Wojciech Majewski
Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences
ul. Twarda 51/55
00-818 Warsaw, POLAND
e-mail: wmaj@twarda.pan.pl
phone: (+4822) 697-88-53, room: 156

Researcher ID: D-9255-2017

Personal data

Wojciech Majewski
Born in 1973, Warsaw, Poland
Married, two children

Titles and memberships

• 2020. Professor of Natural Sciences
• 2016 – present. Delegate of Poland to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
• 2010. Doctor habilitatus granted on October 28th, 2010 at Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa for “Holocene foraminifera from West Antarctica: Their taxonomic, ecologic and paleoclimatic implications” (original title: "Holoceńskie otwornice Antarktyki Zachodniej: implikacje taksonomiczne, ekologiczne i paleoklimatyczne")
• 2003 – present. Committee on Polar Research of Polish Academy of Sciences
• 2001. Ph.D. Department of Geological Sciences, the Ohio State University. PH.D. DISSERTATION defended on April 26th, 2001 under supervision of Prof. Peter Noel Webb, certified on November 20th, 2001 at Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa "Middle Miocene warming event and planktonic foraminifera from the Kerguelen Plateau, southern Indian Ocean"
• 1997. M.Sc. Geology (stratigraphy and economic geology), Wydzial Geologii Uniwerytetu Warszawskiego (Department of Geology, Warsaw University).M.Sc. THESIS completed on June 30th, 1997 under supervision of Prof. Ryszard Marcinowski "Ammonites of the Ore-bearing Clays in the environs of Częstochowa, southern Poland" (original title: "Amonity z iłów rudonośnych okolic Częstochowy")

Awards

• 30 November, 2001;Conference Fellowship, Foundation for Polish Science
• 1 June, 2001; Spieker Book Award, Department of Geological Sciences, OSU
• 1 March, 2001; Antarctica Service Medal of the United States of America
• 2 November, 1998; Cushman Foundation Student Research Grant-in-aid
• 30 June, 1997; Diploma Honorificum of Warsaw University

Professional experience

• November – December 2019. Fieldwork in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia
• January – March 2015. Foraminiferal researcher onboard icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer, Ross Sea
• January – March 2013. Fieldwork in Beagle Channel, Chile
• January 2012 – June 2020. Deputy Director at the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
• February 2010 – March 2010. Foraminiferal researcher onboard icebreaker Oden, Pine Island Bay, Amundsen Sea
• November 2008 – December 2008. Molecular studies on foraminifera, Department of Zoology and Animal Biology, University of Geneva
• March 2007 – April 2007. Foraminiferal researcher in Admiralty Bay (King George Island, Antarctica) as a member of project Structure, evolution and dynamics of the lithosphere, cryosphere and biosphere of Arctic and Antarctic regions
• July 2004 – August 2004. Foraminiferal researcher onboard Oceania, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kongsfjorden and Isfjorden, Svalbard
• January 2004 – recent. Research Fellow at the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
• September 2002 – December 2003. Leader of the 27th Polish Antarctic Expedition to Henry Arctowski Station, King George Island, Antarctica
• June 2001 – September 2002. Research Fellow at the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
• October 1999 – November 1999. Micropaleontology Technician for the Cape Roberts Project, McMurdo, Antarctica
• July 1999 – May 2001. Research Assistant, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University
• September 1997 – June 1999. Teaching Assistant, General Geology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Sedimentology, Oceanography, Physical Geology, Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio State University
• July 1997. Instructor, Geological Field Camp in Holly Cross Mts., Department of Geology, Warsaw University

Editorial work

• 2016 – present. Editor-in-chief (Geosciences) Polish Polar Research
• 2013 – co-editor Kosmos 62(3) special issue on polar ecosystems
• 2006 – present. Assistant editor Palaeontologia Polonica
• 2003 – 2016. Associate editor Polish Polar Research

