Dr Olga Valerjevna Tutubalina [Toutoubalina*]
* Previous spelling
| Departmental Address Laboratory of Aerospace Methods, Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University, 119992, Leninskiye Gory, Moscow, Russia Tel +7 095 939 1044 Fax +7 095 932 8836 Mobile +7 916 515 7622 |
Date of birth: 13 January 1974 Nationality: Russian Marital Status: Married
| 1996-2000 | Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK |
| Jul 2000 | PhD in Remote Sensing at the Scott Polar Research Institute. Dissertation title: Remote Sensing of Environmental Degradation in the North: Case Study of the Non-Ferrous Metal Industry in Noril'sk, Northern Siberia. |
| Jun 1999 | Diploma in French, at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages |
| Oct 1997 | M.Phil. in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing, at the Department of Geography. Dissertation title: Remote Sensing Methods for Study of Industrial Impact on Vegetation in the Russian Arctic (Remote Sensing Society Award 1998) |
| 1991-1996 | Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University, Russia |
| Jun 1996 | 5-year Education Diploma in Cartography and Geography, with Distinction (First Class Honours ) |
| 1988-1991 | State Secondary School No 1104, Moscow |
| Jun 1991 | Diploma and Silver Medal of Secondary Education |
| 1999 | Special Senior Rouse Ball Studentship 1999/2000, Trinity College |
| 1998 | UK Remote Sensing Society Award 1998 for the best Master's dissertation |
| 1997 | Eastern European Research Bursary, Trinity College; Honorary Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholarship 1997-1999 |
| 1996 | British Council Fellowship and the Queen's Award, to pursue a one-year M.Phil. course at Cambridge; Honorary Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholarship 1996/97 |
| 1995 | 1st Prize in Physical Geography Section at Moscow University's student conference-95; Lomonosov Studentship of Moscow State University; Honours Studentship of the Soros Foundation |
| 1994 | 2nd Prize in Geography and Cartography Section at Moscow University's student conference-94; Studentship of the Mayor of Moscow ; Studentship of Moscow University's Learned Council; Honours Studentship of the Soros Foundation |
| From Mar 2000 onwards | Researcher at the Aerospace Methods Laboratory, Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University (part-time). Currently finishing a Russian-language textbook on Remote Sensing for Geographers (with two co-authors). Participant of joint expeditions of Scott Polar Research Institute and Moscow State University in Abisko, Sweden (summer 2002), and Kola Peninsula, Russia (summer 2001), and of various glaciological expeditions in the Caucasus in 2000-2002. Co-investigator in an ASTER AO research project; consultant in a project on mapping forest fires in the boreal zone (King’s College London, funded by UK-Russia Exchange funds from the Royal Society), member of the editorial board of the Cryosphere journal. |
| 1 Oct 2000 for three years | Elected Research Fellow in Geography at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge (on one-year leave from 1 February 2002; currently applying for a change to a Visiting Scholar status) |
| Oct 1997- Jul 2000 | Full-time Ph.D. research, Remote Sensing Group, Scott Polar Research Institute on remote sensing techniques to monitor high-latitude vegetation. Supported by University and College grants for field research and conferencesI have given public lectures on my research at the Université de Rouen (February 2000, in French) and at Cambridge (March 1999). |
| Jul-Aug 1998 | Organised a field trip to Central and Northern Siberia (Noril'sk, Dudinka and Krasnoyarsk regions) for ground validation of vegetation maps, compiled from remotely sensed imagery. Performed geobotanical observations, field sampling, and supervised a student assistant |
| 1994-1997 | Participated in joint Russo-British ecological expeditions in Kola Peninsula (1994, 1995) and Northern Siberia (1997); in the Russian Arctic Environmental Database project (1994-1995) of Moscow and Cambridge universities and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC); geoinformation technologies training at WCMC in Cambridge, in February-March 1995 |
| Jul- Aug 1993 | Participated in a field photogrammetric survey of Djankuat Glacier in Caucasus |
| Feb – Dec 2002 |
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| Oct 2000- June 2001 | Co-supervision of an MPhil in Polar Studies (very successfully completed), and a lecture for this course |
| Sept 2000- April 2002 | Organised and taught in four Internet-based seminars on Remote Sensing at the Inter-University Aerospace Centre, Moscow State University |
| 2000, 2001 | Taught ERDAS Imagine authorised software courses of Data+, Moscow, for representatives of Russian universities |
| Mar-Apr 2000, 2001 | Taught Digital Image Processing for MSc. in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing at Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University |
| Oct-Dec 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997 | Taught (1999-2001) and demonstrated in (1997, 1998) the Digital Image Processing Module for M.Phil. in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge |
PUBLICATIONS 15 refereed articles; 29 papers in conference proceedings; 3 articles in press. Full list available on request
Languages: bi-lingual in English, native
Russian, good French, some Ukrainian, Hebrew and Basque
Computing: ERDAS Imagine Authorised Trainer from 1999;
expert knowledge of Windows, DOS, wide range of image processing,
word processing and spreadsheet software; some experience with
Unix and with NT web server management
The Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society Geological Remote Sensing Group British Machine Vision Association Society of Cartographers
Modern languages and translation; hiking and mountaineering