December 4, 2020

MPI DISSERTATION COUNCIL MEETINGS

The Dissertation Council D003.025.01 at MPI authorized by the Russian Ministry of Higher Education and Science's Attestation Committee to award degrees in geography, geology & mineralogy, and engineering in the fields of engineering geology, geocryology, and geotechnical engineering held its hybrid online/offline meetings on November 24-25 and December 1-2, 2020 for public defense of doctoral dissertations. Andrey Zhang and Anatoly Kirillin from MPI successfully defended their Kandidat Nauk (equivalent to Ph.D.) dissertations titled respectively "Thermal Stabilization of the Railway Embankment and Foundation by Sideslope Insulation" and "The Subsurface Temperature Field and Permafrost in the Elkon Horst". A Ph.D. study, “Performance Assessment of Crawlspace with a Regulated Regime for Pile-Founded Buildings on Permafrost”, was successfully defended by Alexander Nikiforov from the North-Eastern Federal University, Institute of Engineering and Technology.

Alexander Fedorov, MPI Vice-Director, was awarded the Doktor Nauk (a higher tier of doctorate) degree in geography for his study on "Evolution and Dynamics of Permafrost Landscapes in Yakutia". The Doktor Nauk in engineering was awarded to Sergey Velikin, Head of the MPI’s station in Chernyshevsky, who presented a dissertation summarizing his many years of research on "Integration of Geophysical Methods for Assessing the Condition of Permafrost Foundations of Water-Retaining Structures and Mine Facilities in the Yakutian Diamond Province".

Photos: Andrey Zhang examines ice-rich permafrost along the Lena Highway route (u);
Anatoly Kirillin on a snow survey in the Elkon Horst, southern Yakutia (l).


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