Dr. Sergey Marchenko, who comes from University of Alaska, will give an academic report on the mountain permafrost in mid latitudes at the invitation of the State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering. 

Speaker: Dr. Sergey Marchenko 

Title of the report: Permafrost: Formation, Distribution, and Modeling Temporal and Spatial Variability: Thermal and Mechanical Properties with focus on Mountain (Altitudinal) Permafrost in mid Latitudes. 

Time: t 3:00pm on April 30, 2014. 

Site: The meeting room on 4F in the State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering 

Dr. Sergey Marchenko’s present research interests: 

Interaction between climate and permafrost in Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions 

Altitudinal permafrost formation, distribution and evolution in the mid-latitude mountain regions 

Modeling of temporal and spatial permafrost dynamics 

Positions: 

Research Associate Professor, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks (2008-Present) 

Research Asscoiate, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks (2006-2008) 

Visiting Research Scholar, Geophysical Institute,University of Alaska Fairbanks (2003-2006) 

Senior Scientist, Yakutsk Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazakhstan Alpine Permafrost Laboratory (1993-2003) 

Engineer, Yakutsk Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (1989-1993) 

Engineer, Research Institute of Mechanics, Almaty, Kazakhstan (1985-1989)