Beata Szymczycha

Research Interests

• Submarine groundwater discharge
• Denitrification and anammox in water and sediments
• Biogeochemistry of Arctic fjords

Projects

• GLOB – Nitrogen gain and loss in changing coastal lagoon ecosystems of the Baltic Sea
• SecuCoast - Security and management of Coastal groundwater resources and marine ecosystem services
• BSNCN - Baltic Sea Nitrogen Cycle Network https://balticnitrogen.com/
• ArcticSGD- Submarine Groundwater Discharge in a Changing Arctic: Scale and Biogeochemical Impact http://arcticsdg.iopan.pl/en/home
• IDEAL- Investigation of seasonal variability of the water column and sediment DEnitrificAtion and anammox in the BaLtic Sea http://www.iopan.gda.pl/projects/Ideal/index.html
• 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?
• INTEGRAL - Integrated carboN and TracE Gas monitoRing for the bALtic sea, Program BONUS-185, 2017- currently, Co-investigator.
• WaterPUCK - Modelling of the impact of the agricultural holdings and land-use structure on the quality of inland and coastal waters of the Baltic Sea set up on the example of the Municipality of Puck region - Integrated info-prediction Web Service WaterPUCK , 2017- currently, WP5 leader.
• DOMINO - assessment of influence of organic compounds on acid-base system in the Baltic Sea, Project financed from Polish National Science Centre, responsible for boron analyzes in seawater be means of ICP-MS and results interpretation, 2014-2017. Co-investigator.
• PharmSeepage. Assessment of the groundwater discharge as a source of pharmaceuticals residues in the marine environment of the Bay of Puck. Project financed from Polish National Science Centre. 2017- currently. Coordinator.
• Fulbright Senior Award, USGS, Woods Hole, USA, 2015-2016. Coordinator.
• Investigation of geochemical processes in the groundwater and seawater mixing zone. 2012/05/N/ST10/02761. Project financed from Polish National Science Centre. 2013- 2015. Coordinator.
• EDU SCIENCE, Increasing knowledge of children in environmental science. European Union FP7, 2011-2014. Co investigator.
• STAR DUST, Clean Water, Baltic Sea Region Program., 2011-2013. Co investigator. The quantification of seepage water composition and fluxes in the Puck Bay. NN306 383739. Project financed from Polish National Science Centre, Principal investigator, 2010-2013.
• Assessment of groundwater discharge in the Bay of Puck. Coordinator.
• AMBER BONUS_B EU FP6 Assessment and Modelling Baltic Ecosystem Response, 2009-2012. PhD-student.

Professional Affiliations

• ASLO (Association for the Sciences Meeting)
• GEOTARCERS
• European Association of Geochemistry

Honors and Awards

• Scholarship for the outstanding, young scientists funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland, 2017
• The Scientific Award im. Maurycego Piusa Rudzkiego Wydziału III PAN, Warsaw, Poland, 2015.
• Fulbright Senior Award 2015-2016, Warsaw, Poland, 2015.
• InnoDoktorant – scholarship for PhD-students-III edition, Gdańsk, Poland, 2013.

