Corresponding Member, the Russian Academy of Sciences
Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Diploma (like Master), History, Archeology, Ethnography, Moscow State University, 1981.
Ph.D., Hydrology, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1987. Dissertation title: "The Holocene moraines studies by bioindication methods".
Doctor of Sciences (like Habilitation), Hydrology, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1998. Dissertation title: "Mountain glaciation of Northern Eurasia in the Holocene".
Languages
English, French, Russian (active), German, Spanish (reading)
Honors, Awards
2007 Nobel Peace Prize in the IPCC Group of Experts
1995 Stipend for outstanding young researchers of President of the Russian Federation
Committee Appointments
2008- INQUA Palaeoclimate commission
2006-2009 International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) National Committee (vice-char since 2007).
2005-2009 Russian Federation Highest Commission for Scientific Qualification;
2003-2009 Scientific Council of the Institute of Geography;
2001-2005 PAGES Steering Committee;
2005-2007 International Glaciological Society Scientific Council;
2005-2007 International Project “Climate and Cryosphere” (CliC) National Committee;
2006-2009 International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) Scientific Committee;
2005-2007 FAR IPCC “Palaeoclimate” chapter - Lead author
Editorial Boards
2004+ Data of Glaciological Studies: editorial board;
2005+ Izvestiya of the Academy of Sciences. Geographical Series: editorial board;
2004 Guest editor for special issue of “Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology” “High latitude paleoenvironments”;
2005 Guest editor for special issue of Global and Planetary Changes “Glaciers and Climate at different time scales”:
Recent Research Expeditions
2007, 2008 Caucasus
2006 Kamchatka
2005 Tien Shan
2005 Crimea
2004 Caucasus
2004 the Alps
2004 Sakhalin
2003 Kamchatka, Russia;
2002 Svalbard
2002 Crimea
2001 Kunashir Island, Russia
2000 King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
2000 Patagonia, Chile
1999 Polar Urals
1997 Kamchatka
1996 Cordillera Blanca, Peru
1994 Kamchatka
1993 Pamir-Alay, Uzbekistan
1992 Kamchatka
1991 Tien Shan Kirgizstan, Uzbekistan
1989 Tien ShanKirgizstan, Uzbekistan
1988 Altay, Russia
1981-1987 Tien Shan, Kirgizstan, Uzbekistan
1980 Altay, Russia
1980 Polar Urals
1977-1979 Georgia, Caucasus
In cooperation with: Tomsk State University; Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlovsk; Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Novosibirsk; Polish Academy of Science, Krakow; Institute of Low Temperature, Japan; University of Innsbruck, Austria; Lamont-Doherty Laboratory, USA, Lab. of Phys. Geogr. Meudon, France, Wooster college, USA.
Research Grants
2008-2010 Principal Investigator, Construction and paleoclimatic analysis of continuous millennium-long ring-width chronology in Moscow region (Russian Foundation for Basic Research)
2007-2008 Co-PI, Study of regional ecological problems connected to the climate change and adaptation strategies (Grant of Ministry of Science)
2004-2005 Principal Investigator, The Little Ice Age and the glaciers – paleoclimatic implications (comparison of the French Alps and Caucasus) (French-Russian Program of Scientific Exchange);
2004-2006 Co-Principal Investigator, Tree-ring and ice-core record combination for paleoclimatic reconstructions in the Tien Shan, Kamchatka, and Taymir/Franz Josef Land /Severnaya Zemlia (the Former Soviet Union) International Science and Technology Center;
2004-2006 Principal Investigator, Tree-ring-based spatial reconstruction of Tien Shan climate of the last 400 years (Russian Foundation for Basic Research);
2002-2004 Participant, Tree-ring reconstructions of the North Pacific Oscillation (PI - G.Wiles, in cooperation of Lamont-Doherty Tree-ring Laboratory, USA).
2000-2001 Principal Investigator, Retreat of mountain glaciers of Northern Eurasia since the Little Ice Age Maximum. National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, Boulder, USA. (Fulbright Foundation).
1999-2001 Principal Investigator, Dynamics of sub-polar glaciation reconstructed by lichenometry" (Russian Foundation for Basic Research);
1999 Principal Investigator, Mountain glaciers of Northern Eurasia in Holocene"(Russian Foundation for Basic Research) (publication of the monograph);
1998 Training course in the Tree-Ring Laboratory of the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA (Agnese N. Haury Foundation);
1995-1997 Principal Investigator, Mountain Glaciers and High Mountain Climate of the Former USSR in Holocene". Hohenheim University, Institute of Botany, Stuttgart, Germany, (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation).
