Staff Profile:Professor Maria Shahgedanova

Name:

Professor Maria Shahgedanova

Job Title:

Professor

Responsibilities:

• Undergraduate Programme Director
• Undergraduate Teaching: Climatology, Climate Change
• Masters Teaching: Climate Change

Areas of Interest:

Maria’s research interests focus on climate change and variability and their impacts on glaciated environments and water resources. These interests fall into the following themes:

• Climate change and variability predominantly in the extratropical Eurasia and in the mountains
• Cryosphere, glacier change and climate-glacier interactions
• Impacts of climate change on water resources in glaciated catchments and arable agriculture downstream
• Glacial hazards: Evolution of glacier lakes, glacier lake outbursts floods, debris flow
• Impacts of light-absorbing impurities on snow and glacier melt with emphasis on desert dust
• Environmental modelling including regional climate models, hydrological and glacier modelling

Postgraduate Supervision

Maria currently supervises the following students:

• Baktybek Duisbek: 'Climate Change, Water Resources and Agriculture in Kazakhstan'. Funded by Bolashak International Scholarship, Kazakhstan.
• Saule Suleimenova: 'Water Use in Agriculture in South-eastern Kazakhstan and Its Adaptation to Climate Change’. Funded by Bolashak International Scholarship, Kazakhstan.
• Zarina Saidaliyeva: 'Assessment of snow, glacier and permafrost melt contributions to runoff in the Tien Shan using isotopic analysis'.

Recently completed:

• Mark Hennen (2017): ‘Identifying Mineral Dust Emission Sources in the Middle East Using Remote Sensing Techniques’. University of Reading Faculty of Science Scholarship.
• Mohamad Nobakht (2017): ‘Characterisation of Dust Sources in Central Asia Using Remote Sensing’. University of Reading International Scholarship.

Maria is keen to discuss PhD opportunities with students interested in assessing and modelling climate and glacier change and its impact on water resources and evolution of glacier lakes, meteorological aspects of glacial hazards, and modelling impacts of desert dust on snow and glacier melt.

Research groups / Centres:

• Environmental Science Research Division
• Land Surface Processes Group
• Centre for Past Climate Change
• Walker Institute

Key Facts

Maria is a climate scientist with a strong interest in glaciers. Maria has a combined BSc/MSc degree in Meteorology from Moscow State University (Russia) and DPhil in Climatology from the University of Oxford. She joined University of Reading in 1998.

Maria specializes in high-elevation climate change and in assessments and modelling of impacts of climate change on mountain glaciers and water resources. She led many international projects set in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Siberia funded by EU FP7, EU Horizon 2020, Newton Fund, UK Global Challenges Research Fund and other national and international funding bodies. Most of her current work is conducted in the Tien Shan Mountains, Central Asia. Among her experimental field sites is Tuyuksu Mountain Observatory located at 3440 m a.s.l. in the northern Tien Shan. She works in close collaboration with many regional research institutions, universities and stakeholders including regional disaster risk reduction agencies.

Maria is a member of Scientific Leadership Council of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI), an international research network with over 11,000 global membership. Her responsibilities at MRI include coordinating international Mountain Observatories project. She is a contributing author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC), the chapter on High Mountain Areas.

Current and recent research projects

Solutions to Clean Water in the Glacier-fed Catchments of Central Asia: What Happens after the Ice? 2018-2020. Funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).

Assessment of Risks of Glacier Lake Outbursts Using Remote Sensing and Glacier Bed Topography (GlabTOP) Modelling in the Tien Shan, Central Asia. 2017-2019. Funded by Newton Fund and Building Outstanding Impact Support Programme (BOISP).

Climate Change, Water Resources and Food Security in Kazakhstan 2015-2017. Funded by Newton – al Farabi Fund.

Publications:

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Number of items: 34.

