Personal details

Katarzyna Błachowiak-Samołyk
kasiab@iopan.pl
Department of Marine Ecology
Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences
Powstańcow Warszawy 55
81-712 Sopot, Poland
+48 58 7311 777

Education

2020- Professor at the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences
2009-2020 Associated Professor at Institute of Oceanology of Polish Academy of Sciences (IO PAS), Department of Marine Ecology
2002-2009 Senior research scientist, zooplankton specialist at IO PAS, Department of Marine Ecology Habilitation: "Dynamics of zooplankton community in the Marginal Ice Zone of European Arctic"
1997-2001 Research scientist, Marine Biology Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences, Genetic Lab and Baltic Ecology Department
1991-1996 Ph.D. studies at the University of Gdansk, Faculty of Biological Oceanography Ph.D. thesis: "Ostracoda from West Antarctica"
1986-1991 M.Sc. at the University of Gdansk, Faculty of Biological Oceanography M.Sc. thesis: "Chaetognatha from Drake Passage and Bransfield Strait (Antarctica)"

Scientific interest

Ecology of polar zooplankton
Innovative methods for complex plankton investigations
Food web structure
Diel vertical migration (DVM)
Taxonomy, ecology and zoogeography of pelagic Ostracoda

Professional experience

2016-2016 PERMANOVA workshop, Auckland, New Zeland
2016-2016 Participation in AREX summer cruise-around Svalbard
2015-2015 Co-organizer of Plankton Research in Svalbard (PRIS) workshop at University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)
2014-2014 Participation in AREX summer cruise
2012-2012 Participation in 2 Norwegian Arctic cruises: winter (Polar Night in January) and summer (in July)
2011-2011 Tutoring at the Young Scientist Forum Workshop, ARCTOS Ph.D. School, associated with Arctic Frontiers Conference (Lofoten, Norway, January/February 2011)
2010-2010 Deployment of the internet identification key entitled “Atlas of pelagic Svalbard Ostracoda” by Błachowiak-Samołyk, Baczewska A., Angel M.V. and Wichorowski M. Available from IO PAS web-site: http://www.iopan.gda.pl/services/apso/main.php
2009-2010 Participation in 2 AREX summer cruises dedicated ALKEKONGE project
2008-2008 Teacher at 3 weeks lasting course (taxonomical expertise) on pelagic Arctic, Antarctic and Alaskan ostracods at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, School of Fisheries and Ocean Science
2008-2008 Deployment of the internet identification key to 130 species of “Atlantic pelagic ostracods” by Angel M.V., Błachowiak-Samołyk, K. & Chavtur V.G. Available from Natural History Museum London web-site: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/proj
2007-2007 Building taxonomical expertise on deep-water pelagic Atlantic ostracods onboard of RV Polarstern ANT XXIV/1 during Census of Marine Zooplankton cruise: http://www.cmarz.org/Polarstern2007/index.html
2007- Working in RAMS (Register of Antarctic Marine Species) taxonomical experts group (within SCAR-MarBIN) on pelagic ostracods
2006-2006 Statistical methods in ecology - workshop, Toruń, Poland
2004-2004 Participation in Norwegian cruise within CABANERA (Carbon flux and ecosystem feedback in the northern Barents Sea in an era of climate change) project 2
2003-2003 Deployment of the internet identification key: “An Atlas of Southern Ocean Planktonic Ostracods” by Kasia Blachowiak-Samolyk & Martin Angel: http://ocean.iopan.gda.pl/ostracoda/
2003-2003 Participation in Norwegian cruise within On Thin Ice (Climatic Influence on Energy Flow and Trophic Structure in Arctic Marine Ecosystems) project

