(Updated March 14, 2015)
Personal information:
· Date of birth: December 19, 1971
· Married (to Elena Demonterova), 18 yrs old son and 9 yrs old daughter
Education/degrees:
· Doctor of sciences (Habilitation equivalent, the thesis title: Intracontinental basaltic magmatism with example of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Siberia. Defended at the Institute of the Earth’s Crust, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), October 21, 2011. Approved by the Highest Attestation Committee of the Russian Federation on February 2013)
· Candidate of sciences (Ph.D. equivalent, the thesis title: Volcanism of the Rungwe and Udokan: the East-African and Baikal rift systems. Defended at the Institute of the Earth’s Crust SB RAS, April 17, 1997)
· Engineer-geologist (Diploma with Honors, the title: Vitim and Oka volcanic fields of the Baikal rift system. Defended at the Irkutsk State University, June 4, 1993).
Affiliation:
· Institute of the Earth’s Crust SB RAS, 128 Lermontov Street, Irkutsk, 664033, Russia. Tel.: +7-3952-427117. Fax: +7-3952-426900. E-mail:
Positions held at the Institute of the Earth’s Crust SB RAS:
· Leading Researcher (Current)
· Senior Researcher (2000-2013)
· Researcher (1997-2000)
· Doctorate (1993-1996)
· Laboratory assistant (1993)
Responsibilities at the Institute of the Earth’s Crust SB RAS:
· Supervision of ARGUS VI argon geochronology lab
· Participation at the Institute’s Science Council
· Participation at the Institute’s Committee on PhD and Habilitation thesis defense
· Chairman of the Institute’s scientific output evaluation committee
Scientific interests:
· Geochronology
· Geochemistry
· Origin of basaltic volcanism at different tectonic settings
· Regional geology of Siberia
· Paleo-mega-floods in Siberia
Membership of professional societies:
· Russian Mineralogical Society (2015)
· American Geophysical Union (2014)
· International Geochemical Association (2011)
Lecturing (Geological Department of the Irkutsk State University (ISU), Institute of the Earth’s Crust SB RAS (IEC)):
· “Absolute” dating in stratigraphy (ISU, 2009)
· “Evolving ideas in geodynamics and some debates of modern geology” (ISU, 2009)
· “Absolute” ages and methods of radioisotopic dating (IEC, 2008)
· “The Baikal rift” (ISU, 2007)
· “Basaltic volcanism: view into the Earth’s mantle and applications for paleogeodynamics” (IEC, 2007)
Promoting students:
· Mikheeva Ekaterina, a PhD student at the Institute of the Earth’s Crust SB RAS, Topic: “Jurassic volcanism and sedimentation of the southern Siberian Craton” (2014-2017)
· Gorovoy Viktor, a PhD student at the Institute of the Earth’s Crust SB RAS, Topic: “Jurassic and Cretaceous magmatism at the northwestern Aldan Shield of the Siberian Craton” (2014-2017)
· Paton Mathew, Honors degree defended at the University of Western Australia (co-promoted together with Fiorentini Marco and McNaughton Neal), Topic: “Geochronology and Geochemistry of the southern Siberian flood basalt province” (2010).
Personal grants/awards:
· Fulbright Scholar at University of New Hampshire (2013).
· Scholarship of the Russian Scientific Support Foundation for outstanding young scientists (2003-2004; 2006).
· Grant of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists MK-1903.2003.05 (2003-2004)
· Grant of Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affaires (DWTC) of Belgium for visiting scientists (1999-2000).
· Grant of the Belgian national science foundation (FWO) for visiting scientists (1998-1999).
· George Soros scholarship for doctorates (1996).
Principle Investigator of research projects:
· Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), project No 15-05-05130, “Precise chronology of voluminous basalt volcanism based on the 40Ar/39Ar dating: an example of five flood basalt provinces and one rift” (2015-2017)
· RFBR, project No 12-05-98029_p_Siberia, “Forest fires at the Oka plateau (East Sayan, Buryatia) during the Holocene: fingerprints of volcanism and/or human activity” (2012-2013)
· RFBR, project No 08-05-98104-p_Siberia, "Platinum group elements and rhenium in trap-type sills of the Irkutsk region" (2008-2010).