1994-1995 Principal Investigator, The Former USSR Mountain Glacier Fluctuations in the Little Ice Age (International Science Foundation);
1991-1993 Principal Investigator, Kamchatka: Climate, Glaciers and Volcanic Activity during the Last Millennium (Russian Foundation for Basic Research).
Selected Lectures
2006 National Center of Competence in Research in Climate, Inst. of Geography, Bern;
2005 Moscow State University;
2002 Lamont Dotherty Observatory, USA;
2002 University of Massachusetts, USA;
2001 Innsbruck University, Austria;
2000 Institute of Arctic, Alpine, and Antarctic Research & National Snow and Ice Data Center Boulder, Colorado, USA;
2000 Institute de Antarctica, Santiago, Chile;
1999 Institute of Low Temperature, Sapporo, Japan;
1998 University of Arizona, Tucson, USA;
1998 Munchen University, Germany;
1998 University of Wales, UK;
1997 Gottingen University, Germany;
1996 Hohenheim University, Germany;
1996 Laboratoire de Glaciologie, Grenoble, France.
Publications
Books
1999 Solomina, O.N. Mountain glaciation of Northern Eurasia in Holocene. Moscow, Nauchny Mir. 264 pp. (in Russian).
1989 Serebryanny, L.R., Orlov, A.V., Solomina, O.N. at al. Moraines as a source of glaciological information. Moscow, Nauka. 239 pp. (in Russian).
Articles
2008 Wanner, H., Beer, J. Butikofer, J., Crowley, T. J., Cubaschd, U., Fluckiger, J., Goosse, H., Grosjean, M., Joos, F., Kaplan, J.O., Kuttel, M., Muller, S., Prentice C., Solomina, O., Stocker, T. F., Tarasov P., Wagner M., Widmann, M. (). "Mid- to late Holocene climate change - a comprehensive review, Quaternary Science Review 27(19-20): 1791-1828.
2008 Solomina, O., I. Pavlova, A. Curtis, G. Jacoby, V. Ponomareva, and M. Pevzner (). "Constraining recent Shiveluch volcano eruptions (Kamchatka, Russia) by means of dendrochronology " Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. Special Issue: Tree-ring reconstructions in natural hazards research, v. 8., p.1-15.
2007 Solomina, O. Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Northern Eurasia in Global context. In: Glaciation of the Northern Eurasia. M, Nauka. 167-178 (in Russian).
2007 О.Н.Соломина, Б.Абылмеизова, В.В.Грязнова, И.А.Ершова Реконструкция гидротермического коэффициента в 1680-2005 гг. по дендрохронологическим данным в Прииссыккулье, Тянь-Шань, Киргизия – «Проблемы экологического мониторинга», т. 21, 183-202.
2007 Solomina, O., Wiles, G., Shiraiwa,T., and D’Arrigo, R. "Multiproxy records of climate variability for Kamchatka for the past 400 years " Climate of the Past 3(www.clim-past.net/3/119/2007/): 119-128.
2007 Solomina, O., Jomelli,V. Kaser G., Ames, A., Berger B., Pouyaud, B. "Lichenometry in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru: “Little Ice Age” moraine chronology." Glob. Planet.Change doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.11.016.
2007 Solomina, O., Haeberli, W., Kull, C.,Wiles, G. "Historical and Holocene glacier–climate variations: General concepts and overview" Global and Planetary Change doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.02.001.
2006 Соломина О.Н., Швейнгрубер Ф., Нагорнов О.В., Кузьмиченок В.А., Юрина Ю.О., Михаленко В.Н., Кунахович М.Г., Кутузов С.С. Реконструкция летней температуры воздуха и абляции ледников на Центральном Тянь-Шане за последние 400 лет по плотности годичных колец ели. – МГИ, вып. 100, с. 104-113.
2005 Solomina, O., Jacoby, G., D'Arrigo, R., Braeunning, А., Eremenko, N., Muraviev, Ya. Summer Temperature Reconstructions of the Last 400 Years in Kamchatka and Kunashir Based on Tree-Ring Analysis. Problems of ecological monitoring and ecosystem modeling 20: 37-58.
