Department of Evolutionary Paleobiology


Krzysztof HRYNIEWICZ, Ph.D.

The systematics, phylogeneny and the functional morphology of bivalves
The evolution and the fossil record of chemosymbiotic ecosystems
The Meso- and Cenozoic polar faunas
The paleontology of the Palaeogene

Orcid ID 0000-0002-0664-5577
Researcher ID ID A-3915-2019



CURRICULUM VITAE



Personal data

Krzysztof Hryniewicz
Born in 1985, Poznań, Poland
married, one child


Academic degrees / Employment
  • 2014 – Ph.D. at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, thesis: Palaeontology of the latest Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep carbonates from central Spitsbergen, Svalbard
  • 07–09.2014 – researcher at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
  • 2009 – M.Sc. at the Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, thesis: Triassic of Stoły near Ciemniak, Tomanowa Valley, Western Tatra Mountains

Awards and scholarships
  • 2018–2021 Scholarship awarded by Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education for Distinguished Young Researchers
Grants
  • 2017–2019 Cooperative worker in Grant-in aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, prof. Kazutaka Amano (Joetsu University of Education, Japan) 17K05691 Characteristics of the Paleocene wood-fall communities and their evolutionary significance (2017–2019)
  • Leader of a grant from National Science Centre: The influence of Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum on oceanic chemosynthesis-based ecosystems
  • 11-22.04.2016 – SYNTHESYS grant entitled Thyasirid bivalves from ancient methane seeps, with research visit in Natuhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden; host: dr Steffen Kiel (NRM, Stockholm)

Scientific meetings

  • 2017 8th European Cogress of Malacological Societies Euromal 8, 10–14 September, Kraków, Poland
  • 2017 6th International Symposium on Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems (CBE6) August 27–September 1, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
  • 2016 16th International Malacological Congress UNITAS MALACOLOGICA World Congress of Malacology 2016, 18–24 July, Penang, Malaysia
  • 2016 – Participation in 1st international Workshop „Ancient Hydrocarbon Seep and Cognate Communities” 13-17.06. in Warsaw, Poland (member of an organizing commitee)
  • 2013 5th International Symposium of Chemosymbiosis-Based Ecosystems. 18-23 August, Victoria, Canada
  • 2013 Norsk Geologisk Forening Winter Conference. 8-20 January, Oslo, Norway.
  • 2011 Scientific Meeting of the Malacological Society of London: Chemosymbiotic molluscs and their environments: from intertidal to hydrothermal vents. 7-8 April, Natural History Museum, London, UK
  • 2010 Palaeontological Association Conference, London, UK

Field work/expeditions
  • 2020 field work in Italy
  • 2019 field work in Japan
  • 2018 field work in Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Japan, Ukraine and Poland
  • 2017 field work in Croatia, Poland, United Kingdom and USA (California)
  • 2016 Field work in USA (Oregon) and Japan (Tsushima)
  • 2015 August: Spitsbergen, Svalbard
  • 2015 February: Patagonia, Argentina, South America
  • 2013 Field work in the Owadów-Brzezinki quarry
  • 2012 23.08–4.09Svalex field course
  • 2012 Palaeontological expeditions of the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo to Morocco 
  • 2010, 2011, 2012 Palaeontological expeditions of the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo to Spitsbergen – exploration and excavation of the Jurassic and Cretaceous marine reptiles and hydrocarbon seeps

Editorial work
  • Since 2020: Associate Editor of Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
  • Since 2016: Associate Editor of Polish Polar Research

Students

  • 2012 – 2013 co-supervisior of Julie Guttormsen, thesis: Sedimentology, paleontology and diagenesis of the Ordovician (Darriwilian) Svartodden Member (Huk Formaton), Slemmestad


Publications

Scientific papers

Amano K, Kiel S, Hryniewicz K, Jenkins RG. 2022. Bivalvia in Ancient Hydrocarbon Seeps. In: Ancient Hydrocarbon Seeps, eds A. Kaim, Cochran JK, Landman NH. Topics in Geobiology 53, 267-321, Springer, Switzerland.

Jakubowicz M, Berkowski B, Hryniewicz K, Belka Z. 2022. Middle Palaeozoic of Morocco: the earliest known methane seep metazoan ecosystems. In: Ancient Hydrocarbon Seeps, eds A. Kaim, Cochran JK, Landman NH. Topics in Geobiology 53, 479-516, Springer, Switzerland.

Hryniewicz K. 2022. Ancient Seep Carbonates: From Outcrop Appearance to Microscopic Petrography In: Ancient Hydrocarbon Seeps, eds A. Kaim, Cochran JK, Landman NH. Topics in Geobiology 53, 79-110, Springer, Switzerland.

