Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Konstantin Vinnikov

Department of Meteorology

University of Maryland

2407 Space Sciences Building

College Park, Maryland 20742

Phone: (301) 405-5382

Fax: (301) 314-9482

E-mail: kostya@atmos.umd.edu

WWW: http://www.meto.umd.edu/~kostya

EDUCATION:

M.S. in Meteorology, 1961, Leningrad Hydrometeorological Institute

Thesis: “Heat Balance of the Atmosphere: Southern Hemisphere”

Advisor: M. I. Budyko

Kandidat degree in Meteorology, the Russian equivalent of a Ph.D., 1966, Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory, Leningrad

Thesis: “Energy Budget of the Earth-Atmosphere System”

Doctor of Sciences [equivalent to American Full Professor], 1983, Higher Certifying Commission of the Council of Ministers of the USSR

Thesis: “Investigation of Present-Day Climatic Changes”

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Research Scientist, Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. September 1993–present, full time.

Visiting Senior Research Scientist, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory; Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University. August 1991–August 1993. Full time.

Head of the Research Laboratory on Contemporary Changes of Climate and Water Resources, in the Climate Change Department, State Hydrological Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia), September 1975–August 1991. Full time.

Senior Research Scientist, Physical Climatology Department, (1968-1975); Research Scientist, Dynamic Meteorology Department, (1961-1968); Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory (St. Petersburg, Russia) 1961–1975.

PH.D. STUDENTS SUPERVISED: Pavel Ya. Groisman, Natalia P. Kovyneva, Irina V. Trofimova, Natalia A. Lemeshko, Irina B. Yeserkepova, John I. Antonov, C. Adam Schlosser (with Alan Robock), Jared Entin (with Alan Robock)

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

· American Meteorological Society

· American Geophysical Union

MEMBERSHIP ON NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PANELS:

· Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 1988-present. (Contributor and lead author of the IPCC-1990 and 1992 reports. Contributor to the IPCC Third Assessment Report.)

· Working Group VIII, “Influence of Environmental Changes on Climate,” US-USSR Agreement on Cooperation in Environmental Protection, 1979–1995. (Leader on the Soviet side of Project 02.08‑11, “Climate Changes,” 1988–1990.)

PUBLICATIONS: (see separate list)

Refereed articles: more than 66

Refereed books, book chapters, pamphlets and atlases: 12

Other selected significant publications: 27

GRANTS (U.S. only):

1. NOAA, NA90AADAC804, “Analysis and Modeling of Soviet Soil Moisture Data,” September 1, 1990 - August 31, 1992, $130,000. (PIs: Alan Robock and Konstantin Vinnikov)

2. NOAA Climate and Global Change Program, NA36GPO311, “Analysis and Modeling of the Hydrological Cycle Using Russian Data,” August 1, 1993 - July 31, 1995, $290,000. (PIs: Alan Robock and Konstantin Vinnikov)

3. NASA, NCC5-55, “Joint Center for Earth System Science," October 1, 1993-September 30, 1995, My part $125,000. (PI: Robert Hudson)

4. NOAA Climate and Global Change Program, NA56GPO212, “Midlatitude Land Surface Processes: Modeling and Analysis in Support of GCIP Using American, Russian, and Chinese Data,” May 1, 1995 - April 30, 1999, $445,000. (PIs: Alan Robock and Konstantin Vinnikov.)

5. NASA Mission to Planet Earth, NAGW5227, “Global Soil Moisture Data Set From Satellite and Gravimetric Observations for Climatic Studies and Evaluation of the Hydrological Aspects of Climate Models,” July 1, 1996 - May 31, 1998, $97,300. (PIs: Konstantin Vinnikov and Alan Robock)

6. NASA Mission to Planet Earth, NAG-55161, “Global Soil Moisture Data Set From Satellite and Gravimetric Observations for Climatic Studies and Evaluation of the Hydrological Aspects of Climate Models,” July 15, 1997 - July 14, 1999, $100,000. (PIs: Konstantin Vinnikov and Alan Robock)

7. NOAA Climate and Global Change Program (jointly with DOE), NA66GPO438, “Limits of Natural Variations in Global and Regional Climate as Compared to Observed Climatic Trends,” August 1, 1996 - August 31, 1999, $150,000. (PIs: Konstantin Vinnikov and Alan Robock.)

8. NOAA Climate and Global Change Program (jointly with DOE), NA96GP0117, “Global Warming and Observed Climatic Trends,” April 1, 1999 – March 31, 2000, $60,125. (PIs: Konstantin Vinnikov and Alan Robock.)

9. NOAA Climate and Global Change Program, “Evaluation of Land Surface Data Assimilation System Simulations of Soil Moisture in the GCIP Region,” June 1, 1999 - May 31, 2002, $112,500.

10. NOAA NESDIS, Continuation of “Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies Research in Remote Sensing of the Earth and Environment.” My part: “Validation of the AMSU-derived Sea Ice Concentration,” August 1, 1999 - July 31, 2000, $70,000.

11. *NOAA Climate and Global Change Program (jointly with DOE), “Sea Ice and Snow Cover as Parameters for Detection, Attribution, and Monitoring of Anthropogenic Climate Change,” July 1, 2000 – June 30, 2003, $270,000. (PIs: Konstantin Vinnikov and Alan Robock.)

12. NSF Large-scale Dynamic Meteorology Program, “Collaborative Research on the Snow-Soil Moisture-Monsoon Relationship,”August 1, 2000 - July 31, 2002, $112,752.

13. *NASA GSFC, “Sea Ice Variability, and Climate Change.” May 1, 2001-April 30, 2004. $195,000.

14. NOAA/NESDIS, Continuation of “Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies Research in Remote Sensing of the Earth and Environment.” My part: “Land Surface Classification and Emissivity Determination-LAND.” September 1, 2001-August 31, 2004. $140,000.

15. *NOAA/NESDIS, Continuation of “Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies Research in Remote Sensing of the Earth and Environment.” My part: “Towards Satellite Monitoring of Global Climate Change.” September 1, 2002-August 31, 2004. $150,000.

*Current grants

March 6, 2004