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 |
2015-2021 | Ph.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 2018 | Exchange student; The University Centre of Svalbard (UNIS, Svalbard) |
2012-2014 | MSc 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 2012 | Erasmus 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. |
2023-present | Postdoc at Department of Paleoceanography Laboratory of Environmental DNA, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences |
February-March 2023 | Senior Advisor in external research funding (EU)¸UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. |
September 2017-April 2018 | Visiting researcher; Geology & Geophysics Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, (WHOI, USA). |
2023-2025 | Multiproxy 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. |
January-November 2022 | Researcher/Lecturer Marine Micropaleontology and Reconstructing Quaternary Marine Climate and Environments; Department of Geosciences, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. |
September-November 2021 | Lecturer Marine Micropaleontology and Reconstructing Quaternary Marine Climate and Environments; Department of Geosciences, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway; |
September-November 2018 | Teaching assistant Reconstructing Quaternary Marine Climate and Environments; Department of Geosciences, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. |
2023 2017 | Travel grant funded by The Norwegian Research School in Climate Dynamics (ResClim; Norway); 15 000NOK |
2016 | Loeblich and Tappan Student Research Award funded by The Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research (USA); 2 000 USD |
2016 | Research grant for courses and education funded by UiT (Norway); 10 000 NOK |
2014 | Annual Rector Scholarship funded by Adam Mickiewicz University received for high academic achievements |
2022 2021 | 2-days teaching cruise Reconstructing Quaternary Marine Climate and Environments and Marine Micropaleontology to Norwegian Sea; R/V Helmer Hanssen |
2018 | 3-days teaching cruise Reconstructing Quaternary Marine Climate and Environments and Marine Micropaleontology to Norwegian Sea; R/V Helmer Hanssen |
2017 | ROV-based geological, geochemical, and biological investigation of canyons along the Lofoten margin; aboard R/V G.O. Sars |
2017 | Gas 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 |
2016 | ROV-based geological and biological investigations of methane seeps at Prins Karls Forland, Storfjordrenna Pingos and Bjørnøyrenna Craters aboard R/V Helmer Hanssen |