Research projects

• sandy littoral of the Baltic, Arctic and Tropics - comparision of structure and functioning (Jan Marcin Węsławski)

• glaciated Arctic fjords benthic communities structure and biodiversity along environmental gradients (Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk)

• phytoplankton and productivity of ice covered and coastal arctic waters (Józef Wiktor)

• comparative study of European and Canadian Arctic sympagic flora (Magdalena Różańska)

• European Arctic Seas Plankton Database (under construction)

• zooplankton prey distribution and environmental gradients (Sławomir Kwaśniewski)

• study of pelago-benthic flux in Arctic fiords environment (Marek Zajączkowski)

• changes in zooplankton community during advection (Wojciech Walkusz)

• ecology of Arctic bryozoans (Piotr Kukliński)

• zooplankton community structure in Arctic fjords and shelf seas (Sławomir Kwaśniewski)

Grants

• The role of zooplankton in sedimentation of organic matter in shelf water of Svalbard (KBN 1995 -1997) - Jola Koszteyn, Marek Zajączkowski

• Tidal Flat - testing ground for sediment dinamics and benthos community (KBN 2001 - 2003) - Marek Zajączkowski, Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk

• Organic enrichments effects on arctic sandy beach community (LSF 2001) - Barbara Malinga (Institute Ecology, PAS), Józef Wiktor

• Mollusca as bioindicators of sedimentary conditions and biodiversity of macrofauna in Arctic fiord (KBN 2002 - 2004) - Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk, Piotr Kukliński

• Bryozoa as a possible indicators of environmental changes in the Arctic (LSF Ny-Alesund 2001, KBN 2001 - 2002) - Piotr Kukliński

• Ecology of bryozoans from Svalbard waters (LSF Natural History Museum, London 2002, LSF Zoological museum, Kopenhagen 2002) - Piotr Kukliński

• Biodiversity of molluscan fauna in an Arctic glacier - influenced fiord (LSF COBICE 2002) - Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk

• Scavenging crustaceans in the ecosystem of Arctic fiord (LSF Ny-Alesund, 1999) - Zosia Legeżyńska, Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk, Marek Zajączkowski

• Fresh Water Cap  - the influence of glacial meltwater on Svalbard fjords fauna (KBN 1992-1994) - Jan Marcin Węsławski

• Early stages of marine phytoplankton development in extreme environmental conditions (KBN 1995- 1997) - Jan Marcin Węsławski, Józef Wiktor

• Macrozoobenthos succesion in deglacialted bottom of Svalbard fjords (KBN 1998- 2000) - Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk, Jan Marcin Węsławski

• Changes in biodiversity of marine benthos along the depth gradient in North Atlantic (KBN 2000- 2001) - Jan Marcin Węsławski, Maria Włodarska -Kowalczuk

• "Bottom layer zooplankton" - structure and role of zooplankton in bottom layers in shelf ecosystem (Kongsfjorden) (KBN 2001 - 2002) - Sławomir Kwaśniewski

• "MARINOK" - structure and dynamics of zooplankton in the Marginal Ice Zone (of the Barents Sea) (bilateral project between Norsk Polarinstitutt and IO PAS, 1999 - 2001) - Sławomir Kwaśniewski

• BIODAF - Biodiversity and fluxes in Arctic glaciated fiords (International Concerted Action 1996 - 2000) - Jan Marcin Węsławski

• BIODAF II - Biodiversity and fluxes in Arctic glaciated fiords (International Concerted Action 2001 - 2005) - Jan Marcin Węsławski

• BIOMARE - Long Term large scale marine biodiversity research in Europe - Vth Framework EU Concerted Action 2000- 2002 

• MARBENA - Implementation and facilitation of MArine Biodiversity Network in Europe - Vth Framework Shared Cost Action - 2003- 2005 

• COSA - Coastal Sands as biocatalytical filters - Vth Framework EU project 2002-2005

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