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Beata Gebus-Czupyt, PhD
ORCID: 0000-0002-0146-3627
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Beata-Gebus-Czupyt
Research interests
• application of isotope techniques in environmental research, with particular emphasis on stable isotopes of light elements (C, H, N, O, S)
• isotopic hydrogeochemistry, particularly the circulation of P, N, and S in the bedrock-soil-water system.
Education and professional career
01.2017 – PhD in Physics. Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science.
Doctoral dissertation: "Studies of the isotopic composition of nitrates (δ15N, δ18O), sulfates (δ34S, δ18O), and phosphates (δ18O) in water reservoirs – methods and applications," supervised by: Prof. Dr. hab. Stanisław Hałas
07.2010 – Master's degree in physics, specialization: biophysics. Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science.
Master's thesis: "Studies on weak hydrogen bonds between carotenoids and water using FTIR technique," supervised by: Prof. Dr. hab. Wiesław I. Gruszecki
Job positions
Additional administrative functions
Awards
Professor Włodzimierz Żuk Award for the best doctoral thesis in mass spectrometry – 04.2017
Publications
(last actualization: August 8, 2025)
Duczmal-Czernikiewicz A., Gebus-Czupyt B., Swęd M. Paleosols structures and isotopic records of sulfates and carbonates horizons in Neogene Poznań clays from Polish Lowland, western Poland. Catena 2025, 258, 109120, doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2025.109120
Krztoń, W.; Walusiak, E.; Hobson, K.A.; Žutinić, P.; Udovič, M.G.; Kulaš, A.; Koreivienė, J.; Karosienė, J.; Gebus-Czupyt, B.; Galir Balkić, A.; Stević, F.; Pfeiffer, T.Ż.; Špoljarić Maronić, D.; Wilk-Woźniak, E. Contrasting the ecology of planktonic crustaceans from freshwaters: Insights from stable isotopes (δ13C, δ15N). Ecological Indicators 2024, 167, 112732. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112732
Gebus-Czupyt, B.; Chmiel, S.; Kończak, M.; Huber, M.; Stienss, J.; Radzikowska, M.; Stępniewski, K.; Pliżga, M.; Zielińska, B. The Isotopic Composition of Selected Phosphate Sources (δ18O-PO4) from the Area of the Vistula and Bug Interfluve (Poland). Water 2024, 16, 2809. doi.org/10.3390/w16192809
Kalembasa, S.; Siczek, A.; Kalembasa, D.; Spychaj-Fabisiak, E.U.; Becher, M.; Gebus-Czupyt B. Fractions of nitrogen (including 15N) and also carbon in the soil as affected by different crop residues. International Agrophysics 2023, 37(3), 265-278, DOI: 10.31545/intagr/166586
Biasi, C.; Jokinen, S.; Prommer, J.; Ambus, P.; Dörsch, P.; Yu, L.; Granger, S.; Boeckx, P.; Van Nieuland, K., Brüggemann, N.; Wissel, H.; Voropaev, A.; Zilberman, T.; Jäntti, H.; Trubnikova, T.; Welti, N.; Voigt, C.; Gebus-Czupyt, B.; Czupyt, Z.; Wanek, W. Challenges in measuring nitrogen isotope signatures in inorganic nitrogen forms: An interlaboratory comparison of three common measurement approaches. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 2022, 36(22):9370. doi: 10.1002/rcm.9370
Fheed, A.; Świerczewska, A.T.; Strzelecki, P.J.; Radzik-Hotloś, N.; Gebus-Czupyt, B. Influence of substrate morphology on reef diagenesis: a case study from the Zechstein Limestone formation (SE Wolsztyn Ridge, W Poland), Marine and Petroleum Geology 2022, 136: 105442, doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105442
Gebus-Czupyt, B.; Wach, B. Application of δ18O-PO4 analysis to recognize phosphate pollutions in eutrophic water. Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology 2021, 22(1), 21-39; doi: 10.1016/j.ecohyd.2021.05.005
Gebus-Czupyt, B.; Chmiel, S.; Trembaczowski, A.; Pelc, A.; Halas, S. Simultaneous preparation of N2 and CO2 from water nitrates for δ15N and δ18O analysis on the example of the Zemborzycki Reservoir studies. Chemosphere 2020, 248(15):125754, DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125754
