prof. UAM dr hab. Krzysztof Zawierucha

Room: 0.17

Phone: 61 829 56 66

k.zawierucha@amu.edu.pl

Research interests
Research projects
Cooperation
Awards
Publications
Teaching
Activities promoting science
Research travels
Scholarships

Glacial and snow ecosystems – biodiversity, ecology
Tardigrades (Tardigrada) – taxonomy, ecology, biogeography
Pollution of the supraglacial zone
Biology of Arctic and Antarctic ecosystems
Biodiversity
Cryosphere

In progress

Vanishing habitats: conservation priorities for glacier-related biodiversity threatened by climate change (PrioritIce). Biodiversa+ Call 2021 grant, 2022/04/Y/NZ8/00092. 2023–2026. Project leader.
Microfauna emerging in seasonal snow patch ecosystems – losers or winners? SnowLife. Lithuanian Research Council, No. S-MIP-23-25. 2023-2026. Contractor.
A first assessment of the biodiversity of Adamello Glaciar. Comunita Montana di Valle Camonica. 2025-2026. Contractor.
Biodiversity of icy Carpathian arks Research Team. 2025. IDUB UAM International Research Team no. 173/02/UAM/0033. Project leader.

Compleated

Control of animals over cryoconite hole ecosystems – effects of bioturbation and food choice. Funded by NCN, grant OPUS no. 2018/31/B/NZ8/00198. 2019–2022. Project leader.
Diversity and fate of tardigrades on snow during global warming – do water bears need snow ecosystems? DARWIN. Funded by NAWA, Bekker Programme, PPN/BEK/2020/1/00321. Project leader.
SeArching for Multicellular life above the Equlibrium LIne on New ZeAland glaciers (AMELIA). Funded by UAM, no. 006/01/POB1/0001. (Project supporting study visits by foreign scientists). Project leader.
Harmonising Environmental Research and Monitoring of Priority Pollutants in the Svalbard Atmosphere (HERMOSA). Funded by the Svalbard Science Forum. 2020-2021. Contractor.
Bioaccumulation of radioactive isotopes and their impact on populations of organisms in
the supraglacial zone of glaciers. Funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Diamond Grant no. DI2018 000548. Head: Jakub Buda, MSc. 09.2019-08.2023. Scientific supervisor.
Antibiotic resistance genes and integrons as indicators of biotic pollution and resistance load of Arctic ecosystems. Funded by the National Science Centre, Sonatina grant no. 2020/36/C/NZ9/00221. 2020-2023. Collaboration.
Trophic Relations and Stoichiometric Patterns in Cryoconite Holes and Glacier Fore-Fields with Emphasis on Tardigrades and Rotifers. Funded by Charles University Grant Agency (GA UK), no. 596120. 2020–2023. Collaboration.
Antibiotic resistance genes and integrons as indicators of biotic pollution and resistance load of Arctic ecosystems. Funded by NCN, grant Sonatina no. 2020/36/C/NZ9/00221.2020-2023. Collaboration.
Trophic Relations and Stoichiometric Patterns in Cryoconite Holes and Glacier Fore-Fields with Emphasis on Tardigrades and Rotifers. Funded by Charles University Grant Agency (GA UK), no. 596120. 2020-2023. Collaboration.
2014-2017. NCN 2013/11/N/NZ8/00597. Cryoconites – unique habitats for tardigrades. How do tundra ecosystems influence tardigrade (Tardigrada) communities in cryoconites? Project leader.
2014-2017. Pol-Nor/201992/93/2014. DWARF. Size reduction – a general response to climate warming in Arctic fauna? Polish-Norwegian research programme. Contractor.
2014-2016. Ministry of Science and Higher Education grant IP2014 017973. The use of DNA barcoding as a tool for species identification within the Macrobiotus harmsworthi complex. Contractor.

Finished

2012-2016. Ministry of Science and Higher Education ‘Diamond Grant’ DI2011 035241. Diversity and ecology of tardigrades (Tardigrada) in Arctic regions in the context of climate change and island biogeography theory. Project manager.
2012-2013. Projects for the Naturalists’ Scientific Circle (KNP) funded by the Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University. Greenhouses in Poland as biodiversity hot spots and their role in the introduction of alien species. Project manager.
2010-2013. Ministry of Science and Higher Education grant No. N N304 014939. The role of habitat factors in shaping the biodiversity of soil tardigrades (Tardigrada) in Continental Antarctica (Victoria Land, Ross Sea region). In collaboration with Dr Łukasz Kaczmarek (project manager), Dr Łukasz Michalczyk and Dr Jerzy Smykla. Contractor.
Synthesys DK-TAF-2706. Taxonomic revision of the Baltic Sea Arthrotardigrada, with special emphasis on the genus Batillipes Richters, 1909. Project leader.
RIS (Research in Svalbard), ID: 5326. Diversity and distribution patterns of microfauna in terrestrial habitats of the Svalbard Archipelago. Contractor.
2010-2011. Seasonal qualitative and quantitative changes in the arachnofauna of the Morasko Meteorite Reserve (on behalf of the Invertebrate Research Section of the Nanuk Naturalists’ Circle at Adam Mickiewicz University). Contractor.

Research travels

Fieldwork in the Svalbard Archipelago: Spitsbergen as part of the Preludium NCN 2013/11/N/NZ8/00597 project
Summer school in Iceland, ‘Biosignatures and the Search for Life on Mars,’ organised by the European Astrobiology Campus.
Fieldwork in Kangerlussuaq (Greenland) as part of the NCN 2013/11/N/NZ8/00597 project
Fieldwork in Tromsø (Norway) and Stockholm (Sweden) as part of the DWARF Pol-Nor/201992/93/2014 project
Research internship at the Department of Entomology, Institute of Zoology, Jagiellonian University. Work on the project ‘Species delimitation – combining morphometric, molecular and experimental approaches’ funded by the Foundation for Polish Science. Coordinator: Dr Łukasz Michalczyk.
Course ‘Integrative taxonomy and taxonomic expertise in the framework of the DNA – barcoding initiative’. Natural History Museum in Paris.
Field research in the Svalbard Archipelago: Spitsbergen, Prins Karl Foreland, Danskøya, Nordaustlandet, Sjuøyane (as part of a research project under the Diamond Grant programme).
Trip to the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen as part of the Synthesys grant (DK-TAF-2706).
2011, 2012. Participant in research at the Wicie field station (European Bird Migration Network).
Field research at the Polish Polar Station Hornsund on Spitsbergen (in cooperation with the Institute of Polar Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow).
Co-organiser of a scientific expedition to the Golden Mountains (project: assessment of the population size of the blue salamander Bielzia coerulans (M. Bielz, 1851) in the Golden Mountains) on behalf of the Invertebrate Research Section of the KNP UAM.
Research trip to the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Wildau (Germany).
Participation in the ‘Baltic Action’ (large-scale bird monitoring: trapping and ringing).

