Education

• M.S. (Geography), Yakutsk State University, 1981
• Ph.D. (Geography), Permafrost Institute, 1993. Dissertation: The Temperature Regime of Wetland Soils on the Vilyui Plateau

Research Interests

Permafrost landscapes:

• Temperature regime of active layer and upper permafrost
• Changes in permafrost terrain associated with climate change
• Permafrost research techniques:
• Development of automated data collection and monitoring systems

Current Projects

• Co-Investigator, 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 1. Assessing the Current State of Permafrost Landscapes in East Siberia in the Context of Late Pleistocene and Holocene Evolution (Principal Investigator: Alexander Fedorov, Ph.D.)
• Co-Principal Investigator, Joint Research Program between the Melnikov Permafrost Institute and UMR8148 GEOPS/CNRS Laboratory “GEOSCIENCES PARIS SUD”, Orsay University, France, 2018-2022: High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Study of the Permafrost Degradation and Carbon Release In Central Siberia
• Participant, Contract Project, Larionov Institute of Physical and-Technical Problems of the North, Yakutsk, 2018-2020: Investigation of Permafrost Changes and Assessment of Related Hazards on Linear Infrastructure in the Power of Siberia Pipeline Corridor in a Changing Climate (Principal Investigator: Vera Samsonova)

Selected Past Projects

• Melnikov Permafrost Institute and JAMSTEC Department of Environmental Geochemical Cycle Research Joint Project, 2014-2017: Observational Study of Permafrost, Vegetation, Energy and Water in Eastern Siberia Towards Elucidation of the Impact of Climate Change in the Geochemical Cycle
• SB RAS Basic Research Project VIII.69.2.3, 2013-2016. Block 1. Assessing the Current State of Permafrost Landscapes in East Siberia in the Context of Late Pleistocene and Holocene Evolution
• SB RAS Core Project. Geocryological Hazards in the Russian North-East: Monitoring, and Database and GIS Development
• Collaborative project with RIGC/JAMSTEC and NIPR (Japan): Study of Glaciers in the Suntar Khayata Range
• Collaborative project with the Research Institute for Global Change (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology): Land Surface Observation of Heat/Water/Vegetation Conditions in Yakutia, 1996-2014.
• SB RAS Project VII.63.2.5. Geocryological Hazards in the Russian North-East: Landscape and Hydrogeological Relationships, 2010-2012
• Collaborative project with the Research Institute for Global Change (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology). Land Surface Observation of Heat/Water/Vegetation Conditions in Yakutia, 1996-2014
• Collaborative project with the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan: Study of forest disturbance and permafrost dynamics in modern climate conditions, 2010-2014
• Collaborative project with the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan: Water balance of thermokarst lakes at modern climate changes, 2010-2014
• RAS Department of Earth Sciences Project 13.3. Marine Effects on Cryogenic Geosystems and Ecosystems along the Lower Reaches of the Major Arctic Rivers. Landscapes of the Middle Lena Valley under Current Permafrost Conditions. Climate Change Effects on the Hydrological Regime of Valley Rivers in the East Siberian Arctic, 2009-2011
• Collaborative project with UMR 8148 IDES CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, France: Evolution of permafrost landscape on the floodplain of the Lena River near Yakutsk, 2008-2011
• SB RAS Project 7.10.2.5. Study of the Current State and Trends in Permafrost Landscape Dynamics Due to Changes in Climate, Hydrogeology and Anthropogenic Activity, 2007-2009
• Collaborative project with the Hokkaido University, RFBR-JSPS Grant 06-05-91563 YF_a: Study on Effect of Large-scale Forest Fires in Boreal Forest on the Carbon Cycle, 2006-2008
• SB RAS Project 25.1.5. Formation Processes of Permafrost Landscapes and Their Evolution under Anthropogenic Impact and Climate Change, 2004-2006
• Collaborative project with the Hokkaido University, Japan: Environmental Change and Its Effects on the Global Warming in Siberian Permafrost Region, 1999-2006

Field Work

• 2015-present –monitoring studies at Neleger, Spasskaya Pad, Yukechi, Kerdyugen, Umaibyt, Syrdakh, Churapcha, Tabaga and Tiksi sites (permafrost and active-layer hydrothermal regimes, thermokarst, surface disturbance)
• 2018-2019 – permafrost and terrain investigations along the Power of Siberia Pipeline corridor (KP 555.80-Skovorodino)
• 2016 – permafrost and terrain investigations along the Vilyui Road, Yakutsk to Chernyshevsky
• 2011-2014 – Suntar Khayata Mountains, observations of the temperature regime of the active layer and upper permafrost
• 1992-2014 – establishment of ground thermal monitoring sites and observations in central, southern and Arctic Yakutia
• 1981-1991 – active-layer and upper permafrost temperature observations in diamond-bearing areas of western Yakutia; geotechnical investigations along the Tas-Yurekh to Udachny gas pipeline route

Memberships

• Member, Russian Geographical Society
• Member, MPI Scientific Council

Outreach Activities

• 2018 – lectures on permafrost and climate change; establishment and instrumentation of a meteorological site at Syrdakh Secondary School, Ust-Aldan, Yakutia

Honours and Distinctions

• 2017 – Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch Honorary Diploma