Grant participation

• 2025-2027. Reconstructing biota and environmental conditions in Antarctic glacial refugia in the western Ross Sea during the Last Glacial Maximum (NCN-2024/53/B/ST10/01792; PI WM)
• 2023-2026. Unpinning of the Ross Ice Shelf from Ross Bank (NSF ANT-1841136, kierownik Phil Bart)
• 2019-2022. Response to environmental changes and post-industrial recovery of foraminifera from South Georgia fjords, sub-Antarctic (NCN- 2018/31/B/ST10/02886, PI WM)
• 2016-2018. Sub ice-shelf benthic foraminifera as the key to reconstruct post-LGM environmentalhistory and its chronology, Ross Sea, Antarctica (NCN-2015/17/B/ST10/03346, PI WM)
• 2015-2017. Timing and duration of LGM and post−LGM grounding events in the Whales Deep paleo ice streams, Eastern Ross Sea continental shelf (NSF ANT-1246357; PI Phil Bart)
• 2015-2017. Evidence for Paleo Ice Stream Collapse in the Western Ross Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum (NSF ANT-1246353; PI John B. Anderson)
• 2012-2014. Cenozoic benthic foraminiferal evolution on two sides of the Drake Passage (NCN-2011/01/B/ST10/06956; PI WM)
• 2009-2012. Deglaciation history of Pine Island Bay, Antarctica (NSF ANT-0837985; PI John B. Anderson)
• 2008-2010. Holocene foraminifera from Antarctic Peninsula: Molecular and paleoclimatic implications (N N307 115135; PI WM)
• 2006-2008. Marine productivity in relation to changing polar front. Paleoceanographic record of south Spitsbergen environmental (2PO4F 006 30; PI Marek Zajączkowski)
• 2004-2007. Structure, evolution and dynamics of the lithosphere, cryosphere and biosphere of Arctic and Antarctic regions (PBZ-KBN-108/P04/2004)

PhD students

• Marlena Świło
• Aneta Majda
• Ewa Demianuk

Publications

60. Świło M., Majewski W., Totten R.L., Lehrmann A.A. & Anderson J.B. 2024. Multi-proxy record of Late Holocene climate events and westerly winds in Maxwell Bay, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 654: 112450. [Text - journal site]

59. Majewski W., Szczuciński W., Pawłowska J., Szymczak-Żyła M., Lubecki L. & Niedzielski P. 2024. Environmental degradation and recovery after termination of whaling in sub-Antarctic fjord, South Georgia. Science of the Total Environment 957: 177536. [Text - journal site]

58. Majewski W., Pawłowska J. & Szczuciński W., Georgia Południowa – raj odzyskany? 2024. ACADEMIA. Magazyn Polskiej Akademii Nauk 4(80) Zdrowie: 12-16. https://doi.org/10.24425/academiaPAN.2024.152813.

57. Binczewska A., Majewski W., Wachnicka A., Frankovich T., Borówka R.K., Sławińska J., Bąk M. & Witkowski A. 2023. Reconstruction of climate-induced environmental changes in the eastern Gulf of Mexico based on foraminifera sediment assemblages. Journal of Sea Research 196: 102451. [Text - journal site]

56. Hayward B.W., Holzmann M., Pawlowski J., Wollenburg J. & Majewski W. 2023. Taxonomy and biogeography of living species of the Family Notorotaliidae (Notorotalia, Parrellina, Porosorotalia, Buccella, Cristatavultus). Micropaleontology 69: 259-302. [Text - journal site]

55. Majewski W., Szczuciński W. & Gooday A.J. 2023. Unique benthic foraminiferal communities (stained) in diverse environments of sub-Antarctic fjords, South Georgia. Biogeosciences 20: 523-544. [Text - journal site]

54. Korsun S., Kniazeva O., Majewski W., Godoi M.A., Hromic T., Varfolomeeva M. & Pawlowski J. 2023. Foraminifera in temperate fjords strongly affected by glacial meltwater, Tierra del Fuego, South America. Marine Micropaleontology 181: 102248. [Text - journal site]

53. Holzmann M., Gooday A.J., Majewski W. & Pawlowski J. 2022. Molecular and morphological diversity of monothalamous foraminifera from South Georgia and the Falkland Islands: Description of four new species. European Journal of Protistology 85: 125909. [Text - journal site]

52. Gooday A.J., Holzmann M., Majewski W. & Pawlowski J. 2022. New species of Gromia (Protista, Rhizaria) from South Georgia and the Falkland Islands. Polar Biology 45: 647–666. [Text - journal site]

