Bio

Nina RYZHKOVA, Ph.D. candidate

Forest Research Institute, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Forest Research Institute of Karelian Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences

PROFESSIONAL ADDRESSES

Forest Research Institute, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
445, Boulevard de l’Université,
Rouyn-Noranda (Québec), J9X 5E4, CANADA
Email: nina.ryzhkova@uqat.ca

Forest Research Institute of Karelian Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences (FRI KarRC RAS)
11 Pushkinskaya St.,
185910 Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia
Email: ryzhkova@krc.karelia.ru

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

    • Ph.D. student in forest ecology and dendrochronology – Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), Québec, Canada & Forest Research Institute of Karelian Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences (FRI KarRC RAS), Petrozavodsk, Russia
    • The Swedish Institute Visby Programme scholarships for Ph.D. studies and postdoctoral research, 2016/2017
    • Master’s degree in forest science, sylviculture, forest management and forest inventory – Forest Research Institute of Karelian Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences (FRI KarRC RAS)

PROFESSIONNAL EXPERIENCE

    • Co-lead of Russian partner under the project IMPRESS, Adapting management of Barents forests to future climate and economy conditions, financed by Kolarctic CBC 2014-2020 Programme, grant # KO4040IMPRESS
    • Co-executive of the EU Horizon 2020 project PREREAL, Improving PREdictability of circumboREAL forest fire activity and its ecological and socio-economic impacts through multi-proxy data comparisons, grant # 292-2015-11-30-13-43-09, 2016-2020
    • Co-executive of the CLIMECO project, CLImatic extreMEs in the Baltic sea region and their effect on forest eCOsystem services, supported by The Swedish Institute, grant # 10066/2017

CURRENT THEMES

Forest fire activity in circumboreal biome
Climate  change

Key words : Boreal forest, Environment, Forest Conservation, Forest Ecology, Dendrochronology, Climate Variability, Fire

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