1 Dr. Alexander I. ARKHIPKIN CURRICULUM VITAE (1) ADRESSES : Home address: 13 Biggs Road, Stanley, Falkland Islands Home phone number: 00500 22916 Work phone number: 00500 27260 Email: [email protected] (2) DATE OF BIRTH: March 18, 1960 Place of birth: Omsk, Siberia, Russia Nationality: British Citizenship: British citizen (current) Marital status: Married to Zhanna Shcherbich, 1991 Two daughters: Nadezhda Arkhipkina (26) and Sofia Arkhipkina (23), both students in the UK. (3) EDUCATION: M.Sc. 1982. Zoology of Invertebrates, Biological Department of the Moscow State University; Moscow, Russia Ph.D. 1989. Marine Biology, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia ‘Age and growth of commercial species of squid of the family Ommastrephidae’ (4) KEY SKILLS AND ACHIEVEMENTS 1. Scientific leadership. I am always generating new ideas (both strategic and current) on various aspects of our work, and then put all my efforts to implement them. This resulted in 156 scientific papers published on various scientific subjects from oceanography to ecology, biodiversity and fisheries. 2 2. Team work. I am a successful team worker. I like to work on any topic in a team, first by inspiring my co-workers with some ideas, then inducing brainstorm discussions, and taking the best from the team to produce jointly a report or paper. My projects are almost always multi-authored, same with my papers which usually have several co-authors. 3. Fisheries management. The results of work of the Scientific Section under my leadership enabled to establish a framework of first studying the life cycles of various species by different methods, and then applying that knowledge to stock assessment models to assess the stock abundance and put forward conservation measures if necessary. Our proposals and recommendations were considered and many were implemented (by the Fisheries Department administration) in fisheries management, which is recognized now internationally as one of the best managed fisheries in the world. 4. People management. Every person of our Scientific Section has his/her own annual working plan, which is incorporated currently into personal agreement (appraisal) form. Performance of the staff is being evaluated by how they meet deadlines of their own work/projects. Scientific staff is also encouraged by me to have their own scientific research projects that bring more interest and satisfaction to their work. A good drive for them to complete the projects successfully is participation in overseas scientific conferences and symposia, in case that their research is accepted as oral presentation. I am quite proud to say that the whole scientific team is now well-balanced and happy, and many overseas observers and scientists extend their contracts willing to work more. 5. Project establishment and management. The Scientific Section of FIFD is quite small (18 people), but with a wide spectrum of tasks. We need to rely on several external contracts and projects each year to perform some highly specialized research such as genetics and fine chemistry to be able to identify the number of commercial stocks of fish and squid. This kind of work is usually quite expensive, so I have a complicated task to choose the reliable partners, to estimate ‘value-for money’ amount of work, and then to choose and manage the contracts and projects throughout the financial year. Usually, 3-5 annual projects and contracts are running within our research budget, with often significant savings when dealing with long-term partners. 6. Budget planning and management. I am in charge of the Scientific Budget of FIFD (currently £1,238,170 including 671,050 department operating cost). I am planning and managing all internal and external (mainly overseas) research contracts, as well as scientific research cruise charter fees and other costs. 7. Promotion of scientific and fisheries work. I have been actively participating in promotion of various aspects of our work for the local government, industry and school, and internationally including scientific conferences and symposia. Due to the quality and number of our scientific projects and papers published in the last 16 years, FIFD has established the reputation of a serious scientific entity. (5) CAREER SUMMARY 3 Current position: Since November 1998 until now: Senior Fisheries Scientist (Head of Scientific Section), Fisheries Department, Falkland Islands Government, P.O. Box 598, Stanley, Falkland Islands Previous employment: January 1996 – November 1998: Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory of Marine Commercial Invertebrates, Atlantic Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (AtlantNIRO), Kaliningrad, Russia March 1995 – January 1996: Visiting Professor, Istituto di Tecnologia della Pesca e del Pescato (ITPP), Mazara del Vallo, Italy July 1989 – February 1995: Head of the Fisheries Group, Laboratory of Marine Commercial Invertebrates, Atlantic Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (AtlantNIRO), Kaliningrad, Russia August 1982 – June 1989: Research Scientist, Laboratory of Marine Commercial Invertebrates, Atlantic Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (AtlantNIRO), Kaliningrad, USSR (6) PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS: 4 Prizes, fellowships: 1981: Belozertsev's student prize, Moscow State University. For the best achievements in general biology. 