Main Researcher
DSc (Physical and Mathematical Sciences)

Experimental Ocean Physics Laboratory 
Ocean Physics

36, Nakhimovskiy prospect, Moscow, 117997, Russia
+7(499)124-88-10

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SPIN:                7335-0426

In 1982, he graduated Faculty of Aerophysics and Space Research at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology on the Chair Prof. S.S. Voit of The Ocean Thermohydrodynamics. In 1987 he got a PhD degree with a dissertation on laboratory modeling of gravity currents. In 2000 he defended a dissertation (Doctor of the State) on investigation of coastal upwellings in the World Ocean.

Prof. Kostianoy is a specialist in the field of physical oceanography, satellite remote sensing of the oceans and inland seas, regional climate change, environmental problems. He is also an expert in satellite monitoring systems designed for offshore oil and gas industry, as well as in operational integrated satellite monitoring of oil pollution of the seas. His research interests included the Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, and Southern Oceans; the Subarctic Seas; the Baltic, Mediterranean, Black, Azov, Caspian and Aral Seas; the dying lakes and seas; and Central Asia.

Prof. Kostianoy is a Vice-President of the International Association "Modelenvironment" (Liege University, Belgium, since 2000); Russian National Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR, since 2000); Scientific Organizing Committee of the International Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Conference Association (PORSEC, since 2006); Honorary Member of the Environmental Ocean Team (UK/Italy, since 2008); Chair of Technical Committee of the International Water Technology Association (Egypt, since 2011); Lead Author of Chapter 3 “Observations: Oceans” in WGI of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report 5 (2010-2013); Nominated Member of SCOR from Russian Federation (since 2016).

In 2014, at the 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Moscow Prof. Kostianoy was elected as a Vice-Chair of the COSPAR Sub-Commission A2 on Ocean Dynamics and Productivity for 2014-2018. In 2018 he was re-elected for the next four years (2018-2022) as Vice-Chair of the COSPAR Sub-Commission A2 on Ocean Dynamics, Productivity, and the Cryosphere. In 2014 he was also invited and in 2018 re-elected to the COSPAR Task Group on GEO (Group on Earth Observations) and to the COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop Fellowship Program Committee. In July 2014, as a Director, he successfully headed the Joint COSPAR and WMO Capacity Building Workshop on “Satellite remote sensing water cycle and climate change” that was held in Tver State University, Tver, Russia.

Prof. Kostianoy is Editor-in-Chief of «The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry» book series (Springer, since 2007), «Journal of Oceanological Research» (in Russian) (since 2017), «Springer Water» book series (Springer, since 2019).

Prof. Kostianoy is a member of several editorial boards of international journals: «Journal of Marine Systems» (Elsevier, since 2000), «Vestnik Kaspiya» (The Caspian Sea Bulletin, in Russian, since 2006), «International Water Technology Journal» (IWTA, Egypt, since 2011), Editorial and Program Advisory Board of the Springer’s Water Program (since 2013), «Problems of Post-Soviet Space» (in Russian, since 2014), «Fundamental and Applied Climatology» (in Russian, since 2015), «Fundamental and Applied Hydrophysics» (in Russian, since 2017), «Studia Marina» (Montenegro, since 2017), «Ecologica Montenegrina» (Montenegro, since 2017), «PeerJ» (USA, since 2017), Advisory Editor, Earth Sciences, Environment and Geography, Springer (since 2018).

Prof. Kostianoy is an author of over 300 peer-reviewed papers and 60 books published in Springer, Elsevier and Russian editions, most of which is devoted to the study of the Black, Caspian, Aral, Baltic, Mediterranean and Arctic seas.

From 1993 to the present Prof. Kostianoy led 40 national and international research projects aimed to investigation of, in particular, the environment of the Black, Azov, Caspian, Aral and Baltic seas, oil pollution and regional climate change in the Russian seas. He headed integrated operational satellite monitoring of: (1) Exploration of the Kravtsovskoye oil field in the Baltic Sea (Lukoil D-6 oil platform) (2004-2005, 2016); (2) Construction of an offshore gas pipeline "Dzhubga-Lazarevskoye-Sochi" in the Black Sea (2010); (3) Construction and exploitation of an offshore gas pipeline "Nord Stream" in the Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Sea (2010-2013).