51. Majewski W., Holzmann M., Gooday A.J., Majda A., Mamos T. & Pawlowski J. 2021. Cenozoic climatic changes drive evolution and dispersal of coastal benthic foraminifera in the Southern Ocean. Scientific Reports 11: 19869. [Text - journal site]

50. Majewski W., Prothro L.O., Simkins L.M., Demianiuk E.J. & Anderson J.B. 2020. Foraminiferal patterns in deglacial sediment in the western Ross Sea, Antarctica: Life near grounding lines. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 35: e2019PA003716. [Text - journal site]

49. Prothro L., Majewski W., Yokoyama Y., Simkins L., Anderson J., Yamane M., Miyairi Y. & Naohiko Ohkouchi N. 2020. Timing and pathways of East Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat. Quaternary Science Reviews 230: 106166. [Text - journal site]

48. Majewski W., Stolarski J. & Bart P.J. 2019. Two rare pustulose/sponose morphotypes of benthic foraminifera from eastern Ross Sea. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 49: 405-422. [Text - journal site]

47. Demianiuk E.J. & Majewski W. 2018. Zastosowanie analiz kopalnego DNA w badaniach osadów czwartorzędowych. Przegląd Geologiczny 66: 680-691 .[Text - journal site]

46. Bart P.J., DeCesare M., Rosenheim B.E., Majewski W. & McGlannan A. 2018. A centuries-long delay between a paleo-ice-shelf collapse and grounding-line retreat in the Whales Deep Basin, eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica. Scientific Reports 8: 12392. [Text - journal site]

45. Majewski W., Bart P.J. & McGlannan A.J. 2018. Foraminiferal assemblages from ice-proximal paleo-settings in the Whales Deep Basin, eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 493: 64-81. [Text - journal site]

44. Prothro L.O., Simkins L.M., Majewski W. & Anderson J.B. 2018. Glacial retreat patterns and processes determined from integrated sedimentology and geomorphology records. Marine Geology 395: 104-119. [Text - journal site]

43. Majda A., Majewski W., Mamos T., Grabowski M., Godoi M.A. & Pawłowski J. 2018. Variable dispersal histories across the Drake Passage: The case of coastal benthic Foraminifera. Marine Micropaleontology 140: 81-94. [Text - journal site]

42. Minzoni R.T., Majewski W., Anderson J.B., Yokoyama Y., Fernandez R. & Jakobsson M. 2017. Oceanographic influences on the stability of the Cosgrove Ice Shelf, Antarctica. The Holocene 27: 1645-1658. [Text - journal site]

41. Majewski W., Tatur A., Witkowski J. & Gaździcki A. 2017. Rich shallow-water benthic ecosystem in Late Miocene East Antarctica (Fisher Bench Fm, Prince Charles Mountains). Marine Micropaleontology 133: 40-49. [Text - journal site]

40. Szczuciński W., Pawłowska J., Lejzerowicz F., Nishimurad Y., Kokociński M., Majewski W., Nakamura Y. & Pawlowski J. 2016. Ancient sedimentary DNA reveals past tsunami deposits. Marine Geology 381: 29-33. [Text - journal site]

39. Gschwend F., Majda A., Majewski W., & Pawlowski J. 2016. Psammophaga fuegia sp. nov., a new monothalamid foraminifer from the Beagle Channel, South America. Acta Protozoologica 55: 101-110.

38. Bart P.J., Coquereau L., Warny S. & Majewski W. 2016. In situ foraminifera in grounding zone diamict: a working hypothesis. Antarctic Science 28 (04): 313-321. [Text - journal site]

37. Świło M., Majewski W., Anderson J.B. & Minzoni R. 2016. Diatom assemblages from coastal settings of West Antarctica. Marine Micopaleontology 125: 95–109. [Text - journal site]

36. Majewski W., Wellner J.S. & Anderson J.B. 2016. Environmental connotations of benthic foraminiferal assemblages fromcoastal West Antarctica. Marine Micropaleontology 124: 1-15. [Text - journal site]

35. Majewski W., Bowser S.S. & Pawlowski J. 2015. Widespread intra-specific genetic homogeneity of coastal Antarctic benthic foraminifera. Polar Biology 38: 2047-2058. [Text - journal site]

34. Majewski W. & Gaździcki A. 2014. Shallow water benthic foraminifera from the Polonez Cove Formation (lower Oligocene) of King George Island, West Antarctica. Marine Micropaleontology 111: 1-14. [Text - journal site]

32. Majewski W. 2013. Benthic foraminifera from Pine Island and Ferrero bays, Amundsen Sea. Polish Polar Research 34 (2): 169-200. [Text - journal site]

31. Lejzerowicz F., Esling P., Majewski W., Szczuciński W., Decelle J., Obadia C., Arbizu P.M. & Pawlowski J. 2013. Ancient DNA complements microfossil record in deep-sea subsurface sediments. Biology Letters 9: 20130283.