Publications

1. Lengier, M.; Koziorowska-Makuch, K.; Szymczycha, B.; Kuliński, K., Bioavailability and remineralization rates of sediment-derived dissolved organic carbon from a Baltic Sea depositional area. Frontiers in Marine Science 2024, 11, 1359563.
2. von Ahn, C. M. E.; Dellwig, O.; Szymczycha, B.; Kotwicki, L.; Rooze, J.; Endler, R.; Escher, P.; Schmiedinger, I.; Sültenfuß, J.; Diak, M., Submarine groundwater discharge into a semi-enclosed coastal bay of the southern Baltic Sea: A multi-method approach. Oceanologia 2024, 66 (1), 111-138.
3. Ljungberg, W.; Yau, Y. Y.; Cabral, A.; Majtényi‐Hill, C.; Henriksson, L.; McKenzie, T.; Ruiz‐Angulo, A.; Szymczycha, B.; Dittmar, T.; Ulber, I., Carbon outwelling and uptake along a tidal glacier‐lagoon‐ocean continuum. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 2024, 129 (6), e2023JG007895.
4. Loginova, A. N.; Wünsch, U. J.; Zabłocka, M.; Cherkasheva, A.; Szymczycha, B.; Kuliński, K.; Winogradow, A.; Kowalczuk, P., Qualitative variability of dissolved organic matter in the Baltic Sea sediments apparent from fluxes and optical properties. Frontiers in Marine Science 2024, 11, 1433199.
5. Mazur-Marzec, H.; Andersson, A. F.; Błaszczyk, A.; Dąbek, P.; Górecka, E.; Grabski, M.; Jankowska, K.; Jurczak-Kurek, A.; Kaczorowska, A. K.; Kaczorowski, T.; Karlson, B.; Kataržytė, M.; Kobos, J.; Kotlarska, E.; Krawczyk, B.; Łuczkiewicz, A.; Piwosz, K.; Rybak, B.; Rychert, K.; Sjöqvist, C.; Surosz, W.; Szymczycha, B.; Toruńska-Sitarz, A.; Węgrzyn, G.; Witkowski, A.; Węgrzyn, A., Biodiversity of microorganisms in the Baltic Sea: the power of novel methods in the identification of marine microbes. FEMS Microbiology Reviews 2024, 48 (5).
6. Wilson, S. J.; Moody, A.; McKenzie, T.; Cardenas, M. B.; Luijendijk, E.; Sawyer, A. H.; Wilson, A.; Michael, H. A.; Xu, B.; Knee, K. L.; Cho, H.-M.; Weinstein, Y.; Paytan, A.; Moosdorf, N.; Chen, C.-T. A.; Beck, M.; Lopez, C.; Murgulet, D.; Kim, G.; Charette, M. A.; Waska, H.; Ibánhez, J. S. P.; Chaillou, G.; Oehler, T.; Onodera, S.-i.; Saito, M.; Rodellas, V.; Dimova, N.; Montiel, D.; Dulai, H.; Richardson, C.; Du, J.; Petermann, E.; Chen, X.; Davis, K. L.; Lamontagne, S.; Sugimoto, R.; Wang, G.; Li, H.; Torres, A. I.; Demir, C.; Bristol, E.; Connolly, C. T.; McClelland, J. W.; Silva, B. J.; Tait, D.; Kumar, B.; Viswanadham, R.; Sarma, V.; Silva-Filho, E.; Shiller, A.; Lecher, A.; Tamborski, J.; Bokuniewicz, H.; Rocha, C.; Reckhardt, A.; Böttcher, M. E.; Jiang, S.; Stieglitz, T.; Gbewezoun, H. G. V.; Charbonnier, C.; Anschutz, P.; Hernández-Terrones, L. M.; Babu, S.; Szymczycha, B.; Sadat-Noori, M.; Niencheski, F.; Null, K.; Tobias, C.; Song, B.; Anderson, I. C.; Santos, I. R., Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean. Limnology and Oceanography Letters 2024, 9 (4), 411-422.
7. Saghravani, S. R.; Böttcher, M. E.; Hong, W. L.; Kuliński, K.; Lepland, A.; Sen, A.; Szymczycha, B., Distributions of in situ parameters, dissolved (in)organic carbon, and nutrients in the water column and pore waters of Arctic fjords (western Spitsbergen) during a melting season. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 2024, 16 (7), 3419-3431.”
8. Ehlert von Ahn, C. M.; Dellwig, O.; Szymczycha, B.; Kotwicki, L.; Rooze, J.; Endler, R.; Escher, P.; Schmiedinger, I.; Sültenfuß, J.; Diak, M.; Gehre, M.; Struck, U.; Vogler, S.; Böttcher, M. E., Submarine groundwater discharge into a semi-enclosed coastal bay of the southern Baltic Sea: A multi-method approach. Oceanologia 2024, 66 (1), 111-138.
9. Hinsby, K.; Scholten, J.; Virtasalo, J.; Szymczycha, B.; Leth, J. O.; Andersen, L. T.; Ondracek, M.; Tulstrup, J.; Latacz, M.; Bannasch, R., Towards a Digital Information Platform for Locating and Assessing Environmental Impacts of Submarine Groundwater Discharge: Examples from the Baltic Sea. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 2025, 13 (3), 614.
10. Grabski, M.; Kotlarska, E.; Łuczkiewicz, A.; Hryniewicz, K.; Węgrzyn, G.; Szymczycha, B., Spatial and seasonal distribution of selected nitrogen cycle genes in deep waters of the Baltic Proper. Frontiers in Marine Science 2025.
11. Sivasamy, P.; Diak, M.; Winogradow, A.; Bange, H. W.; Borecka, M.; Makuch, P.; Koziorowska-Makuch, K.; Kuliński, K.; Mackiewicz, A.; Szymczycha, B., Spatial and seasonal variability of excess dinitrogen gas in the Baltic Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science 2025, 12, 1455803.
12. Katarzyna Koziorowska-Makuch, Beata Szymczycha, Helmuth Thomas, Karol Kuliński, The marine carbonate system variability in high meltwater season (Spitsbergen Fjords, Svalbard), Progress in Oceanography,Volume 211, 2023, 102977, ISSN 0079-6611, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.102977.
13. 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 273:107880, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2022.107880
14. Kuliński K., Rehder G., Asmala E., Bartosova A., Carstensen J., Gustafsson B., Hall P.O.J., Humborg C., Jilbert T., Jürgens K., Meier H.E.M., Müller-Karulis B., Naumann M., Olesen J.E., Savchuk O., Schramm A., Slomp C.P., Sofiev M., Sobek A., Szymczycha B., Undeman E., 2022. Biogeochemical functioning of the Baltic Sea. Earth System Dynamics 13:633–685, DOI: 10.5194/esd-13-633-2022
15. Dzierzbicka-Głowacka L., Dybowski D., Janecki M., Wojciechowska E., Szymczycha B., Potrykus D., Nowicki A., Szymkiewicz A., Zima P., Jaworska-Szulc B., Pietrzak S., Pazikowska-Sapota G., Kalinowska D., Nawrot N., Wielgat P., Dembska G., Matej-Łukowicz K., Szczepańska K., Puszkarczuk T., 2022. Modelling the impact of the agricultural holdings and land-use structure on the quality of inland and coastal waters with an innovative and interdisciplinary toolkit. Agricultural Water Management 263:107438, DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107438
