Vladimir Romanovsky
Biographical Sketch:
Present Research Interests:
I am interested in the scientific and practical aspects of environmental and engineering problems involving ice and permafrost. These include problems in the areas of soil physics, thermodynamics, heat and mass flow, and growth and decay processes that are associated with permafrost, subsea permafrost, seasonally frozen ground, and seasonal snow cover. I am also interested in the improvement of mathematical methods (analytical and numerical modeling) in geology and geophysics.
Professional Memberships and Awards:
- Academic Secretary of the Committee: “The Geophysical Methods of Research in the Field of Engineering
- Geology, Hydrogeology, and Geocryology”, Geophysical Research Board of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Russia), 1986-1992
- Award (Medal) from the Russian Government for the Baikal-Amur Railroad construction, 1984.
- Member of the RAISE (Russian-American Initiative on Shelf-Land Environments in the Arctic) International Steering Committee, 1996-2006
- Member of the IPA Working Groups “Inland and Offshore Permafrost” and “Global Change and Permafrost,” 1998-present
- Director of the RAISE (Russian-American Initiative on Shelf-Land Environments in the Arctic) Science Management Office, OPP NSF, 1999-2002
- Member of the International Heat Flow Commission (IHFC), 1999-present
- Member of the “Task Force on Climate Change, Permafrost and Civil Infrastructure” of the US Arctic Research Commission, 2001-2004
- Member of the Arctic Climate System Study (ACSYS)/Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Numerical Experimentation Group (NEG) of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), 2001- 2006
- Member of the NASA NEESPI Science Plane Writing Working Group, 2002- 2008
- Chair of the “Modeling of Permafrost” Subgroup of the International Permafrost Association (IPA), 2003-2008
- President-Elect of the US Permafrost Association (USPA), 2003-2004
- President of the US Permafrost Association (USPA), 2004-2005
- Past President of the US Permafrost Association (USPA), 2005-2006
- Member of the National Academies “Designing an Arctic Observing Network” Committee of the Polar Research Board, 2004 - 2006
- Member of the WMO/WCRP CliC scientific steering group (SSG), 2008-present
- 2007 Terris and Katrina Moore Prize, University of Alaska, 2008
- Member of the Executive Committee of the International Permafrost Association, 2008 - present
- Member of the Technical Working Group on Public Infrastructure (Adaptation), Alaska Governor’s Climate Change Sub-Cabinet, 2008 - 2010
- Member of the US Polar Research Board, 2008 – present
- Member of the Executive Committee of the WMO/WCRP CliC scientific steering group (SSG), 2010-present
- 2011 Usibelli Award for Research, University of Alaska, 2011
Positions Held:
- Professor of Geophysics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska (2006 – Present)
- Associate Professor of Geophysics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska (1999 – 2006)
- Research Associate Professor, Geophysical Institute, U of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska (1998 – 1999)
- Research Associate, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska (1996 – 1998)
- Research Assistant, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska (1992 – 1996)
- Associate Professor of Geophysics and Geocryology, Moscow State University (1985 – 1992)
- Science Researcher, Department of Geocryology, Moscow State University, Russia (1980 – 1985)
- Geophysicist, Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Russia (1975 – 1980)
