L., Siedlewicz G., Korejwo E., Popińska W., Łukawska-Matuszewska K., 2022. Effects of beach wrack on the fate of mercury at the land-sea interface – a preliminary study. Environmental Pollution 315, 120394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120394
• Bełdowska M., Bełdowski J., Kwasigroch U., Szubska M., Jędruch A., 2022. Coastal cliff erosion as a source of toxic, essential, and nonessential metals in the marine environment. Oceanologia 64, 553-566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2022.04.001
• Bełdowska M., Jędruch A., Sieńska D., Chwiałkowski W., Magnuszewski A., Kornijów R., 2021. The impact of sediment, fresh and marine water on the concentration of chemical elements in water of ice-covered lagoon. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28, 61189-61200. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14936-w
• Sokołowski A., Jankowska E., Bałazy P., Jędruch A., 2021. Distribution and extent of benthic habitats in Puck Bay (Gulf of Gdańsk, southern Baltic Sea). Oceanologia 63, 301-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2021.03.001
• Jędruch A., Falkowska L., Saniewska D., Durkalec M., Nawrocka A., Kalisińska E., Kowalski A., Pacyna J.M., 2021. Status and trends of mercury pollution of the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems in Poland. Ambio 50, 1698-1717. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01505-1
• Kwasigroch U., Bełdowska M., Jędruch A., Łukawska-Matuszewska K., 2021. Distribution and bioavailability of mercury in the surface sediments of the Baltic Sea. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28, 35690-35708. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-13023-4
• Jędruch A., Bełdowska M., 2020. Mercury forms in the benthic food web of a temperate coastal lagoon (southern Baltic Sea). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 153, 110968. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.110968
• Jędruch A., Bełdowska M., Kwasigroch U., 2019. Forms of mercury in the Baltic mussel (Mytilus trossulus): Human and ecosystem health risk assessment. Environmental Research, 179, 108755. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2019.108755
• Jędruch A., Bełdowska M., Ziółkowska M., 2019. The role of benthic macrofauna in the trophic transfer of mercury in a low-diversity temperate coastal ecosystem (Puck Lagoon, southern Baltic Sea). Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 191, 137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-019-7257-y
• Jędruch A., Bełdowska M., Kwasigroch U., Normant-Saremba M., Saniewska D., 2018. Mercury fractionation in marine macrofauna using thermodesorption technique: Method and its application. Talanta, 189, 534-542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2018.07.047
• Jędruch A., Bełdowska M., Graca B., 2018. Seasonal variation in accumulation of mercury in the benthic macrofauna in a temperate coastal zone (Gulf of Gdańsk). Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 160, 305-316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2018.08.040
• Kwasigroch U., Bełdowska M., Jędruch A., Saniewska D., 2018. Coastal erosion – a ‘new’ land-based source of labile mercury to the marine environment. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 25, 28682-28694. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-2856-7
• Jędruch A., Kwasigroch U., Bełdowska M., Kuliński K., 2017. Mercury in suspended matter – origin, distribution and transport at the land-sea interface. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 118, 354-367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.03.019
• Bełdowska M., Jędruch A., Łęczyński L., Saniewska D., Kwasigroch U., 2016. Coastal erosion as a source of mercury into the marine environment along the Polish Baltic shore. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 23, 16372-16382. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-016-6753-7
• Bełdowska M., Jędruch A., Zgrundo M., Ziółkowska M., Graca B., Gębka K., 2016. The influence of cold season warming on the mercury pool in coastal benthic organisms. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 171, 99-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2016.01.033
• Jędruch A., Bełdowski J., Bełdowska M., 2015. Long-term changes and distribution of mercury concentration in surface sediments of the Gdansk Basin (Southern Baltic Sea). Journal of Soils and Sediments, 15, 2487-2497. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-015-1148-9
• Bełdowska M., Jędruch A., Słupkowska J., Saniewska D., Saniewski M., 2015. Macrophyta as a vector of contemporary and historical mercury from the marine environment to the trophic web. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 22, 5228-5240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-014-4003-4
• Saniewska D., Bełdowska M., Bełdowski J., Jędruch A., Saniewski M., Falkowska L., 2014. Mercury loads into sea associated with extreme flood. Environmental Pollution, 191, 93-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2014.04.003