16. Piwoni-Piórewicz A., Strekopytov S., Humphreys-Williams E., Najorka J., Szymczycha B., Kukliński P., 2022. Polymorphism of CaCO3 and the variability of elemental composition of the calcareous skeletons secreted by invertebrates along the salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea. Geobiology 20:575-596, DOI: 10.1111/gbi.
17. Reckermann M., Omstedt A., Soomere T., Aigars J., Akhtar N., Bełdowska M., Bełdowski J., Cronin T., Czub M., Eero M., Hyytiäinen K.P., Jalkanen J.-P., Kiessling A., Kjellström E., Kuliński K., Larsén X.G., McCrackin M., Meier H.E.M., Oberbeckmann S., Parnell K., Pons-Seres de Brauwer C., Poska A., Saarinen J., Szymczycha B., Undeman E., Wörman A., Zorita E., 2022. Human impacts and their interactions in the Baltic Sea region. Earth System Dynamics 13:1–80, DOI: 10.5194/esd-13-1-2022
18. Lengier M., Szymczycha B., Brodecka-Goluch A., Kłostowska Ż., Kuliński K., 2021. Benthic diffusive fluxes of organic and inorganic carbon, ammonium and phosphates from deep water sediments of the Baltic Sea. Oceanologia 63:370-384, DOI: 10.1016/j.oceano.2021.04.002
19. Stokowski M., Winogradow A., Szymczycha B., Carstensen J., Kuliński K., 2021. The CO₂ system dynamics in the vicinity of the Vistula River mouth (the southern Baltic Sea): A baseline investigation. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 258:107444, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107444
20. Szymczycha B.; Klostowska, Z.; Lengier, M.; Dzierzbicka-Glowacka, L., Significance of nutrient fluxes via submarine groundwater discharge in the Bay of Puck, southern Baltic Sea. Oceanologia 2020, 62 (2), 117-125.
21. Szymczycha B.; Borecka, M.; Białk-Bielińska, A.; Siedlewicz, G.; Pazdro, K., Submarine groundwater discharge as a source of pharmaceutical and caffeine residues in coastal ecosystem: Bay of Puck, southern Baltic Sea case study. Sci Total Environ 2020, 713, 136522.
22. Klostowska, Z.; Szymczycha B.; Lengier, M.; Zarzeczanska, D.; Dzierzbicka-Glowacka, L., Hydrogeochemistry and magnitude of SGD in the Bay of Puck, southern Baltic Sea. Oceanologia 2020, 62 (1), 1-11.
23. Dzierzbicka-Głowacka L., Janecki M., Dybowski D., Szymczycha B., Obarska-Pempkowiak H., Wojciechowska E., Zima P., Pietrzak S., Pazikowska-Sapota G., Jaworska-Szulc B., Nowicki A., Kłostowska Ż., Szymkiewicz A., Galer-Tatarowicz K., Wichorowski M., Białoskórski M., Puszkarczuk T., 2019. A new approach for investigating the impact of pesticides and nutrient flux from agricultural holdings and land-use structures on baltic sea coastal waters. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies 28:2531-2539, DOI: 10.15244/pjoes/92524
24. Zaborska A., Siedlewicz G., Szymczycha B., Dzierzbicka-Głowacka L., Pazdro K., 2019. Legacy and emerging pollutants in the Gulf of Gdańsk (southern Baltic Sea) – loads and distribution revisited. Marine Pollution Bulletin 139, 238-255.
25. McGovern M., Berge J., Szymczycha B., Węsławski J.M., Renaud P.E., 2018. Hyperbenthic food web structure in an Arctic fjord. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 603, 29–46, https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12713.
26. Kuliński K., Szymczycha B., Koziorowska K., Hammer K., Schneider B. 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.
27. Graca B., Zakrzewska D., Szymczycha B., Sorption of Cr, Pb, Cu, Zn, Cd, Ni, and Co to nano-TiO2 in seawater. IWA Publishing 2018 Water Science & Technology 77.1, 2018.
28. 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. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-1107-2017.
29. 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: 10.1016/j.oceano.2017.03.008.
30. Szymczycha B., Kroeger K.D., Crusius J., Bratton J.F., 2017. Depth of the vadose zone controls aquifer biogeochemical conditions and extent of anthropogenic nitrogen removal,. Water Research 123, 794-801. DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2017.06.048.
31. Beata Szymczycha, Possible Climate Change Impact on Groundwater Discharge to the Bay of Puck, Southern Baltic Sea w Impact of Climate Changes on Marine Environments, Springer, 2016, 61-73. ISBN 978-3-319-14283-8, ISSN 2190-5207.
32. Szymczycha B., Kroeger K., Pempkowiak J., 2016. Significance of groundwater discharge along the coast of Poland as a source of dissolved metals to the southern Baltic Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin 1, 151-162.
33. Kotwicki L, Grzelak K, Czub M, Dellwig O, Gentz T, Szymczycha B., Bottcher ME, Submarine groundwater discharge to the Baltic coastal zone: Impacts on the meiofaunal community, Journal of Marine Systems, 2014, 129, 118–126.
34. Szymczycha B., Maciejewska A, Winogradow A, Pempkowiak J, Could submarine groundwater discharge be a significant carbon source to the southern Baltic Sea? Oceanologia, 2014, 56 (2), 327–347.
35. Szymczycha B., Miotk M, Pempkowiak J, 2013. Submarine Groundwater Discharge as a source of mercury in the Bay of Puck. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 224, DOI 10.1007/s11270-013-1542-0.
36. Szymczycha B., Vogler S, Pempkowiak J, 2012. Nutrient fluxes via submarine groundwater discharge to the Bay of Puck, southern Baltic Sea. Science of the Total Environment, 438, 86–93.
37. Pempkowiak J, Szymczycha B., Kotwicki L, 2010. Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) to the Baltic Sea. Rocznik Ochrony Środowiska 12, 17–32.

