3 March 2022

Melnikov Prize Awarded to Anzhela Vasileva

Anzhela Vasileva, a technical assistant at MPI Laboratory of General Geocryology, has been awarded the P.I. Melnikov Prize for her research project, Reconstructing the Terrace Chronology in the Middle Lena River (supervisor: Dr. A. Galanin). The P.I. Melnikov Prize was established in 2007 by the MPI administration to encourage and stimulate young scientists of the Permafrost Institute and to motivate students of the North-Eastern Federal University to pursue careers in permafrost science. This monetary award is presented annually to the best research projects conducted by early career researchers, post-graduate students and undergraduates. Vasileva received this year’s prize of R 100,000 in a stiff competition among eight young researchers, with only few points ahead of her nearest rivals Ivan Gorokhov (Improvement of GPR Efficiency in Locating Engineering Objects from the Lake Ice Surface in Permafrost Regions) and Maksim Sivtsev (Development of an Automated Ground Temperature Regime Measurement System).

Photo: Andrey Ostashov presents his project “Development of a UAV-based Procedure for Morphometric Characterization of Groundwater Icings”.