Dr Katarzyna Koziorowska-Makuch

Research Interests

• marine biogeochemistry
• cycling of biogenic elements in the marine environment
• carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus budget
• CO₂ system

Projects

• Detect2Protect (D2P) — New approaches in determining the impacts of chemical pollution to protect the biodiversity of the Baltic Sea, 2023-2026, investigator
• 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?, 2021-2024, investigator
• PROSPECTOR — do Permafrost-Released OrganicS amPlify ocEan aCidificaTiOn in the aRctic? National Science Center, 2020–2024, investigator
• CLIMB — Climate change impacts on structure and functioning of benthic communities at the fjord-shelf boundary hotspots, 2020-2023, investigator
• Impact of melting Arctic glaciers on the CO₂ system and seawater pH in the adjacent fjords (Spitsbergen), The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange — The Bekker Programme, 2020 – 2021, project leader
• COmEBACk — Coastal Ecosystem functioning under different antropogenic pressure — linking Benthic communities And biogeochemical Cycling in the southern Baltic Sea, Polish National Science Centre SONATA BIS 2017/26/E/NZ8/00496, 2018 – 2022, investigator
• CONTRAST — The cycling of biogenic elements in the marine environment. Determination the efficiency of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus burial rate of bottom sediments in two fjords of the West Spitsbergen (Hornsund and Kongsfjord), Polish National Science Centre PRELUDIUM 2015/19/N/ST10/01652, 2016 – 2018, project leader

Publications

1. Koziorowska-Makuch K., Szymczycha B., Thomas H., Kuliński K., 2023, The Marine Carbonate System Variability In High Meltwater Season (Spitsbergen Fjords, Svalbard), Progress in Oceanography, 102977, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.102977
2. Borawska Z., Szymczycha B., Silberberger M.J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Szczepanek M., Kędra M., 2022, Benthic fluxes of dissolved silica are an important component of the marine Si cycle in the coastal zone, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Volume 273, art. 107880, ISSN 0272-7714, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2022.107880.
3. Cui X., Mucci A., Bianchi T.S., He D., Vaughn D., Williams E.K., Wang C., Smeaton C., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Faust J.C., Plante A.F., Rosenheim B.E., 2022, Global fjords as transitory reservoirs of labile organic carbon modulated by organo-mineral interactions, Science Advances, Vol 8, Issue 46, pages Pages eadd0610, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add0610
4. Silberberger M. J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Borawska Z., Szczepanek M., Kędra M., 2022, Disentangling the Drivers of Benthic Oxygen and Dissolved Carbon Fluxes in the Coastal Zone of the Southern Baltic Sea, Estuaries and Coasts, 45 (8), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-022-01074-w
5. Szczepanek M., Silberberger M. J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Kędra M., 2022, Utilization of riverine organic matter by macrobenthic communities in a temperate prodelta, Front. Mar. Sci., Sec. Marine Ecosystem Ecology, 9:974539. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.974539
6. Silberberger M. J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Kuliński K., 2021, Kędra M., Stable isotope mixing models are biased by the choice of sample preservation and pre-treatment: implications for studies of aquatic food webs, Front Mar Sci 2021, 7. DOI:10.3389/fmars.2020.621978
7. Szczepanek M., Silberberger M. J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Nobili E., Kędra M., 2021, The response of coastal macrobenthic food-web structure to seasonal and regional variability in organic matter properties, Ecological Indicators, 132(1689):108326. DOI:10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108326
8. Szymańska N. K., Łącka M., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Kuliński K., Pawłowska J., Kujawa A., Telesiński M., Zajączkowski M., 2021, Foraminifera‐derived carbon contribution to sedimentary inorganic carbon pool: A case study from three Norwegian fjords, Geobiology, 19 (1). DOI:10.1111/gbi.12460
9. Bianchi T.S., Arndt S., Austin W.E.N, Benn D.I., Bertrand S., Cui X., Faust J.C., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Moy C.M., Savage C., Smeaton C., Smith R.W., Syvitski J., 2020. Fjords as Aquatic Critical Zones (ACZs). Earth-Science Reviews, 203, 103145.
10. Kuliński K., Szymczycha B., Koziorowska K., Hammer K., Schneider B. 2018. Anomaly of total boron concentration in the brackish waters of the Baltic Sea and its consequence for the CO₂ system calculations. Marine Chemistry 204: 11-19, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2018.05.007.
11. Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J. 2018. Deposition, return flux, and burial rates of nitrogen and phosphorus in the sediments of two high-Arctic fjords. Oceanologia 60 (4): 431-445, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2018.05.001.
12. Pacyna A., Koziorowska K., Chmiel S., Mazerski J., Polkowska Ż. 2018. Svalbard reindeer as an indicator of ecosystem changes in the Arctic terrestrial ecosystem. Chemosphere 203: 209-218, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.03.158.
13. Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J. 2018. Comparison of the burial rate estimation methods of organic and inorganic carbon and quantification of carbon burial in two high Arctic fjords. Oceanologia 60 (3): 405-418, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2018.02.005.
14. Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J. 2017. Distribution and origin of inorganic and organic carbon in the sediments of Kongsfjorden, northwest Spitsbergen, European Arctic. Continental Shelf Research 150: 27-35, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2017.08.023.
15. Pawłowska J., Łącka M., Kucharska M., Szymańska N., Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Zajączkowski M. 2017. Benthic foraminifera contribution to fjord modern carbon pools: A seasonal study in Adventfjorden, Spitsbergen. Geobiology 15 (5): 704-714, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12242.
16. Szymczycha B., Winogradow A., Kuliński K., Koziorowska K., Pempkowiak J. 2017. Diurnal and seasonal DOC and POC variability in the land-locked sea. Oceanologia 59 (3): 379-388, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2017.03.008. Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J. 2016. Sedimentary organic matter in two Spitsbergen fjords: terrestrial and marine contribution based on carbon and nitrogen contents and stable isotopes composition. Continental Shelf Research 113: 38-46, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2015.11.010.
17. Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J. 2016. Accuracy and precision of selected analytical methods used in marine geochemical studies. Inżynieria Morska i Geotechnika 3: 123-129.

Awards

• Scholarship START 2019 funded by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), Poland, 2019
• Award for an outstanding presentation presented by a young scientist during the 1st Scientific Conference of Polish Sea Researchers 2017, Sopot
• Award for an outstanding poster presentation at the 11th Conference "Chemia, Geochemia i Ochrona Środowiska Morskiego ", 2015, Sopot.