• Bełdowska M., Jędruch A., Saniewska D., 2022. Rtęć jako najbardziej toksyczny metal w Zatoce Puckiej. W: Bolałek J., Burska D. (red.), Zatoka Pucka. Tom II Aspekty chemiczne. Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 182-211.
• Jędruch A., 2022. Trophic transfer of mercury in a temperate marine food web, southern Baltic Sea. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Environmental Pollution, Treatment and Protection, 10-12.04.2022, Virtual conference, 173. https://doi.org/10.11159/iceptp22.173
• Jędruch A., Bełdowska M., 2016. Mercury in the zoobenthos of the coastal zone of the Puck Bay (southern Baltic Sea). Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, 12-15.09.2016, Ghent. Open Journal Systems.
• Kwasigroch U., Bełdowska M., Jędruch A., Łęczyński L., Szubska M., Bełdowski J., 2016. Concentrations and loads of metals (V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn, As, Rb, Y, Zr) from the cliff erosion to the Gulf of Gdansk. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, 12-15.09.2016, Ghent. Open Journal Systems.
• Jędruch A., 2014. Wpływ zmian klimatycznych na dopływ i obieg zanieczyszczeń w Morzu Bałtyckim. W: Kuczera M. (red.), Wpływ młodych naukowców na osiągnięcia polskiej nauki. Kraków: Creativetime, 12-14.
• Bełdowska M., Jędruch A., Bełdowski J., Szubska M., Kobos J., Mudrak-Cegiołka S., Graca B., Zgrundo A., Ziółkowska M., Kiełczewska J., Lewandowska E., Wąsowska K., Falkowska L., 2013. Rtęć w strefie brzegowej Zatoki Puckiej (południowy Bałtyk). W: Falkowska L. (red.), Rtęć w środowisku – Identyfikacja zagrożeń dla zdrowia człowieka. Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 97-103.
• Jędruch A., Bełdowska M., Falkowska L., 2013. Rtęć całkowita w osadach powierzchniowych Zatoki Gdańskiej. W: Falkowska L. (red.), Rtęć w środowisku – Identyfikacja zagrożeń dla zdrowia człowieka. Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 105-110.
• Mudrak-Cegiołka S., Bełdowska M., Jędruch A., 2013. Zooplankton w badaniach rtęci w strefie przybrzeżnej Zatoki Gdańskiej. W: Falkowska L. (red.), Rtęć w środowisku – Identyfikacja zagrożeń dla zdrowia człowieka. Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 165-170.
• Bełdowska M., Jędruch A., Bełdowski J., Szubska M., 2013. Mercury concentration in the sediments as a function of changing climate in coastal zone of Southern Baltic Sea – preliminary results. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, 22-27.09.2012, Rome. E3S Web of Conferences, 1, 06002. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20130106002

• Award of the Gdańsk Scientific Society and the Mayor of Gdańsk to young scientists for outstanding scientific achievements in the area of Earth sciences in 2019 for doctoral dissertation ‘Accumulation of mercury in the macrozoobenthic fauna of the coastal zone of the Gulf of Gdańsk’ (03.2020)
• Recognition of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Oceanography of the University of Gdańsk for doctoral dissertation ‘Accumulation of mercury in the macrozoobenthic fauna of the coastal zone of the Gulf of Gdańsk’ (06.2019)
• Award of the Gdańsk Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences for young scientists for the best publication in the area of exact and Earth sciences from 2017 for article ‘Mercury in suspended matter – origin, distribution and transport at the land-sea interface’ from Marine Pollution Bulletin (06.2018)

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