Eugene A. Silow graduated from Irkutsk State University. He got his PhD for the work with mathematical model of lake ecosystem, developed on the basis of his own mesocosm experiments in the field. He fulfilled many biological and chemical observations in lakes Baikal, Nyasa, Michigan, Khovsgol, Leman (Geneva) and Irkutsk and Bratsk reservoirs. He had excellent Postdoc training in Denmark for system analysis, system ecology and ecosystem ecology under supervision of Sven Jørgensen.
He got his second scientific degree (Doctor of Science) for the work on thermodynamics view on ecosystem processes, development of ecosystem health index, and view on ecosystem as hypercycle of self-organized and self-regulated autocatalytic cycles.
E.A. Silow has experience in the fields of ecology andaquatic biology. When analyzing long-term multi-decadal series of observations of the plankton community of lake Baikal, he found trends in the number of endemic large under-ice algae, smallcosmopolitan forms in the phytoplankton, rotifers, Cyclops, Cladocera. Experimenting with lake Baikal plankton both in situ as well as with mathematical modeling he demonstrated that under-ice and summer plankton communities are quite different systems, particularly by their tolerance to human influence.
E.A. Silow has been invited to deliver public lectures at leading scientific organizations and the universities of Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, France, China, Republic of Korea and others. He participated in organization and conduction of international schools for junior researchers and performed research work in leading scientific centers of Europe. He delivered courses of lectures in “Science about Baikal”, limnology, ecology, toxicology, mathematical modelling, sustainable development as well as practical training classes for students from USA, Germany, France, Korea and China as well as for Russian students. He prepared and published several text-books on aquatic ecology, environmental chemistry and limnology.
His studies are of international interest. Evidence of this is that according to the decision of the editorial Board of “Journal of Great Lakes Research”his article “Lake-wide physical and biological trends associated with warming in lake Baikal” has been put on the title page of the journal and was awarded later as the best paper of the year.
