dr hab. Edyta Zawisza, professor

Principal research interests
Palaeolimnology, palaeoecology, palaeoclimatology, hydrobiology, subfossil Cladocera

 

Address:
Instytut Nauk Geologicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk 
Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
Ośrodek Badawczy w Warszawie - Research Centre in Warszawa
Twarda 51/55, PL00818 Warszawa, POLAND

Position: Associate Professor 

phone (+48) 22 6978-813
e-mailezawisza@twarda.pan.pl

 


Academic degrees

2018 April -  D.Sc. (Habilitation)  The scientific achievement - Subfossil Cladocera as indicators of natural and anthropogenic environmental changes.

2008 October  – PhD in Geology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences,  Warszawa, Poland  “Oceanic and continental climate influence on the Polish lakes in the light of subfossil Cladocera analysis” Supervisor: Prof. Krystyna Szeroczyńska

2003 June – MSc in Quaternary Geology,
Department of Geology, Warsaw University, Poland 
Supervisor: PhD. Jan Dzierżek

 

Professional career

April 2020 – Coordinator of  doctoral school “GEOPLNET” atInstitute of Geological Sciences PAS

May 2018 – Associate Professor at Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences, Research Centre in Warszawa, Poland

January 2009 – April 2018 Adjunct Professor at Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences, Research Centre in Warszawa, Poland

April 2011- March 2013 – PostDoc, Institute of Geophisics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico.

January 2004 – December 2008 – PhD student at the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Geological Sciences, Research Centre in Warszawa, Poland

Research projests

2015-2019 
“Reconstruction of the climate changes in the past 200 000 years, and their impact on the aquatic ecosystem based on subfossil Cladocera assemblages deposited in the sediments of Lake Peten Itza (northern Guatemala). Project funded by National Sciences Centre (NCN 2014/13/B/ST10/02534)

2013-2016 
“The history of two high-altitude tropical lakes (crater Nevado de Toluca, Mexico) recorded in Cladocera remains, and other paleolimnological methods” Project funded by National Sciences Centre (NCN 2012/05/B/ST10/00469)

2011-2015 
“Reconstruction of selected lake reservoirs in the Holocene on the basis of isotopic and palaeobiological data”. Project funded by National Sciences Centre (NN 306061740).

2012-2013 
“Registro de cambios ambientales naturales y antropogénicos en los lagos del cráter del Nevado de Toluca, Edo. Mex., México, usando Cladoceros como indicadores ambientales”. Project funded by UNAM Postdoctoral Fellowship, Mexico

2011-2012 
"Registro de cambios ambientales durante el Pleistoceno tardío y el Holoceno en los lagos de Zirahuén y Tacámbaro, Michoacán, México, usando Cladoceros como indicadores ambientales” Project funded by UNAM Postdoctoral Fellowship, Mexico. 

2010-2013 
“Development of dystrophic lakes in Wigry National Park (NE Poland) on the basis of subfossil Cladocera analysis and other paleolimnological factors” Project funded by the State Committee for Sciences Research, Poland - N N306 228039

2009 - 2011 
“Holocene lacustrine sediments in Mrzeżyno laguna lake (North Poland) and their paleoecology and paleogeography history” Project funded by the State Committee for Sciences Research, Poland - NN306222137

July-November 2010 
“Natural and anthropogenic changes recorded in the Iceland lakes sediment, based on the subfossil Cladocera fauna” Individual mobility grants funded by EEA/Norway Grants - The Scholarship and Training Fund (STF)

2008 - 2010 
“Peat bogs and lakes in Suwalszczyzna Landscape  (NE Poland) – paleolimnology and paleoecology” Project funded by the State Committee for Sciences Research, Poland -NN 305 32 59 33

2007 -2008 
“Biodiversity in Polar Lakes (Spitsbergen, Norway) on the basis of subfossil Cladocera and Pediastrum”, Project funded by the State Committee for Sciences Research, Poland – “Arctic net”

2010-2011 
“Holocene history of Cladocera of lakes in Poland and Russian, with regard to the anthropogenic and climate change influences.” Project funded by Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences

2010-2012 
“Subfossil Cladocera (Crustacea) in Poland and Russia – differences and similarity” Project funded by Polish Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University M.V. Łomonosowa in Russia

2009-2010 
“Late Holocene history of biota of lakes in the Tatra Mts., with regard to the area of their anthropogenic acidification and recovery from acidification, and to the climate changes” Project funded by Polish Academy of Sciences and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

2007-2009 
EU project LAPBIAT II “Climate changes and development history of Lobelia lakes in Northern and Central Europe” Project funded by EU and Finish Government

2004-2006 
“Reconstruction of Holocene climatic changes on the basis of microfossils in finish and Polish lake sediments”. Project funded by Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Helsinki, Finland

Publications

  • Wojewódka M., Sinev A.Y., Zawisza E., Stańczak J., 2020. A guide to the identification of chydorid subfossil Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from lake sediments of Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula. Journal of Paleolimnology 327: 232-241.
  • Wojewódka M., Sinev A.Y., Zawisza E., 2020. A guide to the identification of non-chydorid subfossil Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from lake sediments of Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: Part I. Journal of Paleolimnology 63, 269–282.
  • Milecka, K.,  Mirosław-Grabowska J., Zawisza E., Kowalewski G., 2020. Susceptibility of small boreal lakes to environmental changes as inferred from organic sediments of Lake Talvilampi (Finland). The Holocene 30(3), 458-473.
  • Cheng L.,  Xue B. , Zawisza E., Yao S., Liu J., Li L., 2020. Effects of environmental change on subfossil Cladocera in the subtropical  shallow freshwater East Taihu Lake, China. Catena 188: 104446.
  • Caballero M.,  Zawisza E., Hernández M., Lozano-García S., Ruiz-Córdova J.P., Waters M.N., Ortega Guerrero B., 2020. The Holocene history of a tropical high-altitude lake in central Mexico. The Holocene 30 (6): 865-877.
  • Mirosław-Grabowska J., Obremska M., Zawisza E., Radzikowska M., Stańczak J., 2020. Towards a dystrophic lake: The history of Smolak Lake (northern Poland) on the basis of geochemical and biological data. Catena 187,  104262.
  • Mirosław-Grabowska J., Obremska M., Zawisza  E.,  Stańczak J., Słowiński M., Mulczyk A., 2020. Biological and geochemical indicators of climatic oscillations during the Last Glacial Termination, the Kaniewo palaeolake (Central Poland). Ecological Indicators 114, July 2020, Article 106301
  • Franco‐Gaviria F.,  Correa‐Metrio A.,  Núñez‐Useche F.,  Zawisza E., Caballero M., Prado B., Wojewódka M., Olivares G., 2020 Millennial-to-centennial scale lake system development in the mountains of tropical Mexico. Boreas 49: 363–374.
  • Zawisza E., Zawiska I., Szeroczyńska K., Correa-Metrio A., Mirosław-Grabowska J., Obremska M., Rzodkiewicz M., Słowiński M., Woszczyk, M., 2019. Dystrophication of lake Suchar IV (NE Poland): an alternative way of lake development. Limnetica, 38(1): 401-426
  • Cohuo S., Macario-Gonzalez L., Perez L., Sylvestre F.,  Pailles C., Curtis J.H.,  Kutterolf S.,  Wojewódka M.,  Zawisza E., Szeroczyńska K., Schwalb A. 2018. Climate ultrastructure and aquatic community response to Heinrich Stadials (HS5a-HS1) in the continental northern Neotropics. Quaternary Science Reviews, 197: 75-91.
  • Hamerlik L., Wojewódka M., Zawisza E., Cohuo Duran S., Macario Gonzalez L. 2018. Subfossil Chironomidae (Diptera) in surface sediments of the sinkholes (cenotes) of the Yucatan Peninsula: Diversity and distribution. Journal of  Limnology 77: 213-219.
