Environmental Research Institute

• PhD researcher - "The Influence of Sea Surface Temperature on the Seasonal and Decadal Predictability of Scottish Climate"

• Climate Change

Qualifications:

• 2006-Present
  PhD: The Influence of Sea Surface Temperature on the Seasonal and Decadal Predictability of Scottish Climate. Environmental Research Institute, UHI
• 2005-2006
  MRes in Environmental Biology, St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, UK.
  Dissertation: Three-Dimensional Distance Sampling: Estimating Krill Abundance from Acoustic Survey Data.
• 2001-2005
  BSc (Hons) in Applied Marine Biology, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
  Honours Project: Data Analysis of the Effects of Oil Exploration on Benthic Environment in the UK Sector of the North Sea by Means of Spatiotemporal Correlations.
• 2000-2001
  Biology, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia.

Professional membership:

• Member of Royal Statistical Society (RSS)
• Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
• Member of the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS).

• The variability and predictability of climate at different time scales.
• Use of various statistical and quantitative methods in the environmental science.

• Conferences/Workshops/Schools attended:
  • 7th International NCCR Climate Summer School “Key challenges in climate variability and change”, September 2008, Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Veritā, Switzerland.
  • International Summer School on High Northern Latitude Climate, September 2007, St. Petersburg State University, the Scientific Foundation "Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre", St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • RMetS Main Conference, September 2007, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
  • RMetS Student Conference, September 2007, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
  • International Summer School in Statistical Downscaling, June 2007, University of Łķdź, Łķdź, Poland.
• Presentations:
  • "Eigen Techniques as Tools to Study the Decadal Variability and Predictability of Scottish Temperature" - presentation will be given at
    - Royal Statistical Society (RSS) International Conference 2009, Edinburgh, September 2009 (Society Conference Grant).
  • "The Influence of Sea Surface Temperature on Seasonal and Decadal Predictability of Scottish Climate"presentation given at
    - Firbush 2009 Contemporary Climate Conference, Firbush Centre, May 2009 (Partly Covered by Edinburgh University).
  • "The Predictability of Scottish Temperature Variability from North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature" - poster presented at
    - European Geophysical Union (EGU) Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, April 2009 (RMetS Legacies Fund Grant and UHI Travel Grant).
  • "Sensitivity of Scottish Rainfall Variability to Indices of Teleconnection patterns" – presentation given at
    - UHI Postgraduate Conference", Oban, UK, November 2008.
  • "The Influence of North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature on Temperature and Rainfall in Scotland" - poster, presented at
    - 7th International NCCR Climate Summer School: Key challenges in climate variability and change", Monte Verita, Switzerland, September 2008 (RMetS Legacies Fund Grant and UHI Travel Grant).
  • "Basics of using R: Statistical Analysis in Environmental Sciences" - three lectures and associated workshops were given at ERI, February - March 2008.
  • "The Influence of Sea Surface Temperature on the Seasonal and Decadal Predictability of the Scottish Climate: Preliminary analysis of precipitation and temperature variability in Scotland" - poster, presented at
    - "RMEtS Student Conference", Edinburgh, UK, September 2007;
    - "RMetS Main Conference", Edinburgh, UK, September 2007;
    - "International Summer School on High Northern Latitude Climate", St. Petersburg, Russia, September 2007 (UHI Travel Grant and Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (NIERSC) financial support)
• Training:
  1. "Grad School, Edinburgh, April, 2009.
  2. "Effective Presentations" course, Edinburgh, February, 2009.
  3. 7th International NCCR Climate Summer School: Key challenges in climate variability and change", Monte Verita, Switzerland, September 2008.
  4. Training on work with raw meteorological data, MetOffice archives, Edinburgh, UK, August 2008.
  5. "UHI Statistical Network Training Event", Inverness UK, November 2007.
  6. "Academic and Report Writing Training", Inverness, UK, November 2007.
  7. "International Summer School on High Northern Latitude Climate", St. Petersburg, Russia, September 2007.
  8. "Statistical Downscaling Summer School", Lodz, Poland, June 2007 (School was covered from Marie Curie Host Fellowships for Transfer of Knowledge (ToK) Development Host Scheme).
  9. "Effective Researcher Course", Inverness, UK, March 2007.
  10. Participation in the ERI internal seminar series.
  11. Participation in the ERI public seminar series.
  12. Participation at ERI team meetings.