2021

• Nobakht, M., Shahgedanova, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2320-3885 and White, K. (2021) New inventory of dust emission sources in Central Asia and Northwestern China derived from MODIS imagery using dust enhancement technique. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126. e2020JD033382. ISSN 2169-8996 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033382 (In Press)

2020

• Kapitsa, V., Shahgedanova, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2320-3885, Severskiy, I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6825-1285, Kasatkin, N., White, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4328-8185 and Usmanova, Z. (2020) Assessment of changes in mass balance of the Tuyuksu group of glaciers, northern Tien Shan between 1958 and 2016 using ground-based observations and Pleiades satellite imagery. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8. 259. ISSN 2296-6463 doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00259
• Shahgedanova, M., Afzal, M., Hagg, W., Kapitsa, V., Kasatkin, N., Mayr, E., Rybak, O., Saidaliyeva, Z., Severskiy, I., Usmanova, Z., Wade, A., Yaitskaya, N. and Zhumabayev, D. (2020) Emptying water towers? Impacts of future climate and glacier change on river discharge in the Northern Tien Shan, Central Asia. Water, 12 (3). 627. ISSN 2073-4441 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/w12030627
• Adler, C., Balsiger, J., Gret-Regamey, A., Heinimann, A., Huggel, C., Weingartner, R., Alcantara-Ayala, I., Gebrekirstos, A., Grau, R., Jimenez, E., Marchant, R., Mark, B., Marshall, S., Morin, S., Shahgedanova, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2320-3885, Singh Shrestha, M. and Xu, J. (2020) Making connections for our changing mountains: future directions for the mountain research initiative (MRI). Mountain Research and Development, 40 (3). P1-P6. ISSN 1994-7151 doi: https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-20-00045.1

2019

• Kogutenko, L., Severskiy, I., Shahgedanova, M. and Bigzhang, L. (2019) Change in the extent of glaciers and glacier runoff in the Chinese sector of the Ile River Basin between 1962 and 2012. Water, 11 (8). 1668. ISSN 2073-4441 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/w11081668
• Hennen, M., White, K. and Shahgedanova, M. (2019) An assessment of SEVIRI imagery at various temporal resolutions and the effect on accurate dust emission mapping. Remote Sensing, 11 (8). 918. ISSN 2072-4292 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11080918
• Nobakht, M., Shahgedanova, M. and White, K. (2019) New inventory of dust sources in Central Asia derived from the daily MODIS imagery. E3S Web Conferences, 99. 01001. ISSN 2267-1242 doi: https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199901001
• Hoelzle, M., Barandun, M., Bolch, T., Fiddes, J., Gafurov, A., Muccione, V., Saks, T. and Shahgedanova, M. (2019) The status and role of the alpine cryosphere in Central Asia. In: Xenarios, S., Schmidt-Vogt, D., Qadir, M., Janusz-Pawletta, B. and Abdullaev, I. (eds.) The Aral Sea Basin: Water for Sustainable Development in Central Asia. Earthscan Series on Major River Basins of the World. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 100-121, 228. ISBN 9780429436475 doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429436475

2018

• Shahgedanova, M., Afzal, M., Severskiy, I., Usmanova, Z., Saidaliyeva, Z., Kapitsa, V., Kazastkin, N. and Dolgikh, S. (2018) Changes in the mountain river discharge in the northern Tien Shan since the mid-20th Century: results from the analysis of a homogeneous daily streamflow data set from seven catchments. Journal of Hydrology, 564. pp. 1133-1152. ISSN 0022-1694 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.08.001
• Adler, C., Palazzi, E., Kulonen, A., Balsiger, J., Colangeli, G., Cripe, D., Forsythe, N., Goss-Durant, G., Guigoz, Y., Krauer, J., Payne, D., Pepin, N., Peralvo, M., Romero, J., Sayre, R., Shahgedanova, M., Weingartner, R. and Zebisch, M. (2018) Monitoring mountains in a changing world: new horizons for the Global Network for Observations and Information on Mountain Environments (GEO-GNOME). Mountain Research and Development, 38 (3). pp. 265-269. ISSN 1994-7151 doi: https://doi.org/10.1659/mrd-journal-d-8-00065.1

