Gennady Menzhulin

Name: Menzhulin Gennady V.
Birth date and place : 14.June, 1942. Batumi, Georgia

Education:

• 1964 - Master of Science, Faculty of Physics , St.Petersburg State University.
• 1970 - PhD, Main Geophysical Observatory, St.Petersburg.
• 1986 - ScD, Russian National Supreme Classifying Committee, Moscow.
• 1993 - Full Professor, Russian National Supreme Classifying Committee, Moscow.

Present positions held:

• Deputy Director for Research (1998-present) - Research Center for Interdisciplinary  Environmental Cooperation of Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Full Professor (2001-present) - Chair of Climatology and Environmental Monitoring, St.Petersburg   State University.
• State Hydrological Institute (1975-present) - Head of Laboratory, Main Researcher.

National Projects:
Leader and Participant of about 35 National Research Projects (1980-2007) supported by: Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Russian Federal Committee on Hydrometeorology, Russian Fundamental Researches Foundation, Russian Universities Research Program, Russian Ministry of Environmental Protection, St.Petersburg Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. 

International experience:

• US-USSR (Russian) Agreement on Environmental Protection. Project 02.08-11: Climate Change. (1976-1994):
• Scientific Secretary of USSR (Russian) research team. Organizer of 6 bilateral symposiums (1976-1990):
• Co-Chair of Joint US-Russian Project on Climate Changes and their Consequences. (1990-1994).
• US EPA and US AIDS Project “Implication of Climate Change for International Agriculture: Global  Food Production, Trade, and Vulnerable Regions”
• Head of Russian Research Team (1989-1992).

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Co-Head of Agriculture and Forestry Subgroup, Working Group II. First IPCC Report (1991).
• Expert Contributor to Agriculture and Forestry Chapter, Working Group II. Second ICC Report (1996).
• Russian-German Agreement on Protection of Environment.
• Project IV.1. Scientific Basis of Global Ecosystem Monitoring Including Monitoring in Biosphere and Reserves. Co-Leader of Subproject (1989-1994).
• International Country Studies Program: US Support for Climate Change Studies, Communications and Technology Assessments.
• Expert Contributor for Assessments of Russian Agriculture Sector. (1994-1996).
• INTAS (European Union) International Projects.
• Principal Investigator in the Project on the Dynamics of the Terrestrial Biota. (1994-1996).
• Expert Contributor in the Project on Carbon Budget Evaluation in Terrestrial Biota in Last 150000  Years. (1995-1996).
• INCO-Copernicus (European Union) International Project.
• Russian Team Leader of the Project "Adaptation of Efficient Water Use Criteria in Marginal Regions of Europe and Middle Asia with Scarce Sources Subject to Environmental Control, Climate Changes and  Socio-Economic Development (INCO-Copernicus Project N ERBIC 15CT 98 0105) (1999-2002).
• US Civil Research Development Foundation.
• Global Warming and Drought Occurrence in USA and FSU: Prospects of Decision Support Based on Satellite Information and IPCC Recommended Scenarios (2004-2006)

Lecturing activities:
Batchelor and master courses in St.Petersburg State University: climatology, paleoclimatology, present climate changes, modern problems of climatology, global warming agricultural, ecological and economic consequences.


Research activities:
Physical Climatology and Agroclimatology, Global Warming, Ecological and Economic Consequences of Modern Climate Changes, Modeling of Energy and Matter Transport in the “Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere” System, Turbulence in Terrestrial Vegetation Canopy and in Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Crop Productivity Modeling, Environmental Indices.

Publications:
More then 150 journal publications and books published in Russia, USA, Japan, Argentina etc. and in the proceedings of international, bilateral and national conferences.

Books:

1. Anthropogenic Climate Changes. Leningrad, Gidrometeoizdat. 1987. 404p. (in Russian),  (English translation: Arizona University Press, 1990). Co-authors: M.I.Budyko, Yu.A.Izrael, G.S.Golotsin  et al.
2. Budyko M.I., Menzhulin G.V. et al. 1990. Prospects for Future Climate. A Special US/USSR Report on  Climate Change, Lewis Publishers. 1990. 270p. Co-authors: M.I.Budyko, C.Rosenzweig et al.
3. Budyko M.I., Menzhulin G.V. et al. 1994. Cambios Antropogenicos del Clima en America del Sur. Serie de  la Academia Nacional de Agronomia y Veterinaria, 1994. N19. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 223p. (in Spanish).  Co-authors: M.I.Budyko, I.I.Shiklomanov, I.I.Borzenkova
4. Modern Climate Changes Impacts on Economics and Environment of Russian Federation. Moscow, 1998.   URSS Publ. (in Russian). Co-authors: D.A.Alfyerov et al.
5. Climate Changes and their Consequences. (Ed.in chief: G.V.Menzhulin). St.Petersburg, Nauka  Publ. 2002. 202p. (in Russian).
6. Modern Challenges of ecological meteorology and climatology. (Ed.in chief: G.V.Menzhulin). St.Petersburg, Nauka Publ. 2005. 245p. (in Russian).
7. Global Climate Change Impact on Economics and Human Health in Russia. Moscow, “Lenard” Publ. 2006. 417p. (in Russian).  Co-authors: V.A.Khomyakov et al.  

Work address:

Research Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Cooperation of Russian Academy of Sciences. Kutuzova Embankment, 14, St.Petersburg, 191187, Russia

Phone:    007-812-273-2113

Fax:    007-812-272-4265

E-mail: inenco@mail.neva.ru