30. Majewski W., Wellner J.S., Szczuciński W. & Anderson J.B. 2012. Holocene oceanographic and glacial changes recorded in Maxwell Bay, West Antarctica. Marine Geology 326-328: 67-79.

29. Majewski W., Olempska E., Kaim A & Anderson J.A. 2012. Rare calcareous microfossils from Middle Miocene strata, Weddell Sea off Antarctic Peninsula. Polish Polar Research 33: 245-257.

28. Gaździcki A. & Majewski W. 2012. Foraminifera from the Eocene La Meseta Formation of Isla Marambio (Seymour Island), Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic Science 24: 408-416.[Text - journal site]

27. Kirshner A.E., Anderson J.B., Jakobsson M., O’Regan M., Majewski W. & Nitsche F.O. 2012. Post-LGM deglaciation in Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica. Quaternary Science Reviews 38: 11-26. [Text - journal site]

26. Yawsangratt S., Szczuciński W., Chaimanee N., Chatprasert S., Majewski W. & Lorenc S. 2012. Evidence of probable paleotsunami deposits on Kho Khao Island, Phang Nga Province, Thailand. Natural Hazards 63: 151-163. [Text - journal site]

25. Jakobsson M., Anderson J.B., Nitsche F., Dowdeswell J.A., Gyllencreutz R., Kirchner N., Mohammad R., O’Regan M, Alley R.B., Anandakrishnan S., Eriksson B., Kirshner A., Fernandez R., Stolldorf T., Minzoni R. & Majewski W. 2011. Geological record of ice shelf break-up and grounding line retreat, Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica. Geology 39: 691-694. [Text - journal site]

24. Anderson J.B., Warny S., Askin R.A., Wellner J.S., Bohaty S.M., Kirshner A.E., Livsey D.N., Simms A.R., Smith T.R., Ehrmann W., Lawver L.A., Barbeau D., Wise S.W., Kulhanek D.K., Weaver F.M. & Majewski W. 2011. Progressive Cenozoic cooling and the demise of Antarctica’s last refugium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108, 28: 11356-11360. [Text - journal site]

23. Pawlowski J. & Majewski W. 2011. Magnetite bearing foraminifera from Admiralty Bay, West Antarctica, with description of Psammophaga magnetica, sp. nov. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 41: 1-11.[Text - journal site]

22. Majewski W. 2010. Planktonic foraminiferal response to Middle Miocene cooling in the Southern Ocean (ODP Site 747, Kerguelen Plateau). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55: 541-560. [Full_text - PDF]

21. Majewski W. & Pawlowski J. 2010. Morphologic and molecular diversity of the foraminiferal genus Globocassidulina in Admiralty Bay, West Antarctica. Antarctic Science 22: 271-281. [Text - journal site]

20. Majewski W. 2010. Benthic foraminifera from West Antarctic fiord environments: An overview. Polish Polar Research 31: 61-82. [Full_text - PDF]

19. Majewski W. & Bohaty S. 2010. Surface-water cooling and salinity decrease during the Middle Miocene Climate Transition at Southern Ocean ODP Site 747 (Kerguelen Plateau). Marine Micropaleontology 74: 1-14. [Text - journal site]

18. Michalchuk B.R., Anderson J.B., Wellner J.S., Manley P.L., Majewski W. & Bohaty S. 2009. Holocene climate and glacial history of the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula: the marine sedimentary record from a long SHALDRIL core. Quaternary Science Review 28: 3049-3065. [Text - journal site]

17. Majewski W. & Anderson J.B. 2009. Holocene foraminiferal assemblages from Firth of Tay, Antarctic Peninsula: Paleoclimate implications. Marine Micropaleontology 73: 135-147. [Text - journal site]