Daniel Shain, Biology Department, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden, NJ, USA
Nozomu Takeuchi, Department of Earth Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
Roberto Ambrosini, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Gentilo Francesco Ficetola, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Andrea Franzetti, Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Karel Janko, Laboratory of Fish Genetics, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Libechov, Czech Republic
Tereza Novotna-Jaromerska, Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic
Dzmitry Lukashanets, Marine Research Institute, Klaipėda University, Klaipėda, Lithuania
Masato Ono, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Shiga, Japan
Ji-Hoon Kihm, Division of Glaciers & Earth Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute

Awards

2016. Special award from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for presentation in the FameLab competition.
2013. Second place in the competition for the best paper at the 2nd Conference of Young Scientists on World Water Day.
2013. Distinction in the Competition for the Best Student of the Republic of Poland (Student Nobel 2013) at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
2013. Medal of the Faculty of Biology for excellent academic results and particularly active participation in the Natural Scientists’ Scientific Club during studies at the Faculty of Biology of the Adam Mickiewicz University.

2026

Zawierucha K., Szudarek-Trepto N., Łaniecki R., Valle B., Mikołajczyk M., Trzebny A., Nahimova O., Wierzgoń M., Kaźmierski A., Niedbała W., Rutkowski T., Kołtonik K., Łokas E., Ficetola G. F., Konwerski S., Stachowiak M., Yde J. C., Calhim S. 2026. Morphological and molecular inventory of invertebrates reveals a unique faunal diversity in glacier mice. Journal of Zoology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jzo.70105
Novotná Jaroměřská T., Havránek V., Trubač J., Devetter M., Zawierucha K., Romanenko O., Tejnecký V., Kukla J., Fayadová M., Vondrovicová L., Hessen D. O. 2026. Phosphorus in cryospheric microinvertebrates: a first insight into glacier and non-glacier tardigrades and rotifers by particle induced X-ray emission (PIXE). Aquatic Sciences, 88(1): 1-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00027-025-01237-4

2025

Novotná Jaroměřská T., Havránek V., Novotný D., Zawierucha K., Romanenko O., Štenc J., Vondrovicová L., Fayadová M., Trubač J. 2025. Chasing (macro)elements in microinvertebrates: A new methodological approach for quantitative and qualitative analyses of phosphorus by PIXE (Particle‐Induced X‐Ray Emission) applied to glacier tardigrades. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 16(6): 1160–1172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70023
Makowska-Zawierucha,N., Woszak M., Yde J. C., Zawierucha K. 2025. Diversity and Abundance of Antimicrobial Resistance Determinants in Culturable Bacteria of Glacier Mice and Proglacial Lake Ecosystems at Austerdalsbreen, Norway. International Journal of Environmental Research, 19(1): 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41742-024-00682-7
Losapio G., Lee J. R., Fraser C. I., Gillespie M. A. K., Kerr N. R., Zawierucha K., Hamilton T. L., Hotaling S., Kaufmann R., Kim O.-S., Klopsch C., Liu Y., Lukashanets D., Robinson S. A., Brown L. E. 2025. Impacts of deglaciation on biodiversity and ecosystem function. Nature Reviews Biodiversity, 1(6): 371-385. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44358-025-00049-6
Kihm J.-H., Zawierucha K., Rho H. S., Park T.-Y. S. 2025. Greenlandic water bears reveal a new morphological trait of external head sensory organs. Scientific Reports, 15(1): 1-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-06766-4
Jaroměřská T. N., Ambrosini R., Richter D., Pietryka M., Niedzielski P., Souza-Kasprzyk J., Klimaszyk P., Franzetti A., Pittino F., Vondrovicová L., Senese A., Zawierucha K. 2025. Insights Into Cryoconite Community Dynamics on the Alpine Glacier Throughout the Ablation Season. Ecology and Evolution, 15(3): 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71064
Crosta A., Valle B., Caccianiga M., Gobbi M., Ficetola F. G., Pittino F., Franzetti A., Azzoni R. S., Lencioni V., Senese A., Corlatti L., Buda J. A., Poniecka E., Novotná Jaroměřská T., Zawierucha K., Ambrosini R. 2025. Ecological interactions in glacier environments: a review of studies on a model Alpine glacier. Biological Reviews, 100(1):
227-244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.13138
Cantera I., Giachello S., Münkemüller T., Caccianiga M., Gobbi M., Losapio G., Marta S., Valle B., Zawierucha K., Thuiller W., Ficetola G. F. 2025. Describing functional diversity of communities from environmental DNA. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 40(2): 170-179. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.10.007
Zawierucha K., Kowalik J., Buda J. A., Valle B., Marcinkowski F., Ambrosini R., Shain D., Janko K., Trzebny A., Lukashanets D., Kataržytè M., Wejnerowski Ł., Łaniecki R., Gądek B., Rutkowski T., Prochazkova L., Remias D., Poniecka E., Ficetola G. F. 2025. What Do We Know about the Future of Biodiversity in Glacier and Adjacent Ecosystems? W M. Rurek, K. Kozioł, M. Moskalik, M. Czarnecka (Redaktorzy), Publications of the Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences Geophysical Data Bases, Processing and Instrumentation vol. 455 (P-5). Book of abstracts 40th International Polar Symposium – Arctic and Antarctic at the Tipping Point, 4-7 November 2025, Puławy, Poland. http://dx.doi.org/10.25171/InstGeoph_PAS_Publs-2025-086