  • Mirosław-Grabowska  J.   Zawisza E. 2018 Reaction of the lake environment to the Holocene warming depending on the distance to the maximum extent of the Vistulian ice sheet. Catena 171: 494–504
  • Zawisza E., Cuna E., Caballero M., Ruiz-Fernandez A.C., Szeroczyńska K., Woszczyk M., Zawiska I. 2017. Environmental changes during the last millennium recorded in subfossil Cladocera, diatoms and sediment geochemistry from Lake El Sol (Central Mexico). Geological Quarterly, 61 (1): 81–90.
  • Sigala I., Caballero M., Correa-Metrio A., Lozano-García S., Vázquez G., Pérez-Alvarado L., Zawisza E., 2017. Basic limnology of 30 continental waterbodies of the Transmexican Volcanic Belt across climatic and environmental gradients. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, 69 (2): 313-370.
  • Vázquez-Molina Y., Correa-Metrio A., Zawisza E., Franco-Gaviria JF., Pérez L., Romero F., Prado B., Charqueño-Célis F., Esperón-Rodríguez M. 2016. Decoupled lake history and regional moisture availability in the middle elevations of tropical Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, 33(3): 355-364.
  • Zawisza E., Filbrandt-Czaja A., Correa-Metrio A., 2016. Subfossil Cladocera and pollen as indicators of natural and anthropogenic trophic changes of Lake Jelonek (Tuchola Forest, N Poland) during the Holocene. Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 7(2): 157-170.
  • Wojewódka M., Zawisza E., Cohuo S., Macario-González L., Schwalb A., Zawiska I., Pérez L., 2016. Ecology of Cladocera species from Central America based on subfossil assemblages. Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 7(2): 145-156. DOI: 10.4081/aiol.2016.6266.
  • Zawisza E., Zawiska I., Correa-Metrio A. 2016. Cladocera Community Composition as a Function of Physicochemical and Morphological Parameters of Dystrophic Lakes in NE Poland. Wetlands 36:1131–1142.
  • Zawiska I., Zawisza E., Wojewódka M., Sinev AY. 2016. Exploring the world of micro sculptures - subfossil Cladocera remains under the SEM. Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 2016; 7(2): 177-183. DOI: 10.4081/aiol.2016.6218.
  • Mirosław-Grabowska J., Zawisza E., Jaskółka A., Obremska M., 2015. Natural transformation of the Romoty paleolake (NE Poland) during the Late Glacial and Holocene based on isotopic, pollen, cladoceran and geochemical data. Quaternary International: l 386:171-185.
  • Szeroczyńska K., Zawisza E., Wojewódka M., 2015. Initial time of two high altitude crater lakes (Nevado de Toluca, Central Mexico) recorded in subfossil Cladocera. Studia Quaternaria vol. 32, no. 2: 109-116, 10.1515/squa-2015-0010.
  • Szeroczyńska K., Zawisza E., 2015. Cenotes-lakes of the Yucatan peninsula (Mexico). Studia Quaternaria vol. 32, no. 1:53-57.10.1515/squa-2015-0005.
  • Cuna E., Zawisza E., Caballero M., Ruiz- Fernandez A.C., Lozano-Garcia S., Alcocer J., 2014.Environmental impacts of Little Ice Age cooling in central Mexico recorded in the sediments of a tropical alpine lake Journal of Paleolimnology 51:1-14 DOI 10.1007/s10933-013-974 8-0.
  • Mirosław-Grabowska J.,Zawisza E., 2014. Late Glacialeearly Holocene environmental changes in Charzykowskie Lake (northern Poland) based on oxygen and carbon isotopes and Cladocera data. Quaternary International, 328-329: 156-166, DOI 10.1016/2013.07.019.
  • Gałka M., Tobolski K., Zawisza E., Goslar T., 2014. Postglacial history of vegetation, human activity, and lake-level changes at Lake Linówek in northeast Poland, based on multiproxy data. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 23 (2): 123-152, DOI 10.1007/s00334-013-0401-7.
  • Sinev A. Y., Zawisza E.,2013. Comments on cladocerans of crater lakes of the Nevado de Toluca Volcano (Central Mexico), with the description of a new species, Alona manueli sp. Zootaxa 3647 (2): 390–400.
