Nansen Fellowship PhD Programme

Overview

The main objective of the Nansen Fellowship Program at NIERSC is support of PhD-students at St. Petersburg University and other Russian educational and research institutions, including Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. Its research areas are climate and environmental change and satellite remote sensing, including integrated use of satellite Earth observation techniques in combination with supporting in situ observations and numerical modeling for studies of the Earth system.

The Nansen Fellowship provides the PhD-students with:

• Russian and international scientific supervision
• financial fellowship
• efficient working conditions at the Nansen Centre
• training and research visits to international research institutions within the Nansen Group and beyond
• involvement into international research projects.

On 18 June 2009 Natalia Zakhvatkina (Piotrovskaya) defended her PhD thesis "Arctic sea ice classification using satellite SAR data" at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute;
supervisors: Prof. Ivan Ye. Frolov, Dr. Vitaly Yu. Alexandrov, Prof. Ola M. Johannessen (see thesis summary in the Scientific Report).

Starting from 1997, 20 young Russian PhD-students have got their doctoral degree under the Nansen Fellowship Program

You can find the list of Defended Theses following the link