BIOGRAPHY HIGHLIGHTS
- since 1999: Research scientist at the Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Sea ice dynamics and climate
- 1988-1998: Research scientist at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St.Petersburg
RESEARCH INTERESTS/AREAS OF EXPERTISE - Sea ice and climate research with focus on the Arctic, especially Fram Strait, Svalbard and Barents Sea
- Sea ice concentration and sea ice drift investigations, modelling of sea ice condition.
CURRENT ACTIVITIES/PROJECT INVOLVEMENT
- Sea Ice Monitoring in the Polar Regions (ICEMON)
- NFR Project: Programme Polar Klimaforskning “Carbon flux and ecosystem feed back in the northern Barents Sea in an era of climate change (Cabanera)”.
- NFR Project: Programme Arktøk, “On Thin Ice? Climate influence on Energy Flow and Trophic Structure in Arctic Marine Ecosystems”.
- NFR Project, Programme Arktøk, “Climate impacts on the population ecology of ringed seals (Phoca hispida) and polar bears (Ursus Maritimus) at Svalbard.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Pavlov, V., O. Pavlova and R. Korsnes (2003). Sea ice fluxes and drift trajectories from potential pollution sources, computed with a statistical sea ice model of the Arctic Ocean. J. Marine Systems, 48/1-4, 133-157. Mauritzen, M. A.E. Derocher, O. Pavlova and Ø. Wiig (2003). Female polar bears, Ursus maritimus, on the Barents drift ice: walking the treadmill. Animal Behaviourwas, 65, doi:10.1006/anbe.2003.2171
Korsnes, R., O. Pavlova and F Godtliebsen (2002). Assessment of potential transport of pollutants into the Barents Sea via sea ice–an observational approach. Marine Pollution Bulletin., 44(9), 861-869.
Borga, K., M. Poltermann, A. Polder, O. Pavlova, B. Gulliksen, G.W. Gabrielsen and U. Skaare (2002). Influence of diet and sea drift on ofganochlorine bioaccumulation in Arctic ice-associated amphipods. Environmental Pollution, 117, 47-60.
Pavlova, O. and J-G. Winther (2002). Sea ice concentration off Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, NP Rapportserie, N117, January 2002.
Pavlov, V.K., V.V. Stanovoy, V.A. Gribanov, A.V. Shablia and O.A. Pavlova (1999). Arctic Shelf/Basin Exchange. Technical Report CRDF|GAP RG0 - 633, University of Washington, APL, 134p.
Pavlov, V.K. and O.A. Pavlova (1999). Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Thermohaline Structure and Currents in the Bering Strait. Trudi of AARI, Gidrometeoizdat, St.Petersburg, 442, 16–53, (In Russian)
Pavlov, V.K., M. Yu. Kulakov, V.V. Stanovoy and O.A. Pavlova (1995). Study of processes of transportation and transformation in the coastal zone of Arctic seas of pollutants (including the radionuclides) incoming with the continental discharge. Technical Report, AARI, 177 pp., (In Russian).
Pavlov V.K. and O.A. Pavlova (1993). About one of the approaches to numerical realization scheme of partial difference equations. Trudi of AARI, 429, 167-175, (In Russian).
