Areas of Interest:

• Paleoclimate reconstructions;
• Extraction and analysis of ice cores;
• Chemical analysis of ice cores.
• Mineral dust in ice cores;
• Dust impacts on glaciated environments.
• Assessment of changes in spatial extent and surface elevation of glaciers using remote sensing;
• Glacier ground-based geodetic surveys and mass balance; Ground radio-echo sounding surveys.

Key Facts:
Stanislav Kutuzov graduated with First Class joint BSc and MSc degree in Glaciology from the Moscow Lomonosov State University, Moscow, Russia in 2005. He joint the Glaciology Laboratory, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow as PhD student and research scientist. In 2007-2009 he was a visiting PhD student at the University of Reading and successfully obtained his PhD in Glaciology in November 2009. He had FP7-PEOPLE Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship at the University of Reading and was working on the project 'Dust impacts on glaciated environments' (DIOGENES). This interdisciplinary project addresses impacts of dust on glaciers bringing together two major issues that are in the focus of climate change research: glacier shrinkage and impacts of mineral aerosol (dust) on climate system. From 2016 to 2022 he was Head of Dept. of Glaciology the Institute of Geography. In 2017-2019 he was a leading author of the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). He served as a vice president of the IACS (International association of Cryospheric Sciences) and member of the Scientific Committee of the Ice Memory Foundation in 2018-2023.

Stanislav was involved in many field work studies in different regions including the Caucasus, Altai, Tien Shan, Kamchatka, Russian Arctic, Andes, Tibet, Svalbard, Scandinavia.
He is a principal investigator and co-investigator in a number of ongoing projects.

• Currently he works on the NSF project Atmospheric Mineral Nanoparticles in Antarctic Ice during the last Climatic Cycle

Selected publications:

1. The WGMS Network. Global glacier mass change in 2025. Nat Rev Earth Environ (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-026-00777-z

2. Kutuzov, S., Olesik, J.W., Lomax-Vogt, M.C. et al. Geochemical characterization of millions of individual atmospheric particles entrapped in Antarctic ice across the last glacial-interglacial transition. Sci Rep 16, 10556. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-45260-3, 2026.

3. Steiner, J., Armstrong, W., Kochtitzky, W., McNabb, R., Aguayo, R., Bolch, T., Maussion, F., Agarwal, V., Barr, I., Baurley, N. R., Cloutier, M., DeWater, K., Donachie, F., Drocourt, Y., Garg, S., Joshi, G., Guzman, B., Kutuzov, S., Loriaux, T., Mathias, C., Menounos, B., Miles, E., Osika, A., Potter, K., Racoviteanu, A., Rick, B., Sterner, M., Tallentire, G. D., Tielidze, L., White, R., Wu, K., and Zheng, W.: Global mapping of lake-terminating glaciers, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1665–1681, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1665-2026, 2026. 

4. Kutuzov S., Thompson L.G., Bolzan J.F., Lavrentiev I., Chernyakov G., Schoessow F. A Geophysical and Glaciological Survey of the Highest Tropical Mountain glaciers (Mt. Huascarán, Andes), Journal of Glaciology, DOI: 10.1017/jog.2025.20, 2025 

5. Lomax-Vogt M., Carter L.M., Wielinski J., Kutuzov S., Lowry G.L., Sullivan R., Gabrielli P., and Olesik J.W. Challenges in measuring nanoparticles and microparticles by single particle ICP-QMS and ICP-TOFMS: size-dependent transport efficiency and limited linear dynamic range J. Anal. At. Spectrom., Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/D4JA00425F. 2025

6. Legrand, M., Vorobyev, M., Bokuchava, D., Kutuzov, S., Plach, A., Stohl, A., Khairedinova, A., Mikhalenko, V., Vinogradova, M., Eckhardt, S., and Preunkert, S.: Measurement Report: Changes in ammonia emissions since the 18th century in south-eastern Europe inferred from an Elbrus (Caucasus, Russia) ice-core record, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 1385–1399, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-1385-2025, 2025.

7. Legrand, M., Preunkert, S., Kutuzov, S., Siour, G., Mikhalenko, V., Dolgova, E., & Friedrich, R. (2024). 20th Century changes of DOC and its 14C signature archived in Caucasus ice-core: Implications for past sources of organic carbon aerosol in south-eastern Europe. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD040121. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040121 

8. Machguth, H., Eichler, A., Schwikowski, M., Brütsch, S., Mattea, E., Kutuzov, S., Heule, M., Usubaliev, R., Belekov, S., Mikhalenko, V. N., Hoelzle, M., and Kronenberg, M.: Fifty years of firn evolution on Grigoriev ice cap, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan, The Cryosphere, 18, 1633–1646, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1633-2024, 2024. 

