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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) |
Dr Emilia Trudnowska
Emilia Trudnowska is an assistant at the Department of Marine Ecology at the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences. She is working on Arctic zooplankton, its distribution, size spectra and ecology. Her studies are mainly based on the high resolution measurements with Laser Optical Plankton Counter (LOPC), which are used for mapping and modelling. She received a Master's Degree in Marine Biology from University of Gdańsk in 2009, and just afterwards started PhD studies in Institute of Oceanology PAS. Her PhD thesis is focused on the spatial distribution and size structure of zooplankton assemblages in west Spitsbergen waters. Since 2009 she has been working at the Department of Marine Ecology, Institute of Oceanology PAS and was employed in 2011. In the DWARF project she is the part of the Work Package 3 (Marine Pelagic Fauna) and she is responsible for the analysis of the taxonomic and size/biomass structures of the mesozooplankton communities. Examination of plankton samples in the laboratory will include determination of taxonomic composition, abundance quantification and measurements of species and developmental stage specific body size for calculations of biomass. The LOPC surveying for in situ determinations of size/biomass distributions of planktonic community will provide data for the application of biomass spectrum theory (Normalize Biomass Size Spectrum, NBSS) to investigate trophic structure of zooplankton communities and to determine energy fluxes within the aquatic systems.
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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 |