  • Zawiska I., Zawisza E., Woszczyk M., Szeroczyńska K., Spychalski W., Correa- Metrio A., 2013. Cladocera and geochemical evidence from sediment cores show trophic changes in Polish dystrophic lakes. Hydrobiologia: 715:181–193, DOI 10.1007/s10750-013-1482-0.
  • Siniev A., Zawisza E., Einarsson A., 2012. Unusual stable morphotype of Acroperus harpae (Baird, 1834) from Lake  Mývatn, Iceland (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) revealed by palaeolimnological studies.” Studia Quaternaria, vol. 29: 3–7.
  • Zawisza E., Caballero M., Ruiz-Fernandez C., 2012. Ecological changes recorded in the sediments of highaltitude tropical lake Lago de la Luna (central Mexico) based on subfossil Cladocera analysis. Studia Quaternaria 29: 14-21.
  • Antipushina Z., Szeroczyńska K., Zawisza E. 2012. Algal and in vertebrate microfossil assemblages from lake sediments in the reconstruction of past community dynamics – preliminary information. Studia Quaternaria, vol. 29 (2012): 53–58.
  • Zawisza E. Cedro B., 2012. Subfossil Cladocera (Crustacea) fauna from sediments of Samowo drainage paleochannels (core T28). Cedro ed Późnoglacjalne I holoceńskie przemiany środowiska przyrodniczego zarejestrowane w osadach profile T28 z okolic Mrzeżyna na podstawie badań wielodyscyplinarnych. Wydawnictwo Zapol.
  • Zawisza E., Szeroczyńska K., 2011:Subfossil faunal and floral remains (Cladocera, Pediastrum) in two northern Lobelia lakes in Finland. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems vol. 402, 09.
  • Zawisza E., Szeroczyńska K., 2011:Cladocera species composition in lakes in the area of the Hornsund Fjord (Southern Spitsbergen). Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems vol. 402, 04.
  • Szeroczyńska K., Zawisza E., 2011: Records of the 8200 cal BP cold event reflected in the composition of subfossil Cladocera in the sediments of three lakes in Poland. Quaternary International -233 (2):185-193-DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.07.007.
  • Szeroczyńska K., Zawisza E.,2009. The history of Wigry Lake development based on the study of Cladocera remains. Monographs of Wigry Lake, History of the lake in the light of geological and paleoecological studies (Red). Jacek Rutkowski i Lech Krzysztofiak, Stowarzyszenie człowiek i przyroda, Suwałki, Poland.
  • Bjerring R., Nykänen M., Sarmaja-Korjonen K., Jansen K., Nevalainen L., Szeroczyńska K., Sinev A., and E. Zawisza, 2008. Description of the subfossil head shield of Alona protzi Hartwig 1900 (Anomopoda, Chydoridae) and the environmental characteristics of its finding sites. Studia Quaternaria vol. 25: 47- 53.
  • Szeroczyńska K., Zawisza ., 2007. The development history of Wigry Lake as shown by subfossil Cladocera. Geochronometria  27: 67-74.
  • Szeroczyńska K., Zawisza E., 2007. Paleolimnology – History of development of Polish lake on the light of subfossil Cladocera analysis. (in Polish language, English abstract) Studia Limnologia et Telmatologica 1, No 1, 51 – 60.
  • Zawisza E., 2007. Reconstruction of trophy changes in lake on the basis of subfossil Cladocera (Custacea) In: Biblioteka monitoringu - Program Zintegrowanego Monitoringu Środowiska Przyrodniczego a zadania ochrony obszarów Natura 2000” Biblioteka monitoringu.
  • Szeroczyńska K., Zawisza E., 2006. Preliminary results of subfossil Cladocera analysis in the Holocene lacustrine sediments from Wigry Lake. Prace Komisji Paleogeografii  Czwartorzędu Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności T.III: 16-26.
  • Szeroczyńska K., Zawisza E., 2005. Daphnia remains from the sediment of Lake Somaslampi (NW Finish Lapland) and Lake Wigry (NE Poland). Studia Quaternaria, vol. 22: 55 –57.