Emilia Trudnowska emilia@iopan.plDepartment of Marine EcologyInstitute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences Powstańcow Warszawy 55 81-712 Sopot, Poland +48 58 7311 783
Education
2014- Scientist, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Ecology
2009-2016 Ph.D. studies at IO PAS, PhD thesis : „Spatial distribution and size structure of zooplankton assemblages in West Spitsbergen Waters”
2004-2009 University of Gdansk, Oceanography: Marine Biology, M.Sc. thesis: “Meiofauna of sandy shores around Iceland”
Scientific interest
Zooplankton
LOPC (Laser Optical Plankton Counter)
Arctic
Climate change
Marine ecology
Size spectra
Professional experience
2016-2016 PERMANOVA workshop. Auckland, New Zeland
2012-2012 EURO-BASIN Training Workshop on Optical Methods in Plankton Taxonomy. Hamburg, Germany
2011-2011 The Young Scientist Forum workshop. Tromsø, Norway
2011-2011 DHI MIKE course ‘Marine Modelling with Flexible Mesh’. Sopot, Poland
2011-2011 Statistical methods in ecology - workshop. Toruń, Poland
2011-2011 Arctic Tipping Points PhD Summer School. Climate change, marine ecosystems and tipping points in the Arctic Ocean. Tromsø, Norway
2009-2009 Matlab – The MathWorks training course (ML01). Kraków, Poland
2008-2008 The Volker Schmid Training Course on „Experimental Developmental Biology of Marine Invertebrates" [Marbef]. Roscoff, France
2008-2008 ZOOSCAN Training course. Villefranche, France
Grants and awards
2024-2028 - “Transparency – important morphological trait for qualitative assessment of marine particles and plankton (T-trait) UMO-2023/51/B/ST10/02283 – principal investigator
2024-2025 - Fulbright Senior award. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutionwith Ken Buesseller. “Imaging variability of flakes – developing methodology to study the creation, structure, transformation and transport of marine snow (iFlake).” – principal investigator
2024-2027 - A low-CO2 smart autonomous multiplatform system to monitor and forecast Calanus finmarchicus stock - a new sustainable climate-neutral blue fish feed (CliN-BluFeed). Sustainable Blue Economy, EU funding&NCBiR - WP leader
2022-2025 - What really matters for a High-Arctic zooplanktivorous seabird foraging in rapidly
changing environment - prey size or energy content? (LAPSE), NCN OPUS, 2021/43/B/NZ8/01364 - project investigator
2021-2024 - Polar Front ecosystem studies using novel autonomous technologies: Providing a knowledge base and data archive for environmental management and assessing ecological risk (POLARFRONT) (Research Council of Norway, 326635) – investigator
2021-2024 - "RAW – Retreat And Wither" – What is the influence of glaciers recession
from tidewater to land-based on the marine biological production and biogeochemistry in the Arctic? (RAW) (UMO-2019/34/H/ST10/00504, NCN, Grieg) – investigator
2020-2024 - Coastal ecosystem carbon balance in times of rapid glacier melt (CoastCarb) (MSCA-RISE-2019, 872690) Research and Innovation Framework Programme Horizon 2020 - investigator
2019-2023 - Changes in the structure and functioning of pelagic ecosystems related to the darkening of European Arctic waters (CoastDark) (2018/29/B/NZ8/02463) (NCN OPUS) – post-doc
2018-2021 - The ecological plasticity of the keystone Arctic zooplankton species (ecoPlast) (2017/27/B/NZ8/00631) (project leader)
2018-2020 - The new generation of Calanus finmarchicus: estimating population recruitment from egg production rates and gonad stage analysis off northern Norway (GONAD) (Fram Centre flagships 2018: 9218 M) (project investigator)
2018-2019 - Mobility Plus Scholarship at Sorbonne Universite, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer, under the supervision of prof. Lars Stemmann to work on 'Investigating the distribution of planktonic organisms and their spatial distribution in the Arctic in relation to environmental gradients - improving research methodology' (DN/MOB/253/V/2017 ) (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) (project investigator)
2014-2017 - 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 investigator)
2013-2014 - Seasonality of Arctic plankton community of Isfjorden (UniPlankton), Polish Ministry of Education and Science (2736/UniPlankton/2013) (project investigator)
2012 - Visiting Fellowship Award founded by Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) and Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) under the supervision of Dr Sünnje Linnéa Basedow at the University of Nordland, Norway.
2011-2013 - Estimation of mesozooplankton productivity on the West Spitsbergen Shelf based on biomass size spectrum analysis (ProSize) - Polish National Science Centre (011/01/N/ST10/07339) (project leader)
2009-2011 - The Kongsfjorden - Hausgarten transect case study: Impact of climate on Arctic marine community structures and food webs (KongHau) - Polish Ministry of Education and Science projects (DPN/DWM/AD/5348/08/09 & 2375/Svalbard/2012/2,Nr W37/Svalbard/2012) (project investigator)
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) (project investigator)