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Volokitina Alexandra Vital'evna

Volokitina Alexandra Vital'evna, born 1 January 1949, in the city of Murmansk, Murmansk Oblast, Soviet Union (since 1992 – Russia). Graduated from the Arkhangelsk Forest Technical Institute (at the present time – M. V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University), Faculty of Forestry (at the present time – Forestry Engineering Institute), with a specialty in Forestry, qualification Engineer of Forestry, in the city of Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Soviet Union (1972). Candidate (PhD, 1980), and Doctor (DSc, 1999) of Agricultural Sciences in Forest Science & Silviculture; Forest Fires & Fire Fighting. PhD thesis: «Eksperimental'noe izuchenie vliyaniya osadkov na regimy vlazhnosti i goreniya napchvennogo pokrova v tselyakh opredeleniya i prognozirovaniya pozharnoy opasnosti v taezhnykh lesakh» (Experimental Study of the Influence of Precipitation on Moisture and Combustion Regimes of the Ground Cover in Order to Determine and Predict Fire Hazard in Taiga Forests), Mytishchi, Moscow Inst. For. Engineer. (at the present time – Mytishchi Br. Bauman Moscow St. Tech. Univ.), 1980 (in Russian). DSc thesis: «Klassifikatsiya Rastitelnykh Goryuchikh Materialov i Metody ikh Kartografirovaniya» (Classification of Vegetation Fuel Materials and Methods for Their Mapping), Krasnoyarsk, V. N. Sukachev Inst. For., Rus. Acad. Sci., Sib. Br., 1999 (in Russian). Scientific training in Canada, studying Canadian system of fire danger rating and fire behavior prediction (1995). Scientific training in the United States, studying the US national system of fire danger rating and fire behavior prediction (1997-1998). Leading Research Scientist for the Laboratory of Forest Pyrology at V. N. Sukachev Inst. For., Rus. Acad. Sci., Sib. Br., Fed. Res. Center Krasnoyarsk Sci. Center, Rus. Acad. Sci., Sib. Br., in the city of Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia (2000-present). Member of the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) (since 1993). Collaborates with the Missoula Fire Science Laboratory United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service (Montana, USA) and with the Woods Hole Research Center (Massachusetts, USA). The main research interests are in development of the Russian system of fire danger rating and fire behavior prediction. Author and coauthor of more than 280 scientific publications in forest science, including monographs, methodical and practical recommendations/guidelines, teaching books. Some of them: «Klassifikatsiya i kartografirovanie rastitel'nykh gorychikh materialov» (Classification and Mapping of Vegetation Fuels), Novosibirsk, Sib. Br. Rus. Acad. Sci. Publ., 2002 (in Russian with English summary); Forest Fire Behavior Prediction», Krasnoyarsk, 2010 (in Russian); «Forest Fire Science Terminology: Modeling of a Bilingual Glossary», Krasnoyarsk, 2012 (in Russian and in English).