[Photo: Alena next to the RV Akademik Fedorov during NABOS2013 in the Laptev Sea. O-Buoy 9 and ITP 72 in the background.]

Bachelor of Hydrometeorology, specialisation in Oceanography (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)

Master in the field of Hydrometeorology, specialisation in Oceanography (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)

PhD (University of Otago)

Postdoc at Victoria University of Wellington

Research Interests:

Present: ice shelf-ocean interaction, ice dissolving vs melting, ice-ocean boundary layer structure, ice shelf-ocean modelling

Past: circulation in the Arctic Ocean (paths of freshwater and Atlantic Water, multiyear variability, links to large scale atmosphere circulation patterns) in coupled global ocean modelling & observations

Now at NIWA