Dr Alexey SIDORCHUK
Leading Scientist,
Laboratory of soil erosion and fluvial processes
Moscow State University, Geographical Faculty
199991 Moscow Leninskiye Gory GSP-1
fluvial05@gmail.com

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  1. XI INQUA Congress, Moscow, 1982
    • Holocene history of river deltas in the Arctic zone of Siberia (with Korotayev V.N.) abstract PDF
  2. Third Int. Geomorphology Conference Aug.23-28 1993. McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1993
  3. Workshop on soil erosion in semi-arid Mediterranean areas. Taormina, Italy, 1993
    • The history of erosion on the northern Ponto-Meotian during the period of intensive agriculture.
    (with Golosov V.)  full text PDF
  4. Past Global Changes Meeting "Fluvial Systems and Global Change", Bern, Switzerland, 7-14 Feb. 1994.
    • Methods of investigation of Fluvial System Response to Climate and Land-cover Change.
  5. Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Workshop "Soil Erosion under Global Change", Paris, France, 29-31 March 1994.
    • PAGES initiative introduction; current knowledge of historical soil erosion.
  6. International Meeting on Global Continental Palaeohydrology, Southampton, UK, 9-17 Sept. 1994.
    • Macromeanders of the river channels on the Russian Plain (with Chernov A.V.).
  7. USDA - MSU Workshop on Soil Erosion. Moscow, 1994
    • Static and Dynamic Models for Estimation of the Gullies Dimensions
  8. IAHS meeting: Variability in Stream Erosion and Sediment Transport. Canberra, 1994
    • Channel processes and erosion rates in the rivers of the Yamal Peninsula in western Siberia (with Matveev B.) full text PDF
    • Rates of formation of forms in a river channel hierarchy: the case of the River Yana in northeast Russia (with Matveev B., Panin A.)  full text PDF
    • The effect of open cut mining on sediment transport and alluvium composition at the Omoloy River basin, Eastern Siberia
  9. Conference: "Coherent flow structures in open channels". Univ. of Leeds, 10-12 Apr.1995
  10. Conference: "Floods, slopes and river beds, Paris, 22-24 Mar. 1995 
    • Sediment budget in the system "Slope-gully-creek-river" on the Russian Plain.abstract PDF
  11. Global Change and Geography. The IGU conference, Moscow, 1995
    • Paleomeanders of the rivers on the Russian Plain: geomorphological evidence of paleohydrological change (with Panin A.V., Belousova E.E.) 
  12. Conference: "Global change: modelling soil erosion by water, Oxford, UK, 1995.
    • Dynamic Model for Estimation of the Gullies morphology full text PDF
  13. IAHS Conference: "Erosion and sediment Yield: Global and Regional Perspectives, Exeter, June 1996.
    • Sediment Budget Change in the Fluvial System at the Central Part of the Russian Plain Due to Human Impact. full text PDF
  14. Towards Sustainable Land Use, 9th Conf. of ISCO, Bonn, Sept., 1996.
    • Soil erosion on the Yamal peninsula (Russian Arctic) due to gas field exploitation and climate change (with Grigoriev V.) abstract PDF full text PDF
  15. GLOCOPH meeting: Palaeohydrology and modelling of environmental change, Toledo, Spain, Sept., 1996.
    • Palaeohydrology of the Khoper River (Southern Russia) in the Late Glacial (with Panin A.V., Belousova E.E.).abstract PDF
    • Channel Processes on the Yamal Peninsula  (Western Siberia) during the last 2300 years.abstract PDF
  16. Laptev Sea System 3d meeting S-Petersburg, 16-19 October 1996.
    • Water supply from the Yana River basin since Late Pliocene (with Panin A.V.) abstract PDF
  17. 4 International conference on geomorphology, Bologna, Italy, 1997.
    • The Hierarchical System of River Bed Relief  abstract PDF
  18. GSTE Soil Erosion conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1997.
  19. Arctic Paleo-Rivers discharges, Boulder, USA, 1997.
    • Paleohydrology of the rivers of Russian Arctic.
