Andrei Kurbatov, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Andrei Kurbatov

Climate Change Institute
University of Maine
136 Sawyer Environmental Research Center
Orono, ME 04469-5790

207-581-2840 Ph/Voicemail
207-581-1203 Fax

akurbatov at maine.edu

Research Interests

Explosive volcanism, tephrochronology, glaciochemistry

 

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Kurbatov, A.V., G.A. Zielinski, N.W. Dunbar, P.A. Mayewski, E.A. Meyerson, S.B. Sneed, and K. Taylor (2006), A 12,000 year record of explosive Volcanism in the Siple Dome Ice Core, West Antarctica, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D12307, doi:10.1029/2005JD006072.

Bertler and others, (2005), Snow chemistry across Antarctica, Annals of Glaciology, 41, 167-179.

Taylor, K.C., R.B. Alley, D.A. Meese, M.K. Spencer, E.J. Brook, N.W. Dunbar, R. Finkel, A.J. Gow, A.V. Kurbatov, G.W. Lamorey, E. Meyerson, K. Nishiizumi, and G.A. Zielinski (2004), Dating the Siple Dome (Antarctica) ice core by manual and computer interpretation of annual layering, J. Glaciol., 50(170), 453-461.

Pruett, L.E., K.J. Kreutz, M. Wadleigh, P.A. Mayewski, and A. Kurbatov (2004), Sulfur isotopic measurements from a West Antarctic ice core: implications for sulfate source and transport, Ann. Glaciol., 39, 161-168.

Woods A.W., Bursik M.I., Kurbatov A.V., 1998, The interaction of ash flows with ridges. Bull. of Volcanol., 60: 38-51.

Bursik M.I., Kurbatov A.V. Sheridan M.F., Woods A.W., 1998, Transport and deposition in the May 18, 1980, Mount St.Helens blast flow: Geology 26(2): 155-158.

Melekestsev I.V., Kurbatov A.V., 1998, Frequency of Large Paleoearthquakes at the Northwestern Coast of the Bering Sea and in the Kamchatka Basin During Late Pleistocene/Holocene Time: {\it Volc. Seis.} 19: 257-267, (Cover-to-cover translation of the Russian journal Vulkanol. Seismol., 1997, 3: 3- 11).

Kurbatov A., 1996, Investigation of the May 18, 1980, Blast Surge Deposit at Mount St. Helens Volcano, USA. Master's thesis, Department of Geology, State University of New York at Buffalo, 152 p.

Minoura K., Gusiakov V. G., Kurbatov A., Takeuti S., Svendsen J. I., Bondevik S., Oda T., 1996, Tsunami sedimentation associated with the 1923 Kamchatka earthquake. Sedimentary Geology, 106: 145-154.

Melekestsev I.V., Dvigalo V.N., Kirianov V.Yu., Kurbatov A.V., Nesmachnyi I.A., 1994, Ebeko Volcano, Kuril Islands: Eruptive history and Potential Volcanic Hazard. Part I: Volc. Seis., 15(3): 339-354, (Cover-to-cover translation of the Russian journal Vulkanol. Seismol., 1993, 3: 69- 81).

Melekestsev I.V., Dvigalo V.N., Kirianov V.Yu., Kurbatov A.V., Nesmachnyi I.A. 1994, Ebeko Volcano, Kuril Islands: Eruptive history and Potential Volcanic Hazard. Part II: {\it Volc. Seis.} 15(4): 411-430, (Cover-to-cover translation of the Russian journal Vulkanol. Seismol., 1993, 4: 24- 42).

Melekestsev I.V., Kurbatov A.V., Pevzner M.M., Sulerzhitsky L.D., 1994, 'Doistoricheskie' tcunami i silnie zemletrjasenija na poluostrove Kamchatskom (Kamchatka) po dannim tephrochronologicheskih issledovaniy:b Vulkanol. Seismol., 4-5: 106-115 In Russian).

Other Publications and Presentations:

Mikesell, T. D., K. van Wijk, A.V. Kurbatov, and P.A. Mayewski (2007), Ice Core Tomography with Laser Ultrasonics.

Dunbar, N.W., W.C. McIntosh, A.V. Kurbatov, and T.I. Wilch (2007), Integrated tephrochronology of the West Antarctic region- implications for a potential tephra record in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core, in press, 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (Aug. 26 to Sept 1).

Kurbatov, A.V., P.A. Mayewski, and B.S. Abdul Jawad (2005), Ice Core Dating Software for Interactive Dating of Ice Cores, {\it Eos}, Trans. AGU 86(52), Abstract PP33C-1603, Fall Meet. Suppl.

Osterberg E.C., Kurbatov A.V., Mayewski P.A., Kreutz K.J., Fisher D. (2005), Sub-annual Ice-Core Record of Major Ion and Heavy Metal Variability and Sources in the North Pacific Free Troposphere, Mt. Logan, Yukon, Canada, {\it Eos}, Trans. AGU 86(52), Abstract PP31C-08, Fall Meet. Suppl.