Grants and awards

2016-2020 - Influence of relationship between protists and zooplankton on Svalbard planktivorous birds population (SEAPOP II) (3605/SEAPOP/2016/2). Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (project leader)
2016-2017 - Isfjorden Marine Observatory Svalbard (IMOS) (3550/Norway/2016/2) Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (project leader)
2014-2017 - Is size so crucial? Complex examination of plankton size structure in the warming European Arctic (PicMac) - Polish National Science Centre (2013/09/B/NZ8/03365) (project leader)
2014-2017 - Declining size - a general response to climate warming in Arctic fauna? (DWARF) - Polish-Norwegian Research Fund (Pol-Nor/201992/93/2014) (participant)
2014-2015 - Variability of Arctic zooplankton populations as a food source for seabirds on Spitsbergen (SeaPOP) (3088/SEAPOP/2014/2) Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (project leader)
2013-2014 - Seasonality of Arctic plankton community of Isfjorden (UniPlankton) (2736/UniPlankton/2013), Polish Ministry of Education and Science (project leader)
2009-2011 - The Kongsfjorden - Hausgarten transect case study: Impact of climate on Arctic marine community structures and food webs (KongHau) (DPN/DWM/AD/5348/08/09) Polish Ministry of Education and Science (project leader)
2009-2011 - Pelagic ostracods as indicators of deep circulation in the Tropical Atlantic” (PELOTA) (DPN/DWM/AD/5348/08/09), Polish Ministry of Higher Education and Science (project leader)
2008-2011 - Response of marine and terrestrial ecosystems to climate changes in Arctic – links between physical environment, biodiversity of zooplankton and seabird populations (ALKEKONGE) – Polish-Norwegian Research Fund (PNRF-234-AI-1/07) (leader of zooplankton task)
2007 - Project SYNTHESYS GB-TAF-3708 (European Commission FPVI programme “Integrated Infrastructure Initiative”), Revision of pelagic Atlantic ostracods taxonomy, Natural History Museum, London, UK
2007-2009 - Taxonomy and zoogeography boundaries of pelagic ostracods in Svalbard waters - mini-grant ArcOD (Arctic Ocean Biodiversity) (project leader)
2005-2006 - "Bonus for Baltic Sea science-Network of Funding Agencies" EU BONUS (project investigator)
2003 - Project COBICE (European Commission FPV programme “Integrated Infrastructure Initiative”), Arctic zooplankton taxonomy, Copenhagen Zoological Museum, Denmark
2003-2004 - Research Exchange Fellowships awarded by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of London for co-operation with Dr. Martin Angel from Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK
2002 - Danish Government Scholarship – University of Aarhus, Department of Marine Ecology, Denmark
2001-0000 - Hacked By ./Edros

Selected presentations

Wichorowski M., Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Boehnke R., Ostaszewska K., Trudnowska E.
Development of neural network for estimation of feeding fields quality
oral presentation SciDataCon, 1970, Denver, Colorado, USA
Ostaszewska K., Trudnowska E., Wichorowski M., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
How do the hydrographic conditions determine zooplankton size
oral presentation ASLO 2016 Summer Meeting, 1970, SantaFe, New Mexico, USA
Ostaszewska K., Trudnowska E., Wichorowski M., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
Inter-annual variability in abundance and distribution of various zooplankton size fractions in Spitsbergen waters at the Polar Front during five summer seasons
poster presentation ICES/PICES 6th Zooplankton Production Symposium, 1970, Bergen, Norway
Ostaszewska K., Boehnke R., Trudnowska E., Falk-Petersen S., Wichorowski M., Hop H., Błachowiak Samołyk K.
Estimation of the quality of foraging grounds for planktivorous little auk on West Spitsbergen
poster presentation 2nd World Seabird Conference , 1970, Cape Town, South Africa
Ostaszewska K., Trudnowska E., Wichorowski M., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
Interannual distribution of various zooplankton size fractions vs. front position along West Spitsbergen Shelf during five summer seasons (2010-2014)
oral presentation Interdisciplinary Polar Studies in Svalbard (IPSiS) Meeting, Scientific Conference & Field Workshop, 1970, Longyearbyen & Hornsund, Svalbard