Books Chapters

1. Szymczycha B., Zaborska A., Bełdowski J., Kuliński K., Beszczyńska-Möller A., Kędra M., Pempkowiak J., 2019. The Baltic Sea, In World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation by Charles Sheppard, ISBN 978-0-12-805068-2.
2. Beata Szymczycha, Possible Climate Change Impact on Groundwater Discharge to the Bay of Puck, Southern Baltic Sea w Impact of Climate Changes on Marine Environments, Springer International Publishing, GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 61-73, ISBN 978-3-319-14283-8, ISSN 2190-5207, Szwajcaria 10.1007/978-3-319-14283-8, 2015.
3. Tymon Zieliński, Marcin Węsławski, Karol Kuliński, Tomasz Petelski, Beata Szymczycha, Introduction in Impact of Climate Changes on Marine Environments, Springer International Publishing, 1-7, ISBN 978-3-319-14283-8, ISSN 2190-5207, Szwajcaria 10.1007/978-3-319-14283-8, 2015.
4. European Arctic-sea users guide, Nutrients in the Arctic, Szymczycha B., Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, 2013.

Books

1. Beata Szymczycha and Janusz Pempkowiak. The Role of Submarine groundwater Discharge as a material Source to the Baltic Sea, Springer International Publishing, GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences, ISSN: 2190-5193, Szwajcaria 10.1007/978-3-319-25960-4 , 2016.