Sergei Rodionov

Education

M.S.    Moscow State University (Honors), Moscow, Russia, 1974 (Oceanography).

Ph.D.   State Oceanographic Institute, Moscow, Russia, 1981 (Geography, emphasis oceanography). Dissertation: Long-term sea surface temperature variations in the North Pacific and their effect on fisheries.

Professional Experience

Climate Logic. 2855 Rock Creek Cir, #125, Superior, CO 80027, USA., Owner, Jan. 2007 - Present.

• Seasonal-to-interannual climate forecasting.

Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO), University of Washington, Box 354235, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-4235.  Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) NOAA, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115. Research Meteorologist, Oct. 2002 - Oct. 2006.

• Climate variability in the North Pacific with emphasis on the Bering Sea,
• Changes in the Bering Sea ecosystem,
• Regime shift detection in climate and ecological variables.

University of Colorado, Computer Science Dept., Campus Box 430, Boulder, CO 80309-0430. Research Associate, Feb. 1994 - Sep. 2002.

• Large-scale ocean-atmosphere interaction and climate regimes,
• Data mining and knowledge discovery in climatology,
• Development of  the Climatic Expert System for the North Atlantic (CESNA) for diagnosis and seasonal-to-interannual climate forecasting.

Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), NOAA, 2205, Commonwealth Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2945. Senior Research Associate through the National Research Council, Jan. 1999 - Jul. 2000.

• Associations between Great Lakes ice cover and atmospheric circulation patterns,
• Development of statistical ice forecasting models.

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG), P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000. Postdoctoral fellow, Aug. 1991 - Nov. 1993.

• Climate-induced changes in water levels of large lakes (Caspian Sea, Great Lakes, and Great Salt Lake),
• Atmospheric and biological teleconnections,
• Global warming and its possible effect on fisheries,
• "Climate change, climate variability, and fisheries" - international project.

State Oceanographic Institute (GOIN), Laboratory of Marine Hydrology, 6 Kropotkinskii Per., Moscow 1114036, Russia. Senior scientist, Dec. 1982 - Oct. 1989. 

• Hydrology of the Caspian Sea (National Project “The Seas of the USSR”),
• Global and regional climate interaction in the Caspian Sea basin,
• Air-sea interaction in the North Atlantic (large-scale field experiment, National Project “Sections”).

Russian Federal Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), Laboratory of Oceanography, 17a V. Krasnoselskaya, Moscow 119140, Russia. Junior Scientist (Aug. 1974 - Dec. 1982), Senior Scientist (Oct. 1989 - Jul. 1991).

• Mechanisms of seasonal to decadal variations in the climate system,
• Climate impact on fisheries,
• Climate forecasts for fisheries with one to five year lead times and general trends in the climate system.

Teaching Experience

Application of mathematical statistics in meteorology and oceanography. Lectures for graduate students at the State Oceanographic Institute, Moscow, Russia (1988-1990).