2005 О.Соломина, Г.Джакоби, Р.Дарриго, А.Браунинг, Н.Еременко, Я.Муравьев «Реконструкции летних температур на Камчатке и на о.Кунашир по дендрохронологическим данным за последние 400 лет» - Проблемы экологического мониторинга и моделирования экосистем, 20: 37-58.
2005 Solomina, O., Davi, N., D’Arrigo, R., Jacoby, G. Tree-ring reconstruction of Crimean drought and lake chronology correction. Geophysical Research Letters, v. 32, 32(LXXXXX): doi:10.1029/2005GL023335. 2005 Solomina, O. N. Glacier and climate variability on the Mountains of the Former Soviet Union during the last 1000 years. Global change and mountain regions. An overwiew of current knowledge. Eds: U.M.Huber, M.A.Reasoner. Dordrecht, Springer. 23: 61-72.
2004 Solomina, O., Alverson, K. High latitude Eurasian paleoenvironments: introduction and synthesis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 209: 1-18.
2004 Jacoby, G., Solomina,O., Frank, D., Eremenko, N., D’Arrigo, R. “Kunashir (Kuriles) Oak 400-year reconstruction of temperature and relation to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 209: 303-311.
2004 Solomina, O., Barry, R., Bodnya, M. The Retreat of Tien Shan Glaciers (Kyrgyzstan) since the Little Ice Age Estimated from Aerial Photographs, Lichenometric and Historical Data. Geographiska Annaler, v 86A n 2: 205-215.
2003 Solomina, O.N., 2003. Dynamics of subpolar glaciation over 2000 years by lichenometric data. Data of glaciological studies. 94: 17-30.
2003 Solomina, O., Calkin, P. Lichenometry as Applied to Moraines in Alaska, USA, and Kamchatka, Russia. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 35 (2): 129-143.
2003 Solomina, O.N. Dynamics of subpolar glaciation over 2000 years by lichenometric data. Data of glaciological studies. 94: 17-30.
2002 Solomina, O.N. Dendrogeomorphology: Research Requirements. Dendrochronologia, 20 (1): 231-243.
2000 Solomina, O. N. Retreat of mountain glaciers of northern Eurasia since the Little Ice Age maximum. Annals of Glaciology. 31, p. 26-30.
2000 Solomina, O. N., Muraviev, Ya.D., Braeuning, A., Shiraiwa T. & Shiyatov, S.G. Tree-rings in Central Kamchatka in comparison with climate variations and ice core data: Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change and Variability. Tokyo, Japan. p. 133-137.
1999 Solomina, O. N., Muraviev, Ya.D., Shiraiwa, K., & Sawaguchi S. Lichenometric studies of moraines in Kronotsky Peninsula, Kamchatka, Russia. In: Cryogenic Studies in Kamchatka II, Hokkaido, Japan. p. 76-78.
1999 Solomina, O. N., Muraviev, Ya.D., Braeuning, A., & Kravchenko, G.N. Two new ring width chronologies of Larch and Birch from the Kamchatka peninsula (Russia) and their relationship to climate and volcanic activities in Kamchatka. In: Cryoshperic studies in Kamchatka II, Hokkaido, Japan. p. 111-124.
1998 Solomina, O. N. & Filatov, E.S. Changes in mountain glaciers in Northeast Russia from the Little Ice age to the mid-20th century. Polar Geography. 22, p. 65-78.
1997 Bondarev, L.G., Gobedzhishvili, R.G. & Solomina, O.N. Fluctuations of local glaciers in the Southern Ranges of the Former USSR. Quaternary International, 38/39, p. 103-108.
1997 Solomina O.N. Holocene rapid mass movement in the former USSR: avalanches and mudflows. In: Rapid mass movement as a source of climatic evidence for the Holocene, Gustav Fisher Verlag, Stuttgart, p.355-369.
1996 Mikhalenko, V.N. & Solomina, O.N. Long-term variations of mountain glaciers in the former USSR (FSU). Part 1. Mass balance reconstructions. Zeitschrift fur Gletcherkunde und Glazialgeologie, 32, p. 159-166.
1996 Solomina, O.N. Long-term variations of Mountain Glaciers in the former USSR (FSU) Part 2. Dendrochronology and Lichenometry. Zeitschrift fur Gletcherkunde und Glazialgeologie, 32, p. 197-205.
1996 Savoskul, O.S. & Solomina, O.N. Late-Holocene glacier variations in the frontal and inner ranges of the Tien Shan, Central Asia. The Holocene, 6 (1), p. 25-35.