Publications

Wichorowski M., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
Aggregation and processing of data originating from heterogeneous sources for multidimensional analyses, 2016, Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata, 57, 106-107
Szczucka J., Trudnowska E., Hoppe L., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
Comparison of acoustical to optical zooplankton measurements via an acoustic scattering model: A case study from the Arctic frontal zone, 2016, Polish Polar Research, 37, 67-88
Trudnowska E., Gluchowska M., Beszczynska-Möller A., Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Kwasniewski S.
Plankton patchiness in the Polar Front region of the West Spitsbergen Shelf, 2016, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 560, 1–18
Stübner E.I., Søreide J.E., Reigstad M., Marquardt M., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
Year-round meroplankton dynamics in high-Arctic, Svalbard, 2016, Journal of Plankton Research, 38, 522-536
Nigro L.M., Angel M.V., Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Hopcroft R.R., Bucklin A.
Identification, Discrimination, and Discovery of Species of Marine Planktonic Ostracods Using DNA Barcodes, 2016, PLoS ONE, 11(1), e0146327
Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Wiktor J., Hegseth E.N., Wold A., Falk-Petersen S., Kubiszyn A.
Winter Tales: the dark side of planktonic life, 2015, Polar Biology, 38, 23-36
Stępień A., Błachowiak-Samołyk K. & Angel M.V.
A re-description of Discoconchoecia elegans (Sars, 1865) (Ostracoda: Halocyprididae) from high latitudes in the North Atlantic, 2015, Zootaxa, 3995, 066–077
Trudnowska E., Sagan S., Kwasniewski S., Darecki M., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
Fine-scale zooplankton vertical distribution in relation to hydrographic and optical characteristics of the surface waters on the Arctic shelf, 2015, Journal of Plankton Research, 37, 120-133
Boehnke R., Głuchowska M., Wojczulanis-Jakubas K., Jakubas D., Karnovsky N.J., Walkusz W., Kwaśniewski S., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
Supplementary diet components of the little auk chicks in two contrasting regions on the west Spitsbergen coast, 2015, Polar Biology, 38, 261-267
Kidawa D., Jakubas D., Wojczulanis-Jakubas K., Stempniewicz L., Trudnowska E., Boehnke R., Keslinka-Nawrot L., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
Parental efforts of an Arctic seabird, the little auk Alle alle, under variable foraging conditions, 2015, Marine Biology Research, 11, 349–360
Angel M.V., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
Halocyprid ostracods of the Southern Ocean In: De Broyer C., Koubbi P., Griffiths H.J., Raymond B., Udekem d’Acoz C. d’, et al. (eds.), 2014, Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, , 297-302
Trudnowska E., Basedow S.L., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
Mid-summer mesozooplankton biomass, its size distribution, and estimated production within a glacial Arctic fjord (Hornsund, Svalbard), 2014, Journal of Marine Systems, 137, 55-66
Stempniewicz L., Darecki M., Trudnowska E., Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Boehnke R., Jakubas D., Keslinka-Nawrot L., Kidawa D., Sagan S., Wojczulanis-Jakubas K.
Visual availability of prey determines distribution of little auks in the shelf waters adjacent to breeding colonies on West Spitsbergen, 2013, Polar Biology, 36, 949-955
Jakubas D., Trudnowska E., Wojczulanis-Jakubas K., Iliszko L., Kidawa D., Darecki M., Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Stempniewicz L.
Foraging closer to the colony leads to faster growth in little auks, 2013, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 489, 263–278
Trudnowska E., Szczucka J., Hoppe L., Boehnke R., Hop H., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
Multidimensional zooplankton observations on the northern West Spitsbergen Shelf, 2012, Journal of Marine Systems, 98, 18-25
De Broyer C., Danis B., Allcock L., Angel M., Arango C., Artois T., Barnes D., Bartsch I., Bester M., Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Błażewicz M., Bohn J., Brandt A., Brandao S. N., David B., de Salas M., Eleaume M., Emig C., Fautin D., George K. H., et al.
How many species in the Southern Ocean? Towards a dynamic inventory of the Antarctic marine species, 2011, Deep Sea Research II, 58, 5–17
Baczewska A., Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Angel M.V.
Distribution of pelagic Ostracoda inhabiting Svalbard waters (76 36-81 50N), 2011, Hydrobiologia, 688, 5–92
Szczucka J., Piwowarczyk J., Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Stempniewicz L.
