Evgeny A. Zaharchuk

Teaching courses

  • Dangerous and catastrophic phenomena in the oceans
  • Physical Oceanography of the Seas of Russia

Position

Professor, Head of Department of Oceanology

E-mail: e.a.zaharchuk@spbu.ru

Phone: (812) 328-97-09

Education, scientific degrees and titles

  • 1989, Oceanology, St. Petersburg State University, Department of Oceanology
  • 1997, candidate of geographical sciences, dissertation topic: “Large-scale wave disturbances in the system of the Antarctic circumpolar currents
  • 2010, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, dissertation topic: “Synoptic variability of the sea level and currents in the seas washing the north-western and Arctic coasts of Russia”

Research IDs


Research interests

Sea currents, sea level oscillations, gradient- vortisity waves, internal waves, storm surges, ocean ecology, satellite oceanology, regional oceanography, fishering oceanography


Key publications

  1. Litina E.N., Zakharchuk E.A., Tikhonova N.A. Dynamics of hypoxic zones in the Baltic Sea at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. 2020, Water Resources. 47, 3, pp. 322-329;
  2. Zakharchuk E.,  Tikhonova N.,  Gusev A.,  Dianskyi N. Influence of baroclinicity on sea level oscillations in the Baltic Sea./In Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Earth  and Environment Processes (PMMEEP 2017). V.Karev, D. Klimov, and K. Pokazeev (eds.). – Cham, Springer, 2018. pp. 371-380. (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77788-7_38);
  3. Zakharchuk E.A., Sukhachev V.N. Use of satellite altimetry information to assess the features of the generation of the synoptic scale sea level disturbances under the influence of wind stress in the system of the Baltic and North Seas. Modern problems of remote sensing of the Earth from space. 2018.Vol. 15. No. 7. P. 163–174. DOI: 10.21046 / 2070-7401-2018-15-7-163-174;
  4. Zakharchuk, E.A., Sukhachev, V.N. , Tikhonova, N.A. The statistical structure of synoptic variability ocean currents at the continental slope of the Laptev Sea and features of their generation by anemobaric forces. Oceanology. 2016, Volume 56, Issue 5, pp. 621 - 636. Doi:10.1134/S0001437016050155;
  5. E. A. Zakharchuk, V. N. Sukhachev, N. A. Tikhonova. The reasons for increase in the Neva River flood frequency in recent decades. Russian Meteorology and Hydrology. 2015, Vol. 40, Issue 1, pp. 60-67. DOI: 10.3103/S1068373915010082

The Head of Current Research Fundings

  • 2020-2024, Roshydromet, No. 4.6.8 “Development of recommendations for the development of a flood protection system for St. Petersburg”


Other professional activities

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