2024

Borkowska J., Marek Z., Łaniecki R., Grewling Ł., Jastrzębski M., Kondrat K., Nowak Z. Zacharyasiewicz M., Zawierucha K., Małecka M., Valle B., Messyasz B. 2024. Dispersal of pollen and invertebrates by wind in contrasting Arctic habitats of Svalbard. Polish Polar Research, 45(1): 43-65. 10.24425/ppr.2023.146740
Markowska-Zawierucha N., Trzebny A., Zawierucha K., Manthapuri V., Bradley J. A., Pruden A. 2023. Arctic plasmidome analysis reveals distinct relationships amongassociated antimicrobial resistance genes and virulence genesalong anthropogenic gradients. Global Change Biology, 30(5): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17293
Zmudczyńska-Skarbek K., Bokhorst S. Convey, P., Gwiazdowicz D. J., Skubała P., Zawierucha K., Zwolicki A. 2024. The impact of marine vertebrates on polar terrestrial invertebrate communities. Polar Biology, 47: 805–820. 10.1007/s00300-023-03134-8
Zawierucha K. 2024. Did bioaggregates on the glacier surface trigger life seeding and pedogenesis in terrestrial environments after the Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth? Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 198: 1–8. 10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109526
Shain D. H., Rogozhina I., Fontaneto D., Nesje A., Saglam N., Bartlett, J., Zawierucha K., Kielland Ø. N., Dunshea G., Arnason E., Rosvold J. 2024. Ice-inhabiting species of Bdelloidea Rotifera reveal a pre-Quaternary ancestry in the Arctic cryosphere. Biology Letters, 20(6): 1-9. 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0546
Łokas E., Baccolo G., Cwanek A., Buda J. A., Kołtonik K., Takeuchi N., Wachniew P., Clason C., Zawierucha K., Beard D. B., Ambrosini R., Pittino F., Franzetti, A., Owens, P. N., Nastasi, M., Sisti, M., & Di Mauro, B. 2024. Isotopic signature of plutonium accumulated in cryoconite on glaciers worldwide. Science of the Total Environment, 951: 1–11. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175356
Kołtonik K., Zawierucha K., Wojciechowski K., Mróz T., Niedzielski P., Souza-Kasprzyk J., Wierzgoń M., Olabode K., Cwanek A., Sala D., Yde J. C., Wachniew P., Łokas E. 2024. Glacier mice as a temporary sink for fallout radionuclides and heavy metals on the Norwegian glacier Austerdalsbreen. Science of the Total Environment, 949: 1–11. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175109
Janko K., Shain D. H., Fontaneto D., Kaštánková Doležálková M., Buda J. A., Štefková Kašparová E., Šabacká M., Rosvold J., Stefaniak J., Hessen D. O., Devetter M., Jimenez/Santos M. A., Horna P., Janková Drdová E., Yde J. C., Zawierucha K. 2024. Islands of ice: Glacier‐dwelling metazoans form regionally distinct populations despite extensive periods of deglaciation. Diversity and Distributions, 30(10): 1-18. 10.1111/ddi.13859
Guidetti R., Jönsson K. I., Kaczmarek Ł., Meier T., Speed J. D. M., Prestø T., Stur E., Topstad L., Cesari M., Roszkowska M., Zawierucha K., Hassel K., Ekrem T. 2024. Tardigrade diversity and community composition across Norwegian boreal forests. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 200(1): 156-171. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad136
Coulson S. J., Bartlett J., Boström S., Brittain J. E., Christoffersen K. S., Convey P., De Smet W. H., Dózsa-Farkas K., Ekrem T., Fjellberg A., Füreder L., Gillespie M. A. K., Gustafsson D., Gwiazdowicz D. J., Kaczmarek Ł., Kolicka M., Łaniecki R., Moerman T. M., Seniczak S., Seniczak A., Simon J. C., Stur E., Søli G. E. E., Wieczorek K., Zawierucha K., Zmudczynska-Skarbek K. 2024. On the terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate diversity of the High Arctic archipelago of Svalbard: a revised species inventory and synopsis of the community composition. Arctic Science, 10: 799–814. 10.1139/as-2024-0017
Buda J. A., Łokas E., Błażej S., Gorzkiewicz K., Buda K. J., Ambrosini R., Franzetti A., Pittino F., Crosta A., Klimaszyk P., Zawierucha K. 2024. Unveiling threats to glacier biota: Bioaccumulation, mobility, and interactions of radioisotopes with key biological components. Chemosphere, 348: 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.140738
Buda J. A., Błażej S., Ambrosini R., Scotti R., Pittino F., Sala D., Zawierucha K., Łokas E. 2024. The surface of small glaciers as radioactive hotspots: Concentration of radioisotopes during predicted intensive melting in the Alps. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 476: 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.135083

2023

Zawierucha K., Stec D., Dearden P. K., Shain D. H. 2023. Two new tardigrade genera from New Zealand’s Southern Alp glaciers display morphological stasis and parallel evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 178:107634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107634.
Pittino F., Buda J., Ambrosini R., Parolini M., Crosta A., Zawierucha K., Franzetti A. 2023. Impact of anthropogenic contamination on glacier surface biota. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 80(3):102900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2023.102900.
Jaroměřská T. N., Ambrosini R., Mazurkiewicz M., Franzetti A., Klimaszyk P., Rozwalak P., Poniecka E., Vondrovicova L., Zawierucha K. 2023. Spatial distribution and stable isotopic composition of invertebrates uncover differences between habitats on the glacier surface in the Alps. Limnology 24(2), 83–93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10201-023-00713-w
Pittino F., Zawierucha K., Poniecka E., Buda J., Rosatelli A., Zordan S., Azzoni R.S., Diolaiuti G., Ambrosini R., Franzetti A. 2023. Functional and Taxonomic Diversity of Anaerobes in Supraglacial Microbial Communities. Microbiol Spectr 11:e01004-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.01004-22
Zmudczyńska-Skarbek, K., Bokhorst, S., Convey, P., Gwiazdowicz D., Skubała P., Zawierucha K., Zwolicki A. 2023. The impact of marine vertebrates on polar terrestrial invertebrate communities. Polar Biology 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-023-03134-8
Zawierucha K., Kašparová E.Š., McInnes S., Buda J., Ambrosini R., Devetter M., Ficetola G. F., Franzetti A., Takeuchi N., Horna P., Jaroměřská T. N., Ono M., Šabacká M. Janko K. 2023. Cryophilic Tardigrada have disjunct and bipolar distribution and establish long-term stable, low-density demes. Polar Biology 46(10): 1011–1027. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-023-03170-4
Zawierucha K., Vecchi M., Takeuchi N., Ono M., Calhim S. 2023. Negative impact of freeze–thaw cycles on the survival of tardigrades. Ecological Indicators 154(3): 110460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110460
Wejnerowski Ł., Poniecka E., Buda J., Klimaszyk P., Piasecka A., Dziuba M. K., Mugnai G., Takeuchi N., Zawierucha K. 2023. Empirical testing of cryoconite granulation: Role of cyanobacteria in the formation of key biogenic structure darkening glaciers in polar regions. Journal of Phycology 59 939–949. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13372
Guidetti R., Jönsson K. I., Kaczmarek Ł., Meier T., Speed J., Prestø T., Stur E., Topstad L., Cesari M., Roszkowska M., Zawierucha K., Hassel K., Ekrem T. 2023. Tardigrade diversity and community composition across Norwegian boreal forests, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200(1): 156–171. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad136
Buda J., Łokas E., Błażej S., Gorzkiewicz K., Buda K., Ambrosini R., Franzetti A., Pittino F., Crosta A., Klimaszyk P., Zawierucha K. Unveiling threats to glacier biota: Bioaccumulation, mobility, and interactions of radioisotopes with key biological components. Chemosphere 348: 140738. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.140738
Kihm J. H., Zawierucha K., Rho H. S., Park T. S. 2023. Homology of the head sensory structures between Heterotardigrada and Eutardigrada supported in a new species of water bear (Ramazzottiidae: Ramazzottius). Zoological Letters 9(22). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40851-023-00221-w
Dong Z., Jiang H., Baccolo G., Di Mauro B., Zawierucha K. 2023. Biological and Pollution Aerosols on Snow and Ice—Interplay between the Atmosphere and the Cryosphere. Journal of Earth Science 34(6): 1951–1956. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-023-2004-2

