Teaching courses

SPSU, Institute of Earth Sciences, (Geomorphology Department), Bachelor's  program “Geography”:

1. “Paleogeography of Quaternary period”,  
2. “Introduction in spore-pollen analysis”.

Master program “The structure, dynamics and protection of landscapes”:

1. “Bioindication methods in Quaternary paleogeography”;
2. “Paleogeography of the Pleistocene glacial zone of the Northern Hemisphere”.

Master program “Quaternary paleogeography”:

1. “Quaternary Paleogeography of Russia”
2. Paleontological methods of Quaternary deposits investigations

Master program “Integrated study of the polar regions environment” (CORELIS):

1. Methods of Geochronometry and Micropaleontology in Cold Regions studies» (part 1: micropaleontological methods) (in English).

Position

Education, scientific degrees and titles

• 1993, Geographer-Geomorphologist-Ecologist, Saint-Petersburg State University, Department of Geomorphology;
• 2007, PhD in Geography, “Peculiarities of spruce and alder migrations during the Holocene on the North-West of the European part of Russia (according to pollen analysis of peat and lake sediments)”

Research IDs

• Pure
• Scopus ID

Research interests

Key publications

1. Trifonov V., Petrov D., Savelieva L. (2022). Party like a Sumerian: reinterpreting the ‘sceptres’ from the Maikop kurgan//Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, Vol. 96. Issue 385, p. 67-84. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.22
2. Tarasov P.E., Savelieva L.A., Kobe F., Korotkevich B.S., Long T., Kostromina N.A., Leipe Ch. (2022). Lateglacial and Holocene changes in vegetation and human subsistence around Lake Zhizhitskoye, East European midlatitudes, derived from radiocarbon-dated pollen and archaeological records. Quaternary International. Vol. 623 p. 184-197.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.06.027
3. Savelieva,L.A.,Andreev,A.A.,Gromig,R.,Subetto,D.A.,Fedorov,G.B.,Wennrich,V.,Wagner,B.,Melles,M. Vegetation and climate changes in northwesternRussia during the Lateglacial and Holocene inferred from the Lake Ladoga pollen record// Boreas, 2019, Vol. 48, pp. 349–360. DOI 10.1111/bor.12376
4. Tarasov, P.E.,  Savelieva L.A., Long T., Leipe Ch. Postglacial vegetation and climate history and traces of early human impact and agriculture in the present-day cool mixed forest zone of European Russia//Quaternary International.  2019, Vol.516, pp. 21-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.02.029
5. Raschke E.A., Savelieva L.A. Subrecent spore-pollen spectra and modern vegetation from the Lena River Delta, Russian Arctic// Contemporary Problems of Ecology, 2017, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 395–410.
6. Savelieva L.A., Rashke E.A., Titova D.V. Photographic Atlas of plants and pollen of the Lena River  Delta. SPb., 2013. 114 p.
7. Herzschuh. U, Pestryakova L., Savelieva L., Heinecke L., Böhmer T., Biskaborn B., Andreev A., Ramisch A., Shinneman A., Birks J. Siberian larch forests and the ion content of thaw lakes form a geochemically functional entity// Nature Communications, Vol. 4, 2013, doi:10.1038/ncomms3408

Current Research Fundings

• 2020-2022 yrs. RFBR grant. “Uranium-thorium age and the history of vegetation development of the initial, optimal and final phases of the Mikulino Interglacial in northwestern Russian plain”.
• 2022-2024 yrs. Russian-German progect. Minobrtnauka “Impact of climatic and environmental changes on Arctic lake ecosystem services” (ICELESS).

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