Dunbar, N. W., McIntosh, W. C., Kurbatov, A., and Zielinski, G. A. (2004), Tephrochronology of Antarctic blue ice areas and ice cores: IAVCEI, International Volcanological Congress, Pucon, Chile.

Kurbatov A.V., Zielinski G.A., Dunbar N.W., Mayewski P.A., Morgan V., van~Ommen T.D., Curran M.A.J. (2003), Evaluation of Tephra Found in the Law Dome Ice Core, East Antarctica Eos, Trans. AGU, 84(46): Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A31C-0056.

Dunbar, N.W., Kurbatov, A., Zielinski, G., McIntosh, W.C., Price, P.B., and Bay, R.C. (2003), Volcanic ash records in the Siple Dome Ice Core: Siple Dome Principal Investigator Meeting, Reno, NV, Feb. 24, 2003.

Dunbar, N.W., Kurbatov, A., Zielinski, G., McIntosh, W.C., Price, P.B., and Bay, R.C. (2003), Volcanic ash records in the Siple Dome Ice Core: West Antarctic Ice Shelf 2003 Research Meeting.

Meyerson E. A.,Mayewski P.A., Sneed S.B., Kurbatov A.V.,Kreutz K. J., Zielinski G.A., Taylor K. C., Brook E. J., Steig E.J. (2003), Bipolar Synchroneity and Latitudinal Timing of Holocene Climate Change Eos, Trans. AGU, 84(46): Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP52A-0947.

Kurbatov A.V., Zielinski G.A., Dunbar N.W., Voisin D. (2002/, Holocene Volcanism recorded in Ice cores from Taylor Dome and Siple Dome. AGU Chapman Conference on Volcanism and the Earth's Atmosphere, p. 32.

Zielinski G.A., Dunbar N.W., Kurbatov A.V., Voisin D. T. (2001), Holocene Volcanic Records in the Siple Dome Ice Cores. Eos, Trans. AGU, 82(47): Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V52A-1056.

Kurbatov A V,. Bursik M.I. (2001), Reevaluation of the 1737 C.E. Earthquake Based on Paleoseismic Evidence Collected Along the Coast of Kamchatka, Russia. Eos Trans. AGU 82(47): Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS42A-0467.

Voisin D., Kurbatov A., Dunbar N., and Zielinski G. (2001), Volcanic record in the Siple Dome Ice Cores: Siple Dome. Antarctica Science Meeting, Biosphere-2, Arizona USA, April 19-20, 2001.

Kurbatov, A., Bian, L., Bursik, M., Churikov, V., Hughes, S. and Kirianov, V. (1999), New data from paleoseismic studies of the southern Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Eos Trans. AGU 80 (46): Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract F926.

Kurbatov A.V., Bursik M.I., Melekestsev I.V., Sulerzhitsky L.D. (1999), Uplifted marine terraces on the east side of Bering basin along the shorelines of Bering and Karaginskiy islands: Indicators of large earthquakes in the Kamchatka/Aleutian region? Penrose Conference: Subduction to Strike-Slip Transitions on Plate Boundaries, Jan. 18-24, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, p.46.

Bursik, M., Braitseva, O., Bazanova, L., Melekestsev, I., Kurbatov, A., Burns, A. and Pieri, D. (1998), Models of transport of tephra and aerosol from Kamchatkan volcanoes, International Seismic Volcanic Workshop on Kamchatkan-Aleutian Subduction Processes [abs.]: Russian Academy of Sciences, Petropavlovsk- Kamchatskiy, p. 14-15.

Kurbatov A.V., Bursik M.I., Melekestsev I.V., Bazanova L.I. , Sulerzhitsky L.D., (1997), Neotectonics of Khalaktirka beach (Kamchatka, Russia) for the last 3500 years based on tephrochronology. Eos Trans. AGU 78(46): Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract F640.

Bursik, M.I., Kurbatov, A.V., Sheridan, M.F. and Woods, A.W. (1997), Effects of m-scale topographic features on sedimentation from the Mount St. Helens blast surge cloud, IAVCEI, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, General Assembly [abs.]: Gobierno de Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico, January.

Bazanova L.I., Braitseva O.A., Melekestsev I.V., Churikova T.G., Bursik M.I., Kurbatov A.V. (1995), Explosive eruptions of Kamchatka: ash clouds of the most recent eruptions of Avachinskiy and Ksudach volcanoes. Eos Trans. AGU 76(46): Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract F540-F541.

Woods, A.W., Bursik, M.I., Kurbatov, A.V. (1995), Dynamics of large ash flows: models, experiments, data. Eos Trans. AGU 76(46): Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract F680.

Melekestsev I.V., Kurbatov A.V., Sulerzhitskyi L.D., Pevzner M.M. (1994), Sravnenie skorostei podnyatii poberezhya Kamchatskogo zaliva Tihogo okeana i o. Karaginskogo: Tezisi [abs.] Vserossiiskogo Sovecshaniya po izucheniu Chetvertichnogo perioda, p. 164, {\it (In Russian)}.