2022

Souza-Kasprzyk J, Paiva TDC., Convey P, da Cunha LST, Soares TA, Zawierucha K, … & Torres JPM. (2022). Influence of marine vertebrates on organic matter, phosphorus and other chemical element levels in Antarctic soils. Polar Biology, 45(10), 1571-1580.
Makowska-Zawierucha N, Mokracka J, Małecka M, Balazy P, Chełchowski M, Ignatiuk D, & Zawierucha K. (2022). Quantification of class 1 integrons and characterization of the associated gene cassettes in the high Arctic–Interplay of humans and glaciers in shaping the aquatic resistome. Ecological Indicators, 145, 109633.
Ono M, Takeuchi N, & Zawierucha K. (2022). Description of a new species of Tardigrada Hypsibius nivalis sp. nov. and new phylogenetic line in Hypsibiidae from snow ecosystem in Japan. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 14995.
Koziol K, Kallenborn R, Xie Zhiyong, Larose C, Spolaor A, Barbaro E, Kępski D, Nikulina A, Zawierucha K, Pearce D, Cockerton L, Nawrot A, Pawlak F, Pakszys P, Cappelletti D. (2023) Harmonising Environmental Research and Monitoring of Priority Pollutants and Impurities in the Svalbard Atmosphere. In: Gevers M et al (eds) SESS report 2022, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System, Longyearbyen. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7406842
Buda J, Poniecka EA, Rozwalak P. Ambrosini R, Bagshaw E, Franzetti A, Klimaszyk P, Pietryka M, Richter D, Zawierucha K. (2021). Is oxygenation related to the decomposition of organic matter in cryoconite holes?. Ecosystems, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00729-2
Zawierucha K, Trzebny A, Buda J, Bagshaw E, Franzetti A, Dabert M, Ambrosini R. (2022) Trophic and symbiotic links between obligate-glacier water bears (Tardigrada) and cryoconite microorganisms. PLoS ONE 17(1): e0262039. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262039
Rozwalak P, Podkowa P, Buda J, Niedzielski P, Kawecki S, Ambrosini R, Azzoni RS, Baccolo G, Ceballos JL, Cook J, Di Mauro B, Ficetola GF, Franzetti A, Ignatiuk D, Klimaszyk P, Łokas E, Ono M, Parnikoza I, Pietryka M, Pittino F, Poniecka E, Porazinska DL, Richter D, Schmidt SK, Sommers P, Souza-Kasprzyk J, Stibal M, Szczuciński W, Uetake J, Wejnerowski Ł, Yde JC, Takeuchi N, Zawierucha K. (2022). Cryoconite – From minerals and organic matter to bioengineered sediments on glacier’s surfaces. Sci Total Environ, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150874.
Łokas E, Wachniew P, Baccolo G, Gaca P, Janko K, Milton A, Buda J, Komędera K, Zawierucha K. (2022). Unveiling the extreme environmental radioactivity of cryoconite from a Norwegian glacier. Sci Total Environ, 814:152656. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152656

2021

Ono M, Takeuch N. & Zawierucha K. (2021). Snow algae blooms are beneficial for microinvertebrates assemblages (Tardigrada and Rotifera) on seasonal snow patches in Japan. Scientific Reports, 11, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85462-5
Jaroměřská T, Trubač J, Zawierucha K, Vondrovicová L, Devetter M, Žárský JD. (2021). Stable isotopic composition of top consumers in Arctic cryoconite holes: revealing different position in supraglacial trophic network. Biogeosciences, 18: 1543–1557.
Shain DH, Novis PM, Cridge AG, Zawierucha K, Geneva AJ, Dearden PA. (2021). Five animal phyla in glacier ice reveal unprecedented biodiversity in New Zealand’s Southern Alps. Scientific Reports, 11, 3898. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83256-3
Zawierucha K., Uetake J., Shain D. 2021. A Compendium of Tropical Ice Masses, 559-563. In: Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation. Red. DellaSala D. A., Goldstein M. I. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821139-7.00033-7
Nawrot A., Kusiak M. A., Lewandowski M., Otto K., Sielski W., Ruszczak M., Piotrowski W., Malmur Ł., Zawierucha K., Łepkowski P. 2021.WZNOWIENIE BADAŃ NA ANTARKTYDZIE WSCHODNIEJ, CZYLI KILKA SŁÓW O PLANACH REWITALIZACJI POLSKIEJ STACJI ANTARKTYCZNEJ IM. A.B. DOBROWOLSKIEGO, OAZA BUNGERA (ANTARKTYDA WSCHODNIA), 12-18. In: BIULETYN POLARNY 23-25. Red. Olech M.

