Magdalena Krajewska
PhD thesis title:
“Karotenoidy w osadach jako wskaźniki zmian zachodzących w środowisku morskim / Carotenoids in sediments as markers of changes in the marine environment”
Supervisors:
- Prof. dr hab. inż. Grażyna Kowalewska
- Dr Małgorzata Szymczak-Żyła
Contact: mkrajewska@iopan.gda.pl
Research projects:
Polish-Norwegian project CLISED (Climate Change Impact on Ecosystem Health- Marine Sediment Indicators), 2014-2017 – participant; part of the PhD thesis linked to the project.
Project leader: Określenie wpływu zmian klimatu na skład fitoplanktonu w fiordach zachodniego Spitsbergenu na podstawie pigmentów w osadach (CLIP), NCN PRELUDIUM 11, No. 2016/21/N/ST10/03240
Cruises:
Onboard r/v Oceania, sampling surface sediments, Western Spitsbergen fjords (Hornsund, Kongsfjord, Adventfjord, Raudfjord), 26.07-14.08.2017
Onboard r/v Oceania – sampling surface sediments, water and plankton,Western Spitsbergen fjords (Hornsund, Kongsfjord, Adventfjord) – 24.07- 12.08. 2016
Onboard r/v Oceania, sampling surface sediments, Western Spitsbergen fjords (Hornsund, Adventfiord), 24.07-03.08.2015
Onboard r/v Oceania, sampling surface sediments, Gulf of Gdansk, 17.04-23.04.2015
Publications:
Krajewska M., Szymczak-Żyła M., Kobos J., Witak M., Kowalewska G. 2019. Canthaxanthin in recent sediments as an indicator of heterocystous cyanobacteria in coastal waters. Oceanologia. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2018.07.002
Krajewska, M., Szymczak-Żyła, M., Kowalewska, G. 2017. Algal pigments in Hornsund (Svalbard) sediments as biomarkers of Arctic productivity and environmental conditions. Polish Polar Research 38(4): 423-443. DOI: 10.1515/popore-2017-0025
Krajewska, M., Szymczak-Żyła, M., Kowalewska, G. 2017. Carotenoid determination in recent marine sediments – practical problems during sample preparation and HPLC analysis. Current Chemistry Letters 6: 91–104
Szymczak- Żyła M., Krajewska M., Winogradow A., Zaborska A., Breedveld G.D., Kowalewska G. 2017. Tracking trends in eutrophication based on pigments in recent coastal sediments. Oceanologia 59(1): 1-17, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2016.08.003
Attended conferences, conference abstracts:
07-10.06.2018 – XXXVII Polar Symposium. Poznań, Poland
Oral presentation: Krajewska M., Szymczak-Żyła M., Kowalewska G. Chloropigments and carotenoids in Hornsund (Spitsbergen) sediments as indicators of environmental changes. Abstrakt book: 40.
03-06.09.2018 – ECSA57 (Changing estuaries, coasts and shelf systems – Diverse threats and opportunities). Perth, Australia
Oral presentation: Krajewska M., Szymczak-Żyła M., Kowalewska G. Comparison of environmental conditions in two different Spitsbergen fjords (Kongsfjorden, Hornsund) based on pigments in recent sediments.
19-20.10.2017 – I Konferencja Naukowa Polskich Badaczy Morza pt. „Stan i trendy zmian w morzach i oceanach’’. Sopot, Poland
Oral presentation: Krajewska M., Szymczak-Żyła M., Kowalewska G. Pigmenty w osadach fiordu Hornsund (płd.-zach. Spitsbergen) jako markery stanu środowiska.
23-28.04.2017 – EGU (European Geosciences Union), Vienna, Austria
Poster: Krajewska M., Szymczak-Żyła M., Kowalewska G. Carotenoids in the Gulf of Gdansk sediments- useful markers of environmental conditions in the past.
04-07.04.2017 – Arctic Science Summit Week. Prague, Czech Republic
Oral presentation: Krajewska M., Szymczak-Żyła M., Kowalewska G. Pigments in sediments – a useful tool for studying environmental conditions in Arctic regions.
21.10.2016 – XII Konferencja Chemia, Geochemia i Ochrona Środowiska Morskiego. Sopot, Poland
Poster: Krajewska M., Szymczak-Żyła M., Kowalewska G. Czy pigmenty w osadach arktycznego fiordu mogą być dobrymi markerami produkcji pierwotnej, składu gatunkowego fitoplanktonu i warunków środowiskowych? [the best poster award]
12-16.09.2016 – The 13th Colloquium on Baltic Sea Marine Geology. Gdańsk, Polska
Oral presentation: Lawręc M., Szymczak-Żyła M., Kowalewska G. Carotenoids in the Gulf of Gdansk sediments as eutrophication and climate proxies.