· RFBR, project No 05-05-97260-p_baikal, "Assessment of volcanic hazard in Baikal-Mongolia region (by complex of geological, geochronological, geochemical, and seismological data)" (2005-2007).
· RFBR, project No 05-05-64281, “Isotopic geochemistry of osmium: developing of analytical techniques and application for geological problems” (2005-2007).
· RFBR, project No 01-022-97247_p2001baikal, "Evolution of the tectonic stress field in the Baikal rift system: dating of the major stages" (2001-2004).
· RFBR, project No 00-05-64628, "Alkaline magmatism in heterogeneously metasomatised lithospheric mantle of ancient cratonic margins and adjacent mobile belts" (2000-2002).
· RFBR, project No 97-05-65331, “Late Phanerozoic mantle and magmatism in reactivated structures of the Early Pre-Cambrian lithosphere” (1997-1999).
Editor
· Editorial board member of International Geology Review (2013 – current)
· Editorial board member of a Russian newspaper Troitsky Variant – Nauka (2008 – current)
· Guest Editor, Special Issue “Megafloods of Northern Asia” of the International Geology Review (in progress, scheduled for 2015)
· Guest Editor, Special Issue “Geology of the Lake Baikal region” of the Journal of Asian Earth Sciences (published in 2013)
· Guest Editor, Special issue “Ancient Lakes” of berliner paläobiologische abhandlungen (published in 2003)
Fieldwork experience:
· 20-yr long experience to work in remote regions of recent and past volcanic activity up to few months per year; northern Siberia (2005, 2007-2008), southern Siberia (1989-2008), Tanzania (1994), Kamchatka (2001) and Mongolia (2001-2008).
· Russian (current) and the US (expired) driving licenses.
Other professional experiences (short and middle term visits):
· Northeast National Ion Microprobe Facility (Nobu’s lab), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, MA, USA), 2013, ion probe analyses for volatiles in melt inclusions.
· The Watson lab, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY, USA), 2013, melt inclusion homogenization using a piston-cylinder apparatus.
· The University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH, USA), 2013, Fulbright scholarship
· Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits, University of Tasmania (Hobart, Australia), 2011, training in melt inclusions.
· Institute of Earth Sciences of Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan), 2010, CL-imaging of zircons.
· Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan), 2010, U-Pb dating of zircons by LA-ICP-MS.
· Micon International Co. Limited, 2006, interpreter for help an Audit of Polus Gold International (Olympiada gold mining district and Bodaybo gold placers, Siberia).
· Laboratory of paleomagnetism and geochronology, Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China), 2004, 2006, 2007, three visits for 40Ar/39Ar dating of volcanic rocks.
· Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels), Belgium, 1997-2002, six visits for 40Ar/39Ar dating of volcanic rocks.
· Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels), Belgium, 1995, training in K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology.
· Oka expedition, Mondy village, East-Sayan Mountains, 1992, junior-geologist, geological mapping 1:50000 scale in upper currents of Urdo-Bokson, Dibi and Zabit rivers.
Selected oral presentations at international conferences:
· Ivanov, A.V., 2014. The deep water cycle and origin of cratonic flood basalts: two examples from the Siberian Craton. AGU Fall meeting, San-Francisco, USA
· Ivanov, A.V., 2014. Volatile fluxing causes cratonic flood basalt volcanism: case study of the Siberian craton. Advances in High Pressure Research: Breaking Scales and Horizons, Novosibirsk, Russia (Invited)
· Ivanov, A., Demonterova, E., Reznitskii, L., Barash, I., Arzhannikov, S., Arzhannikova, A., Khlystov, O., Hung, C.-H., Chung, S.-L., Iizuka, Y., and Wang, K.-L., 2012. Catastrophic outburst flooding from Lake Baikal to Lena river. IGC34, Brisbane, Australia
· Ivanov, A.V., He, H., Yan, L., Ryabov, V.V., Shevko, A.Y., Palessky, S.V., and Nikolaeva, I.V., 2011. Two flood basalt events and contemporary granites within the same LIP: Siberian Traps case study. Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
· Ivanov, A.V., He, H., Pan, Y., Qin, H., Ryabov, V.V., and Shevko, A.Y., 2008. Siberian Traps: long and episodic? EGU General Assembly, Vienne, Austria
· Ivanov, A.V., 2007. Geochemistry of dominant low-Ti basalts of the Siberian Traps and subduction-related model of their origin. EGU General Assembly, Vienne, Austria (Solicited)
· Ivanov, A.V., Brandt, S.B., Brandt, I.S., and Rasskazov, S.V., 2000. Closure temperature in terms of classic theory of diffusion. EGS General Assembly, Nice, France
Peer-review publications:
· Ivanov, A.V., Vanin, V.A., Demonterova, E.I., Gladkochub, D.P., and Donskaya, T.V., 2015, Application of the ‘no fool’s clock’ to dating the Mukodek ore field, Siberia, Russia. Ore Geology Review, v. 69, p. 352-359.