2020

Zawierucha K., Buda J., Novotna Jaromerska T., Janko K., Gąsiorek P. 2020. Integrative approach reveals new species of water bears (Pilatobius, Grevenius, and Acutuncus) from Arctic cryoconite holes, with the discovery of hidden lineages of Hypsibius. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2020.09.004
Makowska N., Zawierucha K., Nadobna P., Piątek-Bajan K., Krajewska A., Szwedyk J., Iwasieczko P., Mokracka J., Koczura R. 2020. Occurrence ofintegrons andantibiotic resistance genesincryoconite and ice of Svalbard, Greenland, and the Caucasus glaciers. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137022
Buda J., Łokas E., Pietryka M., Richter D., Magowski W., Iakovenko N.S., Porazinska D.L., Budzik T., Grabiec M., Grzesiak J., Klimaszyk P., Gaca P., Zawierucha K. 2020. Biotope and biocenosis of cryoconite hole ecosystems on Ecology Glacier in the maritime Antarctic. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138112
Stibal M., Bradley J.A., Edwards A., Hotaling S., Zawierucha K., Rosvold J., Lutz S., Cameron K.A., Mikucki J.A., Kohler T.J., Šabacká M., Anesio A.M. 2019. Glacial ecosystems are essential to understanding biodiversity responses to glacier retreat. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1163-0
Kihm J.H., Kim S., Mcinnes S.J., Zawierucha K., Rho H.S., Kang P., Park T-Y.S. 2020. Integrative description of a new Dactylobiotus (eutardigrada: parachela) from Antarctica that reveals an intraspecific variation in tardigrade egg morphology. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65573-1
Stec D., Krzywański Ł., Zawierucha K., Michalczyk Ł. Untangling systematics of the Paramacrobiotus areolatus species complex by an integrative redescription of the nominal species for the group, with multilocus phylogeny and species delineation in the genus Paramacrobiotus. 2020. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz163
Buda J, Azzoni RS, Ambrosini R, Franzetti R, Zawierucha K. (2020). Effects of locality and stone surface structure on the distribution of Collembola inhabiting a novel habitat – the stoneice border on an alpine glacier. Acta Oecologica, 103629, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2020.103629.
Zawierucha K, Porazinska DL, Ficetola GF, Ambrosini R, Baccolo G, Buda J, Ceballos JL, Devetter M, Dial R, Franzetti A, Fuglewicz U, Gielly L, Łokas E, Janko K, Jaromerska T, Kościński A, Kozłowska A, Ono M, Parnikoza I, Pittino F, Poniecka E, Sommers P, Schmidt SK, Shain DH, Sikorska S, Uetake J, Takeuchi. (2020). A hole in the nematosphere: tardigrades and rotifers dominate the cryoconite hole environment, whereas nematodes are missing. Journal of Zoology, 313, 18–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12832
Wejnerowski Ł., Poniecka E., Buda J., Klimaszyk P., Piasecka A., Dziuba M. K., Mugnai G., Takeuchi N., Zawierucha K. 2023. Empirical testing of cryoconite granulation: Role of cyanobacteria in the formation of key biogenic structure darkening glaciers in polar regions. Journal of Phycology 59: 939–949. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13372

2019

Zawierucha K., Buda J., Azzoni R.S., Niśkiewicz M., Franzetti A., Ambrosini R. 2019. Water bears dominated cryoconite hole ecosystems: densities, habitat preferences and physiological adaptations of Tardigrada on an alpine glacier. Aquatic Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s10452-019-09707-2
Zawierucha K., Shain D.H. 2019. Disappearing Kilimanjaro snow – Are we the last generation to explore equatorial glacier biodiversity? Ecology and Evolution, DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5327
Zawierucha K., Zmudczyńska-Skarbek K., Guil N., Bogdziewicz M. 2019. Seabirds modify trophic groups, while altitude promotes xeric-tolerant species of Tardigrada in the high Arctic tundra (Svalbard archipelago), Acta Oecologica, 98: 50-58. DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2019.05.007
Zawierucha K., Marshall C., Wharton D., Janko K. 2019. A nematode in the mist: Scottnema lindsayae is the only soil metazoan in remote Antarctic deserts, at greater densities with altitude. Polar Research, 38. DOI: 10.33265/polar.v38.3494
Zawierucha K., Buda J., Fontaneto D., Ambrosini R., Franzetti A., Wierzgoń M., Bogdziewicz M. 2019. Fine-scale spatial heterogeneity of invertebrates within cryoconite holes. Aquatic Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s10452-019-09681-9
Zawierucha K., Buda J., Nawrot A. 2019. Extreme weather event results in the removal of invertebrates from cryoconite holes on an Arctic valley glacier (Longyearbreen, Svalbard). Ecological Research. DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.1276
Zawierucha K., Baccolo G., Di Mauro B., Nawrot A., Szczuciński W., Kalińska E. 2019. Micromorphological features of mineral matter from cryoconite holes on Arctic (Svalbard) and alpine (the Alps, the Caucasus) glaciers. Polar Science. DOI: 10.1016/j.polar.2019.100482

2018

Kaczmarek Ł., Zawierucha K., Buda J., Stec D., Gawlak M., Michalczyk Ł., Roszkowska M. 2018. An integrative redescription of the nominal taxon for the Mesobiotus harmsworthi group (Tardigrada: Macrobiotidae) leads to descriptions of two new Mesobiotus species from Arctic. PLOS ONE 13(10): e0204756.
Gąsiorek P., Stec D., Zawierucha K., Kristensen R.M., Michalczyk Ł. 2018. Revision of Testechiniscus Kristensen, 1987 (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) refutes the polar-temperate distribution of the genus. Zootaxa. 4472(2) 261-297. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4472.2.3.
Łokas E., Zawierucha K., Cwanek A., Szufa K., Gaca P., Mietelski W.J., Tomankiewicz E. 2018. The sources of high airborne radioactivity in cryoconite holes from the Caucasus (Georgia). Scientific Reports. 8. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29076-4.
Buda J., Olszanowski Z., Wierzgoń M., Zawierucha K. 2018. Tardigrades and oribatid mites in bryophytes from geothermally active lava fields (Krafla, Iceland) and the description of Pilatobius islandicus sp. nov. (Eutardigrada). Polish Polar Research. 39. 425-453. 10.24425/118755.
Zawierucha K., Podkowa P., Marciniak M., Gąsiorek P., Zmudczyńska-Skarbek K., Janko K., Włodarska-Kowalczuk M.2018.Temperature (latitude) and nutrient (seabird guano) effects on limno-terrestrial Tardigrada (Testechiniscus spitsbergensis and Pilatobius recamieri) body size.Polar Research.37:1,DOI: 10.1080/17518369.2018.1492297
Zawierucha K., Stec D., Lachowska-Cierlik D., Takeuchi N., Li Z., Michalczyk Ł. 2018. High Mitochondrial Diversity in a New Water Bear Species (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada) from Mountain Glaciers in Central Asia, with the Erection of a New Genus Cryoconicus. Annales Zoologici. 68(1): 179-201.
Zawierucha K., Gąsiorek P., Buda J., Uetake J., Janko K., Fontaneto D. (2018). Tardigrada and Rotifera from moss microhabitats on a disappearing Ugandan glacier, with the description of a new species of water bear. Zootaxa. 4392(2): 311.
Ürkmez D., Ostrowska M., Roszkowska M., Gawlak M., Zawierucha K., Kristensen R. M., Kaczmarek Ł. 2018. Description of Megastygarctides sezginii sp. nov.(Tardigrada: Arthrotardigrada: Stygarctidae) from the Turkish Black Sea coast and a key to the genus Megastygarctides. Marine Biology Research. 14(1): 1-16.
Zawierucha K., Buda J., Pietryka M., Richter D., Łokas E., Lehmann-Konera S., Makowska N., Bogdziewicz, M. 2018. Snapshot of micro-animals and associated biotic and abiotic environmental variables on the edge of the south-west Greenland ice sheet. Limnology. 19(1): 141-150.

