Natalia Kowalska

Natalia Kowalska
maiden name: Konieczna
email: [email protected]
mobile phone: (0048) 666 200 207
adress: Wergiliusza 28/8 Poznan, Poland
EDUCATION
2010 – now
PhD student - Department of Meteorology,
Faculty of Land Reclamation and Environmental Engineering,
Poznan University of Life Sciences
2007-2008
Scholarship - exchange program Socrates/Erasmus,
Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences,
Faculty of Life Sciences,
Humboldt-Univerität zu Berlin
2005-2010
MSc - Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding,
Faculty of Agronomy and Bioengineering,
Poznan University of Life Sciences
SKILLS
 Proficiency: Ms Office, MATLAB, OriginPro, Eddy Pro, LoggerNet
 Experience with chamber and eddy covariance measurements,
 Proficiency: English, German,
 Polish – native,
 Driving license (since 2006)
SCIENCE EXPERIENCE
19 - 22.04.2015
University of Granada
Project name: Methane fluxes of Phragmites australis measured in two
different climatic conditions.
21 - 30.07.2014
Vrije Universiteit – Amsterdam
Project name: Improving methane flux characterization over an
abandoned peat meadow (APE-CH4)
16 - 19.09.2013
poster presentation: ” GHG fluxes in wetlands dominated by Phragmites
australis under different climates”
Authors: Penélope Serrano-Ortiz, B.H. Chojnicki, E. P. Sanchez-Cañetea,
N. Kowalska, O. Pérez-Priegoa, L. Kutzbach, B. Runklee, N. Fernández,
A. Lopez-Ballesterosa , M. Urbaniak, J. Olejnik and A. S. Kowalski
Poster presented by: Penélope Serrano-Ortiz, GHG meeting , Antwerp,
Belgium
05-12.05.2013
participation in Summer School „Flux measurement techniques for non
CO2 GHG: methods, sensors, databases and modeling”,
Mierzęcin, Poland
21-25.04.2013
poster presentation „Measurements of methane emission from a
temperate peatland by eddy covariance method”
Authors: N.Kowalska, B.H. Chojnicki, J.Rinne, M. Urbaniak, R.Juszczak,
J. Olejnik
Poster presented by: Natalia Kowalska, international workshops “AWARE:
Approaches in WetlAnd Restoration - focus on fen landscapes International
Workshop Warsaw- Biebrza”, Warsaw, Poland
02 - 07.09.2012
participation in a conference „The importance of land – atmosphere
fluxes of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) for the global
greenhouse-gas balance”, Hyytiälä, Finland
24 - 26.10.2011
participation in the international conference „GEO-Carbon Conference:
Carbon in a changing world”, FAO Rome, Italy
16.10 - 10.12.2011
scholarship at University of Tuscia, in Viterbo, work on international
database, part II, „BADM - Biology Ancillary Disturbance Metadata
Development”
11 - 20.09.2011
participation in the Summer School „Flux measurement techniques:
methods, sensors, databases and modeling” COST Action ES0804
(ABBA), Tuczno, Poland
07 - 10.09.2011
poster presentation: „Evaluation of net photosynthesis of selected vascular
plant species on the peatland in Rzecin"
Authors: Natalia Kowalska, Bogdan Chojnicki, Dietmar Lüttschwager,
Janusz Olejnik
Poster presented by: Natalia Kowalska, Congress of Climatologists and
Agrometeorologists, Poland, Wroclaw
09.05 – 11.05.2011
ordered presentation in the role of External expert „BADM Biological
Ancillary Disturbance Metadata”, Todi, Italy
31.03 - 01.04.2011
course of writing publications in Braunschweig (Germany), led by
Dr Annette Freibauer,
27.03 - 01.04.2011
poster presentation „Seasonal Net Ecosystem Production (NEP) and
biomass runs of sedge community at wetland in Rzecin",
Authors: Natalia Kowalska, Bogdan Chojnicki, Maria Michalak, Radosław
Juszczak, Janusz Olejnik,
Poster presented by: Natalia Kowalska, meeting of project participants
GHG: „Peatland synthesis” in Braunschweig, Germany
17.01 - 20.01.2011
participation in a scientific meeting: „Enlarging and Connecting the
European Spectral Network” ,Hyytiälä, Finland
04. 10 - 30. 11. 2010 scholarship at University of Tuscia, in Viterbo, work on international
database, part I, „BADM - Biology Ancillary Disturbance Metadata
Development”
2011 - 2013
classes with students at the Poznan University of Life Sciences,
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

„Sedge community (Caricetum elatae) seasonal above ground biomass and
carbon dioxide exchange runs at Rzecin wetland” Bogdan H. Chojnicki,
Maria Michalak, Natalia Konieczna, Janusz Olejnik, Polish Journal of
Environmental Study,Vol.21, No(3) 2012, 579-587, 2012

„Measurements of methane emission from a temperate wetland by eddy
covariance method” Natalia Kowalska, Bogdan H. Chojnicki, Janne Rinne,
Sami Haapanala, Paweł Siedlecki, Marek Urbaniak, RadosławJuszczak,
Janusz Olejnik, International Agrophysics 27, 283-290, 2013

„Emission and absorption of methane on the peatland” - „Emisja i
pochłanianie metanu na torfowiskach”, Natalia Konieczna, Bogdan H.
Chojnicki Creative Time "Młodzi naukowcy dla polskiej nauki", part V, Vol.
II, chapter in monograph, 2012

„Attempt to assess the productivity of the ecosystem in the field of
Wielkopolska” - „Próba oceny produktywności ekosystemu w warunkach
polowych Wielkopolski”, Natalia Kowalska, Bogdan H. Chojnicki, Damian
Józefczyk, Marek Urbaniak, Radosław Juszczak, Janusz Olejnik, Annual Set
The Environment Protection (Roczniki Ochrony Środowiska), Vol.15,part 3,
2481-2495, 2013
ACHIEVEMENTS
 ordered presentation in the role of External expert „BADM Biological
Ancillary Disturbance Metadata”, Todi, Italy.
 scholarship COST STSM ESO804-9079, 04.10 - 30.11.2010,
 receiving a grant University „Grant for the development of young scientists
in 2012",
 scholarship COST STSM ESO804-907, 16.10 - 10.12.2011,

receiving a scholarship in the Meteorology Department at Poznan University
of Life Sciences,2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
 receiving of a grant pro-quality scholarship for the academic year 2012/2013