Hryniewicz K. 2022. Ancient Hydrocarbon Seeps of the World. In: Ancient Hydrocarbon Seeps, eds A. Kaim, Cochran JK, Landman NH. Topics in Geobiology 53, 571-647, Springer, Switzerland.

Pisera A, Hryniewicz K, Bitner MA, Kaim A. 2022. Extant and Fossil Sponges Associated with Hydrothermal Vent and Cold Seep Communities. In: Ancient Hydrocarbon Seeps, eds A. Kaim, Cochran JK, Landman NH. Topics in Geobiology 53, 253-266, Springer, Switzerland.

Hryniewicz, K., Miyajima, Y., Amano, K., Georgieva, M.N., Jakubowicz, M., Jenkins, R.G. and Kaim, A. 2020. Formation, diagenesis and fauna of cold seepcarbonates from the Miocene Taishu Group ofTsushima (Japan). Geological Magazine [text-journal site]

Hryniewicz, K., Bakayeva, S., Heneralova, L., Hnylko, O., Jenkings, R.G., Kaim, A. 2020. Taphonomy and palaeoecology of deep-water chemosymbiotic bivalves from the Eocene of Outer Eastern Carpathians, Ukraine. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 553, 109782.

Hryniewicz K., A. Amano, M.A. Bitner, J. Hagström, S. Kiel, A.A. Klompmaker, T. Mörs, C.M. Robins, A. Kaim 2019. A late Paleocene fauna from shallow-water chemosynthesis-based ecosystems, Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64: 101–141.[text-journal site]

Amano, K., Hryniewicz, K., Jenkins, R.G. 2018. A newly discovered Paleocene species of Boreocomitas (Gastropoda: Pseudomelatomidae) from eastern Hokkaido, Japan, with implications of the Paleocene Bering Strait. The Nautilus 132 (3–4), 117–123.

Hryniewicz, K., Jakubowicz, M., Klug, C. 2018. Early Devonian bivalves from Hamar Laghdad, Morocco. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 290, 191–202. [text-journal site]

Williscroft, K., Grasby, S.E., Beachamp, B., Little, C.T.S., Dewing, K., Birgel, D., Poulton, T., Hryniewicz, K. 2017. Extensive Early Cretaceous (Albian) methane seepage on Ellef Ringnes Island, Canadian High Arctic. Geological Society of America Bulletin 129, 788–805. [text-journal site]

Kaim, A., Hryniewicz, K., Little, C.T.S., Nakrem, H.A. 2017. Gastropods from the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous seep deposits in  Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Zootaxa 62, 351–374. [text-journal site]

Jakubowicz, M., Hryniewicz, K., Belka, Z. 2017. Mass occurrence of seep-specific bivalves in the oldest-known cold seep metazoan community. Scientific Reports 7, 14292. [text-journal site]

Hryniewicz, K.
, Amano, K., Jenkins, R.G., Kiel, S. 2017. Thyasirid bivalves from Cretaceous and Palaeogene cold seeps. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62, 705–729. [text-journal site]

Hryniewicz, K.
, Jakubowicz, M., Belka, Z., Dopieralska, J., Kaim, A. 2017. New bivalves from the Middle Devonian methane seep in Morocco: the oldest record of repetitive shell morphologies among some seep bivalve molluscs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15, 19-41.  [text-journal site]

Hryniewicz, K., Gaździcki, A. 2016. A new sediment-dwelling pholadid bivalve from Oligocene glaciomarine sediments of King George Island, West Antarctica. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61, 885-896. [text-journal site]

Hryniewicz, K., Bitner, M.A., Durska, E., Hagström, J., Hjálmarsdóttir, H.R., Jenkins, R.G., Little, C.T.S., Miyajima, Y., Nakrem, H.A., Kaim, A. 2016. Paleocene methane seep and wood-fall marine environements from Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 462, 41-56. [text-journal site]

Hryniewicz, K.
, Hagström, J., Hammer Ø., Kaim, A., Little C.T.S., Nakrem, H.A. 2015. Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep boulders from Novaya Zemlya and their faunas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 436, 231-244. [text-journal site]

Hryniewicz, K., Nakrem, H.A., Hammer, Ø., Little, C.T.S., Kaim, A., Sandy, M.R., Hurum, J.H. 2015. Palaeoecology of the latest Jurassic–earliest Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep carbonates from Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Lethaia 38, 353-374. [text-journal site]

