Karol Kuliński

Research Interests

marine biogeochemistry
C, N, P cycling in the marine environment
marine acid-base system
CO₂ system
"ocean acidification"
role of organic matter for shaping the seawater pH

Projects

"BONUS INTEGRAL: Integrated carboN and TracE Gas monitoRing for the bALtic sea", principal investigator, 252.000 EUR, BONUS Blue Baltic, 2017-2020.
"SALSA: Structure and functioning of the acid-base system in the Baltic Sea", project leader, 147.000 EUR, Polish Science Centre, 2016-2019.
"DOMINO - assessment of the Dissolved Organic Matter INfluence On the Baltic Sea acid-base system", project leader, 112.300 EUR, Polish National Science Centre, 2015-2018.
"BONUS-PINBAL: Development of a spectrophotometric pH-measurement system for monitoring in the Baltic Sea", principal investigator, 38.856 EUR, BONUS Innovation, 2014-2017.
"Assessment of the influence of the terrestrial dissolved organic carbon (DOC) input on the carbonate system and pH of the Baltic Sea water", project leader, 107.400 EUR, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 2012-2013.
"Organic matter sources and sinks in high Arctic fiord", principal investigator, 37.700 EUR, Polish National Science Centre, 2011-2013.
"Vistula River - the main supplier of suspensions to the Baltic Sea. Transport and fate of terrygenic matter in the Gulf of Gda"sk", principal investigator, 98.700 EUR, Polish National Science Centre, 2011-2013.
"Baltic-C Building predictive capability regarding the Baltic Sea organic/inorganic carbon and oxygen systems", investigator, 1 100 kEUR, BONUS+, 2009-2011.
"The role of the Baltic Sea in the oceanic carbon cycle", principal investigator, 62.500 EUR, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 2010-2012.
"Determination the exposure of the southern Baltic coastal areas to the presence of the pharmaceuticals", investigator, 43.100 EUR, 2009-2011.
"Carbon transport from the Baltic to the North Sea", project leader, 12.500 EUR, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 2007-2010.

Publications:

Books and chapters in books:

Schneider B., Dellwig O. Kuliński K., Omstedt A., Pollehne F., Rehder G., Savchuk O., Biogeochemical cycles, in: Biological Oceanography of the Baltic Sea, eds: Snoeijs-Leijonmalm P., Schubert H., Radziejewska T. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, ISBN 978-94-007-0667-5.
Beldowski J., Beldowska M., Kuliński K., Darecki M., 2012, Vertical mercury, cadmium and lead distribution at two stratified stations in the Southern Baltic Sea”, 237-256, in: Heavy Metals in the Environment, eds.: Nriagu J., Pacyna J., Szefer P., Market B., Wünschmann S., Namieśnik J., Maralte, ISBN 978-94-90970-00-0, 376 pp.
Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J., 2012, Carbon Cycling in the Baltic Sea. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, 129 pp., ISBN: 978-3-642-19387-3.

Peer-reviewed:

