Cecilia Liszka
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Cecilia Liszka
Marine Ecologist
Biography
Dr Cecilia Liszka is a biological oceanographer with particular interests in Southern Ocean zooplankton ecology, the role of zooplankton in ecosystem processes and carbon cycling and the response of pelagic ecosystems to environmental change.
Cecilia conducted her PhD jointly between the British Antarctic Survey and University of East Anglia, where she investigated the role of zooplankton in active carbon flux in the Southern Ocean. She subsequently held a fixed term post-doctoral position at the University of East Anglia, working on the REMAIN project (REMineralisation of organic carbon by marine bActerIoplanktoN).
She currently holds a post-doctoral position in the Ecosystems team at the British Antarctic Survey where she is working on the zooplankton of the South Sandwich Islands.
Previously, she has also worked in the climate change sector managing multi-stakeholder projects and working closely with climate and energy policy development and delivery.
Qualifications
2018 NERC funded PhD in Biological Oceanography, British Antarctic Survey & University of East Anglia
Thesis: Zooplankton-mediated carbon flux in the Southern Ocean: influence of community structure, metabolism and behaviour
Supervisors: Professor Geraint Tarling, Dr Clara Manno, Dr Carol Robinson and Dr Gabriele Stowasser
Examiners: Professor Corinne le Quéré (UEA) and Dr Hauke Flores (AWI)
2014 MSc Environmental Sciences with Distinction, University of East Anglia, UK
Dissertation: Elucidating the physiological role of rhodopsin proton pumps in marine dinoflagellates
2005 MA Geography, University of Cambridge, UK
Research interests
My interests in biological oceanography stem from the importance of plankton in the global climate system and carbon cycling, and the sensitivity of marine ecosystems to environmental changes. I am particularly interested in polar marine ecosystem research because of the vital role of polar oceans in current and future climate.
During my PhD I investigated the role of zooplankton on active carbon flux in the Southern Ocean, with particular focus on diel vertical migration, zooplankton community structure and faecal pellet export. For my MSc thesis I studied the physiological role of rhodopsin as a putative alternative ATP pathway in a temperate, and a bi-polar species of dinoflagellate.
My current research interests are on the zooplankton ecology of the waters around South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and the environmental variables driving observed zooplankton distributions and abundances.
I retain ongoing interests in all of the above projects and would be open to discussing any potential collaborations.
Collaborations
Details of previous research and reports can be found on Research Gate and LinkedIn:
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/cecilialiszka
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cecilia_Liszka
Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2024
Tarling, Geraint A. ORCID record for Geraint A. Tarling, Thorpe, Sally E. ORCID record for Sally E. Thorpe, Henley, Sian F., Burson, Amanda ORCID record for Amanda Burson, Liszka, Cecilia M. ORCID record for Cecilia M. Liszka, Manno, Clara ORCID record for Clara Manno, Lucas, Natasha S. ORCID record for Natasha S. Lucas, Ward, Freyja, Hendry, Katharine R. ORCID record for Katharine R. Hendry, Woodward, E. Malcolm S., Wootton, Marianne, Abrahamsen, E. Povl ORCID record for E. Povl Abrahamsen. (2024) Collapse of a giant iceberg in a dynamic Southern Ocean marine ecosystem: in situ observations of A-68A at South Georgia. Progress in Oceanography, 226 (). 17 pp. 10.1016/j.pocean.2024.103297
Hill, Simeon L, ORCID record for Simeon L, Hill, Atkinson, Angus, Arata, Javier, Belcher, Anna ORCID record for Anna Belcher, Bengtson-Nash, Susan, Bernard, Kim S., Cleary, Alison ORCID record for Alison Cleary, Conroy, John, Driscoll, Ryan, Fielding, Sophie ORCID record for Sophie Fielding, Flores, Hauke, Forcada, Jaume ORCID record for Jaume Forcada, Halfter, Svenja, Hinke, Jefferson, Hückstädt, Luis, Johnston, Nadine M. ORCID record for Nadine M. Johnston, Kane, Mary, Kawaguchi, So, Krafft, Bjørn A., Krüger, Lucas, La, Hyoung Sul, Liszka, Cecilia ORCID record for Cecilia Liszka, Meyer, Bettina, Murphy, Eugene ORCID record for Eugene Murphy, Pakhomov, Evgeny, Perry, Frances, Piñones, Andrea, Polito, Michael J., Reid, Keith, Reiss, Christian, Rombola, Emilce, Saunders, Ryan A. ORCID record for Ryan A. Saunders, Schmidt, Katrin, Sylvester, Zephryr, Takahashi, Akinori, Tarling, Geraint A. ORCID record for Geraint A. Tarling, Trathan, Philip N. ORCID record for Philip N. Trathan, Veytia, Devi, Watters, George, Xavier, José C. ORCID record for José C. Xavier, Yang, Guang. (2024) Observing change in pelagic animals as sampling methods shift: the case of Antarctic krill. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11 (). 20 pp. 10.3389/fmars.2024.1307402
