Katarzyna Melaniuk

Laboratory of Environmental DNA
Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences

Powstańców Warszawy 55
81-712 Sopot
Poland

e-mail: kmelaniuk@iopan.pl
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katarzyna-Melaniuk


EDUCATION
2015-2021Ph.D. candidate in Marine Geology; Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE) – Norwegian Centre of Excellence, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
Dissertation: Assessing the relationship between living foraminifera and methane emissions in the Arctic Ocean.
June-July 2018Exchange student; The University Centre of Svalbard (UNIS, Svalbard)
2012-2014MSc in Environmental Biology; Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland) in collaboration with Institute of Oceanography of the Polish Academy of Science (Sopot, Poland).
Thesis: Carbon and oxygen stable isotopes in benthic foraminifera tests as a tool in oceanographic reconstruction over the last 250 years Hornsund Fjord (Spitsbergen, Svalbard).
January-June 2012Erasmus Exchange Program; Aarhus University (Denmark).
Assessment: Palaeoceanography and climate change off North Iceland during the mid to late Holocene: benthic foraminifera in core MD99-2272.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023-presentPostdoc at Department of Paleoceanography Laboratory of Environmental DNA, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences
February-March 2023Senior Advisor in external research funding (EU)¸UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
September 2017-April 2018Visiting researcher; Geology & Geophysics Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, (WHOI, USA).
PROJECTS
2023-2025Multiproxy reconstruction of the variability of the East Greenland Current during the last 150 000 years (REHEAT). PLONEZ BIS 3 No. 2022/47/P/ST10/03110; Project is co-funded by the National Science Centre and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 945339.
Position: principal investigator.
TEACHING & ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
January-November 2022Researcher/Lecturer Marine Micropaleontology and Reconstructing Quaternary Marine Climate and Environments; Department of Geosciences, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
September-November 2021Lecturer Marine Micropaleontology and Reconstructing Quaternary Marine Climate and Environments; Department of Geosciences, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway;
September-November 2018Teaching assistant Reconstructing Quaternary Marine Climate and Environments; Department of Geosciences, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2023
2017		Travel grant funded by The Norwegian Research School in Climate Dynamics (ResClim; Norway); 15 000NOK
2016Loeblich and Tappan Student Research Award funded by The Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research (USA); 2 000 USD
2016Research grant for courses and education funded by UiT (Norway); 10 000 NOK
2014Annual Rector Scholarship funded by Adam Mickiewicz University received for high academic achievements
SCIENTIFIC CRUISE
2022
2021		2-days teaching cruise Reconstructing Quaternary Marine Climate and Environments and Marine Micropaleontology to Norwegian Sea; R/V Helmer Hanssen
20183-days teaching cruise Reconstructing Quaternary Marine Climate and Environments and Marine Micropaleontology to Norwegian Sea; R/V Helmer Hanssen
2017ROV-based geological, geochemical, and biological investigation of canyons along the Lofoten margin; aboard R/V G.O. Sars
2017Gas hydrate deposits and methane seepages in Storfjordrenna, Northern Flank of Olga Basin, and West Sentral banken (Barents Sea): Biochemical and biological investigations; R/V Helmer Hanssen
2016ROV-based geological and biological investigations of methane seeps at Prins Karls Forland, Storfjordrenna Pingos and Bjørnøyrenna Craters aboard R/V Helmer Hanssen
PUBLICATIONS
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