Photo: M. Procajło
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Researcher & Scientific Diving Officer
Marine Ecology Department Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IO PAN) Powstańców Warszawy 55, 81-712 Sopot, Poland tel.: (+ 48) 58 731 17 83 mail: balazy [at] iopan.pl
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2016 - present - Adjunct, IO PAN, Sopot
2015 - present - Scientific Diving Officer, IO PAN, Sopot 2014 - 2016 - Research assistant, IO PAN, Sopot 2014 - PhD (with honours) in Oceanology, IO PAN, Sopot 2012 - 2015 - Senior technical assistant, Institute of Oceanography, Gdynia 2008 - PgD in Strategic resource security and crisis management in organizations, Military Study of the Maritime University, Gdynia 2007 - MSc in Oceanography majoring in Marine Biology, University of Gdansk |
My professional interests revolve around benthic ecology with particular emphasis on shallow water hard bottom communities, ecosystem engineers and factors controlling biodiversity. So far, most of my work concerned the rapidly changing polar regions (both the Arctic and the Antarctic), but I do not forget about our local field which is the Baltic Sea - its green waters and specific rocky "reefs." I am very interested in shipwrecks treated as hard substrate islands, the hot-spots for biodiversity, and their role in the ecosystem function. Fascinated from the beginning by scuba diving, I am trying to develop my underwater photography workshop using it as one of my main research tools - most recently the time-lapse, and photogrammetry techniques.
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