2017

Gąsiorek P., Zawierucha K., Stec D., Michalczyk Ł. 2017. Integrative redescription of a common Arctic water bear Pilatobius recamieri (Richters, 1911). Polar Biology. 40(11): 2239-2252.
Stec D., Zawierucha K., Michalczyk Ł. 2017. An integrative description of Ramazzottius subanomalus (Biserov, 1985 (Tardigrada) from Poland. Zootaxa. 4300(3): 403-420.
Zawierucha K., Węgrzyn M., Ostrowska M., Wietrzyk P. 2017. Tardigrada in Svalbard lichens: diversity, densities and habitat heterogeneity. Polar Biology. 40(7): 1385-1392.
Zawierucha K., Ostrowska M., Kolicka M. 2017. Applicability of cryoconite consortia of microorganisms and glacier-dwelling animals in astrobiological studies. Contemporary Trends in Geoscience. 6(1): 1-10.
Talanda J., Zawierucha K. 2017. First record of water bears (Tardigrada) from sponges (Porifera). Turkish Journal of Zoology. 41(1): 161-163.

2016

Gąsiorek P., Stec D., Morek W., Zawierucha K., Kaczmarek Ł., Lachowska-Cierlik D., Michalczyk Ł. 2016. An integrative revision of Mesocrista Pilato, 1987 (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae). Journal of Natural History. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1234654
Zawierucha K., Kolicka M., Kaczmarek Ł. 2016. Re-description of the Arctic tardigrade Tenuibiotus voronkovi (Tumanov, 2007 (Eutardigrada; Macrobiotidea), with the first molecular data for the genus. Zootaxa. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.4
Zawierucha K., Zmudczyńska-Skarbek K., Kaczmarek Ł., Wojczulanis-Jakubas K. 2016. The influence of a seabird colony on abundance and species composition of water bears (Tardigrada) in Hornsund (Spitsbergen, Arctic). Polar Biology. DOI: 10.1007/s00300-015-1827-4
Kaczmarek Ł., Jakubowska N., Celewicz-Gołdyn S., Zawierucha K. 2016. The microorganisms of cryoconite holes (algae, Archaea, bacteria, cyanobacteria, fungi, and Protista): a review. Polar Record. DOI: 10.1017/S003224741500063
Kosztyła P, Stec D, Morek W, Gasiorek P, Zawierucha K., Michno K, Ufir K, Małek D, Hlebowicz K, Laska A, Dudziak M, Frohme M, Prokop ZM, Kaczmarek Ł, Michalczyk Ł. 2016. Experimental taxonomy confirms the environmental stability of morphometric traits in a taxonomically challenging group of microinvertebrates. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12409.
Cytan J, Zawierucha K. 2016, in press. First record of water bears (Tardigrada) from sponges (Porifera). Turkish Journal of Zoology doi 10.3906/zoo-1510-4.
Stec D, Gąsiorek P, Morek W, Kosztyła P, Zawierucha K., Michno K, Kaczmarek Ł, Prokop ZM, Michalczyk Ł. 2016. Estimating optimal sample size for tardigrade morphometry. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society doi: 10.1111/zoj.12404.
Zawierucha K., Ostrowska M, Vonnahme TR, Devetter M, Nawrot AP, Lehmann S, & Kolicka M. 2016. Diversity and distribution of Tardigrada in Arctic cryoconite holes. Journal of Limnology. DOI: 10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1453.
Łokas A, Zaborska A, Kolicka M, Różycki M, Zawierucha K. 2016. Accumulation of atmospheric radionuclides and heavy metals in cryoconite holes on an Arctic glacier. Chemosphere 160, 162-172.
Zawierucha K., Vonnahme TR, Devetter M, Kolicka M, Ostrowska M, Chmielewski S, Kosicki JZ. 2016. Area, depth and elevation of cryoconite holes in the Arctic do not influence Tardigrada densities. Polish Polar Research 37, 325-334.
Makowska N, Zawierucha K., Mokracka J, Koczura R. 2016. First report of microorganisms of Caucasus glaciers (Georgia). Biologia 71, 620-625.
Kolicka M, Gwiazdowicz DJ,·Hupało K, Jabłońska A,·Kotwicki L, Kornobis F,· Lamentowicz M,· Magowski W,· Marcisz K, Pronin M, Reczuga MK,· Olszanowski Z, Zawierucha K. 2016. Hidden invertebrate diversity – phytotelmata in Bromeliaceae from palm houses and florist wholesalers (Poland). Biologia 71, 194-203.
Skoracki M, Zawierucha K. 2016. Chenophila nanseni sp. n. (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitising the barnacle goose in Svalbard. Polish Polar Research 37, 121-130.
Kiedrowicz A., Rector B.G., Zawierucha K., Szydło W., Skoracka A. 2016. Phytophagous mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) recorded from Svalbard, including the description of a new species. Polar Biol. DOI: 10.1007/s00300-015-1858-x

2015

Zawierucha K., Grzelak K., Kotwicki L., Kaczmarek Ł., Kristensen R. M. 2015. First observation of the marine tardigrades Batillipes mirus and Batillipes noerrevangi (Arthrotardigrada, Batillipedidae) from a strongly brackish part of the Polish Baltic Sea coast. Marine Biology Research. 11(8): 859-868.
Kisielewska G., Kolicka M., Zawierucha K. 2015. Prey or parasite? The first observations of live Euglenida in the intestine of Gastrotricha. European journal of protistology. 51(2): 138-141.
Zawierucha K., Cytan J., Smykla J., Wojczulanis-Jakubas K., Kaczmarek Ł., Kosicki J. Z., Michalczyk Ł. 2015. Seabird guano boosts body size of water bears (Tardigrada) inhabiting the arctic tundra. Polar Biology. 38(4): 579-582.
Zawierucha K., Kolicka M., Takeuchi N., Kaczmarek Ł. 2015. What animals can live in cryoconite holes? A faunal review. Journal of Zoology. 295(3): 159-169.
Kolicka M., Dziuba M. K., Zawierucha K., Kuczyńska–Kippen N., Kotwicki L. 2015. Palm house–biodiversity hotspot or risk of invasion? Aquatic invertebrates: The special case of Monogononta (Rotifera) under greenhouse conditions. Biologia. 70(1): 94-103.
Zawierucha K., Smykla J., Michalczyk Ł., Gołdyn B., Kaczmarek Ł. 2015. Distribution and diversity of Tardigrada along altitudinal gradients in the Hornsund, Spitsbergen (Arctic). Polar Research. 34(1): 24168.

