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 (AFE) Research Group in the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Program and the Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Research Group in the Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Program.Shchepashchenko has more than 30 years’ research experience in the field of 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 Forest Observation System’s 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; citizen science and forest modeling under climate change in the Alpine region as part of the ALPTREES Project; and forest carbon accounting and reporting for Russia under the IMGGAR Project. Recently completed projects include NatureMap, where he was involved with aspects of forest management and forest biomass mapping globally; and the RESTORE+ Project, which involved addressing 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. Shchepashchenko is a visiting researcher at the Siberian Federal University, Russia.
Last update: 23 DEC 2021
Publications
Santoro, M., Cartus, O., Carvalhais, N., Rozendaal, D.M.A., Avitabile, V., Araza, A., de Bruin, S., Herold, M., Quegan, S., Rodríguez-Veiga, P., Balzter, H., Carreiras, J., Shchepashchenko, D. , Korets, M., Shimada, M., Itoh, T., Moreno Martínez, Á., Cavlovic, J., Cazzolla Gatti, R., da Conceição Bispo, P., Dewnath, N., Labrière, N., Liang, J., Lindsell, J., Mitchard, E.T.A., Morel, A., Pacheco Pascagaza, A.M., Ryan, C.M., Slik, F., Vaglio Laurin, G., Verbeeck, H., Wijaya, A., & Willcock, S. (2021). The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations. Earth System Science Data 13 (8) 3927-3950. 10.5194/essd-13-3927-2021.
Matsala, M., Bilous, A., Myroniuk, V., Holiaka, D., Shchepashchenko, D. , See, L. , & Kraxner, F. (2021). The Return of Nature to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: Increases in Forest Cover of 1.5 Times since the 1986 Disaster. Forests 12 (8) e1024. 10.3390/f12081024.
Jung, M., Arnell, A., de Lamo, X., Garcia-Rangel, S., Lewis, M., Mark, J., Merow, C., Miles, L., Ondo, I., Pironon, S., Ravilious, C., Rivers, M., Shchepashchenko, D. , Tallowin, O., van Soesbergen, A., Govaerts, R., Boyle, B., Enquist, B., Feng, X., Gallagher, R., Maitner, B., Meiri, S., Mulligan, M., Ofer, G., Roll, U., Hanson, J., Jetz, W., Marco, M., McGowan, J., Rinnan, D., Sachs, J., Lesiv, M. , Adams, V., Andrew, S., Burger, J., Hannah, L., Marquet, P., McCarthy, J., Morueta-Holme, N., Newman, E., Park, D., Roehrdanz, P., Svenning, J.-C., Violle, C., Wieringa, I., Wynne, G., Fritz, S. , Strassburg, B., Obersteiner, M. , Kapos, V., Burgess, N., Schmidt-Traub, G., & Visconti, P. (2021). NatureMap Priority maps to Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon, and water. 10.5281/zenodo.5006331.
Shchepashchenko, D. , Moltchanova, E., Fedorov, S., Karminov, V., Ontikov, P., Santoro, M., See, L. , Kositsyn, V., Shvidenko, A., Romanovskaya, A., Korotkov, V., Lesiv, M. , Bartalev, S., Fritz, S. , Shchepashchenko, M., & Kraxner, F. (2021). Russian forest sequesters substantially more carbon than previously reported. Scientific Reports 11 (1) e12825. 10.1038/s41598-021-92152-9.
Laso Bayas, J.C. , See, L. , Georgieva, I. , Shchepashchenko, D. , Danylo, O., Dürauer, M., Bartl, H., Hofhansl, F. , Lesiv, M. , Zadorozhniuk, R., Burianchuk, M., Sirbu, F., Magori, B., Blyshchyk, K., Blyshchyk, V., Rabia, A.H., Pawe, C.K., Su, Y.-F., Ahmed, M., Panging, K., Melnyk, O., Vasylyshyn, O., Vasylyshyn, R., Bilous, A., Bilous, S., Das, K., Prestele, R., Pérez-Hoyos, A., Bungnamei, K., Lashchenko, A., Lakyda, M., Lakyda, I., Serediuk, O., Domashovets, G., Yurchuk, Y., & Fritz, S. (2021). Crowdsourcing deforestation in the tropics during the last decade: Data sets from the “Driver of Tropical Forest Loss” Geo-Wiki campaign. 10.22022/NODES/06-2021.122.