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Kharuk Vyacheslav Ivanovich

Kharuk Vyacheslav Ivanovich, born 18 December, 1949 in the village of Ivanovka, Sharypovsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Soviet Union (since 1992 – Russia). Graduated from Krasnoyarsk State University (KSU) (in 2006 KSU being included to Siberian Federal University), Faculty of Physiscs, with a specialty in Biophysics, qualification Physicist, Teacher of Physics, in the city of Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia (1971). Candidate (PhD, 1978), and Doctor (DSc, 1993) of Biological Sciences, Professor (1997) in Biophysics. PhD thesis: «Spektrofotometricheskie Issledovaniya Vnelistovykh Pigmentov» (Spectrophotometric Studies of Extrafoliaceous Pigments), L. V. Kirensky Inst. Physics, Rus. Acad. Sci., Sib. Br., Krasnoyarsk, 1978 (in Russian). DSc thesis: «Indikatsiya Bioticheskikh i Tekhnogennykh Povrezhdeniy Drevesnykh Rasteniy i Drevostoev v Opticheskom Diapazone Spektra» (Indication of Biotic and Technogenic Injuries of Woody Plants and Tree Stands in Optical Range of Spectrum), Inst. Biophysics , Rus. Acad. Sci., Sib. Br., Krasnoyarsk, 1993 (in Russian). Head for the Laboratory of Forest Monitoring, Department of Forest Ecology and Monitoring, V. N. Sukachev Inst. For., Rus. Acad. Sci., Sib. Br., Fed. Res. Center Krasnoyarsk Sci. Center, Rus. Acad. Sci., Sib. Br. (1998-present), Chait/Professor for the Geoinformation Systems Department, School of Space and Information Technologies, Siberian Federal University (1993/2022-present), in the city of Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. Expert in remote sensing and environments of boreal forests. Directions of studies: natural and anthropogenic dynamics of forests; mapping and monitoring of forests based on remote sensing and GIS technique; climate change impact on the tree vegetation and wildfires; bark photosynthesis and tree carbon balance. PI and CoPI for several joint Russian-USA NASA projects: «Combined Satellite Mapping of Siberian Landscapes: Natural and Anthropogenic Factors Affecting Carbon Balance», «Siberian Larch Community Structure and Dynamics», «Transformation of Larch-Dominated Forests and Woodlands Into Mixed Taiga». Associate editor for peer-reviewed scientific journals: «Euras. J. For. Res.», «Int. J. Wildland Fire», «Contemp. Probl. Ecol.», and «Sib. J. For. Sci.». Author and co-author of more than 230 scientific publications.