2014

Coulson, S.J., Convey, P., Aakra, K., Aarvik, L., Ávila-Jiménez, M.L., Babenko, A., Biersma, E.M., Boström, S., Brittain, J.E., Carlsson, A.M., Christoffersen, K., De Smet, W.H., Ekremj, T., Fjellberg, A., Füreder, L., Gustafssonm, D., Gwiazdowicz, D.J., Hansen, L.O., Holmstrup, M., Hullé, M., Kaczmarek, Ł., Kolicka, M., Kuklin, V., Lakka, H.K., Lebedeva, N., Makarova, O., Maraldo, K., Melekhina, E., Ødegaard, F., Pilskog, H.E., Simon, J.C., Sohlenius, B., Solhøy, T., Søli, G., Stur, E., Tanasevitch, A., Taskaeva, A., Velle, G., Zawierucha, K., Zmudczyńska-Skarbek, K. 2014. The terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate biodiversity of the archipelagoes of the Barents Sea; Svalbard, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 68, 440-470.
Zawierucha, K., Dziamięcki, J., Jakubowska, N., Michalczyk, Ł., Kaczmarek, Ł. 2014. New tardigrade records for the Baltic states with a description of Minibiotus formosus sp. n. (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae). Zookeys 408: 81-105.
Kaczmarek, Ł., Cytan, J., Zawierucha, K., Diduszko, D., Michalczyk, Ł. 2014. Tardigrades from Peru (South America), with descriptions of three new species of Parachela. Zootaxa 3790 (2): 357-379.
Ciobanu D. A., Moglan I., Zawierucha K., Kaczmarek Ł. 2014. New records of terrestrial tardigrades (Tardigrada) from Ceahlău National Park with zoogeographical and taxonomical remarks on Romanian water bears. North-western Journal of Zoology, 10
Skoracki M., Kavetska K., Ozminski M., Zawierucha K. 2014. Calamicoptes anatidus sp. nov., a new quill wall mite (Acari: Laminosioptidae) from the Greater Scaup Aythya marila (L.)(Aves: Anseriformes). Acta parasitologica. 59(3): 426-432.
Kolicka M., Kisielewski J., Kotwicki L., Zawierucha K., Grzelak K. 2014. Checklist of Gastrotricha of the Polish Baltic Sea with the first reports of Heterolepidoderma joermungandri Kånneby, 2011, and Turbanella hyalina Schultze, 1853. Zootaxa. 3869(2): 101-130.
Ciobanu D. A., Zawierucha K., Moglan I., Kaczmarek Ł. 2014. Milnesium berladnicorum sp. n.(Eutardigrada, Apochela, Milnesiidae), a new species of water bear from Romania. ZooKeys. 429: 1.

2013

Zawierucha, K., Coulson, S., Michalczyk, Ł., Kaczmarek, Ł. 2013. Current knowledge of the Tardigrada of Svalbard with the first records of water bears from Nordaustlandet (High Arctic). Polar Research 32: 20886. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v32i0.20886.
Zawierucha, K. 2013. Tardigrada from Arctic tundra (Spitsbergen) with a description of Isohypsibius karenae sp. n. (Isohypsibiidae). Polish Polar Research 34: 383-396.
Kolicka, M., Kisielewski, J., Nesteruk, T., Zawierucha, K. 2013. Gastrotricha from the Poznań Palm House-one new subgenus and three new species of freshwater Chaetonotida (Gastrotricha). Zootaxa 3717 (2): 231-279.
Zawierucha, K., Grzelak, K., Kotwicki, L., Michalczyk, Ł., Kaczmarek, Ł. Batillipes pennaki Marcus, 1946, a new addition to the Thai tardigrade fauna, with an overview of literature on the species. 2013. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 45: 801-808.
Zawierucha, K., Szymkowiak, P., Dabert, M., Harvey, M. 2013. First record of the schizomid Stenochrus portoricensis (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) in Poland with DNA barcode data. Turkish Journal of Zoology 37: 357-361.
Zawierucha, K., Cytan, J. 2013. Oazy w świecie lodu. Wiedza i życie. 1: 56-57.
Zawierucha K., Kolicka M., Cytan J. 2013. Contribution to the knowledge on the distribution of Echiniscus granulatus (Doyère, 1840)(Heterotardigrada) in Poland. Badania Fizjograficzne, Seria C Zoologia C, 53: 39-43.

2012

Kolicka M., Zawierucha K. 2012. New record of Turbanella cornuta Remane, 1925 (Gastrotricha: Macrodasyida) from Polish Baltic Sea Coast. Badania Fizjograficzne, Seria C (Zoologia), 52: 7-12.
Zawierucha K., Michalczyk Ł., Kaczmarek Ł. 2012. The first record of Tardigrada from Zambia, with a description of Doryphoribius niedbalai n. sp.(Eutardigrada: Isohypsibiidae, the evelinae group). African Zoology, 47(2): 275-284.
Kaczmarek Ł., Zawierucha K., Smykla J., Michalczyk Ł. 2012. Tardigrada of the Revdalen (Spitsbergen) with the descriptions of two new species: Bryodelphax parvuspolaris (Heterotardigrada) and Isohypsibius coulsoni (Eutardigrada). Polar Biology, 35(7): 1013-1026.
Zawierucha K., Kaźmierski A. 2012. The first records of tardigrades (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada) from Estonia. Zoology and Ecology, 22(2): 111-113.
Kolicka, M., Zawierucha, K. 2012. Z rzęskami na brzuchu. Salamandra magazyn przyrodniczy. 2: 28-30.

2011

Zawierucha, K. 2011. Water bears (Tardigrada) of Okup Mały (Grabia Valley, Central Poland). Badania Fizjograficzne, seria C zoologia 47-52.
Kaczmarek, M., Zawierucha, K., Wróbel, A. 2011. Sezonowe zmiany jakościowe i ilościowe araneofauny rezerwatu przyrody ,,Meteoryt Morasko”. Problemy biologiczne współczesnego świata 117-122.

Consequences of Global Environmental Change (Biology, 1st year, 2nd cycle, and Teaching Biology and Natural Sciences, 2nd year, 2nd cycle). Coordinator.
Environmental Global Change (Environmental Protection, 1st year, 2nd cycle, and Environmental Protection, 1st year, 2nd cycle). Coordinator.
BioGeoEko Course in the Arctic (for students of all fields of study. Participants are selected through a competition). Organiser.

