Dr. Katarzyna Koziorowska

2025 – present	Co-head at the International Baltic Earth Secretariat, Sopot, Poland
2021 – present	Scientist at the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
2020 – 2021	Postdoctoral internship, Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz Center Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany
2018 – 2020	Specialist at the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot,  Poland
2014 – 2018	PhD studies at the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (Interdisciplinary Polar Studies – Centre For Polar Studies), Sopot, Poland
2012 – 2014	Master’s studies in Geography (Physical Geography) at the University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
2010 – 2012	Master’s studies in Oceanography (Marine geology) at the University of Gdańsk, Gdynia, Poland
2007 – 2012	Bachelor’s studies in Oceanography (Marine geology) at the University of Gdańsk, Gdynia, Poland

Koziorowska K., Makuch P., Aguado Gonzalo F., Kuliński K. 2025. High bioavailability of soil-derived dissolved organic carbon in the high Arctic fjord (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard Archipelago). Front. Earth Sci. 13:1456404. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2025.1456404.

Graversen et al. 2025. A marine and salt marsh sediment organic carbon database for European regional seas (EURO-CARBON) Data in Brief Volume 60, June 2025, 111595, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2025.111595.

Sivasamy P., Diak M., Winogradow A., Bange H.W., Borecka M., Makuch P., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Kuliński K., Mackiewicz A., Szymczycha B. 2025. Spatial and seasonal variability of excess dinitrogen gas in the Baltic Sea. Front. Mar. Sci. 12:1455803. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1455803.

Aguado Gonzalo F., Stokowski M., Koziorowska-MakuchK., Makuch, P., Beszczyńska-Möller A., Kukliński P., Kuliński K., 2024. Key processes controlling the variability of the summer marine CO2 system in Fram Strait surface waters. Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1464653, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1464653.

Schätzle P-K., Kest K., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Kuliński K., Schubert H. 2024. The fate of Zostera marina as part of beach wrack at the Baltic Sea coast in Poel, Germany, Science Talks, 11, 100388, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sctalk.2024.100388.

Lengier M., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Szymczycha B., Kuliński K. 2024. Bioavailability and remineralization rates of sediment-derived dissolved organic carbon from a Baltic Sea depositional area, Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1359563, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1359563.

Silberberger M.J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Reiss H., Kędra M. 2024. Trophic niches of macrobenthos: Latitudinal variation indicates climate change impact on ecosystem functioning. Global Change Biology, 30(1), e17100, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17100.

Koziorowska-Makuch K., Szymczycha B., Thomas H., Kuliński, K. 2023. The marine carbonate system variability in high meltwater season (Spitsbergen Fjords, Svalbard), Progress in Oceanography, 211, 102977, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.102977.

Diak M., Böttcher M.E., Ehlert Von Ahn C.M., Hong W.L., Kędra M., Kotwicki L., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Kuliński K., Lepland A., Makuch P., Sen A., Winogradow A., Silberberger M., J., Szymczycha B. 2023, Permafrost and Groundwater Interaction: Current State and Future Perspective. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, 1254309, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1254309.

Szymczycha B., Böttcher M.E., Diak M., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Kuliński K., Makuch P., von Ahn C.M.E., Winogradow A. 2023, The benthic-pelagic coupling affects the surface water carbonate system above groundwater-charged coastal sediments Frontiers in Marine Science, 1218245, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1218245.

Szczepanek M., Silberberger M.J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Kędra M. 2022. Utilization of riverine organic matter by macrobenthic communities in a temperate prodelta, Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 974539, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.974539.

Borawska Z., Szymczycha B., Silberberger M.J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Szczepanek M., Kędra  M. 2022. Benthic fluxes of dissolved silica are an important component of the marine Si cycle in the coastal zone, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 273, 107880, ISSN 0272-7714, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2022.107880.

Silberberger M. J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Borawska Z., Szczepanek M., Kędra M. 2022. Disentangling the Drivers of Benthic Oxygen and Dissolved Carbon Fluxes in the Coastal Zone of the Southern Baltic Sea, Estuaries and Coasts, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-022-01074-w.

Cui X., Mucci A., Bianchi T.S., He D., Vaughn D., Williams E.K., Wang C., Smeaton C., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Faust J.C., Plante A.F., Rosenheim B.E. 2022. Global fjords as transitory reservoirs of labile organic carbon modulated by organo-mineral interactions, Science Advances 8 (46), https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add0610.

Silberberger M.J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Kuliński K., Kędra K. 2021. Stable isotope mixing models are biased by the choice of sample preservation and pre-treatment: Implications for the study of aquatic food webs. Front. Mar. Sci. 7:621978. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.621978.

Szczepanek M., Silberberger M. J., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Nobili E., Kędra M. 2021. The response of coastal macrobenthic food-web structure to seasonal and regional variability in organic matter properties, Ecological Indicators, 132, 108326, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108326.

Szymańska N. K., Łącka M., Koziorowska-Makuch K., Kuliński K., Pawłowska J., Kujawa A., Telesiński M., Zajączkowski M., 2021, Foraminifera‐derived carbon contribution to sedimentary inorganic carbon pool: A case study from three Norwegian fjords, Geobiology, 19 (1). https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12460.

Bianchi T. S., Arndt S., Austin W. E.N., Benn D. I., Bertrand S., Cui X., Faust J.C, Koziorowska-Makuch K., Moy C., Savage C., Smeaton C., Smith R., Syvitski J. 2020. Fjords as Aquatic Critical Zones (ACZs), Earth-Science Reviews, 203: 103145, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103145.

Kuliński K., Szymczycha B., Koziorowska K., Hammer K., Schneider B. 2018. Anomaly of total boron concentration in the brackish waters of the Baltic Sea and its consequence for the CO2 system calculations. Marine Chemistry 204: 11-19, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2018.05.007.

Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J. 2018. Deposition, return flux, and burial rates of nitrogen and phosphorus in the sediments of two high-Arctic fjords. Oceanologia 60 (4): 431-445, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2018.05.001.

Pacyna A., Koziorowska K., Chmiel S., Mazerski J., Polkowska Ż. 2018. Svalbard reindeer as an indicator of ecosystem changes in the Arctic terrestrial ecosystem. Chemosphere 203: 209-218, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.03.158.

Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J. 2018. Comparison of the burial rate estimation methods of organic and inorganic carbon and quantification of carbon burial in two high Arctic fjords. Oceanologia 60 (3): 405-418, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2018.02.005.

Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J. 2017. Distribution and origin of inorganic and organic carbon in the sediments of Kongsfjorden, northwest Spitsbergen, European Arctic. Continental Shelf Research 150: 27-35, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2017.08.023.

Pawłowska J., Łącka M., Kucharska M., Szymańska N., Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Zajączkowski M. 2017. Benthic foraminifera contribution to fjord modern carbon pools: A seasonal study in Adventfjorden, Spitsbergen. Geobiology 15 (5): 704-714, https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12242.

Szymczycha B., Winogradow A., Kuliński K., Koziorowska K., Pempkowiak J. 2017. Diurnal and seasonal DOC and POC variability in the land-locked sea. Oceanologia 59 (3): 379-388, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2017.03.008.

Koziorowska K., Kuliński K., Pempkowiak J. 2016. Sedimentary organic matter in two Spitsbergen fjords: terrestrial and marine contribution based on carbon and nitrogen contents and stable isotopes composition. Continental Shelf Research 113: 38-46, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2015.11.010.