Dmitry Shchepashchenko
Senior Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Senior Research Scholar
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Biography
Dmitry Shchepashchenko is a senior researcher jointly associated with the Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, and the Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program.He has more than 30 years of research experience in forest ecology, forest management, and remote sensing. He actively participates in international research networks, including the International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA) and the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). His current projects include work on the GEO-TREES permanent forest plots for validation and calibration of remote sensing; the validation of forest biomass maps for the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative Biomass project; and forest carbon accounting and greenhouse gas reporting under the IMGGAR and the EYE-CLIMA projects. The projects he recently completed include: NatureMap, where he was involved in aspects of forest management and forest biomass mapping globally; citizen science and forest modeling under climate change in the Alpine region as part of the ALPTREES project; and the RESTORE+ project, which addressed landscape restoration on degraded land in Indonesia and Brazil.
Shchepashchenko graduated with a degree in forestry from the Moscow State Forest University (MSFU). He received a PhD in soil science from the Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute in Moscow and was awarded a Habilitation degree in ecology from MSFU.
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Publications
Shvidenko, A. & Schepaschenko, D. (2011). Carbon budget of circumpolar boreal forests: An attempt of synthesis. In: Carbon Pools and Fluxes in Boreal Forest and Wetland. Proceedings of the international conference, 26-30 September 2011.
Shvidenko, A., Schepaschenko, D. , Bottcher, H., Gusti, M., Kraxner, F., Obersteiner, M. , & Leduc, S. (2011). The Role of ECA's Forest Resources in Climate Change Mitigation. Final Report submitted to The World Bank on Contract #7158909 (September 2011)
Schepaschenko, D. , Fritz, S. , McCallum, I. , Perger, C., Schill, C., Shvidenko, A., Kraxner, F., & Obersteiner, M. (2011). A platform to visualize, analyze and improve Biomass datasets: http://biomass.geo-wiki.org. In: CarboForest Conference, 21-23 September 2011.
Shvidenko, A., Kraxner, F., Obersteiner, M. , & Schepaschenko, D. (2011). Adaptation and mitigation strategies in Northern Eurasian boreal forests. In: Proceedings, IUFRO/APFNet International Conference on Response of Forests and Adaptation Management to Climate Change, 8-10 August 2011.
Shvidenko, A., Schepaschenko, D. , McCallum, I. , & Nilsson, S. (2011). Can the uncertainty of full carbon accounting of forest ecosystems be made acceptable to policymakers? In: Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Dealing With Uncertainty. Eds. White, T, Jonas, M , Nahorski, Z, & Nilsson, S, Dordrecht: Springer. 10.1007/978-94-007-1670-4_9.