Popular science articles in magazines:

Zawierucha K. 2016. Changing body size – animals’ response to climate change. Biology at School 9-13.
Kolicka M., Zawierucha K. 2016. Animals we cannot see. Salamandra: Nature Magazine 2.
Zawierucha K. 2014. The Arctic of the smallest bears. Salamandra: Nature Magazine 2.
Zawierucha K., Cytan J. 2013. Oases in a world of ice. Knowledge and Life 1: 56-57.
Kolicka M., Zawierucha K. 2012. With cilia on their bellies. Salamandra: Nature Magazine 2: 28-30.

Popular science articles on the internet:

Zawierucha K. 2016. Giraffes – we did not expect such a surprise from them. Crazy Science
Zawierucha K. 2016.It is difficult to imagine that there are so many species in the world. Crazy Science
Zawierucha K. 2016. Czy coś na nas czyha w topniejących lodowcach?Crazy Science
Zawierucha K. 2015.Are you a nature lover? Visit Greenland! Discover why. National Geographic

Lectures:

‘Rules governing body size, tropical minis and polar giants’ during Biologists’ Night at the Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
‘Excited students, space and animals, or Mr Stanisław’ for secondary school students in Lębork and Robakowie on the history of astrobiological experiments.
‘Extremophiles – the most resilient organisms on Earth’ during Biologists’ Night at the Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
‘Svalbard – the European centre of the Arctic. Report from the expedition’ during the 23rd edition of OAK, Scientific Presentation Techniques Workshop. Obrzycko 2013.
“The impact of habitat conditions on the diversity of tardigrades (Tardigrada) in the Hornsund Fjord (Spitsbergen)” during the 3rd Scientific Session of the Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University.
‘Tardigrades (Tardigrada) – the whole truth about cosmic animals’ at the Generalowa Zamoyska and Helena Modrzejewska Secondary School No. 2 in Poznań.
‘What is ecology’ in class I of Primary School No. 1 in Czarnków.

Promotional activities in the media:

Special guest on the ‘HomoScience’ programme on TOK FM radio. 12 March 2016.
Guest on the ‘OffCzarek’ programme on TOK FM radio. 27 May 2016.
Statement for National Geographic magazine.
Statement for New Scientist magazine. » more
Statement for Discover magazine. » more
Statement for PAP on 12 June 2016. » more
Statement for PAP on 19 June 2016. » more
Guest on Radio AFERA on 13 June 2016.
Lead role in the film ‘Life under the microscope – the most resilient animals on Earth’, 30 January 2015, gazeta.pl » more
Participation in the reportage ‘Rock, paper, scissors’, 25 June 2014, TV Gdańsk

Projects

Participation in the project ‘Mr Stanisław, or School in Space’ carried out in cooperation with Junior High School No. 1 in Lębork, the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Kosmonauta.net, Microsoft, and the ForScience Foundation. Coordinator of the biological part. The project was held under the patronage of Bronisław Komorowski, President of the Republic of Poland. » more

Workshops and popular science festivals

2012. Participation in the preparation and implementation of the 1st Night of Biologists at the Faculty of Biology of Adam Mickiewicz University.
2010, 2011, 2012. Participation in the preparation and implementation of the 13th, 14th and 15th Science and Art Festival at the Faculty of Biology of Adam Mickiewicz University (on behalf of the Invertebrate Research Section of KNP UAM).
2014. Workshops for children entitled ‘Winter biodiversity, or what’s squeaking in the litter’ at the Unikids Children’s University in Poznań.
2014. Workshops for children entitled ‘Extremophile invertebrates’ during the Second International Space Science and Business Conference ‘Meet the Space’. Krakow.
2013. 2014: Supervision and assistance in preparing work for the biology competition for high school students from the Helena Modrzejewska High School No. 2 in Poznań.

2022, 2023, 2024: Fieldwork on Spitsbergen as part of the BioGeoEko course in the Arctic for students of the Faculty of Biology at Adam Mickiewicz University.
12.2021-02.2022: Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Internship funded by NAWA as part of the Bekker programme.
2017-2018: Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Libĕchov, Czech Republic, position: post-doc.
01-03.2017: United Kingdom, Cambridge, British Antarctic Survey. Internship as part of the Etiuda NCN scholarship.
2016. Fieldwork in the Svalbard Archipelago: Spitsbergen as part of the Preludium NCN 2013/11/N/NZ8/00597 project
2016. Summer school in Iceland ‘Biosignatures and the Search for Life on Mars’ organised by the European Astrobiology Campus.
2015. Fieldwork in Kangerlussuaq (Greenland) as part of the NCN project 2013/11/N/NZ8/00597
2015. Fieldwork in Tromsø (Norway) and Stockholm (Sweden) as part of the DWARF Pol-Nor/201992/93/2014 project
2014. Research internship at the Department of Entomology, Institute of Zoology, Jagiellonian University. Work on the project ‘Species delimitation – combining morphometric, molecular and experimental approaches’ funded by the Foundation for Polish Science. Coordinator: Dr Łukasz Michalczyk.
2014. Course ‘Integrative taxonomy and taxonomic expertise in the framework of the DNA barcoding initiative’. Natural History Museum in Paris.
2013. Field research in the Svalbard Archipelago: Spitsbergen, Prins Karl Foreland, Danskøya, Nordaustlandet, Sjuøyane (as part of a research project under the Diamond Grant programme).
2013. Trip to the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen as part of the Synthesys grant (DK-TAF-2706).
2011, 2012. Participant in research at the Wicie field station (European Bird Migration Network).
2011. Field research at the Polish Polar Station Hornsund on Spitsbergen (as part of cooperation with the Institute of Polar Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow).
2011. Co-organiser of a scientific expedition to the Golden Mountains (project: assessment of the population size of the blue salamander Bielzia coerulans (M. Bielz, 1851) in the Golden Mountains) on behalf of the Invertebrate Research Section of the KNP UAM.
2010. Research trip to the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Wildau (Germany).
2010. Participation in the ‘Baltic Action’ (large-scale bird monitoring: trapping and ringing).

2015/2016. Scholarship from the City of Poznań for scientific achievements in the field of invertebrate research in the Arctic and for the popularisation of science
2015/2016. Scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for the best doctoral students
2015/2016. ‘Etiuda’ scholarship from the National Science Centre
2014/2015. Scholarship from the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation in Poznań for the best doctoral students
2013/2014. Scholarship from the Rector of the Adam Mickiewicz University for the best doctoral students.
2012/2013. Scholarship from the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University for scientific and research achievements.
2012/2013. Scholarship from the Kulczyk Family Foundation for scientific and research achievements at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
2012/2013. Scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for the best students.
2011/2012. Scholarship from the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University for scientific and research achievements.