Vinn, O., Hryniewicz, K., Little, C.T.S., Nakrem, H.A. 2014. A Boreal serpulid fauna from Volgian–Ryazanian (latest Jurassic–earliest Cretaceous) shelf sediments and hydrocarbon seeps from Svalbard. Geodiversitas 36, 526-540. [text-journal site]

Sandy, M.R., Hryniewicz, K., Hammer, Ø., Nakrem, H.A., Little, C.T.S. 2014. Brachiopods from Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep deposits, central Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Zootaxa 2884, 501-532. [text-journal site]

Jaglarz, P., Hryniewicz, K. 2014. Skały węglanowe triasu środkowego. In: Jach, R., Rychliński, T., Uchman, A. (Eds.), Skały osadowe Tatr, 49-57, Wydawnictwa Tatrzańskiego Parku Narodowego.

Jaglarz, P., Hryniewicz, K. 2014. Skały węglanowe triasu dolnego. In: Jach, R., Rychliński, T., Uchman, A. (Eds.), Skaly osadowe Tatr, 42-48, Wydawnictwa Tatrzańskiego Parku Narodowego.

O’Reilly, S.S., Hryniewicz, K., Little, C.T.S., Monteys, X., Szpak, M.T., Murphy, B.T., Jordan, S.F., Allen, C.C.R., Kelleher, B.P. 2014. Shallow water methane-derived authigenic carbonate mounds at the Codling Fault Zone, western Irish Sea. Marine Geology 357, 139–150. [text-journal site]

Hryniewicz, K., Little, C.T.S., Nakrem, H.A. 2014. Bivalves from the latest Jurassic–earliest Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep carbonates from central Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Zootaxa 3859, 1–66. [text-journal site]

Hammer, Ø., Hryniewicz, K., Hurum, J.H., Høyberget, M., Knutsen, E.M., Nakrem, H.A. 2013. Large onychites (cephalopod hooks) from the Upper Jurassic of the Boreal Realm. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58, 827–835.

Hryniewicz, K., Hammer, Ø., Nakrem, H.A., Little, C.T.S. 2012. Microfacies from the Volgian–Ryazanian (Jurassic–Cretaceous) hydrocarbon seep carbonates from Sassenfjorden, central Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Norwegian Journal of Geology 92, 113–131.

Hurum, J. H., Nakrem, H.A., Hammer, Ø., Knutsen, E. M., Druckenmiller, P.A., Hryniewicz, K., Novis, L.K. 2012. An Arctic Lägerstatte—the Slottsmøya Member of the Agardhfjellet Formation (Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous) of Spitsbergen. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 92, 55–64.

Wierzbowski, A., Hryniewicz, K., Hammer, Ø., Nakrem, H.A., Little, C.T.S. 2011. Ammonites from hydrocarbon seep carbonates from uppermost Jurassic–lowermost Cretaceous of Spitsbergen  and their biostratigraphical importance. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 262, 267–288. [text-journal site]

Hammer, Ø., Nakrem, H.A., Little, C.T.S., Hryniewicz, K., Sandy, M.R., Hurum, J.H., Druckenmiller, P., Knutsen, E.M., Høyberget, M. 2011. Hydrocarbon seeps from close to the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary, Svalbard. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 306, 15–26. [text-journal site]


Conference abstracts

Hryniewicz K., Amano K., Jenkins, R.G., Kiel S. (2017) Thyasirid bivalves from Cretaceous and Paleogene cold seeps. In: Book of Abstracts of the 8th European Cogress of Malacological Societies Euromal 8, 10–14 September, Kraków, Poland, p. 134 (poster)

Amano K., Hryniewicz K., Jenkins R.G. (2017) Paleocene faunal migration between northern Pacific
and Arctic regions. In: Book of Abstracts of the 8th European Cogress of Malacological Societies Euromal 8, 10–14 September, Kraków, Poland, p. 34

Hryniewicz, K., Amano, K., Jenkins, R.G., Kiel, S. (2017) Thyasirid bivalves from ancient cold seeps and their evolution. In: 6th International Symposium on Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems, 27.08-1.09.2017, Woods Hole, USA. (poster)

Hryniewicz K., Kiel S., Amano K., Jenkins, R.G. (2016) Thyasirid bivalves from ancient methane seeps. The 19th International Congress in Malacology 2016, Penang, Malaysia 18–24 July. Unity in Diversity, p. 15.

