MSc Barbara Oleszczuk

Department of Marine Ecology
Institute of Oceanology PAN
Powstańców Warszawy 55
81-712 Sopot
POLAND
tel: (+ 48 58) 7311696
fax: (+ 48 58) 551 21 30
e-mail: oleszczuk [at] iopan.gda.pl


Education
  • 2015 – present: PhD student at the Institute of Oceanology PAS, Sopot, Poland.
  • 2011 – 2013 MSc in the field of oceanography (Thesis title: “Taxonomic composition of macrobenthic Crustacea in southern Baltic Sea in 2009 and 2010 year, at the environmental factors background”), Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, Oceanography, Protection and management of marine resources, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland.
  • 2008 – 2011 BSc in the field of oceanography (Thesis title: “Sea mammals adaptation to life in marine environment for example Carnivora”), Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, Biological Oceanography, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland.
Main scientific interests
  • Arctic ecology, food web and biodiversity interactions
  • ecology of benthic macrofauna
  • ecology of sea mammals
  • climate change
Project participation
  • 2016 – 2018: Benthic fauna functioning in the sea ice zone in the changing Arctic Ocean in spring time (SeaIceFun); Polish National Science Centre; project number: 2015/19/B/NZ8/03945.
Professional experience
  • 2017 – Scientific internship in Chesapeake Biological Laboratory University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, USA.
  • 2016 – Mobility grant in LEMAR/LabexMER, Plouzané, France.
  • 2012 – Volunteer work in Hel Marine Station, Institute of Oceanography in the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography at the University of Gdańsk, Hel, Poland.
  • 2012 – Volunteer work in Gdynia Aquarium, National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Gdynia, Poland.
  • 2010 – Work placements in Hel Marine Station, Institute of Oceanography in the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography at the University of Gdańsk, Hel, Poland.
Research cruises
  • 2016 – SWL2016 scientific cruise (Bering and Chukchi Seas) on board of CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Collecting samples: macrozoobenthos, sediment and water.
  • 2016 – ARCEx2016 scientific cruise (Svalbard) on board of R/V Helmer Hanssen. Collecting samples: macrozoobenthos, meiofauna, sediment and water.
  • 2015 – AREX2015 scientific cruise (Svalbard) on board of R/V Oceania. Collecting samples: macrozoobenthos, meiofauna, plankton and water.
  • 2015 – AREX2015 scientific cruise (Baltic, North and Norwegian Seas) on board R/V Oceania. Collecting samples: macrozoobenthos, meiofauna, sediment and water.
  • 2015 – technical cruise (Gulf of Gdańsk) on board R/V Oceania.
  • 2010 – technical cruise (Gulf of Gdańsk). Conservation and installing C-POD (hydroacoustic detector of Phocoena phocoena) as a apprentice in Hel Marine Station.
Conferences
Oleszczuk B., Michaud E., Morata N., Renaud P., Winogradow A., Kędra M., Arctic benthic communities structure and functioning during spring sea ice conditions, 2017, ASSW, Prague (presentation)
Oleszczuk B., Morata N., Winogradow A., Kędra M., Organic matter in the European sector of the Arctic Ocean across depth and sea ice gradients, 2017, ASSW, Prague (poster)
Oleszczuk B., Michaud E., Morata N., Renaud P., Kędra M., Benthic macrofauna and bioturbation across a depth gradient in the Arctic Ocean, 2017, GRC, Ventura (poster)
Oleszczuk B., Winogradow A., Kędra M., The origin and fate of arctic particular organic matter across depth and sea ice gradients, 2017, AF, Tromsø (poster)
Oleszczuk B., Winogradow A., Kędra M., Distribution and trends of particulate organic matter during spring season in the Arctic Ocean, 2016, KNPBM, Sopot (poster)
Oleszczuk B., Kędra M., Winogradow A., Fate of organic matter in the Arctic Ocean in relation to depth and sea ice cover characteristics, 2016, XXXVI Polar Symposium, Lublin (presentation)
Kędra M., Grebmeier J., Cooper L., Oleszczuk B., Benthic diversity in the changing ecosystems of northern Bering and Chukchi Seas, 2016, XXXVI Polar Symposium, Lublin (poster)
Oleszczuk B., Benthos fauna in northern Bering and Chukchi Sea – temporal changes, 2015, VII Symposium - Sopot Young Forum, Sopot (presentation)
Courses
  • 2016 – Workshop, “What really matters is not ‘How to do it?’ but ‘With whom?”, APECS (Lublin, Poland).
  • 2016 – Workshop, “How to get published in international journals”, Wiley (Gdańsk, Poland).
  • 2015 – Basic Safety Training in Personal Survival Techniques (Gdynia, Poland).
Membership
  • 2015 – APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists)

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