PhD Kasia Grzelak Department of Marine Ecology Institute of Oceanology PAN Powstańców Warszawy 55 81-712 Sopot, POLAND tel: (+ 48 58) 731 17 83 fax: (+ 48 58) 551 21 30 e-mail: kgrzelak[at]iopan.gda.pl

C.V.

2016-2019	post-doctoral researcher, University of Łódź, Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Hydrobiology
since 2015	research scientist, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences
2015	PhD, Institute of Oceanology PAN
2013-2015	research assistant, Institute of Oceanology PAN, Sopot
2011-2013	oceanographer, Institute of Oceanology PAN, Sopot
2007- 2012	PhD studies, Institute of Oceanology, PAN
2007	MSc at the University of Gdańsk

Main scientific interests

• Ecology of meiofauna
• Taxonomy, ecology and biogeography of free-living marine Nematoda and Arctic Kinorhyncha

Projects (last 5 years)

2016-2019	Nematodes in different sea ice regime in the Arctic Ocean- structural, functional and genetic aspects project founded by the National Science Centre - principal investigator
2014-2015	Sub-seabed CO2 storage: impact on marine ecosystems project founded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme - investigator
2013-2015	Face2Face: From benthos-dominated to zooplankton dominated-mode: two faces of the Arctic fjords project founded by the National Science Centre - investigator
2011-2015	Diversity of Nematoda from deep-sea subarctic Atlantic Ocean (Fram Strait) project founded by the National Science Centre - principal investigator
2011-2014	CHEMSEA: Chemical Munitions, Search and Assessment roject founded by the EU Baltic Sea Region Programme - investigator

Awards and fellowships

2019-2020	Fulbright Senior Award scholarship for conducting research at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA
2017-2020	Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists, Ministry of Science and Higher Education
2016	Kosciuszko Foundation Award for conducting research at Stony Brook - University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS), Long Island, USA
2016-2017	beneficent of three research fellowships SYNTHESYS (The European Union-funded Integrated Infrastructure Initiative grant)
	Natural History Museum of Denmark University of Copenhagen (DK-TAF-6523) Senckenberg Research Institute German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research (DE-TAF-6464) Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen (DK-TAF-5319)
2015	Senckenberg Research Institute German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research Wilhelmshaven - Germany
2012	Ghent University - Marine Biology Research Group - Belgium fellowship funded by FNRS and FWO

Training courses

2018	Metabarcoding of Trophic Interactions - University of Innsbruck - Austria
2015	The Senckenberg Course in Taxonomy and Systematics‘ - Drezno - Germany
2013	MeioScool2013: Meiofauna International Workshop - Brest - France
2012	Summer School organized by Doctoral School of Natural Science and of (Bioscience) Engineering, Ghent University ‘Nematodes as Environmental Bio-Indicators’ - Gent - Belgium
2011	PERMANOVA course· Plymouth - Great Britain
2010	’Numerical methods in ecology’ statistical course - Toruń - Poland
2009	STATISTICA and CANOCO course - Sopot - Poland
2009	PRIMER course - Plymouth - Great Britain
2008	‘Experimental design and data analysis for marine biology’ - Sven Loven Centre for Marine Science - Tjärnö - Sweden
2007	MANUELA Workshop- Sampling and Laboratory Techniques in Meiobenthology - Wilhelmshaven - Germany
2006	Summer school on ‘Diversity of Coastal Habitats’ - Sylt-Helgoland - Germany