9. Mikhalenko, V., Kutuzov, S., Toropov, P., Legrand, M., Sokratov, S., Chernyakov, G., Lavrentiev, I., Preunkert, S., Kozachek, A., Vorobiev, M., Khairedinova, A., and Lipenkov, V.: Accumulation rates over the past 260 years archived in Elbrus ice core, Caucasus, Clim. Past, 20, 237–255, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-237-2024, 2024.

10. Lomax-Vogt M., Kutuzov S., Gabrielli P. and Olesik J. W. PAGES Magazine N2, 2023 Science highlights: ICYS Analytical challenges and advancements in measuring individual mineral nanoparticles and microparticles entrapped in ice cores. doi.org/10.22498/pages.31.2.90

11. Monteiro, A., Basart, S., Kazadzis, S., et al., Kutuzov, S., Meinander, O., and Nickovic, S.: Multi-sectoral impact assessment of an extreme African dust episode in the Eastern Mediterranean in March 2018, Sci. Total Environ., 843, 156861, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156861, 2022.
12. Kutuzov, S. S., Mikhalenko, V. N., Legrand, M., Khairedinova, A. G., Vorobyev, M. A., and Vinogradova, M. M. Promising ice core research trends. Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 92, 3 (2022), 370–379. 10.1134/s1019331622030121
13. Karelin, D. V., Kutuzov, S. S., Goryachkin, S. V., Zazovskaya, E. P., and Kotlyakov, V. M. Russian mountain glaciers in a “thawing” world: The first estimates of the balance of greenhouse gases in the Caucasus and altai. Doklady Earth Sciences 504, 1 (2022), 321–325. 10.1134/S1028334X22050075
14. Kutuzov, S.; Shahgedanova, M.; Krupskaya, V.; Goryachkin, S. Optical, Geochemical and Mineralogical Characteristics of Light-Absorbing Impurities Deposited on Djankuat Glacier in the Caucasus Mountains. Water 2021, 13, 2993. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13212993
15. Elagina, N.; Kutuzov, S.; Rets, E.; Smirnov, A.; Chernov, R.; Lavrentiev, I.; Mavlyudov, B. Mass Balance of Austre Grønfjordbreen, Svalbard, 2006–2020, Estimated by Glaciological, Geodetic and Modeling Aproaches. Geosciences 2021, 11, 78. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11020078
16. Dumont, M., Tuzet, F., Gascoin, S., Picard, G., Kutuzov, S., Lafaysse, M., et al. (2020). Accelerated snow melt in the Russian Caucasus mountains after the Saharan dust outbreak in March 2018. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125, e2020JF005641. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005641
17. Vecchiato M., Gambaro A., Kehrwald N.M., Ginot P., Kutuzov S., Mikhalenko V.& Barbante C. The Great Acceleration of fragrances and PAHs archived in an ice core from Elbrus, Caucasus. Sci Rep 10, 10661 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67642-x
18. Tielidze, L. G., Bolch, T., Wheate, R. D., Kutuzov, S. S., Lavrentiev, I. I., and Zemp, M.: Supra-glacial debris cover changes in the Greater Caucasus from 1986 to 2014, The Cryosphere, 14, 585–598, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-585-2020, 2020.
19. Kutuzov, S., Legrand, M., Preunkert, S., Ginot, P., Mikhalenko, V., Shukurov, K., Poliukhov, A., and Toropov, P.: The Elbrus (Caucasus, Russia) ice core record – Part 2: history of desert dust deposition, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 14133–14148, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-14133-2019, 2019.
20. Preunkert, S., Legrand, M., Kutuzov, S., Ginot, P., Mikhalenko, V., and Friedrich, R.: The Elbrus (Caucasus, Russia) ice core record – Part 1: reconstruction of past anthropogenic sulfur emissions in south-eastern Europe, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 14119–14132, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-14119-2019, 2019.
21. Kutuzov S, Lavrentiev I, Smirnov A, Nosenko G and Petrakov D (2019) Volume Changes of Elbrus Glaciers From 1997 to 2017. Front. Earth Sci. 7:153. doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00153
