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  • 2020 - Polish Academy of Science

Overview

Janusz Pempkowiak is a researcher affiliated with the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poland. Their academic work spans key areas in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on oceanography, plant science, ecology, pollution, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's recent publications cover various aspects of marine and coastal ecosystems, plant stress responses and tolerance, heavy metals in the environment, aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals, marine and coastal plant biology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and isotope analysis in ecology.

  • Uptake, accumulation, and translocation of Zn, Cu, Pb, Cd, Ni, and Cr by P. australis seedlings in an urban dredged sediment mesocosm: Impact of seedling origin and initial trace metal content (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Limitation of lignin derivatives as biomarkers of land derived organic matter in the coastal marine sediments (2020, Oceanologia)
  • Biomarker Responses In The Mussel (Mytilus Edulis) And The Flounder (Platichthys Flesus) In The Klaipeda-Butinge Area (Baltic Sea) (2024, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut))
  • Identifying recent sources and fate of sedimentary nitrogen in the Baltic Sea based on organic matter elemental composition and nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes ratios (2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin)

Frequent co-authors contributing to the scientist's research include Nicole Nawrot, Ewa Wojciechowska, Ksenia Pazdro, Jacek Szmagliński, and Aleksandra Winogradow.

The main venues where the scientist has published are The Science of The Total Environment, Oceanologia, Marine Pollution Bulletin, and Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut).

Key research topics covered in the work involve:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Janusz Pempkowiak has been recognized by the Polish Academy of Sciences with an award in 2020, reflecting involvement with the scientific community at a national level.

Best Publications

  • Speciation of heavy metals in marine sediments vs their bioaccumulation by mussels.

    J. Pempkowiak;A. Sikora;E. Biernacka

  • Heavy‐metal pollution in surficial sediments from the Southern Baltic sea off Poland

    P. Szefer;K. Szefer;G.P. Glasby;J. Pempkowiak

  • Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins

    Helmuth Thomas;Janusz Pempkowiak;Fred Wulff;Klaus Nagel

  • Extraction studies of heavy-metal pollutants in surficial sediments from the southern Baltic Sea off Poland

    P. Szefer;G.P. Glasby;J. Pempkowiak;R. Kaliszan

  • Use of biliary PAH metabolites as a biomarker of pollution in fish from the Baltic Sea.

    Pekka J Vuorinen;Marja Keinänen;Heta Vuontisjärvi;Janina Barsiene

  • Intercomparison of alpha and gamma spectrometry techniques used in 210Pb geochronology

    Agata Zaborska;JoLynn Carroll;Carlo Papucci;Janusz Pempkowiak

  • Biomarker responses in flounder (Platichthys flesus) and mussel (Mytilus edulis) in the Klaipeda-Būtinge area (Baltic Sea).

    Janina Baršienė;Kari K. Lehtonen;Angela Koehler;Katja Broeg

  • Assessment of organotin pollution along the Polish coast (Baltic Sea) by using mussels and fish as sentinel organisms.

    Amaya Albalat;Joanna Potrykus;Janusz Pempkowiak;Cinta Porte

  • The carbon budget of the Baltic Sea

    K. Kuliński;J. Pempkowiak

  • Measurements of biomarker levels in flounder (Platichthys flesus) and blue mussel (Mytilus trossulus) from the Gulf of Gdańsk (southern Baltic)

    Justyna Kopecka;Kari K. Lehtonen;Janina Barsiene;Katja Broeg

  • The BEEP project in the Baltic Sea: Overview of results and outline for a regional biological effects monitoring strategy

    Kari K. Lehtonen;Doris Schiedek;Angela Köhler;Thomas Lang

  • Horizontal and vertical variabilities of mercury concentration and speciation in sediments of the Gdansk Basin, Southern Baltic Sea

    Jacek Beldowski;Janusz Pempkowiak

  • Material transport from the near shore to the basinal environment in the southern Baltic Sea II: Synthesis of data on origin and properties of material

    K. Emeis;C. Christiansen;K. Edelvang;S. Jähmlich

  • Enrichment factors of heavy metals in the Southern Baltic surface sediments dated with 210Pb and 137Cs

    J. Pempkowiak

  • Multi-method characterisation of natural organic matter isolated from water: characterisation of reverse osmosis-isolates from water of two semi-identical dystrophic lakes basins in Norway

    Egil T Gjessing;J.J Alberts;August Bruchet;Per Kristian Egeberg

  • Nutrient fluxes via submarine groundwater discharge to the Bay of Puck, southern Baltic Sea.

    Beata Szymczycha;Susanna Vogler;Janusz Pempkowiak;Janusz Pempkowiak

  • Material transport from the nearshore to the basinal environment in the southern Baltic Sea I. Processes and mass estimates

    C Christiansen;K Edelvang;K Emeis;G Graf

  • Stress-70 as indicator of heavy metals accumulation in blue mussel Mytilus edulis.

    M. Radlowska;J. Pempkowiak

  • Temporal and spatial variations of selected biomarker activities in flounder (Platichthys flesus) collected in the Baltic proper.

    Justyna Kopecka;Janusz Pempkowiak

  • Sedimentary organic matter in two Spitsbergen fjords: Terrestrial and marine contributions based on carbon and nitrogen contents and stable isotopes composition

    Katarzyna Koziorowska;Karol Kuliński;Janusz Pempkowiak

  • Recent sediment accumulation rates for the Western margin of the Barents Sea

    Agata Zaborska;JoLynn Carroll;Carlo Papucci;Leonardo Torricelli

  • Mercury and major essential elements in seals, penguins, and other representative fauna of the Antarctic.

    Piotr Szefer;Wojciech Czarnowski;Janusz Pempkowiak;Elis Holm

Frequent Co-Authors

Piotr Szefer
Piotr Szefer Gdańsk Medical University
Kay-Christian Emeis
Kay-Christian Emeis Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Thomas Leipe
Thomas Leipe Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
JoLynn Carroll
JoLynn Carroll University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Fredrik Wulff
Fredrik Wulff Stockholm University
Helmuth Thomas
Helmuth Thomas Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Roman Kaliszan
Roman Kaliszan Gdańsk Medical University
Lars Förlin
Lars Förlin University of Gothenburg
Michael L. Carroll
Michael L. Carroll University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Michel Frankignoulle
Michel Frankignoulle University of Liège

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