Dr Maria Shahgedanova
Associate Professor
School of Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Science
University of Reading
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Maria Shahgedanova, Currently, working as Associate Professor, School of Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Science, University of Reading, United Kingdom. Qualifications: Combined BSc/MSc (The Moscow State University, Russia); D.Phil (Oxford, UK) Responsibilities: • Undergraduate Teaching: Climate Change; Dissertation Masters Teaching: Urban Environments. Climate Change. Research groups / Centres: • Environmental Science Research Division • Centre for Past Climate Change • Walker Institute •
Research Interest
Maria's research interests are in regional climate modelling and statistical analysis of climate variations during the historical period. She is interested in impacts of climate change on natural environments especially in high-altitude and high-latitude locations. Her current research focuses on climate-glacier interactions and she runs a number of EU-funded projects investigating climate and glacier change in the mountains of Eurasia.
Publications
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Crossman, J., Whitehead, P., Futter, M. N., Jin, L., Shahgedanova, M., Castellazzi, M. and Wade, A. (2013) The interactive responses of water quality and hydrology to changes in multiple stressors, and implications for the long-term effective management of phosphorus. Science of the Total Environment, 454-455. pp. 230-244. ISSN 0048-9697 doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.02.033
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Shahgedanova, M., Nosenko, G., Kutuzov, S., Rototaeva, O. and Khromova, T. (2014) Deglaciation of the Caucasus Mountains, Russia/Georgia, in the 21st century observed with ASTER satellite imagery and aerial photograpy. The Cryosphere, 8 (6). pp. 2367-2379. ISSN 1994-0424 doi: 10.5194/tc-8-2367-2014
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Pepin, N., Bradley, R. S., Diaz, H. F., Caceres, E. B., Forsythe, N., Fowler, H., Greenwood, G., Hashmi, M. Z., Liu, X. D., Miller, J. R., Ning, L., Ohmura, A., Palazzi, E., Rangwala, I., Schöner, W., Severskiy, I., Shahgedanova, M., Wang, M. B., Williamson , S. N. and Yang , D. Q. (2015) Elevation-dependent warming in mountain regions of the world. Nature Climate Change, 5 (5). pp. 424-430. ISSN 1758-678X doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2563