  20. VI Congresso da Associacao Brasilera de Estudos do Quaternario e Reuniao sobre o Quaternario da America do Sul. Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, 1997
    • Palaeohydrology in the Southern Russian Plain: methods and results. abstract PDF
  21. FLAG conference 'River Basin Sediment Systems: Archives of Environmental Change', UK, Cheltenham, 1998.
    • Paleohydrology of the lower Vychegda River (Northern Russia) in the Late Glacial and the Holocene abstract PDF  full text PDF
  22. Conference: River Floodplains, Exeter, UK, 1998.
    • Floodplain formation in the European Russia as a result of postglacial channel evolution (with Panin A.V., Chernov A.V.)
  23. IAHS Conference: "Modelling Soil Erosion, Sediment Transport and Closely Related Hydrological Processes", Vienna, 1998.
    • The Model for estimating of the Gully morphology (with Anna Sidorchuk). full text PDF
  24. 10-th ISCO conference, West Lafayette, USA, 1999
  25. Hydrological and Geochemical processes in Large scale river basins. Manaus, Brazil, 1999

    • The hierarchical system of alluvial relief at the large rivers.
    • Total sediment yield of the Lena River, Eastern Siberia (with Alekseevskiy N.I.) abstract PDF
    • Hydrologic variability and floodplain sedimentation of major West Siberian Rivers (with Smith L.C.) abstract PDF
    25prim. International Symposium on Geomorphology and Paleohydrology of Large Rivers, GLOCOPH/IAG. 1999 PALAEOHYDROLOGY OF THE EUROPEAN TAIGA.
    (with Olga Borisova, Andrey Panin) abstract PDF
  26. International Symposium on Gully Erosion under Global Change, Leaven, Belgium, 2000
    • Gully erosion investigations and prediction: experience from Russia.
  27. GLOCOPH meeting: Hydrological Consequence of Global Climate Changes Geologic and Historic Analogs of Future Conditions, Moscow, 2000
    • Palaeohydrology of the rivers on the East European plain at the Late Glacial and the Holocene(with Borisova O., Panin A., Chernov A.) full text PDF
    • Abrupt river regime changes at the Pleistocene - Holocene transition in the South of the East-European Plain (with Panin A., Baslerov S., Borisova O., Kovaliukh N., Sheremetskaya E., Vlasov M.) full text PDF
    • Late Glacial - Holocene environmental changes in the Vychegda River Basin, Northern Russia (with Baslerov S., Borisova O., Kovaliukh N., Panin A.) full text PDF
    • PALEOGEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES OF THE SEIM RIVER VALLEY- excursion (with Panin A.V., Baslerov S.V., Borisova O.K., Kovalyukh N.N., Sheremetskaya E.D.) full text PDF
  28. LUCIFS (PAGES IGBP) workshop, Bonn, 2000
    • Climate and land use changes influence on fluvial system full text PDF
  29. Water Research Group (IGBP) meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 2000
  30. International Symposium of IGCP 449 project: Global correlation of Late Cenozoic fluvial deposits. Inaugural meeting, Prague, 2001
    • The Neogene-Quaternary evolution of the fluvial relief at the Russian Plain: a potamological review.
    • PPT  abstract PDF
    • Channel morphology at the Late Pleistocene - Holocene transition at the southern East-European Plain (with O. Borisova, & A. Panin) abstract PDF
  31. International Symposium of Reihn_LUCIFS project. Dusseldorf, 2001
    • LUCIFS Strategy: Modelling of the Sediment Budget through the Fluvial System (with R. Wasson and D. Walling) full text PDF
  32. Soil Erosion Research for the 21st Century. Int. Symp., Honolulu, Hawaii, 2001
    • Stochastic Model to Predict Water Erosion of Cohesive Soil. full text PDF
  33. "Just Add Water", NZ Hydrl. Soc. conference. Palmerston North, 2001.
