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Olga Tutubalina is a Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, and a Remote Sensing Analyst at Gentian Ltd. She holds a PhD in Polar Remote Sensing from Cambridge and has spent 20 years teaching at Moscow State University, where she was a Leading Researcher until 2023.
- Key Affiliations: Scott Polar Research Institute, Moscow State University, British Antarctic Survey, Russian Space Research Institute
- Education: MSc in Geography and Cartography (Moscow State University, 1996), MPhil in GIS and Remote Sensing (Cambridge, 1997), PhD in Polar Remote Sensing (Cambridge, 1999)
Her research spans high-latitude environmental change, focusing on vegetation dynamics in the Russian Arctic and Siberia under climate shifts and industrial pollution. She develops algorithms to upscale UAV and ground measurements to satellite scales, with applications in precision agriculture and natural hazard assessment. Her work on glacial hazards in the Caucasus, Pamirs, and St Elias Mountains includes studies of debris flows and glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs).
Scientific Contributions include:
- Collaborative projects with Dr. Gareth Rees on Arctic vegetation spectral properties
- Co-led UK-Russian initiatives on northern forest climate impacts (2018-2021)
- Co-developer of the MSU Geoportal for remote sensing data management
- Expert in multiplatform remote sensing (radar, optical, UAV)
She has advised 6 PhD students at Moscow State University and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Mountain Science. Her fieldwork spans Siberia, the Caucasus, Kamchatka, and the Peruvian Andes.
