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ParticipantsDr Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk (IO PAS)Prof. Hans Petter Leinaas (UiO) Prof. Dag Olav Hessen (UiO) Dr Martin-A. Svenning (NINA) Dr Paul Renaud (APN NIVA) Dr Sławomir Kwaśniewski (IO PAS) Dr Joanna Pawłowska (IO PAS) Prof. Jan Marcin Węsławski (IO PAS) Dr Katarzyna Błachowiak-Samołyk (IO PAS) Barbara Górska (IO PAS) Dr Piotr Kukliński (IO PAS) Dr Joanna Legeżyńska (IO PAS) Mikołaj Mazurkiewicz (IO PAS) Joanna Piwowarczyk (IO PAS) Dr Anna Stępień (IO PAS) Dr Emilia Trudnowska (IO PAS) Dr Marek Zajączkowski (IO PAS) Krzysztof Zawierucha (University in Poznań) Kristian Alfsnes (UiO) Dr Magdalena Łącka (IO PAS) Dr Agata Zaborska (IO PAS) Partner Institutions:IO PAS - Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of SciencesUniversity of Oslo (UiO) Akvaplan-niva (APN) Norwegian Institute of Nature Research (NINA) |
Sławomir Kwaśniewski
Sławomir Kwaśniewski is a researcher at the Department of Marine Ecology at the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (IO PAS). He is the head of the Plankton Ecology Laboratory. Research in this lab focuses on investigations of structures, dynamics and functioning of zooplankton communities in the Arctic and Nordic Seas and how these are affected by the climate change. His scientific interests concentrate on aspects of zooplankton taxonomic diversity and identification problems, biology of keystone species, functional diversity of taxa and communities, role of zooplankton in food webs, relations between zooplankton and environmental factors and influence of climate change on zooplankton. He has conducted his research mainly in the Norwegian, Greenland and Barents Seas and cooperated in research projects in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. He received the Masters degree in Biological Oceanography from the University of Gdańsk in 1985 and PhD (also from the University of Gdańsk) in 1994. His PhD thesis was about distribution of zooplankton communities in the epipelagic zone of the Norwegian and Barents Seas in summer and how they are affected by hydrography. He is working in the Institute of Oceanology from 1989, since 1997 he is leading the Plankton Ecology Laboratory. In the DWARF project he is the leader of the Work Package 3 (Marine Pelagic Fauna). The studies of the marine pelagic fauna in the project will focus on investigating of taxonomic composition and size/biomass structures of mesozooplankton communities from ecosystems characterized by different temperature regimes, with supplementing study dedicated to reveal the effect of temperature on body size of Calanus calanoid copepods. The results will be discussed in the context of influence of the size structure on the functioning roles of zooplankotn.
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The project is funded from Norway Grants in the Polish-Norwegian Research Programme operated by the National Centre for Research and Development |