1996 Serebryanny, L.R. & Solomina, O.N. Glaciers and climate of the mountains of the former USSR during the Neoglacial. Mountain Research and Development, 16 (2), p. 157-166.
1995 Solomina, O.N., Muravyev, Ya.D. & Bazanova, L.I. Little Ice Age Glaciers in Kamchatka. Annals of Glaciology, 21, p. 240-244.
1994 Solomina, O.N., Savoskul O.S. & Cherkinsky A.E. Glacier variations, mudflow activity and landscape development in the Aksay Valley (Tien Shan) during the late Holocene. The Holocene, 4 (1), p. 25-31.
1991 Kotlyakov, V.M., Serebryanny, L.R. & Solomina, O.N. Climate change and glacier fluctuations of the last millennium in the south mountains of USSR. Mountain Research and Development. 11 (1) p. 1-12.
1991 Solomina, O. & Melnikova, N. Research on glaciers and climate fluctuations in Turgen-Aksu Valley, Terskey Ala-Too Range (tree-rings, lichenometry). - Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology. 13 (3), p. 201-212 (in Chinese).
1989 Serebryanny, L.R. & Solomina, O.N. Glacial changes in Tien Shan Mts. revealed by bioindication: time series analysis and interpretation. - IAHS Publ. p. 81-87.
1985 Serebryanny, L,R., Tishkov, A.A., Malyasova, E.S., Solomina, O.N. & Ilves, E.O. Reconstruction of the development of vegetation in Arctic high latitudes. Polar geography and geology. 9, p. 308-321.
Other publications (abstracts are not included)
2008 Jomelli, V., Grancher, D. Brunstein, D., Solomina, O. "Recalibration of the yellow Rhizocarpon growth curve in the Cordillera Blanca (Peru) and implications for LIA chronology." Geomorphology 93 201-212.
2008 С.К.Гулев, В.М.Катцов, О.Н.Соломина Глобальное потепление продолжается По материалам Четвертого Оценочного Доклада Межправительственной Группы Экспертов по Изменению Климата (IPCC) – Вестник РАН т 77 № 12 стр. 9-17.
2007 Долгова, Е. А., Соломина, О.Н., Жомелли, В., Юрина Ю.О., Олейников А.Д., Володичева Н.А. Дендрохронологическое датирование морен ледников Большой Азау, Шхельда и Терскол, долина реки Баксан, Приэльбрусье Новые методы в дендроэкологии Иркутск, ИГРАН им Сочавы. стр. 87-89.
2007 Юрина, О., Соломина, О.Н., Михаленко В.Н., Кунахович, М.Г. "Возможности и ограничения реконструкции колебаний климата и баланса массы ледников на Тянь-Шане по дендрохронологическим данным." Материалы гляциологических исследований 101: 69-76.
2000 Solomina, O. N., Zhidkov, V.A., Moskalevsky, M.Yu. New data on the lichenometry of moraines of the Polar Urals: Data of Glaciological Studies, 90, p. 57-68.
1999 Yamagata, K., Sawaguchi, S, Muraviev, Ya.D. & Solomina, O.N. Soil development in relation to vegetation and topography at the Koryto glacier Basin, Kamchatka: Cryoshperic studies in Kamchatka II, Hokkaido, Japan. p. 85-92.
1998 Zakharov, V.G., Andreev, M.P. & Solomina, O.N. Variations of the glaciation of the Amery Ice Shelf area (East Antarctica) revealed by lichenometry In: The Antarctic, Nauka. Moscow, Ed. Kotlyakov, V.M., p. 130-139 (in Russian).
1998 Solomina, O.N.& Filatov, E.S. Changes of North-West Russian mountain glaciers from the maximum of the "Little Ice Age" up to the middle of XX century. Proceedings of Russian Academy of Sciences. Geographical ser. , 2, p. 53-63. (in Russian).
1998 Solomina, O.N. & Kamniansky, G.M. Fluctuations of four Pamir-Alay glaciers revealed by lichenometry. Data of Glaciological Studies. Publ. 83, p.158-164. (in Russian).
1997 Solomina, O.N. Recent history of Tuyuksu glaciers (Tien Shan). Data of Glaciological Studies. Publ. 83, p.81-88 (in Russian).
1997 Solomina, O.N. Mountain glaciation of Northern Eurasia in Holocene. Dissertation. M., IGRAN, v. 1, 319 pp., v.2, 250 pp.
