Dr Joanna Przytarska

Department of Marine Ecology
Institute of Oceanology PAS
Powstancow Warszawy 55
81-712 Sopot
POLAND
tel: (+ 48 58) 731 17 80
fax: (+ 48 58) 551 21 30
e-mail: jprzytarska[at]iopan.gda.pl




Education:

  • From October 2006 PhD in earth sciences, minor: oceanography; Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland.Dissertation: Changes in the marine environment conditions in front of the Hornsund Fjord - palooceanographic record of climate change in the European Arctic during the last 13750 yr BP.Supervisor: Dr hab. Marek Zajączkowski, prof. IOPAN.
  • October 2001 - June 2006 M. Sc., University of Gdansk, Faculty of Biology, Geography and Oceanology, Gdynia, Poland, major: oceanography, minor: marine biology.Dissertation: Assessment of trace metal status in the European coastal ecosystems, using the monitoring value of mussels Mytilus.Supervisor: Dr hab. Adam Sokołowski, prof. UG
Workshops and courses:
  • January - February 2010 Participant in the workshop on writing grant applications in the international team "Marine biodiversity under change" organized by ARCTOS PhD School in Tromso, Norway.
  • December 2009 Participant in the statistical course program CANOCO organized by ALKEKONGE (grant from Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism), Sopot, Poland.
  • November 2009 Participant in the statistical course program STATISTICA organized by ALKEKONGE (grant from Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism), Sopot, Poland.
  • September 2009 Participant in the workshop "Arctic Marine Methods and Paleoproxies (WAM2P)" organized by University of Tromso, Norway.
  • April 2009 Participant in the "2nd International Course on Benthic Foraminifera" organized by Department of Earth Sciences, University of Urbino, Italy.

Projects:

  • From May 2010 The contractor in the grant "Ocean circulations and the climate changes in Europe: paleoceanographic records
    of Younger Dryas and Event 8800 14C BP".
  • From June 2009 The contractor in the grant BONUS-AMBER - Assessment and Modeling of Baltic Ecosystem Response.
  • From November 2008 The contractor in the grant "Biodiversity of arctic marine ecosystems in climate changing during the last 4 000 years. Adapting the new paleooceanographic analysis (WARMPAST)" undertaken by the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, under the direction of dr hab. MarekZajączkowski.
  • 2005 The contractor in the grant COSA - Coastal Sands as Biocatalytical Filters.
  • 2004 - 2006 The contractor in the grant BioCoMBE - The Impact of Biodiversity changes in Coastal Marine Benthic Ecosystems

Research cruises:

  • August 2009 Research cruise on the ship R/Y Oceania to the Svalbardbanken area, Barents Sea, as a part of the projects: Arctic Seas Biodiversity: Bank biodiversity and production; contract no. Akvaplan-niva/W23/2008 and Modeling benthic consumption, advection, and carbon subsidies in the Barents Sea; contract no. Bankmod/W27/2008.
  • July - August 2008 Expedition ARK- XXIII/2 on the ship R/V Polarstern to the Fram Strait area, located between Greenland and Spitsbergen and the Northeast Water Polynya at the northeastern tip of Greenland.
  • July - August 2007 Research cruise on the ship R/Y Oceania to the Spitsbergen fjords area, Svalbard
  • February 2006 Research cruise on the ship R/Y Oceania over the Baltic Sea.


Laboratory and field work:

  • R/Y OCEANIA cruises Taking samples from the Arctic fjords (box corer, multiple corer, trawl, Van Venn grab, epibenthic sledge, Niemisto sediment corer, camera and video recording system) and permeability of sediments in the Barents Sea
  • BONUS-AMBER project Permeability of sediments in the Baltic Sea
  • POLARSTERN cruise Taking deep sea samples (box corer, multiple corer, trawl)
  • WARMPAST project Taxonomy of benthic Foraminifera from Arctic area
  • COSA project Granulometry, taxonomy of the macrofauna and meiofauna, taking samples from the Baltic coastal zone.
  • BioCoMBE project Measurement of trace metals concentration by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometr

Conferences and Symposia:

  • September 2010 Participant in the conference "FORAMS 2010 - International Symposium on Foraminifera", Bonn, Germany. Poster presentation: "Paleoenvironmental and paleoecological reconstructions of marine conditions during the last 13 750 calyr BP in the European Arctic (Hornsund, Spitsbergen)", Przytarska J.E.
  • January 2010 Chairman of the session "Marine Biodiversity under change" at the "Arctic Frontiers 2010 - Living in the High North" conference in Tromso, Norway and poster presentation: "Biodiversity of foraminifera as a key to the past environmental conditions" - paleoceanographic record of environmental changes (Hornsund, Spitsbergen), Przytarska J.E.
  • March 2007 6th International Conference on Molluscan Shellfish Safety, Blenheim in New Zealand. Poster presentation: "Large-scale geographical survey of trace metal bioavailabilities in the European coastal waters using mussels (Mytilus complex) as biomonitors" Sokołowski A., Przytarska J., Wołowicz M., Hummel H.
  • October 2006 5th Symposium of Young Oceanographers, organized by Faculty of Biology, Geography and Oceanology, University of Gdansk in Gdynia, Poland. Oral presentation: "Assessment of trace metals status in the European coastal ecosystems, using the monitoring value of mussels Mytilus".

Publications:

  • Przytarska, J.E., Sokołowski, A., Wołowicz, M., Hummel, H., Jansen, J., 2010. Comparison of trace metal bioavailabilities in European coastal waters using mussels from Mytilusedulis complex as biomonitors. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 166: 461 - 476.
  • Przytarska J.E., Sokołowski A., 2011. Mussels as a tool in metal pollution biomonitoring - current status and perspectives. In: Mussels: Anatomy, Habitat and Environmental Impact. Nova Science Publishers, USA,Chapter 16: 379-394, ISBN: 978-1-61761-763-8.




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