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.
Kuliński K., Schneider B., Szymczycha B., Stokowski M., 2017, Structure and functioning of the acid–base system in the Baltic Sea. Earth System Dynamics 8, 1107-1120.
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, 379-388.
Hammer K., Schneider B., Kuliński K., Schulz-Bull D., 2017, Acid-base properties of Baltic Sea dissolved organic matter. Journal of Marine Systems 173, 114-121.
Jędruch A., Kwasigroch U., Bełdowska M., Kuliński K., 2017, Mercury in suspended matter of the Gulf of Gdańsk: Origin, distribution and transport at the land–sea interface. Marine Pollution Bulletin 118, 354-367.
Kuliński K., Hammer K., Schneider B., Schulz-Bull D., 2016, Remineralization of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon in the Baltic Sea. Marine Chemistry 181, 10-17.
Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J., 2016, Accuracy and precision of selected analytical methods used in marine geochemical studies. Inżynieria Morska i Geotechnika 3/2016, 123-129
Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J., 2016, Sedimentary organic matter in two Spitsbergen fjords: Terrestrial and marine contributions based on carbon and nitrogen contents and stable isotopes composition. Continental Shelf Research 113, 38-46.
Ulfsbo A., Kuliński K., Anderson L.G., Turner D.R., 2015, Modelling organic alkalinity in the Baltic Sea using a Humic-Pitzer approach. Marine Chemistry 168, 18-26.
Kuliński K., Kędra M., Legeżyńska J., Głuchowska M., Zaborska A., 2014, Particulate organic matter sinks and sources in high Arctic fjord. Journal of Marine Systems 139, 27-37.
Hammer K., Schneider B., Kuliński K., Schulz-Bull D.E., 2014, Precision and accuracy of spectrophotometric pH measurements at environmental conditions in the Baltic Sea. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 146, 24-32.
Kuliński K., Schneider B., Hammer K., Machulik U., Schulz-Bull D., 2014, The influence of dissolved organic matter on the acid-base system of the Baltic Sea. Journal of Marine Systems 132, 106-115.
Jankowska E., Wlodarska-Kowalczuk M., Kotwicki L., Balazy P., Kuliński K., 2014, Seasonality in vegetation biometrics and its effects on sediment characteristics and meiofauna in Baltic seagrass meadows. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 139, 159-170.
Wrobel B., Filippini M., Piwowarczyk J., Kedra M., Kuliński K., Middelboe M., 2013, Low virus to prokaryote ratios in the cold: benthic viruses and prokaryotes in a subpolar marine ecosystem (Hornsund, Svalbard). International Microbiology 16, 45-52.
Szczepanska A., Zaborska A., Maciejewska A., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J., 2012, Distribution and origin of organic matter in the Baltic Sea sediments dated with 210Pb and 137Cs. Geochronometria 39, 1-9.
Kedra M., Kuliński K., Walkusz W., Legezynska J., 2012, The shallow benthic food web structure in the high Arctic does not follow seasonal changes in the surrounding environment. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 114, 183-191.
Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J., 2011, The carbon budget of the Baltic Sea. Biogeosciences 8, 3219-3230.
Kuliński K., She J., Pempkowiak J., 2011, Short and medium term dynamics of the carbon exchange between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. Continental Shelf Research 31, 1611-1619.
Kuliński K., Maciejewska A., Dzierzbicka-Glowacka L., Pempkowiak J., 2011, Parameterisation of a zero-dimensional Pelagic Detritus Model, Gdansk Deep, Baltic Sea. Annual Set The Environment Protection 13, 187-206.
Dzierzbicka-Glowacka L., Kuliński K., Maciejewska A., Jakacki J., Pempkowiak J., Numerical modelling of POC dynamics in the southern Baltic under possible future conditions determined by nutrients, light and temperature, Oceanologia 53 (4), 971-992.
Dzierzbicka-Glowacka L., Kuliński K., Maciejewska A., Pempkowiak J., 2010, Particulate Organic Carbon in the southern Baltic Sea: numerical simulations and experimental data. Oceanologia 52 (4), 621-648.
Kowalczuk P., Zablocka M., Sagan S., Kuliński K., 2010, Fluorescence measured in situ as a proxy of CDOM absorption and DOC concentration in the Baltic Sea. Oceanologia 52 (3), 431-471.
Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J., 2008, Dissolved organic carbon in the southern Baltic Sea: Quantification of factors affecting its distribution, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 78, 38-44.
Kuliński K., Swieta-Musznicka J., Staniszewski A., Latalowa M., Pempkowiak J., 2007, Lignin degradation products as paleoenvironmental proxies in the sediments of small lakes, Journal of Paleolimnology 38, 555-567.

Other:

Meier H. E. M., Rutgersson-Owenius A., Reckermann M., Aigars J., Berger F., Dailidienė I., Haapala J., Keevalik S., Kuliński K., Lehmann A., Myrberg K., Nilsson C., Omstedt A., Partasenok I., Post P., Rehder G., Smith B., Stendel M., von Storch H., Zorita E., Zhuravlev S., 2013, Baltic Earth – Earth System Science for the Baltic Sea region. Baltic Earth Newsletter 1, 1-3.
Pempkowiak J., Kuliński K., Szczepanska A., 2013, Carbon cycling in the Baltic Sea. Annual Report Polish Academy of Sciences, 70-71.
Pempkowiak J., Beldowski J., Kuliński K., 2009, Global change vs. threats to and from the Baltic Sea. Papers on Global Change IGBP 16, 111-123.
Dzierzbicka-Glowacka L., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J., 2007, Simulations of the particulate organic carbon (POC) in the Southern Baltic Sea, a pilot Study, BALTEX Newsletter 10, 10-11.
Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J., 2007, Budgeting approach for the CO2 uptake estimations, SOLAS Newsletter 5, 2.

Awards:

Grant for outstanding young scientists awarded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Warsaw, Poland, 2015-2018.
"Stanislaw Staszic Award" of Division III of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 2012.
Award of Director of the Institute of Oceanology PAN for publications activities in 2011, Sopot, Poland, 2012.
"Prof. Stanislaw Szymborski Award" – the best scientific presentation, II Sopot Young Scientists Forum, Sopot, Poland, 2010.
"Award for an outstanding CARBOOCEAN related Publication" – Bergen, Norway, 2009.
"National Leader of Innovation 2008 Award" – Innovative Scientific Project – representative of science, Warsaw, Poland, 2008.
"VII Young Oceanographers Symposium Award", Gdynia, Poland, 2008.
"SCOR Financial Support Award" – „SOLAS Open Science Conference", Xiamen, China, 2007.
"NATO Financial Support Award" – Summer School "Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems", Ankara, Turkey, 2006.