now at Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Bremerhaven
Larysa Istomina received her Master Degree in physics and astronomy at the National Karazin University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 2006. After 1.5 years as a postgraduate researcher at the Institute of Astronomy, Kharkiv, Ukraine, in September 2007 she started her Ph.D. in physics at the Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. She finished her Ph.D. research dedicated to the remote sensing of atmospheric aerosol in the Arctic in 2011. Thereafter, since August 2011 and until July 2014, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, within the EU project SIDARUS. Since then and till today Larysa Istomina is employed as a postdoctoral researcher within the EU project SPICES and as a consulting staff at the AC3 Transregio.
Her main research interests are:
- Mechanisms responsible for the Arctic radiative budget and climate balance;
- Climatic feedbacks in the Arctic;
- Dynamics and status of the thinning Arctic ice cover, effect of ice algae and melt ponds on it.
- Satellite remote sensing of the polar regions, aerosol, cloud and surface retrievals;
- Expanding the non-sufficient field measurement network in the polar regions.
- 02.08.2012 – 08.10.2012: Aerosol optical depth and spectral albedo measurements of the sea ice and melt ponds during RV Polarstern cruise in the Central Arctic PS 89/3 „IceArc2012“.
- 17.08.2015 – 15.10.2015: spectral albedo and spectral transmittance measurements of the sea ice and melt ponds, kite imagery and aerosol optical depth measurements during RV Polarstern cruise in the Central Arctic PS94/3 „TransArc2“.
Jerome Namias Grant at AGU Fall Meeting 2009.