16. Majewski W. & Tatur A. 2009. A new Antarctic foraminiferal species for detecting climate change in sub-Recent glacier-proximal sediments. Antarctic Science 5: 439-448. [Text - journal site]

15. Majewski W., Szczuciński W. & Zajączkowski M. 2009. Interactions of Arctic and Atlantic water-masses and associated environmental changes during the last millennium, Hornsund (SW Svalbard). Boreas 38: 529-544. [Text - journal site]

14. Pawlowski J., Majewski W., Longet D., Guiard J., Cedhagen T., Gooday A.J., Korsun S., Habura A.A. & Bowser S.S. 2008. Genetic differentiation between Arctic and Antarctic monothalamous foraminifera. Polar Biology 31: 1205-1216. [Text - journal site]

13. Sinniger F., Lecroq B., Majewski W. & Pawłowski J. 2008. Bowseria arctowskii gen. and sp. nov., new monothalamous foraminiferan from the Southern Ocean. Polish Polar Research 29: 5-15. [Full_text - PDF]

12. Majewski W., Lecroq B., Sinniger F. & Pawlowski J. 2007. Monothalamous foraminifera from Admiralty Bay, King George Island, West Antarctica. Polish Polar Research 28: 187-210. [Full_text - PDF]

11. Majewski W. & Zajączkowski M. 2007. Benthic foraminifera in Adventfjorden, Svalbard: Last 50 years of local hydrographic changes. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 37: 107-124. [Text - journal site]

10. Majewski W., Pawlowski J. & M. Zajączkowski M. 2005. Monothalamous foraminifera from West Spitsbergen fjords, Svalbard: a brief overview. Polish Polar Research 26: 269-285. [Full_text - PDF]

9. Majewski W. & Olemska E. 2005. Recent ostracods from Admiralty Bay, King George Island, West Antarctica. Polish Polar Research 26: 13-36. [Full_text - PDF]

8. Majewski W. 2005. Benthic foraminiferal communities: distribution and ecology in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, West Antarctica. Polish Polar Research 26: 159-214.[Full_text - PDF]

7. Gaździcki A. & Majewski W. 2003. Recent foraminifera from Goulden Cove of King George Island, Antarctica. Polish Polar Research 24: 3-12. [Full_text - PDF]

6. Majewski W. 2003. Water-depth distribution of Miocene planktonic foraminifera from ODP Site 744, Southern Indian Ocean. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 33: 144-154.

5. Majewski W. 2002. Mid-Miocene invasion of ecological niches by planktonic foraminifera of the Kerguelen Plateau, Antarctica. Marine Micropaleontology 46: 59-81.[Text - journal site]

4. Majewski W. 2002. The Miocene oceanographic history of the southern Kerguelen Plateau: planktic foraminiferal data, ODP Site 744; Antarctica at the close of a millennium. Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 35: 281-286.

3. Aghib F., Alberti, M., Anderson J., Askin R., Atkins C., Bannister S., Barrett P.J., Bohaty S., Bryce S., Bücker C., Bush S., Claps M., Curren M., Fielding C., Florindo F., Galeotti S., Hannah M., Harris A., Harwood D.H., Henrys S., Jackson N., Janecek T., Jarrard R., Judge S., Kopsch C., Krissek L., Laird M., Lavelle M., Majewski W., Naish T., Neumann M., Niessen F., Paterson M., Paulsen T., Pompilio M., Powell R., Pyne A., Rafat G., Raine I., Roberts A., Sagnotti L., Sandroni S., Sarti M., Simes J., Smellie J.L., Smith B., Sorice A., Strong P., Talarico F., Taviani M., Thorn V., Verosub K., Watkins D., Webb P.N., Wilson G., Wilson T., Wise S., Woolfe K. & Wrenn J. 2000. Studies from Cape Roberts Project, Ross Sea, Antarctica, initial report on CRP-3. Terra Antarctica 7: 1-209.

2. Majewski W. & Cape Roberts Project Science Team. 2000. Cape Roberts Project: investigating the Cenozoic history of Antarctica. Polish Polar Research 21: 89-97.

1. Majewski W. 2000. Middle Jurassic concretions from Częstochowa (Poland) as indicators of sedimentation rates. Acta Geologica Polonica 50: 431-439.