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| Alexey Pavlov |
 APECS Marine Geosciences Discipline CoordinatorArctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia I have lived in St. Petersburg, Russia for all my life. At high school I was interested in physics, math and geography, and eventually found myself at the Department of Oceanography of St. Petersburg State University, where I could combine all these disciplines and fell in love with Earth science, and physical oceanography in particular. During my studies, I received a good knowledge on physical oceanography field itself, as well as basics in boundary-layer meteorology, sea ice, statistics and some aspects of climate systems. My field experience has included cruises and field works in the White Sea, Svalbard and Antarctica. After graduation from university I fitted into Department of Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions at Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute that is the biggest institution dealing with polar research in Russia. At the moment, I am a PhD student there and have a half-time position as a research assistant. Among my research interests there are a number of studies in West Spitsbergen waters: water masses, seawater optical properties and underwater light regime, suspended particulate matter, sea ice and snow properties, some aspects of remote sensing (Ocean color, SST). But, currently in framework of my PhD thesis I am focused on the investigations of linkages between physical environment and the primary production of phytoplankton in Svalbard coastal waters and in Fram Strait. In these studies I am strongly collaborating with the Norwegian colleagues from the field of marine biology. |
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