Publications peer-reviewed

• Grzelak K., Sørensen M.V., Diversity and community structure of kinorhynchs around Svalbard: first insights into spatial patterns and environmental drivers. Zoologischer Anzeiger, in review
• Grzelak K., Sørensen M.V., 2019. Diversity and distribution of Arctic Echinoderes species (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida), with the description of one new species and a redescription of E. arlis, Higgins 1966. Marine Biodiversity; in press, DOI: 10.1007/s12526-018-0889-2
• Sørensen M.V., Grzelak K., 2018. New mud dragons from Svalbard: three new species of Cristaphyes and the first Arctic species of Pycnophyes (Kinorhyncha: Allomalorhagida: Pycnophyidae). PeerJ 6:e5653; DOI 10.7717/peerj.5653
• Yamasaki H., Grzelak K., Sørensen M.V, Neuhaus B., Horst George K., 2018. Echinoderes pterus sp. nov. showing a geographically and bathymetrically wide distribution pattern on seamounts and on the deep-sea floor in the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida). Zookeys 771, 15-40, DOI:/doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.771.25534
• Grzelak K., Tamborski J., Kotwicki L., Bokuniewicz H., 2018. Ecostructuring of marine nematode communities by submarine groundwater discharge. Marine Environmental Research 136, 106-119
• Grzelak K., Sørensen M.V., 2018. New species of Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) from Spitsbergen, with additional information about known Arctic species. Marine Biology Research 14, 113-147
• Kotwicki L., Grzelak K., Opaliński K., Węsławski J.M., 2018. Total benthic oxygen uptake in two Arctic fjords (Spitsbergen) with different hydrological regimes. Oceanologia 60, 107-113
• Lang T., Kotwicki L., Czub M., Grzelak K., Weirup L., Straumer K., 2018. The health status of fish and benthos communities in chemical munitions dumpsites in the Baltic sea. In book: Towards the Monitoring of Dumped Munitions Threat (MODUM). NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security, 129-152
• Grzelak, K., Kotwicki, L., Hasemann, C., Soltwedel, T., 2017. Bathymetric patterns in standing stock and diversity of deep-sea nematodes at the long-term ecological research observatory HAUSGARTEN (Fram Strait). Journal of Marine Systems 172, 160-177
• Węsławski, J.M., Urbanski, J., Gluchowska, M., Grzelak, K., Kotwicki, L., Kwasniewski, S., Legezynska, J., Wiktor, J, Wlodarska-Kowalczuk, M., Zaborska, A., Zajaczkowski, M., Stempniewicz, L., 2017. Can seabirds modify carbon burial in fjords? Oceanologia 59, 603-611
• Grzelak, K., Gluchowska, M., Gregorczyk, K., Winogradow, A., Węsławski, J.M., 2016. Nematode biomass and morphometric attributes as biological indicators of local environmental conditions in Arctic fjords. Ecological Indicators 69, 368-380
• Grzelak K., Kotwicki L., 2016. Halomonhystera disjuncta- a young-carrying nematode first observed for the Baltic Sea in deep basins within chemical munitions disposal sites. Deep-Sea Research II 128, 131-135
• Soltwedel, T., Bauerfeind, E., Bergmann, M., Bracher, A., Budaeva, N., Busch, K., Cherkasheva, A., Fahl, K., Grzelak, K., Hasemann, C., Jacob, M. et al. 2016. Natural variability or anthropogenically-induced variation? Insights from 15 years of multidisciplinary observations at the arctic marine LTER site HAUSGARTEN. Ecological Indicators 65, 89-102
• Kotwicki L., Grzelak K*., Bełdowski J., 2016. Benthic communities in chemical munitions dumping site area within the Baltic deeps with special focus on nematodes. Deep-Sea Research II 128, 123-130 (*corresponding author)
• Bełdowski J., Klusek Z., Szubska M., Turja R., Bulczak A.I., Rak D., Brenner M., Lang T., Kotwicki L., Grzelak K., Jakacki J., Fricke N. et al., 2016. Chemical Munitions Search & Assessment- an evaluation of the dumped munitions problem in the Baltic Sea. Deep-Sea Research II 128, 58-95
• Zawierucha K., Grzelak K., Kotwicki L., Kaczmarek Ł., Kristensen R.M., 2015. First observation of marine tardigrades Batillipes mirus and Batillipes noerrevangi (Arthrotardigrada, Batillipedidae) from strongly brackish part of Polish Baltic Sea coast. Marine Biology Research 11(8) DOI10.1080/17451000.2015.1024133
• Orchowska M., Grzelak K., Kuklinski P., 2015. Rock encrusting assemblages: structure and distribution along the Baltic Sea. Journal of Sea Research 103, 24-31
• Górska B., Grzelak K*., Kotwicki L., Hasemann C., Schewe I., Soltwedel T., Wlodarska-Kowalczuk M., 2014. Bathymetric variations in vertical distribution patterns of meiofauna in the surface sediments of the deep Arctic Ocean (HAUSGARTEN, Fram Strait). Deep-Sea Research I 91, 36-49 (corresponding author)
• Kotwicki L., Deidun A., Grzelak K., Gianni F., 2014. A preliminary comparative assessment of the meiofaunal communities of Maltese pocket sandy beaches. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 150, 111-119
• Kolicka M., Kisielewski, J. Kotwicki L., Zawierucha K., Grzelak K., 2014. Checklist of Gastrotricha of the Polish Baltic Sea with the first reports of Heterolepidoderma joermungandri Kånneby, 2011, and Turbanella hyalina Schultze, 1853. Zootaxa 3869 (2), 101-130
• Grzelak K., Szczucinski W., Kotwicki L., Sugawara D., 2014. Ecological status of sandy beaches after tsunami events: Insights from meiofauna investigations after the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami, Sendai Bay, Japan. Tsunami Events and Lessons Learned, Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research 35, 177-191
• Kotwicki L., Grzelak K., Czub M., Dellwig O., Gentz T., Szymczycha B., Böttcher M.E., 2014. Submarine groundwater discharge to the Baltic coastal zone: Impacts on the meiofauna community. Journal of Marine Systems 129, 118-126
• Zawierucha K., Grzelak K., Kotwicki L., Michalczyk L., Kaczmarek L., 2013. Batillipes pennaki Marcus, 1946, a new addition to the Thai tardigrade fauna, with an overview of literature on the species. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 45(3), 801-808
• Grzelak K., Kotwicki L., 2012. Meiofaunal distribution in Hornsund fjord, Spitsbergen. Polar Biology 35,269-280
• Grzelak K., Kuklinski P., 2010. Benthic assemblages associated with rocks in a brackish environment of the southern Baltic Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 90 (1), 115-124
• Grzelak K., Kotwicki L., Szczucinski W., 2009. Monitoring (2005-2008) of sandy beach meiofaunal assemblages and sediments in Thailand after 2004 tsunami event. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies 18 (1), 43-51