1986: Regional scientific prize, Kaliningrad State University. For the best scientific work of young scientists. 1987: Appointed as a coordinator of the special student courses on Zoology of Invertebrates, Kaliningrad State University. 1995: Appointed as a Senior Research Scientist (Res. Sci. Level 3). 1998: NATO Senior Guest Fellowship (4 months) for Environmental Sciences and Habitat, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy 2015: William Evans Visiting Fellowship, University of Otago, New Zealand Academic appointments: Nov. 1990: Visiting Professor, Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Desarollo Pesquero (INIDEP), Mar del Plata, Argentina Feb 1995 -Jan 1996: Visiting Professor, Istituto di Tecnologia della Pesca e del Pescato (ITPP), Mazara del Vallo, Italy May 2004 until now. Honorary Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen June 2000 – February 2006. Member of Cephalopod International Advisory Council. February 2006 – September 2009. Elected as President of Cephalopod International Advisory Council. Research support grants Short-term International Science Foundation Grant (500 US$). 1989. Long-term International Science Foundation Grant (20,000 US$). 1994. Scientific responsible of 'Squid life cycles in the tropical Atlantic' (with C.M.Nigmatullin, V.V. Laptikhovsky, V.A.Bizikov and O.A.Schuhgalter). Long-term International Science Foundation Grant (10,800 US$). 1995. Scientific responsible of continuation of 'Squid life cycles in the tropical Atlantic' (with C.M.Nigmatullin, V.V. Laptikhovsky, V.A.Bizikov and O.A.Schuhgalter). 5 Long-term Russian Foundation of Fundamental Research Grant. (6,000 US$). 1996. Scientific responsible of ‘Ecology and recruitment of squids in the southwest Atlantic’ (with C.M.Nigmatullin, V.V. Laptikhovsky, P.P.Chernyshkov, V.A. Devitsin). (7) PUBLICATION RECORD So far I have published 158 scientific papers in various peer-reviewed journals on marine biology, ecology and fisheries. The papers covered systematics, distribution, age, growth, stock structure, migrations, biodiversity, trophic relations, reproductive biology and population modelling of many squid species from different parts of the world ocean. In the last twelve years, I have been also heavily involved in studies of commercial and abundant nektonic fishes from various regions of the world ocean and published many papers on similar aspects of their biology and ecology. (8) MANUSCRIPT REVIEWING To date, I have peer-reviewed 289 scientific manuscripts submitted to 63 international journals in marine biology and ecology (198 papers in the last ten years). Currently I am at the Editorial Panel (one step below Editorial list) of Fisheries Research. I am happy that some of my suggestions were considered by the Editors in early 2000-es and then implemented to the Journal making it more attractive for scientific publications (especially changing to a big format and increase the speed of reviewing and publication). (9) TEACHING and MENTORING EXPERIENCE: During last 20 years, I have planned, organized and supervised numerous research projects of students from various universities in Russia, UK and Italy (BSc and MSc levels). While working in the Fisheries Department, I am mentoring and supervising scientific projects of our postgraduate young scientists who come to work here as scientific observers. Many of them have their research published in a peer-review as their first publication in their scientific career. From time to time, I also do lectures on various aspects of marine biology for school and university students. (10) NAMES OF REFEREES 1. Prof. David Secor, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Chesapeake Biological Laboratory PO Box 38, Solomons, Maryland. Email [email protected] 2. Prof. Cynthia Jones, Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, 3 Fisheries Ecology Ctr, Norfolk, VA 23529. Email [email protected] 3. Dr. Steven E. Campana, Marine Fish Division, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, PO Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. Email [email protected] 6 4. Prof. Paul G.K. Rodhouse. British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, CB30ET,