Zofia DUBICKA, Ph.D.


Department of Environmental Paleobiology

Ph.D. student in 2008-2012


Research interests:

Cretaceous benthic and planktonic foraminifera (paleobiogeography, palaeoecology, evolution)
Integrated bio- and chemostratigraphy
Cretaceous paleoenvironmental reconstructions

Academic degrees:
2012 Ph.D. in geology, Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
2008-2012 Ph.D. in palaeobiology candidate, GEOBIOS, Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, scientific supervisor: Danuta Peryt Ph.D., D.Sc.
2008 M.Sc. in geology, majoring in stratigraphic and prospecting geology, Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw

Original articles:

Dubicka, Z. and Peryt, D. 2012. Lower/Upper Maastrichtian boundary interval in the Lublin Syncline (SE Poland, Boreal realm): new insight into foraminiferal stratigraphy. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 45 (2): 139-150. [text] Remin, Z., Dubicka, Z., Kozłowska, A.,  Kuchta, B. 2012. A new method of rock disintegration and foraminiferal extraction with the use of liquid nitrogen [LN2]. Do conventional methods lead to biased paleoecological and paleoenviromental interpretations? Marine Micropaleontology 86–87: 11–14. [text]
Dubicka, Z. and Peryt, D. 2012. Latest Campanian and Maastrichtian paleoenvironmental changes: Implications from an epicontinental sea (SE Poland and western Ukraine). Cretaceous Research, 37: 272-284. [text]
Dubicka, Z. and Peryt, D. 2012. Foraminifers and stable isotope record of the Dubivtsi chalk (upper Turonian, Western Ukraine): palaeoenvironmental implications. Geol. Quart., 56 (1): 199–214. [text]
Dubicka, Z. and Peryt, D., 2011. Integrated biostratigraphy of Upper Maastrichtian chalk at Chełm (SE Poland). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 81,185-197. [text]
Peryt, D. and Dubicka, Z. 2009. Palaeoenvironmental changes in the early Maastrichtian of the Nida Trough (Southern Poland): foraminiferal evidence. In: Peryt D & Kaminski MA (red.) 7th Micropalaeontological Workshop MIKRO-2009. Sw. Katarzyna, September 28-30, 2009. Abstracts and Excursion Guide. Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication, 15, 101-108.
Machalski, M., Jagt, J and Dubicka, Z. 2008. Additional records of scaphitid ammonites from the basal upper Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of eastern Poland. Bulletin Aardwetenschappen - Bulletin Sciences de la terre, 78, 261-268. [text]

Abstracts:
Dubicka Z. & Peryt D. 2013. The significance of benthic foraminifera in deciphering the Santonian stratigraphy of the European epicontinental sea sediments. 14th Czech-Polish-Slovak Palaeontological Conference and 9th Micropalaeontological Workshop MIKRO-2013, Kraków, Poland, November 2013, Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication No. 19. Abstracts Volume: 14.
Remin, Z., Dubicka, Z., Kozłowska, A. & Kuchta, B. 2011. Foram extraction and rock disintegration using liquid nitrogen [LN2]. In: Bąk M, Kaminski MA & Waśkowska A (ed.) Integrating Microfossil Records from the Oceans and Epicontinental Seas. Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication, 17, pp. 122-123.
Dubicka, Z. & Peryt, D. 2011. The Boreal Lower/Upper Maastrichtian boundary and foraminiferal events: An example from SE Poland. In: Bąk M, Kaminski MA & Waśkowska A (ed.) Integrating Microfossil Records from the Oceans and Epicontinental Seas. Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication, 17, pp. 83-84.
Dubicka, Z. 2010 Foraminiferal biostratigraphy and sea level curve for the Maastrichtian strata of the Lublin – Lviv Syncline (SE Poland and West Ukraine). - In: September 5-10, 2010, Bonn, Abstracts Volume with Program, 79.
Dubicka, Z. & Peryt, D. 2009 Integrated biostratigraphy of  Upper Maastrichtian chalk at Chełm (East Poland). In: Hart MB (ed.) – 8th International Symposium on the Cretaceous System. Abstract Volume. Plymouth, p. 101.
Peryt, D., Dubicka, Z., Anczkiewicz, R., Peryt, T.M. & Poberezhsky, A.V. 2009 Mid-Cretaceous strontium isotope stratigraphy of the Dnister River Valley (West Ukraine): preliminary results. In: Hart MB (ed.) – 8th International Symposium on the Cretaceous System. Abstract Volume. Plymouth, p. 98-99.
Dubicka, Z. 2009 Foraminifers and biostratigraphy of the Albian–Cenomanian deposits from the Luka section (Dnister River Valley, West Ukraine): preliminary results. In: Peryt D & Kaminski MA (ed.) 7th Micropalaeontological Workshop MIKRO-2009. Sw. Katarzyna, September 28-30, 2009. Abstracts and Excursion Guide. Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication, 15, p. 21.