January 2004
PLACE of BIRTH: |
St.Petersburg |
ADDRESS: |
Russia, 198217, St.Petersburg, Dachnyi avenu, 23-1-147, |
TEL: |
(812)156-64-59 |
EDUCATION: |
Ph.D. had received in 1977 for the thesis "Phytoplankton of the northern lakes and its the relationships with zooplankton". |
LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE |
English - reading, writing, speaking. |
CARRIER and ACADEMIC |
1990– present, Seniors research scientist, Zoological Institute, St.Petersburg |
RESEARCH INTERESTS: |
- Role of phytoplankton and periphyton in the structure and functioning of the water ecosystems under anthropogenic stress. |
PROFESSIONAL |
1970 - present: Russian Hydrobiological Society |
AFFILIATION |
Laboratory of the Freshwater and Experimental Hydrobiology |
DIDACTIC ACTIVITIES |
Invited professor of St.Petersburg State University. Lectures on “Methods of the estimation of water quality based on algae". |
QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE IN THE GIVEN FIELD: |
There is rich experience in evaluation of eutrophication processes and estimation of water quality in the coastal zone of the Gulf of Finland |
Alimov A.F. & V.N.Nikulina (1974) Productivity of the communities phytofouling of the lake Zelenetzkoe // Hydrobiologicheskyi journal, 10, N 2, pp.29-35.
Nikulina V.N. (1977) Phytoplankton and phytofouling of the River Tyup and Gulf Tyupskyi of the Lake Issyk-Kul In: Winberg G.G. (Ed.) Hydrobiologicheskie issledovania na reke Tyup i Tyupskom zalive ozera Issyk-Kul, Leningrad, pp.31-41 (in Russ.)
Nikulina V.N. (1979) Periphyton of the northern coast of the Lake Issyk-Kul In: Winberg G.G. (Ed.) Experimentalnye i polevye issledovania biologicheskih osnov produktivnosti ozer, Leningrad, pp.50-57 (In Russ.).
Nikulina V.N. & N.A.Porckhachyova (1980) Phytoplankton of the Koporskaja Bay in the Gulf of Finland, an area receiving cooling water In: Winberg G.G. (Ed.) Troficheskie svjazi presnovodnyh bespozvonochnyh, Leningrad, Zool.Inst.AN SSSR, pp. 134-146 (In Russ.).
Nikulina V.N. (1982) Phytofouling in the Gorskaya Bay of the Lake Onezhskoe In: Winberg G.G. (Ed.)Limnologicheskie issledovania na zalive Onezhskogo ozera Bolshoe Onego, Leningrad, pp.109-114 (In Russ.)
Nikulina V.N. (1987) The dynamics of phytoplankton quantity and biomass. In: G.G.Winberg and B. L. Gutelmakher (Eds.) Neva Bay. Hydrobiological researches. Leningrad, Nauka, pp. 20-29 (In Russ.).
Nikulina V.N. & L.E.Anochina (1987) Plankton and periphyton composition In: G.G.Winberg and B. L. Gutelmakher (Eds.) Neva Bay. Hydrobiological researches. Leningrad, Nauka, pp. 20-29 (In Russ.).
Nikulina V.N. (1988) Nutrients as a factor limiting phytoplankton In: Skarlato O.A. (ed.) Gidrobiologicheskoe issledovanije morja i presnyh vod. Leningrad, pp.11-19 (In Russ.).
Nikulina V.N. (1989) Blue-green algae in the eastern Gulf of Finland. Tr.Zool.Inst.Akad.nauk SSSR 205, pp.26-35 (In Russ.).
Shishkin B.A., V.N.Nikulina, A.A.Maksimov, N.I.Silina (1989) Basic characteristics of the biota in the easternmost Gulf of Finland and its impact on water quality development In: Shiklomanov I.A. & Preobrazhensky L.J. (eds.) Issledovanija r.Nevy, Nevskoi guby i vostochnoi chasti Finskogo zaliva, Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad, 96 pp. (in Russ.).
Nikulina V.N. & S.I. Genkal (1990) Skeletonema subsalsum – dominant in the phytocenosis of the River Neva Estuary. Tr. In-ta Biol.vnutr.vod AN SSSR 85, pp.31-34 (In Russ.).
Nikulina V.N. (1991) Composition, distribution and annual variation of phytoplankton in the eastern Gulf of Finland In: I.Y.Agarova & E.U.Gupalo (Eds.) Issledovanija fitoplanktona v sisteme monitoringa Baltijskogo morya i drugih morej SSSR. Gidrometeoizdat, Moskva, pp. 55-69 (In Russ.)
Alimov A.F., V.N.Nikulina, V.Ye.Panov, I.V.Telesh, N.P.Finogenova (1994) Hydrobiology of Neva Bay on the Gulf of Finland. Hydrobiological Journal, 30 (4), pp.14-26.
Nikulina V.N. (1996) Plankton algae as indicator of an ecological condition of water bodies In Alimov A.F., Frolov A.K. (Eds.) The environments of Neva River basin. St.Petersburg, Scientific Centre RAS, pp. 13-35 (in Russ.).
Telesh I.V. & V.N.Nikulina (1997) Water quality classification based on plankton communities. Proceedings of the Final Seminar of the Gulf of Finland Jear 1996. Helsinki, pp.167-175.
Telesh I.V., A.F. Alimov, S.M.Golubkov, V.N. Nikulina, V.E.Panov (1999) Response of aquatic communities to anthropogenic stress: a comparative study of the Neva Bay and the Eastern Gulf of inland // Hydrobiologia, 393: 95-103.
Nikulina V.N., I.S.Trifonova, G.I.Letanskaja, O.A.Pavlova (1999) Phytoplankton In: Rumjantzev V.A, Drabkova V.G. (Eds.) Finskyi zaliv v usloviyah antropogennogo vozdeistvia, S.-Peterburg, pp.108-137 (in Russ.).