2023
Nousek-McGregor, Anna, Fisher, Ben, Baker, Chelsey A. ORCID record for Chelsey A. Baker, Robinson, Carol, Damerell, Gillian, Liszka, Cecilia M. ORCID record for Cecilia M. Liszka, Fielding, Sophie ORCID record for Sophie Fielding, Muschitiello, Pilvi. (2023) Fair Winds and Following Seas Remotely: Modifying Perceptions of Fieldwork as a Requirement in Marine Science to Aid in Diversifying the Discipline. Oceanography, 36 (). 3 pp. 10.5670/oceanog.2024.131
Calderan, Susannah V., Dornan, Tracey ORCID record for Tracey Dornan, Fielding, Sophie ORCID record for Sophie Fielding, Irvine, Ryan, Jackson, Jennifer A. ORCID record for Jennifer A. Jackson, Leaper, Russell, Liszka, Cecilia M. ORCID record for Cecilia M. Liszka, Olson, Paula A., Collins, Martin A. ORCID record for Martin A. Collins. (2023) Observations of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) surface feeding on krill in austral winter at South Georgia. Marine Mammal Science, 39 (). 7 pp. 10.1111/mms.13025
2022
Collins, Martin A. ORCID record for Martin A. Collins, Hart, T., Hogg, O.T., Hollyman, Philip R. ORCID record for Philip R. Hollyman, Liszka, Cecilia M. ORCID record for Cecilia M. Liszka, Stewart, Heather A., Trathan, Phil N. ORCID record for Phil N. Trathan. (2022) South Sandwich Islands – An understudied isolated Southern Ocean archipelago: Editorial. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 201 (). 6 pp. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2022.105121
Johnston, Nadine M. ORCID record for Nadine M. Johnston, Murphy, Eugene J. ORCID record for Eugene J. Murphy, Atkinson, Angus, Constable, Andrew J., Cotté, Cédric, Cox, Martin, Daly, Kendra L., Driscoll, Ryan, Flores, Hauke, Halfter, Svenja, Henschke, Natasha, Hill, Simeon L. ORCID record for Simeon L. Hill, Höfer, Juan, Hunt, Brian P. V., Kawaguchi, So, Lindsay, Dhugal, Liszka, Cecilia ORCID record for Cecilia Liszka, Loeb, Valerie, Manno, Clara ORCID record for Clara Manno, Meyer, Bettina, Pakhomov, Evgeny A., Pinkerton, Matthew H., Reiss, Christian S., Richerson, Kate, Smith, Walker O., Steinberg, Deborah K., Swadling, Kerrie M., Tarling, Geraint A. ORCID record for Geraint A. Tarling, Thorpe, Sally E. ORCID record for Sally E. Thorpe, Veytia, Devi, Ward, Peter, Weldrick, Christine K., Yang, Guang. (2022) Status, change, and futures of zooplankton in the Southern Ocean. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9 (). 41 pp. 10.3389/fevo.2021.624692
Liszka, Cecilia M. ORCID record for Cecilia M. Liszka, Thorpe, Sally E. ORCID record for Sally E. Thorpe, Wootton, Marianne, Fielding, Sophie ORCID record for Sophie Fielding, Murphy, Eugene J. ORCID record for Eugene J. Murphy, Tarling, Geraint A. ORCID record for Geraint A. Tarling. (2022) Plankton and nekton community structure in the vicinity of the South Sandwich Islands (Southern Ocean) and the influence of environmental factors. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 198 (). 16 pp. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2022.105073
Tarling, Geraint ORCID record for Geraint Tarling, Abrahamsen, Povl ORCID record for Povl Abrahamsen, Lucas, Natasha ORCID record for Natasha Lucas, Brearley, Alexander ORCID record for Alexander Brearley, Fleming, Andrew ORCID record for Andrew Fleming, Shepherd, Andrew, Liszka, Cecilia ORCID record for Cecilia Liszka, Manno, Clara ORCID record for Clara Manno, Murphy, Eugene ORCID record for Eugene Murphy, Meredith, Michael ORCID record for Michael Meredith, Ratcliffe, Norman ORCID record for Norman Ratcliffe, Braakmann-Folgmann, Anne, Gerrish, Laura ORCID record for Laura Gerrish. (2022) The birth and death of ‘megaberg’ A68. The Marine Biologist, 22 (). pp.
2021
Liszka, Cecilia M. ORCID record for Cecilia M. Liszka, Robinson, Carol, Manno, Clara ORCID record for Clara Manno, Stowasser, Gabriele ORCID record for Gabriele Stowasser, Tarling, Geraint A. ORCID record for Geraint A. Tarling. (2021) Diel vertical migration of the Southern Ocean euphausiid, Euphausia triacantha, and its metabolic response to consequent short-term temperature changes. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 660 (). pp. 10.3354/meps13618
2019
Liszka, Cecilia ORCID record for Cecilia Liszka, Manno, Clara ORCID record for Clara Manno, Stowasser, Gabriele ORCID record for Gabriele Stowasser, Robinson, Carol, Tarling, Geraint ORCID record for Geraint Tarling. (2019) Mesozooplankton community composition controls faecal pellet flux and remineralisation depth in the Southern Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6 (). pp. 10.3389/fmars.2019.00230
Liszka, Cecilia ORCID record for Cecilia Liszka. (2019) Zooplankton-mediated carbon flux in the Southern Ocean: influence of community structure, metabolism and behaviour. University of East Anglia, PhD thesis
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