Kalembasa, S.; Szukała, J.; Faligowska, A.; Kalembasa, D.; Symanowicz, B.; Becher, B.; Gebus-Czupyt, B. Quantification of biologically fixed nitrogen by white lupin (Lupins albus L.) and its subsequent uptake by winter wheat using the 15N isotope dilution method. Agronomy 2020, 10 (9): 1392; doi: 10.3390/agronomy10091392
Porowski, A.; Romanova, A.; Gebus-Czupyt, B.; Wach, B.; Radzikowska, M. Stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope composition of bottled waters in Poland: characterization in the context of different market categories and implications for the origin authentication and natural isotopic quality preservation. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 2020, 220: 106684, doi: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2020.106684
Gebus-Czupyt, B. Hydrologia a izotopy - czego możemy się dowiedzieć na podstawie badań izotopowych? Źródło 2019, 2(58), 38-44 (in Polish)
Porowski, A;, Romanova, A.; Gebus-Czupyt, B.; Radzikowska, M. Skład izotopowy mineralnych i leczniczych wód butelkowanych Polski: analiza porównawcza w świetle parametrów jakościowych i przyrodniczych. Acta Balneologica 2018, LX, 4(154), 264-271 (in Polish)
Gebus-Czupyt, B. Badania składu izotopowego azotanów (δ15N, δ18O) narzędziem do określenia ich pochodzenia. Źródło 2017, 1(54), 30-34 (in Polish)
Monographs, chapters in monographs
Kalembasa S., Symanowicz B., Faligowska A. (red). Plonotwórcza rola azotu biologicznie zredukowanego (ID15N) przez grubonasienne rośliny bobowate w uprawie pszenicy ozimej. Współautorzy monografii: Becher M., Gebus-Czupyt B., Kalembasa D., Panasiewicz K., Ratajczak K., Siczek A., Szymańska G. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu w Siedlcach, 2023, ISBN: 978-83-67922-38-8 (in Polish)
Okupny, D.; Gebus-Czupyt, B.; Alexandrowicz, W.P.; Michczyński, A. Badania martwic wapiennych budujących złoża torfowisk źródliskowych w okolicach Buska-Zdrój. [W:] A. Kostrzewski, A. Stach, M. Majewski (red.), Geneza, litologia i stratygrafia utworów czwartorzędowych., t. VII, IGIG UAM, Poznań 2018, 141-146 (in Polish)
Research projects
Projects financed by Polish National Science Centre
UMO-2020/39/I/ST10/02357 - contractor, coordinator from IGS PAS
“The multi-proxy studies of dedolomitization processes and related speleogenesis in central Slovenia with implications for understanding of incipient stages of sulphide mineralizations in southern Poland”
head of the project: Justyna Ciesielczuk, PhD, DSc. (project implemented in a consortium: Silesian University – IGS PAS, leader: Silesian University)
UMO-2020/37/B/ST10/01994 - contractor, coordinator from IGS PAS
„Effect of leaching of natural phosphorus minerals from sedimentary rocks on the trophic potencial of surface waters in selected areas of the Vistula and Bug interfluve”
head of the project: Stanisław Chmiel, PhD, DSc. (project implemented in a consortium: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University – IGS PAS, leader: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University)
UMO-2018/31/B/ST10/00664 - contractor
„Stable isotopes in invertebrate chitin as a tool to identify processes affecting mountain lake ecosystems”
head of the project: Michał Gąsiorowski, PhD, DSc. (IGS PAS)
Coordinator in projects funded by IGS PAS:
Isotopic techniques application to determine the origin of water and compounds dissolved in water in selected hydrogeological systems (surface and underground)
Implementation of hydrogen isotope analysis (δ2H) in organic matter (solid samples)
Isotopic composition analysis of nitrates (δ15N, δ18O) and dissolved inorganic phosphates (δ18O) as a tool for monitoring waters with high eutrophic potential
Contractor in statutory tasks of IGS PAS, e.g.:
Holocene clastic cave sediments – stratigraphy, diversity, paleogeography, and inter-site and inter-regional correlations
Sulfur isotopic composition in marine carbonate formations related to methane oxidation
Nitrogen isotopic composition and fractionation processes at the water-sediment interface in oligotrophic lakes
Reconstruction interglacial lake environments based on the results of paleobiological and geochemical studies