2017

• Kapitsa, V., Shahgedanova, M., Machguth, H., Severskiy, I. and Medeu, A. (2017) Assessment of evolution and risks of glacier lake outbursts in the Djungarskiy Alatau, Central Asia, using Landsat imagery and glacier bed topography modelling. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 17 (10). pp. 1837-1856. ISSN 1684-9981 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-1837-2017
• Groisman, P., Shugart, H., Kicklighter, D., Henebry, G., Tchebakova, N., Maksyutov, S., Monier, E., Gutman, G., Gulev, S., Qi, J., Prishchepov, A., Kukavskaya, E., Porfiriev, B., Shiklomanov, A., Loboda, T., Shiklomanov, N., Nghiem, S., Bergen, K., Albrechtová, J., Chen, J., Shahgedanova, M., Shvidenko, A., Speranskaya, N., Soja, A., de Beurs, K., Bulygina, O., McCarty, J., Zhuang, Q. and Zolina, O. (2017) Northern Eurasia Future Initiative (NEFI): facing the challenges and pathways of global change in the 21st century. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 4 (1). pp. 2197-4284. ISSN 2197-4284 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-017-0154-5

2015

• Pepin, N., Bradley, R. S., Diaz, H. F., Caceres, E. B., Forsythe, N., Fowler, H., Greenwood, G., Hashmi, M. Z., Liu, X. D., Miller, J. R., Ning, L., Ohmura, A., Palazzi, E., Rangwala, I., Schöner, W., Severskiy, I., Shahgedanova, M., Wang, M. B., Williamson, S. N. and Yang, D. Q. (2015) Elevation-dependent warming in mountain regions of the world. Nature Climate Change, 5 (5). pp. 424-430. ISSN 1758-678X doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE2563

2014

• Shahgedanova, M., Nosenko, G., Kutuzov, S., Rototaeva, O. and Khromova, T. (2014) Deglaciation of the Caucasus Mountains, Russia/Georgia, in the 21st century observed with ASTER satellite imagery and aerial photograpy. The Cryosphere, 8 (6). pp. 2367-2379. ISSN 1994-0424 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-2367-2014

2013

• Crossman, J., Whitehead, P., Futter, M. N., Jin, L., Shahgedanova, M., Castellazzi, M. and Wade, A. (2013) The interactive responses of water quality and hydrology to changes in multiple stressors, and implications for the long-term effective management of phosphorus. Science of the Total Environment, 454-455. pp. 230-244. ISSN 0048-9697 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.02.033
• Stokes, C.R., Shahgedanova, M., Evans, I.S. and Popovnin, V.V. (2013) Accelerated loss of alpine glaciers in the Kodar Mountains, south-eastern Siberia. Global and Planetary Change, 101. pp. 82-96. ISSN 0921-8181 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.12.010
• Kutuzov, S., Shahgedanova, M., Mikhalenko, V., Ginot, P., Lavrentiev, I. and Kemp, S. (2013) High-resolution provenance of desert dust deposited on Mt. Elbrus, Caucasus in 2009–2012 using snow pit and firn core records. The Cryosphere, 7. pp. 1481-1498. ISSN 1994-0424 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1481-2013
• Shahgedanova, M., Kutuzov, S., White, K. H. and Nosenko, G. (2013) Using the significant dust deposition event on the glaciers of Mt. Elbrus, Caucasus Mountains, Russia on 5 May 2009 to develop a method for dating and "provenancing" of desert dust events recorded in snow pack. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13. pp. 1797-1808. ISSN 1680-7316 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-1797-2013

2012

• Shahgedanova, M., Nosenko, G., Bushueva, I. and Ivanov, M. (2012) Changes in area and geodetic mass balance of small glaciers, polar Urals, Russia, 1950-2008. Journal of Glaciology, 58 (211). pp. 953-964. ISSN 0022-1430 doi: https://doi.org/10.3189/2012JoG11J233
• Shahgedanova, M., Kutuzov, S., White, K. and Nosenko, G. (2012) Using the significant dust deposition event on the glaciers of Mt. Elbrus, Caucasus Mountains, Russia on 5 May 2009 to develop a method for dating and provenancing of desert dust events recorded in snow pack. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 12. pp. 24437-24467. ISSN 1680-7375 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/acpd-12-24437-2012

