Nikolai Aladin, Ph. D.
Directeur de Recherche
Antenne IRD, Laboratoire de Géologie
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
43 Rue Buffon , 75005 Paris France

I. Education and Experience

Ph.D. 1976 State St. Petersburg University, Russia
D.Sc.I. 1979 Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
D.Sc.II. 1995 Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

Nick Aladin was born in St-Petersburg, Russian Federation (1954). He earned his M.Sc. degree in zoology at the University of St-Petersburg (1976) and his Ph.D. degree in zoology at the Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St-Petersburg (1979). Dr. Sc. degree (super Ph.D) he defended in the same Zoological Institute in 1995. He is currently professor of zoology and head of the Laboratory of the Brackish water Hydrobiology (Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St-Petersburg). He has authored or edited seven books and over hundred other scientific publications. His research centers on the ecology, osmotic and ionic regulation of brackish, marine and halophilic Cladocera and Ostracoda and the hydrobiology of brackish and hypersaline environments. He also studied palaeontology of Crustacea and palaeolimnology of Aral and Caspian Lakes as well as marine biology of Black, Azov and Baltic Seas. In 1980 he participated in his fist Aral Sea cruise on research vessel "Almaty".Since this time he visited Aral Sea nearly every year (ones or twice a year).His last big expedition to the Aral Sea was under umbrella of NG in August-September, 2005. His last small expedition was in September, 2007.In total he made 47 visits to the Aral Sea.

II. Selected publications

Aladin N.V., 1998. Creeping Environmental Changes in the Aral Sea. In: The Aral Sea. Cambridge Press. Ed.: M. Glantz. P. 40-60.

Aladin N.V., Plotnikov I.S., Filippov A.A. 2002. Invaders in the Caspian Sea. In: Invasive aquatic species of Europe. Distribution, impacts and management. Pp. 351-359.

Aladin N.V., Plotnikov I.S., Letolle R. 2004. Hydrobiology of the Aral Sea. In: Dying and Dead Seas. NATO ARW/ASI Series, Kluwer Publ., Dordrecht. Pp. 125-158.

Aladin N.V., Crétaux J-F., Plotnikov I.S., Kouraev A.V., Smurov A.O., Cazenave A., Egorov A.N., Papa F. 2005. Modern hydro-biological state of the Small Aral Sea // Environmetrics, Vol. 16. Pp. 375-392.

Aladin N., Micklin P., Plotnikov I. 2008. Biodiversity of the Aral Sea and its importance to the possible ways of rehabilitating and conserving its remnant water bodies. In: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series – C: Environmental Security. Environmental Problems of Central Asia and their Economic, Social and Security Impacts. Edited by Jiaguo Qi, Kyle T.Evered. Springer. 73-98.

III. Candidate Statement

I am doing all I can to safe the remnants of the Aral Sea.

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