How little auks link the ocean with the tundra of Svalbard at a time of changing climate?, 2011, Ocean Challenge, 18, 12-18
Kwasniewski S., Gluchowska M., Jakubas D., Wojczulanis-Jakubas K., Walkusz W., Karnovsky N., Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Cisek M., Stempniewicz L.
The impact of different hydrographic conditions and zooplankton communities on provisioning Little Auks along the West coast of Spitsbergen, 2010, Progress In Oceanography, 87, 72-82
Błachowiak-Samołyk K.,
Contrasting zooplankton communities in the European Arctic Marginal Ice Zone, 2008, Oceanologia, 50, 363-389
Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Kwasniewski S., Hop H., Falk-Petersen S.
Magnitude of mesozooplankton variability: A case study from the Marginal Ice Zone of the Barents Sea in spring, 2008, Journal of Plankton Research, 30, 311-323
Søreide J.E., Falk-Petersen S., Hegseth E.N., Hop H., Carroll M.L., Hobson K.A., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
Seasonal feeding strategies of Calanus in the high-Arctic Svalbard region, 2008, Deep-Sea Research II, 55, 2325-2345
Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Søreide J.E., Kwasniewski S., Sundfjord A., Hop H., Falk-Petersen S., Hegseth E.N.
Hydrodynamic control of mesozooplankton abundance and biomass in northern Svalbard waters (79-81oN), 2008, Deep-Sea Research II, 55, 2310-2324
Angel M.V., Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Drapun I., Castillo R.
Changes in the composition of planktonic ostracod populations across a range of latitudes in the North-east Atlantic, 2007, Progress in Oceanography, 73, 60-78
Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Angel M.V.
A year round comparative studies on the population structures of pelagic Ostracoda in the Admiralty Bay (Southern Ocean), 2007, Hydrobiologia, 585, 67-77
Angel M.V., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
Obtusoecia (Myodocopa; Halocyprida) a bipolar genus of planktonic Ostracoda: Taxonomy, bathymetry and zoogeographical distribution, 2006, Annales Zoologici (Warszawa), 56, 197-213
Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Kwasniewski S., Richardson K., Dmoch K., Hansen E., Hop H., Falk-Petersen S., Thybo Mouritsen L.
Arctic zooplankton do not perform diel vertical migration (DVM) during periods of midnight sun, 2006, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 308, 101-116
Wesławski J.M., Kwasniewski S., Stempniewicz L., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
Biodiversity and energy transfer to top trophic levels in two contrasting Arctic fjords, 2006, Polish Polar Research, 27, 259-278
Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Osowiecki A.
Distribution and population structure of pelagic Ostracoda near the sea-ice edge in the Scotia Sea and the King George Island (December 1988-January 1989), 2002, Polish Polar Research, 23, 135-152
Błachowiak-Samołyk K.,
Comparative studies on population structures of Alacia belgicae and Metaconchoecia isocheira (Ostracoda) in the Croker Passage during various seasons, 2001, Polar Biology, 24, 222-230
Kittel W., Sicinski J., Zmijewska M.I., Bielecka L., Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
Antarctic neritic zooplankton community (Admiralty Bay, King George Island, South Shetland Islands), 2001, Polish Polar Research, 22, 11-33
Błachowiak-Samołyk K.,
Distribution and population structure of pelagic Ostracoda near the Antarctic Peninsula in spring 1986 (BIOMASS III, October-November 1986), 1999, Polish Archives of Hydrobiology, 46, 9-25
Zmijewska M.I., Yen J., Bielecka L. and Błachowiak-Samołyk K.
The effect of sex ratio on the population pattern and abundance of the predominant Antarctic copepods in Croker Passage (Antarctic Peninsula), 1997, Oceanological Studies 1, vol. XXVI, 127-148
Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Zmijewska M.I.
Planktonic Ostracoda (Halocyprididae) in the Croker Passage (Antarctic Peninsula) during two austral seasons: summer 1985/1986 and winter 1989, 1997, Polish Polar Research, 18, 79-89
Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Bielecka L., Zmijewska M.I.
The influence of environmental factors on the population structure of Chaetognatha in the Atlantic sector of Southern Ocean (BIOMASS-SIBEX, December 1983-January 1984), 1995, Polish Polar Research, 16, 55-66
Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Zmijewska M.I.
Horizontal and vertical distribution of Ostracoda in the Drake Passage and Bransfield Strait (BIOMASS-SIBEX, December 1983-January 1984), 1995, Polish Polar Research, 16, 41-54