Nikolay Torgovkin

Nikolai Torgovkin, Ph.D.

Research Scientist
MPI Laboratory of Permafrost Groundwater and Geochemistry

Co-Head, MPI-AWI Stable Isotope Laboratory


РИНЦ Author ID: 787746 (https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=787746)  
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2799-1468
Web of Science ResearcherID: N-9979-2018

Email: nick1805torg@gmail.com 


Education and Degrees

  • Ph.D. (Geology & Mineralogy), Melnikov Permafrost Institute, 2017. Dissertation: Geochemical Features of Human Modified Soils in Permafrost Regions: City of Yakutsk
  • M.S. (Groundwater and Engineering Geology Exploration), North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, 2012


Research Interests

  • Saline frozen and thawed soils
  • Effects of salinity on infrastructure
  • Salinity research methods
  • Snow chemistry


Current and Recent Projects

  • SB RAS Basic Research Project, 2021-2025: Groundwater in Permafrost: Origins, Regime, Interactions with Surface Water and Permafrost, and Resource Development (Participant)
  • Contract Project, Sinet Group, 2019-2020: Origin and Composition of Dust in Yakutsk (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • RFBR Project 18-05-00990, 2018-2020: Wildfire-Induced Changes in Near-Surface Permafrost Temperatures (Co-Investigator)
  • Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR Grant No. 18-55-53054) – National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC Grant No. 41811530093), 2018-2019: Formation, Modern State of Pleistocene Cryogenic Deposits in Eastern Asia, and Forecast of Their Dynamics in Relation to the Ongoing Climatic Variations (Participant)
  • SB RAS Basic Research Project IX.127.2.3, 2017-2020: Integrated Studies to Understand the Dynamics of Natural and Human-Affected Landscapes in the East Siberian permafrost region – Block 3. Geochemical Fields in Permafrost Landscapes: Formation, Distribution and Application (Co-Investigator)
  • Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR Grant No. 18-55-53054) – National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC Grant No. 41811530093), 2018-2019: Formation, Modern State of Pleistocene Cryogenic Deposits in Eastern Asia, and Forecast of Their Dynamics in Relation to the Ongoing Climatic Variations (Co-Investigator)


Field Work

  • 2019-2020 Snow and dust sampling, Yakutsk
  • 2019 Geomorphological and stratigraphic investigations of periglacial aeolian cover deposits in central Yakutia (Diring Lower Paleolithic site and Vilyu River basin); description, mapping and sampling of Kharyyalakh exposure; data collection from thermal monitoring sites
  • 2018 Drilling and core sampling in a 2018 fire site and undisturbed forest, Pre-Lena Plateau
  • 2018 Data collection from permafrost thermal monitoring sites in Khangalassy, Ust-Aldan and Yakutsk areas
  • 2018 Drilling and core sampling of the Quaternary sequence (100 m) in the Lena and Tanda Rivers interfluve
  • 2013-present – geochemical sampling and measurements of permafrost, groundwater and snow in central and southern Yakutia
  • 2018 – Kotelny Island, Russian Geographical Society and Sakha (Yakutia) Academy of Sciences expedition
  • 2012 – New Siberian Islands, Russian Geographical Society expedition
  • 2012 and 2011 – Snow surveys between Yakutsk and Oymyakon