Deputy editor-in-chief, Environmental Monitoring and Ecosystem Modelling
1986 – Lomonosov Moscow State University, Biology department.
1990 – Cand. Sc. Biology (subject of dissertation: Rotifera living in the epigean moss carpet as a target of biomonitoring for precipitation acidification).
2017 – present. Head of Laboratory, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences.
1986 – present. Engineer, junior research associate, senior research associate, leading research associate at Yu.A. Izrael Institute of Global Climate and Ecology.
1996 – present. National coordinator for the International Co-operative Programme on Integrated Monitoring (ICP IM) under the auspises of Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP).
Area of expertise. Evaluation of the effects of climate change and anthropogenic pollution on aquatic and terrestrial life, as well as on specially protected nature conservation areas.
Has published more than 100 scientific papers.
Main publications.
Popova E.N., Koukhta A.E., Popov I.O. 2019. The use of the soil nematode fauna and pine stands growth data in integrated bioindication of various soil-climatic conditions of the European taiga // Russian Journal of Nematology, published by Rossiiskaya Akademiya Meditsinskikh Nauk (Academy of Medical Sciences, Russian Federation), vol. 27, #2.
Pozdnyakova Е.А., Volkova G.L., Koukhta А.Е. 2019. Variation in lineal increment of Pinus sylvestris of various biotope types in European part of Russia // Forrestry Bulletin, published by the Mytischi Branch of Bauman Moscow State Technical University (Moscow), vol. 23, #2, pp. 61-70.
Chernogaeva G.M., Kuhta A.E. 2018. The Response of Boreal Forest Stands to Recent Climate Change in the North of the European Part of Russia // Russian Meteorology and Hydrology, published Allerton Press Inc. (United States), vol. 43, #6, pp. 418-424.
Chernogaeva G.M., Kuhta A.E. 2018. The boreal forest stand response to current climate change in northern European Russia // Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya (Meteorology and Hydrology), Planeta (М.), #6, pp. 111-119.
Romanovskaya А.А., Volkova G.L., Pozdnyakova Е.А., Volkov А.А., Koukhta A.E. 2017. Variation in lineal growth of Pinus sylvestris plantation and natural regeneration in Penza region // Proceedings of the Saint Petersburg Forestry Research Institute, #1, pp. 4-13.
Pozdnyakova Е.А., Volkova G.L., Koukhta A.E., Volkov А.А. 2016. The effect of temperature and precipitation on the annual height increment of Scots pine on the Kandalaksha Gulf Coast and ICP IM site RU16 Report on National ICP IM activities in Russia // Reports of the Finnish Environment Institute, том 25, с. 62-64.
Koukhta A.E., Rumyantsev D.Е., Puchinskaya D.V. 2014. The effect of climatic factors on radial and linear growth of Scots pine within Kivach natural reserve // Forrestry Bulletin, published by the Mytischi Branch of Bauman Moscow State Technical University (Moscow), vol. 18, #5 (105), pp. 88-91.
Pozdnyakova Е.А., Volkov А.А., Koukhta A.E. 2013. The effect of temperature and precipitation on linear growth of Scots pine on Kandalaksha Gulf coast // International Research Journal, #11(18), pp. 52-57.