Ekaterina Derkach

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Academic degree, academic title: Ph.D.

Position: Research Scientist

E-mail: EDerkach@binran.ru

Research interests:

Geobotanical mapping.
Environmental surveys and monitoring of protected natural areas.
Structure and dynamics of mountain landscapes.
Use of remote sensing data in landscape science and geobotany.

Keywords: Vegetation of northwestern Russia, geobotanical mapping, landscape structure and dynamics, paleoglaciology of Inner Asia

Education and work experience:

2018 — Bachelor's degree in the Department of Physical Geography and Landscape Planning at the Institute of Earth Sciences, SPbU.
2020 — Master's degree (Geoinformation Mapping) at the Institute of Earth Sciences, SPbU.
2023 — Postgraduate program (Geography) at the Institute of Earth Sciences, SPbU.
2025 — PhD in Geography, SPbU. Theme: «Reflection of palaeogeographic events in the structure of glaciogenic landscapes of the Mongun-Taiga mountain massif» (supervisor: D.A. Ganyushkin, Dr. Sci. in Geography).

2019–2023 — Cartographer-engineer at the Laboratory of Geography and Cartography of Vegetation at the Komarov Botanical Institute, RAS.
2023–2025 — Research Assistant, Laboratory of Vegetation Geography and Cartography, Komarov Botanical Institute, RAS.
2024 — until now — Assistant, Department of Physical Geography and Landscape Planning, Institute of Earth Sciences, SPbU.
2025 — until now — Research Scientist, Laboratory of Vegetation Geography and Cartography, Komarov Botanical Institute, RAS.

Grants and research projects:

Member of research team:

2022–2025. RSF № 22-67-00020 «Changes in climate, glaciers and landscapes of Altai in the past, present and future as a basis for a model of adaptation of the population of the inland mountainous regions of Eurasia to climate-induced environmental changes».
2019–2021. Grant RFBR №19-05-00535 «Natural catastrophes and transformation of the landscapes of the southeastern Altai and northwestern Mongolia in the period from the maximum of the last glaciation».

Conferences and workshops:

Organizing committee:

All-Russian Conference «Russian Geobotany: Results and Prospects - to the 100th Anniversary of the Department of Geobotany Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences». Russia, St. Petersburg. September 26–30, 2022. Secretariat of Organizing Committee.

Attendee:

II All-Russian Scientific Conference dedicated to the memory of Professor A.A. Velichko «Ways of evolutionary geography». Russia, Moscow. November 22–25, 2021. Poster.

Selected publications:

Ganyushkin D.A., Derkach E.S., Erofeev A.A. et al. Recent Climate-Induced Changes in Glaciers, Biota, Land Use Types and Population Adaptation Models in the South-Eastern Altai Highlands. Environments. 2026. 13: 128.

Derkach E.S., Reznikov A.I., Volkov I.V., Ganyushkin D.A. The treeline in Central and Southeastern Altai Mountains based on satellite data. Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa. 2025. 22(6): 193–203. [In Russian]

Ganyushkin D.A., Derkach E.S., Pyak A.I. et al. Development of biota within the Seliverstov Glacier deglaciation zone after the Little Ice Age maximum (Mongun-Taiga mountain range, Southeastern Altai). Acta Biologica Sibirica. 2025. 11: 907−929.

Derkach E.S., Ozerova S.D., Volkova E.A., Khramtsov V.N. Large-scale vegetation map generalization experience on the example of the forest area «Staraya Granitsa» (St. Petersburg). Geobotanical mapping. 2024. 2024: 3−24. [In Russian]

Ozerova S.D., Derkach E.S., Volkova E.A. Rare plant communities in St. Petersburg vegetation cover. Botanical Journal. 2024. 109(9): 891−907. [In Russian]

Ganyushkin D.A., Chistyakov K.V., Derkach E.S., Bantcev D.V., Kunaeva E.P., Terekhov A.V., Rasputina V.A. Glacier Recession in the Altai Mountains after the LIA Maximum. Remote Sensing. 2022. 14(6): 1508.

Ganyushkin D.A., Lessovaia S.N., Vlasov D.Y., Kopitsa G.P., Almásy L., Chistyakov K.V., Panova E.G., Derkach E., Alekseeva A. Application of Rock Weathering and Colonization by Biota for the Relative Dating of Moraines from the Arid Part of the Russian Altai Mountains. Geosciences. 2021. 11(8): 342.