Sophia A. Nazarova

Web of Science ResearcherID: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/H-4001-2013
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RSCI: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=615636
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1856-1976
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=Sxk5CKMAAAAJ
Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title: No title
Position: Researcher
E-mail: Sophia.Nazarova@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (812) 328-13-11, ext. 253
Educational background: St-Petersburg State University, biology and soil sciences faculty, Ichthyology and Hydrobiology department, 2009.
Dissertations: “Organisation of Macoma balthica L. populations in the tidal zone of the White and the Barents Seas.” (PhD)
Research interests: Phylogeography, population biology, Bivalves, Arctic Seas, population dynamics, biostatistics.
Field studies: 2006 – present: Barents Sea; 1999 – present: White Sea; 2014: Norwegian Sea; 2002: Curonian Spit (Kaliningrad region); 2000: Sebezh National Park (Pskov region).
Pedagogical activity:
  • 2015: International Lake Baikal Summer School of Sciences (Irkutsk University), lecturer at the Water Ecology section. Courses: practice in hydrobiology, Introduction to R.
  • 2010 – 2015: Russian State Pedagogical University, zoology department, assistant professor. Courses: ecology, animal ecology, hydrobiology, ecological modelling, ecological monitoring, biometry, bioindication and biotest.
Scientific projects and grants:
  • 2019-2020, RFBR 19-54-53028 GFEN-A. “Comparative analysis of the Ophiura sarsii Lütken, 1855 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) populations in the seas of the Arctic and the Pacific Oceans: morphology, genetics and linear growth” (PL: Nazarova S.A.)
  • 2018-2020, RFBR 18-05-60157 Arctic: “Century-long changes in the bottom ecosystems of the Russian Arctic seas, the current state and forecast.” (PL: Denisenko S.G.)
  • 2018-2019, RFBR 18-34-00572 mol_a: “Genetic and morphological polymorphism of mollusks Macoma calcarea (Gmelin, 1791) in deep-water and shallow settlements of the White Sea.” (PL: Bondareva O.V.)
  • 2016 – 2017, RFBR 16-34-00682, “Winter in the tidal zone: winter conditions impact to the bivalve population recruitment in the White Sea (with the specific reference to Macoma balthica)” (PL: Nazarova S.A.)
  • 2014 – 2016, SPbSU 1.38.253.2014: “Evolution in post-glacial seas: retrospective analysis of marine populations by molecular genetic data” (PL: Strelkov P.P.)
  • 2012 – 2014, RFBR 12-04-01507, 13-04-10131К: “Down the Gulf Stream: diversity sources for periphery populations of intertidal invertebrates in the Barents Sea (with the specific reference to the common cockle, Cerastoderma edule (Bivalvia: Cardiidae)” (PL: Genelt-Yanovskiy E.A.)
  • 2011, SPbSU 1.41.862.2011, travel-grant. (PL: Nazarova S.A.)
  • 2011, KNVSh 2.6/16-05/213-А: PhD project “Linear growth of Macoma balthica in European part of its distribution” (PL: Nazarova S.A.)
Selected Publications:
  • Genelt-Yanovskiy E., Li Y., Stratanenko E., Zhuravleva N., Strelkova N., Xu Q., & Nazarova S. Phylogeography of the brittle star Ophiura sarsii Lütken, 1855 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the Barents Sea and East Atlantic //Diversity. – 2021. – V. 13. – №. 2. – P. 40. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13020040
  • Shi W.G., Li Y.X., Nazarova. S.A., Zhao L., Guo J., Fan S.L., Xu Q.Z. Study on genetic diversity of Ophiura sarsii population s in Arctic region. //Advances in Marine Science. – 2021. – V.39. – № 3. – p. 441-451. (in Chienese with English abstract)
  • Genelt-Yanovskiy E., Nazarova S., Tarasov O., Mikhailova N., Strelkov P. Phylogeography of the temperate marine bivalve Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758)(Bivalvia: Cardiidae) in the Subarctic: Unique diversity and strong population structuring at different spatial scales // Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 2019. Т. 57. С. 67–79. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12231
  • Genelt-Yanovskiy E.A., Aristov, D., Poloskin, A., Nazarova, S. Trends and drivers of Macoma balthica L. dynamics in Kandalaksha Bay, the White Sea // Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 2018. Vol. 98(1). P. 13–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315417001473
  • Nazarova S.A., Shunkina K., Genelt-Yanovskiy E.A. Abundance distribution patterns of intertidal bivalves Macoma balthica and Cerastoderma edule at the Murman coast tidal flats (the Barents Sea) // Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 2015. Vol. 95. № 8. P. 1613–1620. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315415000624
  • Shipunov A., Baldin E., Volkova P., Korobeynikov A., Nazarova S., Petrov S., Sufiyaniv V. Visual Statistics. Use R! Moscow.: DMK Press, 2012. – 298 с. (in Russian)
  • Nazarova S.A., Genelt-Yanovkiy E.A., Maximovich N.V. Linear growth of Macoma balthica in tidal zone of the Murman coast (the Barents Sea) // Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 3. Biology. 2010. Vol. 4. P. 35-43.
  • Genelt-Yanovskiy, E., Poloskin, A., Granovitch, A., Nazarova, S., Strelkov, P. Population structure and growth rates at biogeographic extremes: A case study of the common cockle, Cerastoderma edule (L.) in the Barents Sea // Marine pollution bulletin. 2010. Т. 61. № 4. С. 247–253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.02.021