· Ivanov, A.V., 2015, Why volatiles are required for cratonic flood basalt volcanism: two examples from the Siberian Craton, in Foulger, G.R., Lustrino, M, and King, S., eds, The Interdisciplinary Earth: A volume in honor of Don L. Anderson, GSA Special Publication SPE514, doi:10.1130/2015.2514(19).
· Demonterova, E.I., Ivanov, A.V., Ineshin, E.M., and Tetenkin, A.V., 2014, On the mobility of ancient population in the north of Baikal Siberia at the end of the Pleistocene. Stratum Plus, № 1, p. 165-178.
· Ivanov, A.V., Demonterova, E.I., Gladkochub, D.P., and Donskaya, T.V., 2014, The Tuva-Mongolia Massif and the Siberian Craton – are they the same?: a comment to “Age and provenance of the Ergunahe Group and the Wubinaobao Formation, northeastern Inner Mongolia, NE China: implications for tectonic setting of the Erguna Massif” by Zhang et al. International Geology Review, v. 56, p. 954-958.
· Muravyeva, N.S., Belyatsky, B.V., Senin, V.G., and Ivanov, A.V., 2014, Sr-Nd-Pb isotope systematics and clinopyroxene-host disequilibrium in ultra-potassic magmas from Toro-Ankole and Virunga, East African Rift: Implications for magma mixing and source heterogeneity. Lithos, v. 210-211, p. 260-277.
· Wang, Y., He, H., Ivanov, A.V., Zhu, R., and Lo, C., 2014, Age and origin of charoitite, Malyy Murun Massif, Siberia, Russia. International Geology Review, v. 56, p. 1007-1019.
· Sheth, H.R., Zellmer, G.F., Demonterova, E.I., Ivanov, A.V., Kumar, R., and Patel, R.K., 2014, The Deccan tholeiite lavas and dykes of Ghatkopar-Powai area, Mumbai, Panvel flexure zone: Geochemistry, stratigraphic status, and tectonic significance. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 84, p. 69-82.
· Ivanov, A.V., and Litasov, K.D., 2014, The deep water cycle and flood basalt volcanism. International Geology Review, v. 56, p. 1-14.
· Kiselev, A.I., Yarmolyuk, V.V., Ivanov, A.V., and Egorov, K.N., 2014, Middle Paleozoic basaltic and kimberlitic magmatism in the northwestern shoulder of the Vilyui Rift, Siberia: relations in space and time. Russian Geology and Geophysics, v. 55, p. 144-152.
· Latyshev, A.V., Veselovskiy, R.V., Ivanov, A.V., Fetisova, A.M., and Pavlov, V.E., 2013, Short intense bursts in magmatic activity in the south of Siberian Platform (Angara-Taseeva depression): the paleomagnetic evidence. Izvestia - Physics of the Solid Earth, v. 49, p. 823-835.
· Badminov, P.S., Ivanov, A.V., Pisarskii, B.I., and Orgil’yanov, A.I., 2013, The Oka hydrothermal system, East Sayan Mountains. Journal of Volcanology and Seismology, v. 7, p. 265-276.
· Ivanov, A.V., Mazukabzov, A.M., Stanevich, A.M., Palesskiy, S.V., and Kozmenko, O.N., 2013, Testing the snowball Earth hypothesis for the Ediacaran. Geology, v. 41, p. 787-790.
· Ivanov, A.V., He, H., Yan, L., Ryabov, V.V., Shevko, A.Y., Palesskii, S.V., and Nikolaeva, I.V., 2013, Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province: Evidence for two flood basalt pulses around the Permo-Triassic boundary and in the Middle Triassic, and contemporaneous granitic magmatism. Earth-Science Reviews, v. 122, p. 58-76.
