Teaching courses

• Essentials of application programming
• Programming in hydrometeorology
• Numerical methods

Position

Education, scientific degrees and titles

• 1992: Physical Faculty (Radiophysics), Leningrad State University; Physicist;
• 2003: Candidate of Sciences in Geomorphology (equivalent to Ph. D. in Geophysics) with a thesis “The methodology and results of the bedrock topography investigations of Lambert Deep and Prydz Bay area (East Antarctica)”;
• 2011: Doctor of Science in Geology and Geophysics (equivalent to Dr. Sc. in Geophysics) with a thesis “Radio-echo sounding of the ice sheet, subglacial relief, and subglacial lakes of East Antarctica”.

Research IDs

• Pure
• Scopus ID

Research interests

Key publications

1. Frémand A.C., Fretwell P., Bodart J.A., … Popov S.V.,… Zirizzotti A. Antarctic Bedmap data: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) sharing of 60 years of ice bed, surface, and thickness data // Earth Syst. Sci. Data. 2023. V. 15, No 7, P. 2695–2710. doi: 10.5194/essd-15-2695-2023
2. Li Y., Qiao G., Popov S., Cui X., Florinsky I.V., Yuan X., Wang L. Unmanned aerial vehicle remote sensing for Antarctic research: A review of progress, current applications, and future use cases. // IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Mag., 2023, V. 11, No 1, P. 73–93. doi: 10.1109/MGRS.2022.3227056.Popov S. Ice cover, subglacial landscape, and estimation of bottom melting of Mac. Robertson, Princess Elizabeth, Wilhelm II, and western Queen Mary Lands, East Antarctica // Remote Sens., 2022, V. 14, No 1, P. 241, doi: 10.3390/rs14010241.
3. Popov S. Ice cover, subglacial landscape, and estimation of bottom melting of Mac. Robertson, Princess Elizabeth, Wilhelm II, and western Queen Mary Lands, East Antarctica // Remote Sens., 2022, V. 14, No 1, P. 241, doi: 10.3390/rs14010241.
4. Popov S.V. Six decades of radar and seismic research in Antarctica // Ice and Snow, 2021, V. 61, No 4, P. 587–619. doi: 10.31857/S2076673421040110. [In Russian].
5. Ekaykin A., Bolshunov A., Lipenkov V., Scheinert M., Eberlein L., Brovkov E., Popov S., Turkeev A. First glaciological investigations at Ridge B, central East Antarctica // Antarct. Sci., 2021, V. 33, No 4, 418–427. doi:10.1017/S0954102021000171
6. Richter A., Ekaykin A.A., Willen M.O., Lipenkov V.Y., Groh A., Popov S.V., Scheinert M., Horwath. M., Dietrich R. Surface mass balance models vs. stake observations: a comparison in the Lake Vostok Region, Central East Antarctica // Front. Earth Sci., 2021, V. 9, P. 669977, doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.669977.
7. Boronina A., Popov S., Pryakhina G., Chetverova A., Ryzhova E., Grigoreva S. Formation of a large ice depression on Dålk Glacier (Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica) caused by the rapid drainage of an englacial cavity // J. Glaciol., 2021, V. 67, No 266, P. 1121–1136, doi: 10.1017/jog.2021.58.
8. Popov S. Fifty-five years of Russian radio-echo sounding investigations in Antarctica // Ann. Glaciol., 2020, V. 61, No 81, P. 14–24, doi:10.1017/aog.2020.4.
9. Popov S.V., Polyakov S.P., Pryakhin S.S., V.L.Mart’yanov, Lukin V.V. The structure of the upper part of the glacier in the area of a snow-runway of Mirny Station, East Antarctica (based on the data collected in 2014/15 field season) // Earth’s Cryosphere (Kriosfera Zemli), 2017, V. XXI, No 1, P. 67–77 doi: 10.21782/EC2541-9994-2017-1(67-77)
10. Schröder L., Richter A., Fedorov D.V., Eberlein L., Brovkov E.V., Popov S.V., Knöfel C., Horwath M., Dietrich R., Matveev A.Y., Scheinert M., Lukin V. Validation of satellite altimetry by kinematic GNSS in central East Antarctica // The Cryosphere, 2017, V. 11, No 3, P. 1111–1130 doi:10.5194/tc-2016-282

The Head of Current Research Fundings

• 2022-2023, RSF, “Development of a mathematical model of the ice sheet evolution and its application to study subglacial hydrological processes in the Lake Vostok area, East Antarctica”.

Awards and honors

• 2017 Breastplate of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation "Honorary Scout of Subsoil", departmental award.
• 2012, medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd degree, state award.
• 2006 Breastplate of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation "Excellent worker in subsoil exploration", departmental award.
• 2006 Honorary diploma of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, departmental award.

Other professional activities

• JSC “Polar Marine Geosurvey Expedition”, Antarctic Division, Senior geophysicist.

Membership in societies

• Russian Geographical Society (Polar Commission);
• Euro-Asian Geophysical Society (EAGO);
• European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE);
• International Glaciological Society (IGS).

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