VASILYEVA Alexandra

Alexandra Vasilyeva graduated from the Institute of Earth Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, and successfully defended her Master’s thesis on pollen analysis. For her Master’s research, Alexandra compared fossil pollen spectra, subrecent (relatively modern) spectra and vegetation composition of the Lake Ladoga Region, Russia, using numerical analyses to reconstruct the vegetation of the region applying pollen-based modelling methods. Her research interests include paleoecological and vegetation reconstructions in the Holocene, pollen-based modelling, and pollen-vegetation relationship studies. Alexandra has worked with Holocene pollen assemblages from Northwest Russia.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Pollen analysis, climate and vegetation reconstruction, pollen-based modelling