2011

• Shahgedanova, M., Popovnin, V., Aleynikov, A. and Stokes, C. R. (2011) Geodetic mass balance of Azarova glacier, Kodar Mountains, eastern Siberia, and its links to observed and projected climatic change. Annals of Glaciology, 52 (58). pp. 129-137. ISSN 1727-5644
• Hadjikakou, M., Whitehead, P., Li, J., Futter, M., Hadjinicolaou, P. and Shahgedanova, M. (2011) Modelling nitrogen in the Yeşilirmak River catchment in Northern Turkey: impacts of future climate and environmental change and implications for nutrient management. Science of the Total Environment, 409 (12). pp. 2404-2418. ISSN 0048-9697 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.02.038

2010

• Hagg, W., Shahgedanova, M., Mayer, C., Lambrecht, A. and Popovnin, V. (2010) A sensitivity study for water availability in the Northern Caucasus based on climate projections. Global and Planetary Change, 73 (3-4). pp. 161-171. ISSN 0921-8181 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.05.005
• Shahgedanova, M., Nosenko, G., Khromova, T. and Muraveyev, A. (2010) Glacier shrinkage and climatic change in the Russian Altai from the mid-20th century: An assessment using remote sensing and PRECIS regional climate model. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115. D16107. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JD012976

2009

• Shahgedanova, M., Hagg, W., Zacios, M. and Popovnin, V. (2009) An Assessment of the Recent Past and Future Climate Change, Glacier Retreat, and Runoff in the Caucasus Region Using Dynamical and Statistical Downscaling and HBV-ETH Hydrological Model. Regional Aspects of Climate-Terrestrial-Hydrologic Interactions in Non-Boreal Eastern Europe. pp. 63-72. ISSN 1871-4668
• Kutuzov, S. and Shahgedanova, M. (2009) Changes in the extent of glaciers in the Eastern Terskey Alatoo, the Central Tien-Shan, in response to climatic fluctuations in between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 21st century. Global and Planetary Change, 69 (1-2). pp. 59-70. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.07.001
• Shahgedanova, M., Hagg, W., Hassell, D., Stokes, C. R. and Popovnin, V. (2009) Climate change, glacier retreat, and water availability in the Caucasus region. In: Jones, J. A. A., Vardanian , T. G. and Hakopian, C. (eds.) Threats to global water security. NATO science for peace and security series C: environmental security . Springer, pp. 131-143. ISBN 9789048123445 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2344-5

2008

• Gurney, S. D., Popovnin, V. V., Shahgedanova, M. and Stokes, C. R. (2008) A glacier inventory for the Buordakh Massif, Cherskiy Range, northeast Siberia, and evidence for recent glacier recession. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research, 40 (1). pp. 81-88. ISSN 1523-0430 doi: https://doi.org/10.1657/1523-0430(06-042)[gurney]2.0.co;2

2007

• Stokes, C. R., Popovnin, V., Aleynikov, A., Gurney, S. D. and Shahgedanova, M. (2007) Recent glacier retreat in the Caucasus Mountains, Russia, and associated increase in supraglacial debris cover and supra-/proglacial lake development. Annals of Glaciology, 46 (1). pp. 195-203. ISSN 1727-5644 doi: https://doi.org/10.3189/172756407782871468

2006

• Stokes, C. R., Gurney, S. D., Shahgedanova, M. and Popovnin, V. (2006) Late-20th-century changes in glacier extent in the Caucasus Mountains, Russia/Georgia. Journal of Glaciology, 52 (176). pp. 99-109. ISSN 0022-1430 doi: https://doi.org/10.3189/172756506781828827
• Shahgedanova, M., Popovnin, V., Petrakov, D. and Stokes, C. R. (2006) Long-term change, interannual and intra-seasonal variability in climate and glacier mass balance in the Central Greater Caucasus, Russia. In: Sharp, M. (ed.) Annals of Glaciology. Int Glaciological Soc, Cambridge, ENGLAND, pp. 355-361. ISBN 978-0-946417-41-4 doi: https://doi.org/10.3189/172756407782871323

