Viktor Popovin

 Born on 08/30/1954

He graduated from the department of glaciology Cryolithology and Geography Faculty of Moscow State University. MV Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1976.

Specialty - geography, physical geographer

Specialization - Glaciology

Professional experience:

Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University: 

              1976-1990 - Problem Laboratory of snow avalanches and mudflows (junior researcher);

              1990 ... - Department Cryolithology and Glaciology (junior researcher, researcher, senior researcher, Associate Professor) 

      The candidate of geographical sciences, glaciology and geocryology, in 1989 zschischena thesis on "Budget evolution Dzhankuat glacier (Central Caucasus)"; 1989, Moscow, Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography; (Head -. Doctor S.M.Myagkov)

      In 1993 he was awarded the title of senior researcher (glaciology and geocryology)

     Research interests: evolutionary glaciology

     Number of published works (by July 2007) -123    

Member of the Russian Geographical Society (since 2006). The head of the Russian Working Group on Monitoring of glaciers. Expert Consultant (on the mass balance of glaciers and terminology) of the World Glacier Monitoring Service.

     Leaders of more than 40 expeditions in the period 1976-2007. (Caucasus, tableland, Patagonia, Central Andes, Kuznetsky Alatau, Kodar, Chersky Range and so on.).

 Contacts:

     Work address: 119991 Moscow, Lenin Hills, Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography

     Phones:(495) 939 3673 office., (495) 412 2537 (house.)

     E-mail addresses:  po @ geogr.msu.ru

            begemotina @ hotmail.com

 Key publications: 

       * POPOVNIN VV Modern evolution of the Earth's glaciers. - In the book .: "Today's global environmental changes", Vol.1. M., Scientific World, 2005, p.507-577.

             * SHAHGEDANOVA of M., STOKES the CR, the SD Gurney, POPOVNIN Interactions Between V. The mass-balance, atmospheric circulation and climate recent the change on the Djankuat the Glacier, Caucasus Mountains, Russia. - J.Geophys.Res, v.110, D04108, doi : 10.1029 / 2004JD005213..

            * POPOVNIN VV Petrakov DA Monitoring the evolution of Dzhankuat glacier. - In Sat .: Geography, society, the environment, "Volume 1" Modern evolution and functioning of geosystems ". M., ed. "Gorodets", 2004, s.305-421.

            * POPOVNIN by VV, Rozova the AV Influence of the sub-Debris Thawing and its' Influence on ablation and the run-off of the Djankuat the Glacier in the Caucasus. - Nordic Hydrology, vol.33, No 1. Lyngby, Denmark, 2002, p.75-94.

            * POPOVNIN VV Die Gletscher im Einzugsgebiet des oberen Baksantals. - In: "Gletscher und Landschaften des Elbrusgebietes". Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha, Germany, 1998, p.71-77.

            * POPOVNIN VV Annual mass-balance series of a temperate glacier in the Caucasus, reconstructed from an ice core. - Geografiska Annaler, vol.81A, No.4, 1999, Lund, Sweden, p.713-724.

            POPOVNIN by VV *, danilova the TA, the DA Petrakov A pioneer car mass- -balance a Estimate for the Patagonian glacier: Glaciar De the los the Tres, Argentina. - Global and Planetary Change, vol.22, No.1-4, 1999, p.255-267.

·         BOZHINSKIY the AN, the MS KRASS, POPOVNIN by VV the Role of Debris cover in the thermal physics of the glaciers. - J.Glaciology, 1986, v.32, No.111, p.255-266.

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