10 Facts About Sergey Zimov

Sergey Aphanasievich Zimov is a Russian geophysicist who specialises in arctic and subarctic ecology.

Sergey Zimov is the Director of Northeast Scientific Station, a senior research fellow of the Pacific Institute for Geography, and one of the founders of Pleistocene Park.

Sergey Zimov is best known for his work in advocating the theory that human overhunting of large herbivores during the Pleistocene caused Siberia's grassland-steppe ecosystem to disappear and for raising awareness as to the important roles permafrost and thermokarst lakes play in the global carbon cycle.

Sergey Zimov, born 18 July 1955, is a Russian scientist who resides in Cherskii, Sakha Republic, Russia.

Sergey Zimov studied and received his degree in geophysics from Far East State University, located in Vladivostok, Russia.

In 1991, Sergei Sergey Zimov was awarded the Wolf Vishniac Award at the tenth International Symposium On Environmental Biogeochemistry.

Sergey Zimov is a co-founder and the director of the Northeast Science Station, one of the world's three largest Arctic stations.

In collaboration with Dr Terry Chapin and Dr Katey Walter-Anthony, Sergey Zimov has published a collection of scientific papers exposing the importance of permafrost and high-latitude carbon dioxide and methane emissions in the global carbon cycle.

Sergey Zimov began the Pleistocene Park project in 1988 in northeastern Siberia near the Northeast Science Station in Cherskii, Sakha Republic, Russia.

At Pleistocene Park, Sergey Zimov is attempting to re-create the Pleistocene grasslands to demonstrate that the grasslands would have persisted into the Holocene if humans did not overhunt the herds of Pleistocene herbivores that roamed and maintained the ecosystem.