BIOGRAPHY HIGHLIGHTS
- since 1999: Research scientist at the Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway. Polar physical oceanography.
- 1971-1998: Research scientist at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia. Polar physical oceanography.
- 1989: Senior Scientist Diploma
- 1981: Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography. Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia. Thesis: "Numerical Methods of Simulation of the Currents in the Shallow-Water Areas of the Arctic Seas."
RESEARCH INTERESTS/AREAS OF EXPERTISE - Study of the thermohaline structure, water and ice dynamics in the Nordic seas with the special interest in the Fram Strait and Barents and Kara Seas region.
- Transport, transformation and accumulation of the contaminants in the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas.
- Modelling of the water circulation and sea level elevation in the Arctic Ocean.
CURRENT ACTIVITIES//PROJECT INVOLVEMENT - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) project:"Reconstruction of the near-bottom currents in the Barents Sea as the basis of calculation of dangerous pollutions transport"
- Norwegian Research Council Project "Radioactive dose assessment improvements for the Nordic marine environment (RADNOR)"
- Member of advising group of the Joint Norwegian-Russian (NPI-AARI) FRAM Arctic Laboratory.
AFFILIATIONS - Russian Geographical Society
- American Geophysical Union
SELECTED PUBLICATIONSPavlov,V., O. Pavlova and R. Korsnes (2004): Sea ice fluxes and drift trajectories from potential pollution sources, computed with a statistical sea ice model of the Arctic Ocean. J. Marine System, 48/1-4, 133-157. Wadhams, P., G. Budéus, J. P. Wilkinson, T. Løyning and V. Pavlov (2004): The multi-year development of long-lived convective chimneys in the Greenland Sea. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L06306, doi:10.1029/2003GL019017.
Kushnir V.M., Hansen E., Pavlov V.K., Morozov A.N. (2003): Thermochaline convection at the edge ice zone in the Barents Sea to the east of Spitsbergen. Morskoy Gidrophizicheskiy Gurnal, 6, 65-77, (In Russian). English translation in: Physical Oceanography, Nov. 2003, Ingenta.com/isis/browsing/TOC/ingenta?issue=pubinfobike//klu/poce/2004/00000013/00000006-31k
Pavlov, V.K. (2001). Seasonal and long-term variability of the sea level in the marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean. Polar Research., 20(2): 153-160.
Pavlov, V.K. and V.V Stanovoy. (2001). The problem of transfer of radionuclide pollution by sea ice from the Kara Sea. Mar. Pollut. Bul. 42(4): 319-323.
Proshutinsy, A., V. Pavlov and R. H. Bourke (2001). Sea level rise in the Arctic Ocean. Geophys.Res. Lett., 28,:11, 2237-11,2240.
Pavlov V.K. and Pavlov P.V. (1999). Features of seasonal and interannual variability of the level regime and water circulation in the Laptev Sea. In: "Land-Ocean Systems in the Siberian Arctic : Dynamics and History", (Eds. Kassens H., Bauch H.A., Dmitrenko I., Eicken H. et al.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 3-16.
Pavlov V.K., Stanovoy V.V. and A. I. Nikitin (1999). Possible causes of radioactive contamination in the Laptev Sea. In: "Land-Ocean Systems in the Siberian Arctic : Dynamics and History", (Eds. Kassens H., Bauch H.A., Dmitrenko I., Eicken H. et al.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 65-72.
Weingartner, Th. J., S. Danielson, Y. Sasaki, V. Pavlov and M. Kulakov (1999). The Siberian Coastal Current : A wind- and buoyancy-forced Arctic coastal current. J. Geophys. Res., 104(C12): 29,697-29,713.
Pavlov, V.K. (1999). Modeling of large-scale water circulation and transfer of pollutants in the Arctic Ocean. Tr. of AARI, Gidrometeoizdat, St.Petersburg, 442: 53-75, (In Russian).
Pavlov, V.K. and Stanovoy V.V. (1999). Climatic signal in the fluctuations of the sea level and river run-off in the Arctic Ocean. Tr. of AARI, Gidrometeoizdat, St.Petersburg, 442: 114-120, (In Russian)
Pavlov, V.K. (1998). Features of the structure and variability of the oceanographic processes in the shelf zone of the Laptev and East-Siberian Seas. The Sea, Vol. 11, The Global Coastal Ocean, Regional Studies and Synthesis, Part 2:, Regional oceanography, Chapter 26, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 759-787.
Pavlov, V.K. (1998). Circulation in Ice-Covered Waters. In : Physics of Ice-Covered Seas (Ed. M. Lepparanta). Lecture notes from a summer school in Savonlinna, Finland 6-17 June, 1994, Helsinki University Printing House, Finland, V. II, 447-482.
Danilov, A.I., L.M. Ivanov, M.Yu. Kulakov, T.M. Margolina and V.K. Pavlov (1996). Modern radioactive climate of the Kara Sea. Dokladi Ros. Ak. Nauk, 346(4), 545-548, (In Russian).
Pavlov V.K., Timokhov L.A., Baskakov G.A.,Kulakov M.Yu., Kurazhov V.K., Pavlov P.V., Pivovarov S.V., Stanovoy V.V. (1996). Hydrometeorological regime of the Kara, Laptev and East Siberian Seas. With an introduction by James Morison. Technical Memorandum APL-UW 1-96, January 1996, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, 179 p.
Pavlov,V.K. and S.L.Pfirman (1995) : Hydrographic structure and variability of the Kara Sea : Implications for pollutant distribution. Deep-Sea Research II, 42(6): 1369-1390.
Roach A.T., Aagaard K., Pease C.H., Salo S.A., Weingartner T., Pavlov V.K., Kulakov M.Yu. (1995). Direct measurements of transport and water properties through the Bering Strait. J. of Geophys. Res., 100(C9): 18,443-18,457.