· Donskaya, T.V., Gladkochub, D.P., Mazukabzov, A.M., and Ivanov, A.V., 2013, Late Paleozoic – Mesozoic subduction-related magmatism at the southern margin of the Siberian continent and the 150-million-year history of the Mongolia-Okhotsk Ocean. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 62, p. 79-97.
· Ivanov, A.V., Gladkochub, D.P., Deverchere, J., and Ernst, R.E., 2013, Introduction to special issue: Geology of the Lake Baikal region. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 62, p. 1-3.
· Demonterova, E.I., Ivanov, A.V., Reznitskii, L.Z., Belichenko, V.G., Hung, C.-H., Chung, S.-L., Iizuka, Y., and Wang, K.-L. Formation history of the Tuva-Mongloian Massif (Western Hubsugul region, North Mongolia) based on U-Pb dating of detrital zircons from sandstone of the Darkhat group by the LA-ICP-MS method. Doklady Earth Sciences, v. 441, p. 1498-1501.
· Ivanov, A.V., Arzhannikov, S.G., Demonterova, E.I., Arzhannikova, A.V., and Orlova, L.A., 2011, Jom-Bolok Holocene volcanic field in the East Sayan Mts., Siberia, Russia: structure, style of eruptions, magma compositions, and radiocarbon dating. Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 73, p. 1279-1294.
· Gladkochub, D.P., Donskaya T.V., Ivanov, A.V., Ernst, R., Mazukabzov, A.M., Pisarevsky, S.A., and Ukhova, N.A., 2010, Phanerozoic mafic magmatism in the southern Siberian craton: geodynamic implication. Russian Geology and Geophysics, v. 51, p. 952-964.
· Paton, M.P., Ivanov, A.V., Fiorentini M.L., McNaughton, N.J., Mudrovska, I., Reznitskii, L.Z., and Demonterova, E.I., 2010, Late Permian and Early Triassic magmatic pulses in the Angara-Taseevskaya syncline, southern Siberian Traps and their possible influence on the environment. Russian Geology and Geophysics, v. 51, p. 1012-1020.
· Ivanov, A.V., He, H., Yang, L., Nikolaeva, I.V., and Palesskii, S.V., 2009, 40Ar/39Ar dating of intrusive magmatism in the Angara-Taseevskaya syncline and its implication for duration of magmatism of the Siberian traps. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 35, p. 1-12.
· Ivanov, A.V., and Demonterova, E.I., 2009, Tectonics of the Baikal rift deduced from volcanism and sedimentation: A review oriented to the Baikal and Hovsgol Lake systems. In: Müller, W.E.G., Grachev, M.A., eds., Biosilica in Evolution, 27, Morphogenesis, and Nanobiology, Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, Marine Molecular Biotechnology, v. 47, 27-54. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany.
· Ivanov, A.V., Palesskii, S.V., Demonterova, E.I., Nikolaeva, I.V., Ashchepkov, I.V., and Rasskazov, S.V., 2008, Platinum-group elements and rhenium in mantle xenoliths from the East Sayan volcanic field (Siberia, Russia): evaluation of melt extraction and refertilization processes in lithospheric mantle of the Tuva-Mongolian massif. Terra Nova, v. 20, p. 504-511.
· Ivanov, A.V., Perepeleov, A.B., Palesskii, S.V., and Nikolaeva, I.V., 2008, First data on the distribution of platinum group elements (Ir, Os, Ru, Pt, and Pd) and Re in island-arc basalts of Kamchatka. Doklady Earth Sciences, v. 420, p. 597-601.
· Ivanov, A.V., Demonterova, E.I., Rasskazov, S.V., and Yasnygina, T.A., 2008, Low-Ti melts from the southeastern Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province: Evidence for a water-rich mantle source? Journal of Earth System Science, v. 117, p. 1-21.
· Barry, T.L., Ivanov, A.V., Rasskazov, S.V., Demonterova, E.I., Dunai, T.J., Davies, G.R., and Harrison, D., 2007, Helium isotopes provide no evidence for deep mantle involvement in widespread Cenozoic volcanism across Central Asia. Lithos, v. 95, p. 415-424.