News from 2024: new ARCTOS PhD Christine Gawinski

Christine Gawinski with her supervisors and evaluation committee. From left to right, top to bottom: Torstein Pedersen, Slawomir Kwasniewski, Camilla Svensen, Roy Ambli Dalmo, Andrew Hirst, Christine Gawinski and Kaja Balazy.
Christine Gawinski with her supervisors and evaluation committee. From left to right, top to bottom: Torstein Pedersen, Slawomir Kwasniewski, Camilla Svensen, Roy Ambli Dalmo, Andrew Hirst, Christine Gawinski and Kaja Balazy.

Dr. Christine Gawinski successfully defended her PhD thesis on October 31at UiT in Tromsø. The title of her thesis was: “Spatial and temporal patterns of mesozooplankton secondary production in the northern Barents Sea. Are small copepods important?”, and can be downloaded here.

Her supervisors have been: Professor Camilla Svensen, UiT; researcher Malin Daase, UiT; and Dr. Slawomir Kwasniewski, IOPAN.

Dr. Gawinski’s thesis consists of three papers:

Paper I: Gawinski C, Basedow SL, Sundfjord A, Svensen C (2024) Secondary production at the Barents Sea polar front in summer: contribution of different size classes of mesozooplankton. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 735:77-101. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14570

Paper II: Gawinski C, Daase M, Primicerio R, Amargant-Arumí M, Müller O, Wold A, Ormańczyk MR, Kwasniewski S, Svensen C (2024) Response of the copepod community to interannual differences in sea-ice cover and water masses in the northern Barents Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11:1308542. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1308542

Paper III: Gawinski C, Kwaśniewski S, Halvorsen E, Daase M, Svensen C (2024) Seasonality of Oithona similis population dynamics, reproductive characteristics, and contribution to copepod secondary production in the northern Barents Sea. (manuscript draft).

Congratulations again, and we wish her a lot of success in future endeavors!