    • Stochastic modelling of soil erosion.
  34. 12th ISCO conference, Beijing, 2002
    • Towards a national assessment of erosion-related soil carbon losses in New Zealand (with N.A. Trustrum, K. R. Tate, M.J. Page, W.T. Baisden) full text PDF
    • Process-based models for simulation and prediction of erosion-related organic carbon losses on the national scale: an example for New Zealand (with N. Preston, L. Basher, T. Baisden, N. Trustrum, K. Tate). full text PDF
    • Stochastic modelling of soil erosion and deposition. full text PDF
  35. 2-nd International conference "Gully erosion and global changes", Chengdu, 2002
    • Stochastic modelling of gully erosion
  36. Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Wellington, New Zealand, 9-12 July 2002
    • Soil Organic Carbon Yield from the New Zealand Landscape: A First Approximation. (with L. Basher, M. Page, I. Lynn, M. Jessen, M. Hicks.) PPT  abstract PDF
    • A Process-based Modelling Approach for Simulation and Prediction of Erosion-related Organic Carbon Loss (with N. Preston, T. Baisden, N. Trustrum, K. Tate)
    • An Erosion-related Carbon-loss Budget for New Zealand (with T. Baisden, N. Trustrum, K. Tate)
  37. New Zealand Society of Soil Science conference. Golden Jubilee. Wellington, 2002
  38. The New Zealand Hydrological society meeting. "All the easy water is gone", Blenheim, 2002
    • Modelling of erosion processes on the local, regional and national scale. abstract PDF
  39. Australasian Quaternary Association Biennial Conference 2003
    • Megafloods of the Late Pleniglacial - Younger Dryas in the southern Russian plain (with Andrey Panin, Olga Borisova) abstract PDF
  40. Int. meeting: Soil erosion and sediment redistribution in river catchments, Silsoe, UK, 2003
    • Probabilistic modelling of soil erosion and deposition (with V. Nikora, A. Smith). abstract PDF
    • Assessing a contribution of different processes into soil degradation on arable catchment of the Stavropol upland (Southern European Russia) (with V.R. Belyaev, P.J. Wallbrink, V.N. Golosov, A.S. Murray)  PPT
  41. COST 623 Final Meeting and Conference, Budapest, 2003
    • Probabilistic methods of soil erosion evaluation (with V. Nikora, A. Smith). abstract PDF
    • Processes of Erosion and Deposition at the European Russia and Byelorussia (with L.F. Litvin, V.N. Golosov and A.F. Chernysh) abstract PDF
  42. OECD Expert Meeting Rome, Italy, March 2003 Agricultural Impacts on Soil Erosion and Soil Biodiversity: Developing Indicators for Policy Analysis
    • Estimating national erosion-related soil carbon losses in New Zealand: An indicator for Kyoto compliance and sustainability assessment (with N.J. Preston, N.A. Trustrum, D.M. Hicks, W.T. Baisden, D.J. Giltrap, D.T. Scott, M.J. Page & K.R. Tate)  abstract PDF
  43. IAHS conference: Sediment Transfer through the Fluvial System, Moscow, 2004
    • Probability distribution function approach in stochastic modelling of soil erosion (with V. Nikora, A. Smith).PPT full text PDF
    • Alluvial relief structure and bottom sediments of the lower Volga River (with Korotaev V.N., Ivanov V.V.) PPT full text PDF
  44. International Symposium of IGCP 449 project, Malaga, 2004
    • Moscow-river postglacial history
  45. Gordon Conference «Past ecosystem processes and human environment interactions», LA, 2005
    • Mathematical modelling of erosion landscape evolution
  46. Sixth International Conference on Geomorphology: geomorphology in regions of environmental contrasts. Sep. 7-11, 2005 Zaragoza (Spain).
    • Fluvial development in Central Russia in the Late Glacial and the Holocene (with Panin A.V., Sidorchuk A. J, Borisova O.K., Vlasov M.V.)