Hryniewicz, K., Bitner, M.A., Durska, E., Jenkins, R.G., Hagström, J., Hjálmarsdottir, H.R., Miyajima, Y., Little, C.T.S., Nakrem, H.A., Kaim, A.. (2016) Paleocene methane deep community from Spitsbergen, Svalbard. 1st International Workshop on Ancient Hydrocarbon Seep and Cognate Communities. 13–17 June 2016, Warsaw, Poland. p. 13.

Hryniewicz K., Jakubowicz M. (2016) Ataviaconcha—a Middle Palaeozoic seep-specialized bivalve? 1st International Workshop on Ancient Hydrocarbon Seep and Cognate Communities. 13–17 June, Warsaw, Poland. p. 12.

Little, C.T.S.; Hryniewicz, K.; Nakrem, H. A.; Hammer, Ø.; Kaim, A.; Sandy, M.R.; Vinn, O. (2014) Shallow water seeps from Jurassic-Cretaceous Boreal Sea (Svalbard, Norwegian Barents Sea). GSA Meeting, 19-22. October 2014

Hryniewicz, K., Little, C.T.S., Nakrem, H.-A., Hammer, Ø., Sandy, M.R., and Kaim, A. 2013. Evolutionary significance of latest Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep assemblages from Central Spitsbergen, Svalbard. In: 5th International Symposium on Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems, 18-23 August 2013, Victoria, Canada.

Nakrem, H.A., Hammer, Ø.; Hryniewicz, K., Rousseau, J., Nagy, J., Hjálmarsdóttir, H.R., Little, C.T.S., Kiessling, W. & Holmer, L.E. (2013). Micro and macro-fauna in the Jurassic-Cretaceous Slottsmøya Mbr. (Agardhfjellet Fm.), Central Spitsbergen, In Hans Arne Nakrem & Gunn Haukdal (ed.),  NGF Vinterkonferansen 2013. Oslo, 8-20. January, 2013. NGF Abstracts and Proceedings of the Geological Society of Norway 1 (2013). Norsk Geologisk Forening.  ISBN 978-82-92-39478-6.  Sammendrag.  s 93-94.

Hryniewicz, K., Hammer, Ø., Nakrem, H.A. & Little, C.T.S. (2013). Microfacies of the Volgian-Ryazanian (Jurassic-Cretaceous) hydrocarbon seep carbonates from Sassenfjorden, central Spitsbergen, Svalbard, In Hans Arne Nakrem & gunn haukdal (ed.),  NGF Vinterkonferansen 2013. Oslo, 8-20. January, 2013. NGF Abstracts and Proceedings of the Geological Society of Norway 1 (2013). Norsk Geologisk Forening.  ISBN 978-82-92-39478-6.  Sammendrag.  s 59.

Hammer, Ø.; Hryniewicz, K.; Hurum, J.H. & Nakrem, H.A. (2013). The Giant Claw of the North: Cephalopod arm hooks from the Boreal Upper Jurassic (Poster)., In Hans Arne Nakrem & gunn haukdal (ed.),  NGF Vinterkonferansen 2013. Oslo, 8-20. January, 2013. NGF Abstracts and Proceedings of the Geological Society of Norway 1 (2013).  Norsk Geologisk Forening.  ISBN 978-82-92-39478-6. Sammendrag.  s 49-50.

Guttormsen, J.; Nakrem, H.A., Hammer, Ø. & Hryniewicz, K. (2013). Sedimentology, paleontology and diagenesis of the Ordovician (Darriwilian) Svartodden Member (Huk Formaton), Slemmestad, Oslo Region., In Hans Arne Nakrem & gunn haukdal (ed.),  NGF Vinterkonferansen 2013. Oslo, 8-20. January, 2013. NGF Abstracts and Proceedings of the Geological Society of Norway 1 (2013).  Norsk Geologisk Forening.  ISBN 978-82-92-39478-6.  Sammendrag.  s 47.

Hryniewicz, K., Little, C.T.S., Nakrem, Hans Arne & Hammer, Øyvind (2011). Chemosymbiotic bivalves from the Jurassic-Cretaceous hydrocarbon seeps of Svalbard. The Malacological Society of London Meeting Chemosymbiotic molluscs and their environments: from intertidal to hydrothermal vents. The Malacological Society of London Meeting, 7-8. April 2011 (poster).




Popular scientific papers

Hryniewicz, K. 2015. Życie w mroku. Historia głębokomorskiej chemosymbiozy. Ewolucja 5: 9–15 (in  Polish).

Contact


Krzysztof Hryniewicz
Institute of Paleobiology PAS
ul. Twarda 51/55
PL-00-818 Warsaw, POLAND
e–mail: krzyszth@twarda.pan.pl

phone (+4822) 6978-794; room 136