22. M. Zemp, M. Huss, E. Thibert, N. Eckert, R. McNabb, J. Huber, M. Barandun, H. Machguth, S. U. Nussbaumer, I. Gärtner-Roer, L. Thomson, F. Paul, F. Maussion, S. Kutuzov, and J. G. Cogley. Global glacier mass changes and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016. Nature, 2019.
23. Bolch, T., Rohrbach, N., Kutuzov, S., Robson, B. A., and Osmonov, A. (2019) Occurrence, evolution and ice content of ice‐debris complexes in the Ak‐Shiirak, Central Tien Shan revealed by geophysical and remotely‐sensed investigations. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4487.
24. Kutuzov S., Thompson L.G., Lavrentiev I., and Tian L. Ice thickness measurements of Guliya ice cap, Western Kunlun Mountains (Tibetan Plateau), China. Journal of Glaciology, pages 1–13, 2018.
25. L. G. Thompson, M. E. Davis, E. Mosley-Thompson, E. Beaudon, S. E. Porter, S. Kutuzov, P.-N. Lin, V. N. Mikhalenko, K. R. Mountain, Impacts of Recent Warming and the 2015/2016 El Niño on Tropical Peruvian Ice Fields, JGR: Atmospheres, 2017. DOI 10.1002/2017jd026592
26. Lim, S., Faïn, X., Ginot, P., Mikhalenko, V., Kutuzov, S., Paris, J.-D., Kozachek, A., and Laj, P.: Black carbon variability since preindustrial times in the eastern part of Europe reconstructed from Mt. Elbrus, Caucasus, ice cores, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 3489-3505, doi:10.5194/acp-17-3489-2017, 2017. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/17/3489/2017/acp-17-3489-2017.html
27. Kutuzov S.S., Mikhalenko V.N., Grachev A.M., Ginot G., Lavrentiev I.I., Kozachek A.V., Krupskaya V.V., Ekaykin A.A., Tielidze L.G., Toropov P.A. First geophysical and shallow ice core investigation of the Kazbek plateau glacier, Caucasus Mountains // Environ Earth Sci (2016) 75: 1488. doi:10.1007/s12665-016-6295-9 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12665-016-6295-9
28. Petrakov D, Shpuntova A, Aleinikov A, Kääb A, Kutuzov S, Lavrentiev I, Stoffel M, Tutubalina O, Usubaliev R.Accelerated glacier shrinkage in the Ak-Shyirak massif, Inner Tien Shan, during 2003-2013.Sci Total Environ. 2016;562:364-378. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.162.
29. Mikhalenko, V., Sokratov, S., Kutuzov, S., Ginot, P., Legrand, M., Preunkert, S., Lavrentiev, I., Kozachek, A., Ekaykin, A., Faïn, X., Lim, S., Schotterer, U., Lipenkov, V., and Toropov, P.: Investigation of a deep ice core from the Elbrus western plateau, the Caucasus, Russia // The Cryosphere. 9. 2015. P. 2253-2270, doi:10.5194/tc-9-2253-2015.
30. Kutuzov S., Lavrentiev I, Vasilenko E. Macheret Y.Y., Petrakov D.A., Popov G.V. (2015) Estimation of the Greater Caucasus glaciers volume, using radio-echo sounding data and modelling Earth's Cryosphere XIX(1):78-88
31. Shahgedanova, M., Nosenko, G., Kutuzov, S., Rototaeva, O., and Khromova, T.: Deglaciation of the Caucasus Mountains, Russia/Georgia, in the 21st century observed with ASTER satellite imagery and aerial photography, The Cryosphere, 8, 2367-2379, doi:10.5194/tc-8-2367-2014, 2014.
32. Khromova T., Nosenko G., Kutuzov S., Muraviev A. and Chernova L., Glacier area changes in Northern Eurasia. Environmental Research Letters. Environ. Res. Lett. 2014, 9, 015003 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/1/015003, 2014
33. Kutuzov, S., Shahgedanova, M., Mikhalenko, V., Ginot, P., Lavrentiev, I., and Kemp, S.: High-resolution provenance of desert dust deposited on Mt. Elbrus, Caucasus in 2009–2012 using snow pit and firn core records, The Cryosphere, 7, 1481-1498, doi:10.5194/tc-7-1481-2013, 2013.
34. Kutuzov, S. and M. Shahgedanova (2009) Glacier retreat and climatic variability in the eastern Terskey-Alatoo, inner Tien Shan between the middle of the 19th century and beginning of the 21st century. Global and Planetary Change, 69: 59-70. Doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.07.001.