1997 Solomina, O.N. Mountain glaciation of Northern Eurasia in Holocene. Resume of Dissertation. M., IGRAN, 46 p.
1997 Solomina, O.N. Equilibrium line altitude shift of the mountain glaciers in the former Soviet Union during the Little Ice Age. Data of Glaciological Studies. Publ. 81, p.80-87 (in Russian).
1997 Solomina, O.N. & Savoskul, O.S. Glaciers of the Western and Eastern peripherie of Tien-Shan during the last 2000 years. Geomorphology. 1, p. 78-86.
1992 Solomina, O.N. Mountain glacier fluctuations in the postglacial time. Priroda (Nature), Moscow, 5, p.56-65 (in Russian).
1993 Solomina, O.N. & Aizen,V.B. Reconstruction of meteorological parameters of the northern slope of Kirgiz Ridge by dendrochronology. Data of Glaciological Studies. Publ. 77, p. 105-111 (in Russian).
1992 Solomina, O.N., Chaiko, A.V. & Chaiko, I.E. Lichenometry of Altay's natural and antropogenic landforms. Geomorphology, 3, p.82-89 (in Russian).
1992 Solomina, O.N. Stadial degradation of mountain glaciers in Holocene. Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Geographical ser. 5, p.13-24 (in Russian).
1992 Solomina, O.N., Pomortsev O.A. & Heifets M.N. Humidity variations during the last 300 years revealed by dendrochronology. Water Resources. 4, p. 79-84 (in Russian).
1990 Solomina, O.N. Fluctuations of Inner Tien Shan glaciers reconstructed by lichenometry. Data of Glaciological Studies, Publ.68, p.142-149 (in Russian).
1990 Solomina, O.N. Review on dendrochronology. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences USSR, Geographical ser. 1, p.143-144 (in Russian).
1989 Kotliakov, V.M. & Solomina, O.N. Soviet glaciological research in 1988. Ice, 91, p.2-12.
1988 Kotliakov, V.M. & Solomina, O.N. Soviet glaciological research in 1987. Ice. 88, p.11-22.
1989 Solomina, O.N. & Glazovsky, A.F. Tree-rings of Picea Schrenkiana and glacier fluctuations on the northern slope of Terskey Ala-Tau. Data of Glaciological Studies, Publ. 65, p.103-110 (in Russian).
1988 Serebryanny, L.R., Orlov, A.V. & Solomina, O.N. Prospects of glaciation development in Tien Shan. Reports of Academy of Sciences USSR. 303 (4), p. 925-928 (in Russian).
1988 Glazovsky, A.F. & Solomina, O.N. Fluctuations of glaciers of the northern slope of the Terskey Ala-Tau Range revealed by lichenomerty. Data of Glaciological Studies, Publ. 62, p. 113-119 (in Russian).
1988 Solomina, O.N. Lichenometry of moraines of the Bish-Iirdu glaciers, Altay. Data of Glaciological Studies. Publ. 61, p. 118-123 (in Russian).
1987 Solomina, O.N., Pomortsev, O.A. & Balaeva, V.A. Climatic variations on the northern slope of Terskey-Ala-tau Ridge revealed by dendroindication. Proceedings of All-Union Geographical Society. 119 (3), p. 235-242 (in Russian).
1987 Solomina, O.N. & Bal'tchunas, V.P. Tree ring density as a source of climatic infromation of alpine zone in Central Caucasus. In: Temporal and spatial variations of climate and tree rings. Pt. 2, Kaunas, p. 91-103 (in Russian).
1986 Solomina, O.N. Dendroindication of climatic background of glaciers' existence in the Chon-Kizyl-su valley for the last 600 years. Data of glaciological studies, Publ. 56, p.106-112 (in Russian).
1985 Solomina, O.N. Lichenometry of Tien Shan moraines. Data of Glaciological Studies. Publ.53. p. 186-191 (in Russian).
1985 Solomina, O.N. Implication of macrofossil analysis of peat for palaeoglaciological reconstructions. Data of Glaciological Studies. Publ.53. p. 155-160 (in Russian).
1984 Serebryanny, L.R., Tishkov, A.A., Malyasova, E.S., Solomina, O.N. & Ilves, E.O. Reconstruction of the development of vegetation in Arctic high latitudes. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences USSR, Geographical ser. 6, p. 75-84 (in Russian).
1984 Solomina, O.N. Bioindication studies of stadial moraines in Central Tien Shan. Data of Glaciological Studies. Publ. 51, p.91-97 (in Russian).