CV with list of publictions

My name is Ksenia Poleshchuk, I am 30 y.o. from St Petersburg, Russia
here you could see my CV (2022, March)

Research interests:

Natural sciences, Environmental sciences, Paleogeography, Art& science, Scientific mediation, Methodology of science, Models in natural sciences, Scientist's relationships with an object of study, Arctic, Antarctic, Landscape as an operational unit, Time and cycles in natural sciences, relationships with the environment, sustainable environmental practices

website: xexexena.ru/

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Physical Geography

2009 — 2013 — Saint Petersburg State University, Earth Science Institute, department of physical geography and landscape planning. Bachelor’s graduation project: «Inland water level change in Late Pleistocene and Holocene» (grade «excellent»)

Master's Degree in Physical Geography

2013 — 2015 — Saint Petersburg State University, Earth Science Institute, department of physical geography and landscape planning. Master’s graduation project: «Holocene relative sea-level changes in Antarctic margin regions based on paleogeographical data from King George Island (West Antarctica) and Bunger Oasis (East Antarctica)» (grade «excellent»)

Aspiranture program (PhD program) in Physical Geography

2015 — 2018 — Saint Petersburg State University, Earth Science Institute, department of physical geography and landscape planning. PhD program, research topic — Holocene relative sea-level changes in Antarctic margin

Additional education:

2021, March — July — student of The Terraforming Program, second year of design research program of Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design, Moscow. Final project «Borderns of ZATO» —a project about soviet closed cities from a perspective of speculative design and multidisciplinary approach.

2022, March — now — student of a Moscow Anthropology School, course «From ecology of a subject».

Work

Scientific job:

Engineer at Department of Polar Regions Geography, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (July 2015 — January 2020)

Researcher at Department of Polar Regions Geography, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (February 2020 — September 2021)

Additional environmental projects:

Landscape mapping for ecological investigations, (Central Soil Museum, St Petersburg, October 2016)

Other jobs:

Brand and marketing manager, «KSK-system» vibro-laser.com/ (September 2020 — August 2021)

Product manager in developer's team «Montana», St Petersburg, Russia (August 2021 — November 2021)

Comic illustrator for the residency «VKLUCHENIYE», Archangelsk, Russia (October 2021 — January 2022)

Volunteer at a permaculture farm, Cali, Colombia (march 2022 —now)

Expeditions

«Sever-2014» Severnaya Zemlya archipelago

Member of geomorphological group at polar research expedition «Sever-2014», Bolshevik Island, Severnaya Zemlya archipelago during July 2015 — October 2015

Svalbard archipelago

Member of geomorphological group at polar research expedition, July — August, October — November 2016

Head of geomorphological group at polar research expedition, July — August 2017

Member of geomorphological group at polar research expedition, July — August, September — October 2018

Head of geomorphological group at polar research expedition, May — August 2019

Other experience

Scientific schools and workshops:

Young specialists training in Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Saint Petersburg) during 2013-2015

Microscopic workshop in Otto Shmidt Laboratory for Polar and Marine Research, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Saint Petersburg), 2014

Summer school-workshop for young scientists in based on Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Saint Petersburg), June 2014

Diatom school and conference in Zvenigorod, Russia, August 2015

INTIMATE Example training school, Poland, 5-11 of June 2016

IAEA Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 18 of June — 10 of July 2018

Meeting and collaborative project «Kapp Linne Obcervatory», Svalbard 2020, Longyerbyen, UNIS

Art workshops and schools:

SOUR PATCH PRESS The Orientation of Objects: A Creative Workshop con Sofia y Diana 7 — 16 of October 2021

Art-laboratory «Fairytailes» by Kristina Kolesnikova October 2021 — March 2022

List of publications

1. Poleshchuk K., Verkulich S. Holocene sea-level changes in Bunger Oasis (East Antarctica) // Problemy Arctiki I Antarctiki (Arctic and Antarctic issues). 2014. — № 100 (2) — p. 15 — 24 (In Russ.)

2. Polishchuk K.V., Verkulich S.R., Ezhikov I.S., Pushina Z.V. Postglacial relative sea level change at Fildes Peninsula, King George Island (West Antarctic). Ice and Snow. 2016; 56(1): 93-102. (In Russ.)

3. Poleshchuk K., Verkulich S. Reconstruction of Holocene sea-level changes in Bunger Oasis (East Antarctica) // Actualnye problem paleogeografii I stratigrafii pleystocena (Actual issues of Pleistocene palegograhy and stratigraphy. Moscow, — 2015. — C. 158 — 160 (In Russ.)

4. K. Poleshchuk, S. Verkulich, Z.Pushina. Holocene sea-level changes in Bunger Oasis, East Antarctica, as inferred by diatom assemblages in sediment cores from marine and freshwater basins, and coastal geomorphological evidences // Geophysical Research Abstracts — Vien, — 2014.

5. K. Poleshchuk, S. Verkulich, Z. Pushina, I. Jozhikov Holocene sea-level changes in King George Island, West Antarctica, by virtue of geomorphological coastal evidences and diatom assemblages of sediment sections // Geophysical Research Abstracts — Vien, — 2015.

6. Poleshchuk K., Verkulich S., Pushina Z. Comparison of glacial isostasy contribution to the sea level changes during the Holocene in West and East Antarctic regions // Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 18, EGU2016-10062, 2016

7. K. Poleshchuk, Z. Pushina, S. Verkulich, M.V. Dorozhkina. Diatoms in Quaternary sediments of Fildes Peninsula, King George Island (West Antarctica) // Voprosy sovremennoy algologii (Isuues of modern algology). — Zvenigorid — 2015 (In Russ.)

8. S. Verkulich, K. Poleshchuk, I. Jozhikov, Z. Pushina. Holocene sea-level changes in Antarctica based on paleogeographical data of Bunger Oasis (East Antarctica) and King George (West Antarctica) // Book of abstracts «Fundamental problems of Quaternary period, research results and main directions of new research”– Irkutsk, — 2015 (In Russ.)

9. K. Poleshchuk, S. Verkulich. Holocene relative sea-level changes in few regions of Antarctic margin and estimation of GIA effect. (Poster presentation, International symposium of the Cryosphere in a changing climate, February 2017, Wellington, New Zealand).

10. Poleshchuk K.V., Verkulich S.R., Pushina Z.V., Okunev A.S. The resultes of Holocene sediments of Dunderbukta, West Svalbard, based on diatom analysis // Book of abstracts of «International Youth Scientific Conference on the Polar Geodesy, Glaciology, Hydrology and Geophysics», May 17-18, 2018 — St Petersburg — 65 pp. (In Russ.)

11. Poleshchuk K.V., Verkulich S.R., Pushina Z.V., Okunev A.S. Holocene marine diatom assemblages of Dunderbukta, West Svalbard // Book of abstract «A complex environmental study of Svalbard and adjacent shelf», Murmansk, October 30 — November 2, 2018 — 95-97 pp. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.25702/KSC.978.5.91137.374.0

12. Poleshchuk K. Holocene sea-level changes in Antarctic margin and GIA estimation // PALSEA express (2020). Austermann J., Simms A., Barlow N., Shakun J., Rovere A. Virtual meeting, 15-16 Sept 2020.

I see it it important to point out my artistic interests. I am focused on a topic of scientific perception of natural environment, limitation of scientific perception and problems of mediation between science and public needs. Here I am listing some of my works with links: