Alexey L. Piskarev

Teaching courses

  • Geodynamics
  • Petrophysics
  • Arctic Geology and Geophysics
  • Geology and Minerals of the World Ocean

Position

Professor, Department of Geophysics

E-mail: a.piskarev@spbu.ru

Education, scientific degrees and titles

  • 1961, Mining engineer-geophysicist, Leningrad Mining Institute
  • 1972, Candidate dissertation: Magnetic properties and density of Archean metamorphic formations and their use in studying the geological structure of the Anabar shield, VSEGEI, Leningrad
  • 1978, The title of senior researcher in the specialty "Geophysical methods of prospecting and exploration of mineral deposits"
  • 1990, Doctoral dissertation: Petrophysics of bottom formations of deep-sea ore-bearing areas of the ocean, VNIIOkeangeologia, Leningrad

Research IDs


Research interests

Earth evolution, anomalies of potential fields, paleomagnetism, Arctic, World Ocean, oil&gas, sulfide ores, diamonds


Key publications

  1. Geologic structures of the Arctic Basin. Ed. Alexey Piskarev, Victor Poselov, Valery Kaminsky. Springer, 2019. 375 p.
  2. Piskarev A. L., G. P. Avetisov, A. A. Kireev, et al. Structure of the Laptev Sea Shelf–Eurasian Basin Transition Zone (Arctic Ocean) // Geotectonics, 2018, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 589–608. © Pleiades Publishing, Inc., 2018.
  3. Piskarev A.L., A.A. Kireev, V.A. Savin, O.E. Smirnov. Crust structure of the northeastern Barents Sea basin area \\ Russian Geology and Geophysics 59 (2018) 803–812.
  4. Piskarev, A. and Elkina, D. Giant caldera in the Arctic Ocean: Evidence of the catastrophic eruptive event. Sci. Rep. 7, 2017.
  5. Piskarev A.L., Shkatov M. Yu. Energy Potential of the Russian Arctic Seas: Choice of the Development Strategy. Developments in Petroleum Science, Volume 58. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2012. 420 p.

The Head of Current Research Fundings

  • Correlation of Pliocene-Quaternary sediments of the Arctic Basin based on paleomagnetic analysis.  Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation. 2018-2022
  • Compilation of a seismic-facies map of bottom sediments of the Eurasian basin, reflecting modern processes of sedimentation. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation. 2020
  • Calculation and compilation of a three-dimensional model of the earth's crust in the transition zone: the shelf East Laptev Horst - the Gakkel Ridge. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation. 2020

Awards and honors

  • 2013, The title of Honored Prospector assigned by Ministry of Natural Resources  
  • 2012, Order Vilkitsky assigned by Polar Research Foundation
  • 1998, Prize winner of the international academic publishing company "Nauka" for series of papers “Tectonics and Petroleum Potential of Ocean and Seas”                                 

                                                                                                    



Other professional activities

  • VNIIOkeangeologia, principal researcher. VNIIO.RU.
  • Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (academician, 2019)
  • Member of European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE)

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