PhD student at the Institute of OceanologyPAS, Sopot, Poland

University of Gdańsk Oceanology faculty, specialisation: Marine Biology M.Sc. thesis: "Influence of Kamienny stream waters on diatoms composition in costal region of Gulf of Gdańsk"

Participation in project Habitat Mapping-Ecosystem approach to marine spatial planning-Polish marine areas and the Natura 2000 network.

Participation in project: "New methods of macrophytes estimation In fiord as a example of acustic methods usage for environment condition estimation (Hornsund, west Spitsbergen)"

Participation in COSA project- Coastal Sands as Biocatalytical Filters

Participation in CASES project- Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study

Course of scanning microscopy (The Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven )

Training in material preparation for microbiological loop experiments (during CASES Project) (Grazing)

PUBLICATION:

* Building on the concept of marine biological valuation with respect to translating it to a practical protocol: Viewpoints derived from a joint ENCORA-MARBEF initiative
Derous, S.; Austen, M.; Claus, S.; Daan, N.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Deneudt, K.; Depestele, J.; Desroy, N.; Heessen, H.; Hostens, K.; Marboe, A.H.; Lescrauwaet, A.-K.; Moreno, M.P.; Moulaert, I.; Paelinckx, D.; Rabaut, M.; Rees, H.; Ressurreiçao, A.; Roff, J.C.; Santos, P.T.; Speybroeck, J.; Willems, W.; Stienen, E.W.M.; Tatarek, A.; ter Hofstede, R.; Vincx, M.; Zarzycki, T.; Degraer, S. (2008). Building on the concept of marine biological valuation with respect to translating it to a practical protocol: Viewpoints derived from a joint ENCORA-MARBEF initiative, in: Derous, S. (2008). Marine biological valuation as a decision support tool for marine management. pp. 91-98

* Sofie Derous,Melanie Austen,Simon Claus,Niels Daan,Jean Claude Dauvin,Klaas Deneudt,Jochen Depestele,Nicolas Desroy,Henk Heessen,Kris Hostens,Anne Husum Marboe,Ann-Katrien Lescrauwaet,Maria Paola Moreno,Ine Moulaert,Desire Paelinckx,Marijn Rabaut,Hubert Rees,Adriana Ressurreiçao,John Roff,Paulo Talhadas Santos,Jeroen Speybroeck,Eric Willem Maria Stienen,Agnieszka Tatarek,Remmment Ter Hofstede,Magda Vincx,Tomasz Zarzycki,Steven Degraer (2007). Building on the concept of marine biological valuation with respect to translating it to a practical protocol: Viewpoints derived from a joint ENCORA-MARBEF initiative. Oceanologia 49(4): 579-586

* Kruss A., Tęgowski J., Wiktor J., Tatarek A., 2006, Acoustic Estimation Of Macrophytes In The Hornsund Fjord (The Svalbard Archipelago, Hydroacoustics, 9, 89-96.

* "Comparative study of microphytobenthic diatoms from North Sea and Baltic sandy coast- preliminary results", ASLO Summer Meeting 2005, Santiago de Compostella 19- 24 June 2005, poster

* "Preliminary results of comparative study of microphytobenthic diatoms of North Sea and Balic sandy coast", 18th International Diatom Sympodium, Miedzyzdroje, 2-7 Spetember 2004, poster

* "The influence of Kamienny Stream waters on diatoms composition in costal region of Gulf of Gdańsk", thesis awarded in contest organized by Sopot Town Council, and publicated on a official Town web page