Research Interests
Understanding and modeling of coupled ground-atmosphere-ocean processes.
Thermodynamics of irreversible processes and evolution of ecosystems.
Numerical solution of partial differential equations appearing in
geoscience.

Current Projects
Computational aspects of direct and inverse problems in permafrost
geophysics. Download
thesis proposal (PDF-file)
Recent Publications
- Alexeev, V.A., Nicolsky, D.J., Romanovsky, V.E. and Lawrence,
D.M. (2007): An evaluation of deep soil configurations in the
CLM3 for improved representation of permafrost. Geophysical Research
Letters, 34, L09502.
- Nicolsky, D.J., Romanovsky, V.E., Alexeev, V.A. and
D.M. Lawrence (2007): Improved modeling of permafrost dynamics
in a GCM land-surface scheme. Geophysical Research Letters, 34:
L08501.
- Nicolsky, D.J., V.E. Romanovsky and G.S. Tipenko (2007):
Using in-situ temperature measurements to estimate saturated soil
thermal properties by solving a sequence of optimization problems.
The Cryosphere 1: 41-58.
Appointments
| 2002-present |
Research Assistant, Geophysical Institute, University
of Alaska Fairbanks |
| 2000-2002 |
Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematical
Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| 1999-2000 |
Research Assistant, Department of Physics, St.
Petersburg State University, Russia |

Education
| 2003-present |
University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Ph.D. Interdisciplinary
in Geophysics |
| 2003 |
University of Alaska, Fairbanks; M.S. - Mathematics |
| 2000 |
St.Petersburg State University, Russia; B.S.
- Physics |
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