    • Third generation of soil erosion models (with V. Nikora) abstract PDF
    • Complexity of alluvial relief of the largest rivers. abstract PDF.
  47. 14th International Soil Conservation Organization Conference: Water Management and Soil Conservation in Semi-Arid Environments, Marrakech, 2006
    • Stochastic Mechanics of Soil Erosion (with Vladimir Nikora, Alistair Smith, Roger Nokes, William Veale, Stephan Popinnet, Edward Pinkney, Murray Jessen, Glenn Cooper) PPT full text PDF
  48. Open LUCIFS meeting: New trends in Geomorphology: system based understanding of long term man-landscape interactions, Frankfurt, 2006
    • Long-term numerical modelling of gully erosion and self-organized criticality poster
  49. International Conference: Soil and Hillslope Management using scenario analysis and runoff-erosion models - a critical evaluation of current techniques Florence - ITALY, 2007 
    • Soil aggregate transport in experimental overland flow (with G. Cooper, J. Schmidt)  poster
  50. 10th International Symposium on River Sedimentation, Moscow 2007
    • Flow and soil aggregate transport variability in experimental shallow overland flow (with G. Cooper, J. Schmidt) full text PDF
  51. European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna 2011
    • Stochastic theory of soil erosion: the novel approach to modelling and experimentation abstract PDF
  52.  International Geographical Union Regional Conference GEOGRAPHY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY FOR OUR FUTURE EARTH 17-21 August 2015, Moscow, Russia
    • Hydraulic modelling of the Black Sea level change during the last 21,000 years (with O. BORISOVA, A. PANIN) abstract PDF
    • Water budget and connection of the Caspian and Black seas during the Late Glacial (with O. BORISOVA, A. PANIN) poster PDF
    • Decreased river runoff in the North Eurasian plains during the Holocene optimum as a possible scenario for the 21st century (Moscow State University) (with O. BORISOVA, A. PANIN) abstract PDF
  53. ICCE SYMPOSIUM 2018 «Climate Change Impacts on Sediment Dynamics: Measurement, Modelling and Management» 27-31 August 2018 Moscow
    • THE EMISSION OF CARBON DIOXIDE FROM SOILS WASHED-OUT AND BURIED BY ACCELERATED EROSION IN THE CHERNOZEM BELT OF THE EUROPEAN RUSSIA abstract PDF
    • GULLY EROSION AND THERMO-EROSION MODELLING FOR THE CONDITIONS OF THE MODERN AND THE LATE-GLACIAL PERIGLACIAL CLIMATE abstract PDF
  54. IGU 2018 CONFERENCE Practical Geography and XXI Century Challenges. International Scientific and Practical Conference, 4-6 June 2018, Moscow
    • HYDROCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTIONS FOR THE EAST EUROPEAN PART OF THE BLACK SEA BASIN IN THE BOREAL PERIOD OF THE HOLOCENE (with O. BORISOVA, A. PANIN)  
  55. GloSS workshop the German Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz (Germany) from 18th to 20th Oct. 2018
    • Status report
  56. 20th INQUA Congress The CCD, Dublin, Ireland 25th July - 31st July 2019
    • THE BLACK SEA LEVEL DURING THE PERIOD OF THE CATASTROPHIC RIVER RUNOFF (with O.K. Borisova) PPT
    • Erosion landscape on the East European plain formed during the periods of catastrophic surface runoff in periglacial conditions and its recent analog at the Yamal peninsula (with A. Entin) poster
  57. The EGU General Assembly 2020 in the online format Sharing Geoscience Online
    • The main types of river channel bedforms movement (with O.K. Borisova) PPT
  58. The 8th World Sustainability Forum 15–17 SEPTEMBER 2020 | VIRTUAL
    • The losses of Russian Chernozem soils during the agricultural period (withV.Golosovabstract PDF
  59. The 7th PAGES Open Science Meeting. Shanghai, China 21-24 May 2025
    • A decrease in river discharges in the recent past in the Arctic (with A. Tarbeeva) poster