Education:
2016- present:
Institute
of
Oceanology
PAS,
research
scientist
2016: Ph.D.
at Institute
of Oceanology
PAS (Thesis:
An interplay
between
sea ice
and thermohaline
circulation
during
Younger
Dryas-
a multiproxy
record
of paleoceanographic
changes
in the
European
Arctic)
2010: M.Sc.
at the
University
of Gdansk,
Faculty
of Oceanography,
Poland
(Thesis:
The rates
of recent
hydrological
changes
in the
Hornsund
fjord using
modern
benthic
foraminiferal
assemblages)
Professional
Experience:
Jan 2013
- Mar
2013
- Lab
Assistant
at Department
of Geology,
University
of Tromsø,
Tromsø,
Norway
Nov 2015-Dec
2015
- Training
at the
Institute
for Environmental
Science
and Technology
(ICTA),
Autonomous
University
of Barcelona,
Spain
Professional
interest:
Reconstruction
of Arctic
paleoenvironments
using
micropaleontological
and organic
proxy
Foraminifera
as bio-indicators
of environmental
changes
Sedimentary
processes
in the
Arctic
fjords
Publications:
• Pawłowska,
J., Zajączkowski,
M., Łącka,
M., Lejzerowicz,
F., Esling,
P., and
Pawlowski,
J.: Palaeoceanographic
changes
in Hornsund
Fjord
(Spitsbergen,
Svalbard)
over
the last
millennium:
new insights
from
ancient
DNA,
Climate
of the
Past,
12, 1459–1472,
2016
• Urbanski,
J.A.,
Wochna,
A., Bubak,
I., Grzybowski,
W., Lukawska-Matuszewska,
K., Łącka,
M., Śliwińska,
S., Wojtasiewicz,
B., Zajączkowski,
M.: Application
of Landsat
8 imagery
to regional-scale
assessment
of lake
water
quality,
International
Journal
of Applied
Earth
Observation
and Geoinformation,
51, 28-36,
doi:
doi:10.1016/j.jag.2016.04.004,
2016
• Łącka,
M., Zajączkowski,
M.: Does
the recent
pool
of benthic
foraminiferal
tests
in fjordic
surface
sediments
reflect
interannual
environmental
changes?
The resolution
limit
of the
foraminiferal
record,
Annales
Societatis
Geologorum
Poloniae,
86, 59-71,
doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2015.019,
2016
• Drewnik,
A., Węsławski,
J.M.,
Włodarska-Kowalczuk,
M., Łącka,
M., Promińska,
A., Zaborska,
A.: From
the worm’s
point
of view.
I: Environmental
settings
of benthic
ecosystems
in Arctic
fjord
(Hornsund,
Spitsbergen),
Polar
Biology,
1-14,
doi:
10.1007/s00300-015-1867-9,
2016
• Pawłowska,
J., Zajączkowski,
M., Łącka,
M., Lejzerowicz,
F., Esling,
P., and
Pawlowski,
J.: Palaeoceanographic
changes
in Hornsund
Fjord
(Spitsbergen,
Svalbard)
over
the last
millennium:
new insights
from
ancient
DNA,
Climate
of the
Past
Discussion,
11, 3665–3698,
doi:
3665-3698,
doi:10.5194/cpd-11-3665-2015,
2015
• Wegner,
C., Bennett,
K.E.,
de Vernal,
A., Forwick,
M., Fritz,
M., Heikkilä,
M., Łącka,
M., Lantuit,
H., Laska,
M. Moskalik,
M., O’Regan,
M., Pawłowska,
J., Promińska,
A., Rachold,
V., Vonk,
J.E.,
Werner,
K.: Variability
in transport
of terrigenous
material
on the
shelves
and the
deep
Arctic
Ocean
during
the Holocene,
Polar
Research,
34, 24964,
doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v34.24964,
2015
• Łącka,
M., Zajączkowski,
M., Forwick,
M., Szczuciński,
W.: Late
Weichselian
and Holocene
paleoceanography
of Storfjordrenna,
southern
Svalbard,
Climate
of the
Past,
11, 587–603,
2015
• Łącka,
M., Pawłowska,
J., Zajączkowski,
M.: New
Methods
in the
Reconstruction
of Arctic
Marine
Palaeoenvironments,
Impact
of Climate
Changes
on Marine
Environments,
GeoPlanet:
Earth
and Planetary
Sciences,
127-148,
2015
• Łącka,
M., Zajączkowski,
M., Forwick,
M., Szczuciński,
W.: Late
Weichselian
and Holocene
paleoceanography
of Storfjordrenna,
southern
Svalbard,
Climate
of the
Past
Discussion,
10, 3053-3095,
doi:10.5194/cpd-10-3053-2014,
2014
Awards:
Winner of the "Outstanding Poster Award" during the conference Arctic Frontiers 2011 – Arctic Tipping Points Tromsø,
Norway, (23.-28.01.2011).
Title of the poster: Łącka
M., Zajączkowski
M., Modern foraminiferal assemblages
as bioindicators of recent
hydrological changes in Hornsund
fiord.
IOPAN Director’s Scholarship Award for the outstanding PhD students, 2012
IOPAN
Director’s Scholarship Award
for the outstanding PhD students,
2013
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