8-11.06.2016 – XXXVI Polar Symposium Lublin, Poland
Oral presentation: Lawręc M., Szymczak-Żyła M., Kowalewska G. Pigments in Arctic fjord (Hornsund, Svalbard) sediments: useful markers of productivity, phytoplankton taxonomy and environmental conditions. In: Franczak Ł., Gajek G. (Eds.) XXXVI Polar Symposium “Progress in polar research – new experiences and challenges”, The 30th Anniversary of UMSC Polar Expeditions to Spitsbergen, BOOK OF ABSTRACTS: 63-64.
06-10.09.2015 – ECSA55 (Estuarine Coastal Sciences Association), London, UK
Poster: Lawręc M., Kowalewska G., Szymczak-Żyła M. Carotenoids or chlorophylls- which are better biomass indicators?
22-25.06.2015 – 31st IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Cracow, Poland
Poster: Lawręc M., Szymczak-Żyła M., Kowalewska G. Carotenoids in recent sediments of the Gulf of Gdansk (Baltic Sea)
24.10.2014 – Chemia, Geochemia i Ochrona Środowiska Morskiego, XI Konferencja Sekcji Chemii Morza, KMB, PAN. Sopot, Poland
Oral presentation: Lawręc M., Kot-Wasik A. Kofeina w środowisku wodnym
Poster: Lawręc M., Kot-Wasik A. Kofeina w środowisku wodnym
Co-author of conference abstracts:
26.02-03.03.2017 – Aslo 2017 (Ocean Sciences Meeting: Mountains to the Sea), Honolulu, Hawaii
Oral presentation: Kowalewska G., Szymczak-Żyła M., Krajewska M., Filipkowska A., Lubecki L., Mazur-Marzec H., Witak M., Cegłowska M., Ciesielski T.M., Ardelan M.V., Jenssen B.M., Breedveld G.D., Oen A.M., Goslar T., 2017. Climate warming today and in the past in the southern Baltic and Norwegian coast area- a multiproxy study
26.02-03.03.2017 – Aslo 2017 (Ocean Sciences Meeting: Mountains to the Sea), Honolulu, Hawaii
Poster: Szymczak-Żyła M., Krajewska M., Mazur-Marzec H., Cegłowska M., Witak M., Filipkowska A., Lubecki L., Kowalewska G., Ciesielski T.M., Breedveld G.D., Oen A.M., Ardelan M.V., Jenssen B.M., 2017. Present and past-millennia phytoplankton blooms in two different European coastal areas
06-09.09.2015) – ECSA55 (Estuarine Coastal Sciences Association), London, UK
Poster: Szymczak-Żyła M., Kowalewska G., Filipkowska A., Lubecki L., Lawręc M., Zaborska A., Winogradow A., 2015. Chloropigment proxies in recent sediments – comparison of the Gulf of Gdansk and Drammen/Oslofjord (Norway)
23-26.09.2015 – . SedNet, Cracow, Poland
Oral presentation: Kowalewska G., Mazur-Marzec H., Breedveld G.D., Ciesielski T.M., Filipkowska A., Szymczak-Żyła M., Lubecki L., Lawręc M., Oen A.M.P., 2015. Marine sediment indicators in the Gulf of Gdansk and Oslofjord
Workshops, courses:
STATISTICA Software, basic course, StatSoft Polska, Kraków, 11-12.01.2016
Membership in scientific and organizing committees of conferences:
Member of Organizing Committee and session chair – International Sopot Youth Conference 2018 ,,Where the World is Heading’’, Sopot, 25.05.2018
Member of Scientific Committee of the International Sopot Youth Conference 2017 “Where the World is Heading, Part I: Live by the Sea”, Sopot, 26.05.2017
Member of Organizing Committee, XII Conference ,,Chemia, Geochemia i Ochrona Środowiska Morskiego’’ organizowana przez Sekcję Chemii Morza Komitetu Badań Morza PAN, 21.10.2016
Didactics:
20.06.2016 – lecture ,,Eutrofizacja Morza Bałtyckiego’’ for students of school ‘ZS nr 8’ in Gdańsk as a part of ,,Morska Edukacjia Ekologiczna’’
21.03.2016 and 18.04.2016 – lectures for students of Gdańsk University of Technology: ‘Analityka Przemysłowa’ and ‘Instrumentalne metody badania struktury i aktywności biomolekuł’
10.03.2015 – lectures for students of the 3rd Century University, University of Gdansk
Outreach:
- 27.05.2017 – X Sopot Science Day
- 04.06.2016 – IX Sopot Science Day
- 23.05.2015 – VIII Sopot Science Day
Interests, hobbies:
- science: pigments in sediments as indicators of the state of the environment, eutrofication, modern analytical techniques
- other: crime novels, cooking, olfactology
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