Jacek Bełdowski

Education

2016 - Habilitacja (roughly equivalent to British Doctor of Science), Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences.
2004 - PhD in Earth Sciences, specializing in mercury pollution of marine ecosystems.
Since 2000, researcher in the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Oceanography.
Masters degree in Marine Biology from the University of Gdańsk in 1998.

Position

Currently coordinator EU Project DAIMON2 – Practical Applications.
2016 - coordinator of EU project Decision Aid for Marine Munitions (DAIMON).
2013 - director of NATO SPS project Towards the Monitoring of Dumped Munitions Threat (MODUM).
Coordinator since 2011 of the European Union-funded Chemical Munitions Search & Assessment Project (CHEMSEA), dealing with chemical munitions in the Baltic.
Several Baltic and Artic expeditions and participated in international research projects with the Institute of Oceanology and the Leibnitz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemuende.

Research Interests

Heavy and trace metals behaviour in biological material and sediments.
Biogeochemical modelling of metal cycles.
Data processing and database management.
Dumped munitions impact on marine environment.
Climate change influence on heavy and trace metals geochemical cycles.
Polar environment element cycles.

Current Projects

Benthic organisms as a tracer of mercury sources in Antarctic coastal zone(Admiralty Bay) NCN 2019/33/B/ST10/00290 – Principal Investigator.
Decision Aid for Marine Munitions – Practical Applications (DAIMON2) – Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme project, Coordinator.
Baltic Beach Wrack - Conversion of a Nuisance To a Resource and Asset (CONTRA) - Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme project, 2.5 M Eur, Principal Investigator.

Completed Projects

2016-2019 Decision Aid for Marine Munitions (DAIMON) – Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme project, 4.7 M Eur, Coordinator.
2013-2016 Towards Monitoring of Dumped Munitions Threat (MODUM) – Nato SfP Project 1.1 M Eur - Coordinator.
2010-2013, The Strategic Project on Trans-national Commercial Activities in Research & Innovation, Clusters and in SME-Networks, Stardust, Baltic Sea Region Programme, Participant.
2012-2013 Planning Grant, Towards Monitoring of Dumped Munitions Threat.NATO SPS.EAP.SFP 984589, 7000 €, Coordinator.
2011-2013 Chemical Munitions Search & Assessment; CHEMSEA; 4,7 M € Coordinator.
2008-2012, Integrated project for oceanographic data management, ZSPDO, POIG.02.03.00-00-002/08, Innovative Economy EU Project, Participant.
2008- 2011 BONUS+, Baltic-C - Participant.
2009-2011 BONUS+, AMBER – Participant.
2005-2009 EU FP6 Carboocean – Participant.
1998-2000 FP5 Baltic Sea System Study (BASYS), Participant.

Recent publications

Rakociński, M.; Marynowski, L.; Pisarzowska, A.; Bełdowski, J.; Siedlewicz, G.; Zatoń, M.; Perri, M. C.; Spalletta, C.; Schönlaub, H. P., Volcanic related methylmercury poisoning as the possible driver of the end-Devonian Mass Extinction. Sci Rep-Uk 2020, 10 (1), 7344.
Frey, T., Bełdowski J., Maser, E. 2020 Explosive ordnance in the Baltic Sea: New Tools for decision makers. Journal of Conventional weapons destruction, 23.3, 44-48.
Saniewska, D., Gębka, K., Bełdowska, M., Siedlewicz, G., Bełdowski, J., Wilman, B., 2019. Impact of hydrotechnical works on outflow of mercury from the riparian zone to a river and input to the sea. Mar Pollut Bull 142, 361-376.
Bełdowski J., Szubska M., Siedlewicz G., Korejwo E., Grabowski M., Bełdowska M., Kwasigroch U., Fabisiak J., Łońska E., Szala M., Pempkowiak J. 2019. Sea-dumped ammunition as a possible source of mercury to the Baltic Sea sediments. Sci. Tot. Environ., 674, 363-373 doi: 0.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.058.
Bełdowski, J., Szubska, M., Bełdowska, M., Jankowska, K., Kotlarska, E., Graca, B., 2018. Seasonal changes of mercury speciation in the coastal sediments. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 18, 3424-3436 DOI: 10.1007/s11368-018-1993-4.
Gebka, K., Beldowska, M., Saniewska, D., Kulinski, K., Bełdowski, J., 2018. Watershed characteristics and climate factors effect on the temporal variability of mercury in the southern Baltic Sea rivers. Journal of Environmental Sciences 68, 55-64.
Saniewska, D., Beldowska, M., Bełdowski, J., Saniewski, M., Gebka, K., Szubska, M., Wochna, A., 2018. Corrigendum to Impact of intense rains and flooding on mercury riverine input to the coastal zone (vol 127, pg 593, 2018). Mar Pollut Bull 131, 804-804.
Saniewska, D., Beldowska, M., Bełdowski, J., Saniewski, M., Gebka, K., Szubska, M., Wochna, A., 2018. Impact of intense rains and flooding on mercury riverine input to the coastal zone. Mar Pollut Bull 127, 593-602.
Czub, M., Kotwicki, L., Lang, T., Sanderson, H., Klusek, Z., Grabowski, M., Szubska, M., Jakacki, J., Andrzejewski, J., Rak, D., Bełdowski, J., 2018. Deep sea habitats in the chemical warfare dumping areas of the Baltic Sea. Sci Total Environ 616, 1485-1497. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.165.
Bełdowski, J, Been R, Turmus EK (2017) Towards the Monitoring of Dumped Munitions Threat (MODUM): A Study of Chemical Munitions Dumpsites in the Baltic Sea. Springer Netherlands.
Bełdowski J., Pempkowiak J., Mercury concentration and speciation changes in the course of early diagenesis in marine coastal sediments (Southern Baltic Sea)., Marine and Freshwater research, in press.
Bełdowski J., Pempkowiak J. 2007. Mercury transformations in marine coastal sediments as derived from mercury concentration and speciation changes along source/sink transport pathway (Southern Baltic). Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 72, 370-378.
Pempkowiak J., Walkusz-Miotk J., Bełdowski J., Walkusz W. 2006 "Concentrations of heavy metals in Copepoda and Cladocera from the Southern Baltic" - Chemosphere 62, 1697-1708.
Pempkowiak J., Bełdowski J., Pazdro K., Staniszewski A., Zaborska A., Leipe T., Emeis K. (2005)."Factors influencing fluffy layer suspended matter (FLSM) properties in the Odra River - Pomeranian Bay - Arkona Deep System (Baltic Sea) as derived by principal components analysis (PCA), and cluster analysis (CA)" Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 9, 1-14, 2005.