EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• 1996 - 2001 M.Sc., University of Gdansk, 2001
  
• 2001 - 2006 Ph.D., Institute of Oceanology PAS, Sopot, 2006
  
• 2006 - Marine zooplankton ecologist, Institute of Oceanology PAS, Sopot
  
• 2006 - Interchange Canada visiting fellowship to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Winnipeg

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Ecology of zooplankton communities in the Arctic
  
• Zooplankton distribution and its consequences on foraging of planktivorous birds (Little Auks Alle alle)
  
• Foraging of pelagic fish larvae on zooplankton in the Beaufort Sea
  
• Foraging of baleen whales (Bowhead, Balaena mysticetus) in the Beaufort Sea

ON-GOING PROJECTS:

• 2008 - WinAmp: Winter shift in amphipods' feeding strategy? (lead: Monika Kędra, IO PAS, Sopot, Poland)
  
• 2006 - A Survey of the Ecosystem on the Mackenzie Shelf, Beaufort Sea Study Program (lead: Don Cobb, DFO, Winnipeg, Canada)
  
• 2003 - The Response of the Little Auk to Environmental Changes in Feeding Grounds (lead: Katarzyna Wojczulanis - Jakubas, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland)
  
• 2002 - Little Auks as Marine Predators in a Changing Arctic (lead: Ann Harding, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, USA)
  
• 2001 - Consequences of Contrasting Foraging Conditions for Little Auks in the Greenland Sea (lead: Nina Karnovsky, Pomona College, Pomona, USA)

PUBLICATIONS:

• Walkusz Wojciech, Joclyn E. Paulić, Sławomir Kwaśniewski, William J. Williams, Sally Wong, Michael H. Papst: Distribution, diversity and biomass of summer zooplankton from the coastal Canadian Beaufort Sea. Polar Biology, DOI: 10.1007/s00300-009-0708-0.
  
• Wojczulanis-Jakubas K., Dariusz Jakubas, Nina J. Karnovsky, Wojciech Walkusz: Foraging strategy of little auks under divergent conditions on feeding grounds. Polar Research, in print.
  
• Walkusz Wojciech., Kwasniewski Sławek, Falk-Petersen Stig, Hop Haakon, Tverberg Vigdis, Wieczorek Piotr and Weslawski Jan Marcin, 2009: Seasonal and spatial changes in zooplankton composition in the glacially influenced Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. Polar Research, 28: 254-281.
  
• Ann Marie Aglionby Harding, Carsten Egevang, Wojciech Walkusz, Flemming Merkel, Stéphane Blanc, and David Grémillet, 2009: Estimating prey capture rates of a planktivorous seabird, the little auk (Alle alle), using diet, diving behaviour, and energy consumption. Polar Biology, 32: 785-796.
  
• Kasia Piwosz, Wojciech Walkusz, Ryszard Hapter, Piotr Wieczorek, Haakon Hop and Józef Wiktor, 2009: Comparison of productivity and phytoplankton in a warm (Kongsfjorden) and a cold (Hornsund) Spitsbergen fjord in mid-summer 2002. Polar Biology, 32: 549 - 559.
  
• Ann Harding, Keith Hobson, Wojciech Walkusz, Kasia Dmoch, Nina Karnovsky, Thomas Van Pelt and Jan Lifjeld, 2008: Can stable isotope (?13C and ?15N) measurements of little auk (Alle alle) adults and chicks be used to track changes in high-Arctic marine foodwebs? Polar Biology, 31: 725-733.
  
• Dariusz Jakubas, Katarzyna Wojczulanis and Wojciech Walkusz, 2007: Response of dovekie to changes in food availability. Waterbirds, 30: 421-428.
  
• Wojciech Walkusz and Leszek Rolbiecki, 2007: Epibionts (Paracineta) and parasites (Ellobiopsis) of copepods from Spitsbergen (Kongsfjorden area). Oceanologia, 49: 1-12.
  
• Wojciech Walkusz, Sławomir Kwaśniewski, Katarzyna Dmoch and Agnieszka Beszczyńska-Möller, 2007: A contribution to the knowledge of Arctic zooplankton diurnal variability (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard). Polish Polar Research, 28: 43-56.
  
• Wold Anette, Leu Eva, Walkusz Wojciech and Falk- Petersen Stig, 2007: Lipids in different developmental stages of Calanus glacialis. Polar Biology, 30: 655-658.
  
• Wojczulanis Katarzyna, Jakubas Dariusz, Walkusz Wojciech and Wenneberg Liv, 2006: Differences in food quantity and quality delivered to chick by male and female of the monogamous Little Auk Alle alle during the chick rearing period. Journal of Ornithology, 147: 543-548.
  
• Pempkowiak Janusz, Walkusz- Miotk Joanna, Bełdowski Jacek and Walkusz Wojciech, 2006: Concentrations of heavy metals in Copepoda and Cladocera from the Southern Baltic. Chemosphere, 62: 1697-1708.
  
• Wojciech Walkusz, Sławomir Kwaśniewski, Katarzyna Dmoch, Haakon Hop, Maria Iwona Żmijewska, Luiza Bielecka, Stig Falk-Petersen and Jacek Siciński, 2004: Characteristics of the Arctic and Antarctic zooplankton in the neritic zone during summer. Polish Polar Research, 25: 275-291.
  
• Wojciech Walkusz, Katharina Storemark, Torunn Skau, Charlotte Gannefors, Marte Lundberg, 2003: Zooplankton community structure; a comparison of fjords, open water and ice stations in the Svalbard area. Polish Polar Research, 24: 149-165.
  
• Nina J. Karnovsky, Jan Marcin Węsławski, Sławomir Kwaśniewski, Wojciech Walkusz, Agnieszka Beszczyńska-Moeller, 2003: The foraging behaviour of Little Auks in a heterogeneous environment. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 253: 289-303.