PIOTR BAŁAZY
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    • BY SEA
    • BY SHIPWRECK
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  • @ IO PAN
  • PROJECTS
  • PUBLICATIONS
  • SCIENTIFIC DIVING
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • BY SEA
    • BY SHIPWRECK
    • BY PUBLICATION
    • POLISH WILDERNESS
Piotr Balazy Piotr Bałazy Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences
Photo: M. Procajło, 2015
Researcher & Scientific Diving Officer
Marine Ecology Department
Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IO PAN)
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Powstańców Warszawy 55, 81-712 Sopot, Poland

tel.: (+ 48) 58 731 17 83
​mail: balazy [at] iopan.pl
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ResearcherID: D-2949-2018 
ORCiD 0000-0002-1126-3151

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2016 - present - Adjunct, IO PAN
​2015 - present - Scientific Diving Officer, IO PAN
2014 - 2016 - Research assistant, IO PAN
2014 - PhD (with honours) in Oceanology, IO PAN
2014-
ROV pilot, Forkos / Underwater Works Technology Dept., Naval Academy
2014 - Underwater robotics, UNIS

2012 - 2015 - Senior technical assistant, Institute of Oceanography
2011 - Env. Impact Assessment  - natural protected areas and local communities, WFOŚ
2010 - Underwater archaeology, University of Warsaw
2008 - PgD in Strategic resource security and crisis management in organizations, Military Study of the Maritime University
2008 - UW photography and filming in scientific documentations, Institute of Oceanography

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, habitat builders, 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 expertise in underwater photography using it as one of my main research tools - most recently the time-lapse, and photogrammetry techniques.
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