Alexey V. Zimin

Teaching courses

  • Fishery oceanography
  • Water masses of the oceans and the frontal zone
  • State assessment and management of fishery resources

Position

Professor, Department of Oceanology

E-mail: a.zimin@spbu.ru

Phone: (812) 328-97-09

Education, scientific degrees and titles

  • 1997 Engineer-oceanographer, Russian State Hydrometeorological Institute, Department of Oceanology
  • 2000 PhD (Physical and Mathematical Sciences), Russian State Hydrometeorological University , thesis: "Electromagnetic fields when hydrometeorological processes and assess their impact on individual aquatic species"
  • 2009, title “Docent”
  • 2016, Doctor of Sciences (Geography), Russian State Hydrometeorological University, thesis:  “Patterns of sub-mesoscale processes and phenomena in the White Sea”

Research IDs


Research interests

Ocean physics, wave processes in the ocean, turbulence and small-scale processes, methods and means of oceanological observations, Arctic Ocean


Key publications

  1. Zimin A.V. Subtidal processes and phenomena in the White Sea. - M: Geos, 2018 .- 220 p.
  2. Svergun E.I., Zimin A.V., Lazutkina E.S. Characteristics of Manifestations of Short-Period Internal Waves of the Kuril-Kamchatka Region Based on Satellite Observations in Summer. Fundamentalnaya i Prikladnaya Gidrofizika. 2021, 14, 1, 106–115. doi: 10.7868/S2073667321010111.
  3. Zimin A. V., Atazhanova O. A., Romanenkova D. A., Kozlov I. E., Chapron B. Submesoscale Eddies in the White Sea Based on Satellite Radar Measurements. Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, 2021, Vol. 57, No. 12, pp. 1705–1711. doi: 10.1134/S0001433821120306.
  4. Konik A.A., Zimin A.V., Kozlov I.E. Spatial and Temporal Variability of the Polar Frontal Zone Characteristics in the Barents Sea in the First Two Decades of the XXI Century. Fundamentalnaya i Prikladnaya Gidrofizika. 2021, 14, 4, 39–51. doi: 10.7868/S2073667321040043.
  5. Atadzhanova O.A., Zimin A.V., Svergun E.I., Konik A.A. Submesoscale Eddy Structures and Frontal Dynamics in the Barents Sea  // Physical Oceanography. 2018 Vol. 25, №3. P. 220 - 228. doi:10.22449/1573-160X-2018-3-220-228
  6. Kozlov I., Romanenkov D., Zimin A., Chapron B. SAR observing large-scale nonlinear internal waves in the White Sea // Remote Sensing of Environment 147. 2014. pp. 99–107.

The Head of Current Research Fundings

  • RFBR Grant No. 20-35-90054 Postgraduate students "Short-period internal waves in tidal seas on different types of shelf" 2020-2022
  • RFBR Grant No. 20-35-90053 Postgraduate students "Relationship of frontal and vortex dynamics in the Arctic seas in a changing climate" 2020-2022

Awards and honors

  • 2016, Acknowledgment from the Committee on Science and Higher Education of St. Petersburg


Other professional activities

  • Head of the Laboratory of geophysical boundary layers P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Russian Academy of Sciences  from 2015 to the present
  • Member of the Scientific Council on the complex problem "Hydrophysics" of RAS

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