2005

• Shahgedanova, M., Stokes, C. R., Gurney, S. D. and Popovnin, V. (2005) Interactions between mass balance, atmospheric circulation, and recent climate change on the Djankuat Glacier, Caucasus Mountains, Russia. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110 (D4). D04108. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2004jd005213
• Panagiotopoulos, F., Shahgedanova, M., Hannachi, A. B. A. and Stephenson, D. B. (2005) Observed trends and teleconnections of the Siberian high: A recently declining center of action. Journal of Climate, 18 (9). pp. 1411-1422. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI3352.1
• Shahgedanova, M. and Lamakin, M. (2005) Trends in aerosol optical depth in the Russian Arctic and their links with synoptic climatology. Science of the Total Environment, 341 (1-3). pp. 133-148. ISSN 0048-9697 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.09.018

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Earlier Publications

Panagiotopoulos, F., Shahgedanova, M. and Stephenson, D.B. (2002) A Review of Northern Hemisphere Winter-time Teleconnection Patterns. Journal de Physique IV France, 12: Pr 10-27 - Pr 10-47.

Shahgedanova, M. (2002) Air Pollution. In: The Physical Geography of Northern Eurasia: Russia and Neighbouring States. Shahgedanova, M (ed). Oxford University Press, Oxford, 476-496.

Shahgedanova, M. (2002) Climate at Present and in the Historical Past. In: The Physical Geography of Northern Eurasia: Russia and Neighbouring States. Shahgedanova, M. (Ed). Oxford University Press, 70-102.

Shahgedanova, M. 'Air Pollution' (2002). In: The Physical Geography of Northern Eurasia: Russia and Neighbouring States. Shahgedanova, M.(Ed). Oxford University Press. 476-496.

Shahgedanova, M., Perov, A and Mudrov, Y.. (2002) Mountains of Northern Russia. In: The Physical Geography of Northern Eurasia: Russia and Neighbouring States. Shahgedanova, M. (ed). Oxford University Press, Oxford, 284-313.

Shahgedanova, M., Mikhailov, V.N., Larin, S. and Bredikhin, A. (2002) Mountains of Southern Siberia. In: The Physical Geography of Northern Eurasia: Russia and Neighbouring States. Shahgedanova, M. (ed). Oxford University Press, Oxford, 314-349.

Shahgedanova, M. and Kuznetsov, M. (2002) The Arctic Environments. In: The Physical Geography of Northern Eurasia: Russia and Neighbouring States. Shahgedanova, M. (ed). Oxford University Press, Oxford, 191-217.

Shahgedanova, M. (ed) (2000) Contemporary Environmental Politics and Issues in Transitional Economies. Special Issue of Environment and Planning B, 27 (3).

Shahgedanova, M. (2000) Environment in Transition: Better or Different? Environment and Planning B, 27 (3): 325-330.

Shahgedanova, M., Burt, T.P. and T.D. Davies. (1999) 'Carbon Monoxide and Nitrogen Oxides Air Pollution in Moscow'. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 112: 107-131.

Shahgedanova, M., Burt, T.P. and T.D. Davies (1998). Synoptic Climatology of Air Quality in Moscow. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 61: 85-102.

Burt, T.P. and M. Shahgedanova (1998). 'An Historical Record of Evaporation Losses since 1815 Calculated Using Long-term Observations from the Radcliffe Meteorological Station, Oxford, England'. Journal of Hydrology, 205: 101-111.

Shahgedanova, M., Burt, T.P. and T.D. Davies (1997) Some Aspects of the Three-Dimensional Heat Island in Moscow. International Journal of Climatology, 17: 1451-1465.

Shahgedanova, M. and T.P. Burt (1994). 'New Data on Air Pollution in the Former USSR'. Global Environmental Change, 4 (3): 201-227.

Shahgedanova, M. and Burt, T.P (1993). 'Air Pollution Management in the Former USSR'. Perspectives on the Environment. J. Holder (Ed). Avebury, 167-179.

Qualifications:

Combined BSc/MSc (The Moscow State University, Russia); D.Phil (Oxford, UK)