Projects

2024–2025

Late Pleistocene to Holocene climate variations and anthropogenic changes in the North German Plain inferred from lake and peat sediments from Schweriner See

Role: Postdoctoral Researcher | Funded by: German Research Foundation (DFG) | Type: Grant | Head: Prof. Dr. Torsten Haberzettl

Article: Ruchkin M. V., Lorenz S., Adolph M.-L., Haberzettl T. Using portable luminescence profiling to refine 14C and OSL-based chronologies of lacustrine littoral sedimentary sequences: a case study from Schweriner See (NE Germany) // Catena. – 2026. – Vol. 271. – 110209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2026.110209

Wooded lakeshore near Schweriner See

2021–2022

High-resolution dating of the Eemian marine deposits at the Sverdlov Factory section (St. Petersburg region, Russia)

Role: PhD Student | Type: Scholarship | Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Vladislav Kuznetsov and Prof. Dr. Tony Reimann

Articles:

Ruchkin M. V., Nosevich E. S., Sheetov M. V., Brill D. Stratigraphy and OSL chronology of the Middle–Upper Pleistocene sedimentary sequence and vegetation history during Late MIS6 – MIS5e in the Neva Lowland (St. Petersburg Region, Russia) // Journal of Quaternary Science. – 2024. – Vol. 39. – P. 745–764. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3618

Ruchkin M. V., Sheetov M. V., Taldenkova E. E., Pushina Z. V., Dudanova V. I., Ovsepyan Ya. S., Konstantinov E. A., Nosevich E. S., Mustafin M. A. Paleohydrological changes in the eastern Baltic Sea during the Middle/Late Pleistocene transition and the Last Interglacial // Quaternary Science Reviews. – 2025. – Vol. 360. – P. 109244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109244

Layered Mga marine deposits with a measuring tapeLayered sediments with a measuring rod at the Sverdlov Factory section

2020–2021

Late Quaternary history of the Siberian Arctic and adjacent areas

Role: PhD Student | Funded by: Danish Government | Type: Scholarship | Supervisors: Dr. Dmitry Nazarov and Prof. Dr. Andrew Murray

Articles: Nazarov D. V., Nikolskaia O. A., Gladysheva A. S., Zhigmanovskiy I. V., Ruchkin M. V., Merkuljev A. V., Thomsen K. J. Evidence for the intrusion of marine Atlantic waters into the West Siberian Arctic during the Middle Pleistocene // Boreas. – 2022. – Vol. 51. – P. 402–425. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12558

Steep riverbank along a river in the Siberian Arctic

The Late Valdai (Late Weichselian) glaciation margin in the Mologa-Sheksna Lowland (NW Russia) and adjacent areas

Conference materials:

Ruchkin M. V., Sadokov D. O. Age and genesis of diamictons in the Mologa-Sheksna Lowland and adjacent areas // XXI Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, July 14th – 20th 2023, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy: Abstract Book. – 2023. – P. 2456–2456. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12749221

Ruchkin M. V., Sadokov D. O. The Late Valdai glaciation margin in the Mologa-Sheksna Lowland and adjacent areas: novel geological and geochronologic data // Geochronology of the Quaternary Period: Instrumental Dating Methods of Newest Deposits: Abstracts of the Conference. – 2022. – P. 64–64 (in Russian).

Folded sediment layers exposed in the Mologa-Sheksna LowlandBoulder embedded in layered sediments in the Mologa-Sheksna Lowland

Balta – A desktop application for grain size distribution data processing and the construction of plots

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Lumen – A desktop application for calculating the luminescence age of sediments

The Kasplya (Zeifen) Interstadial within Termination II in the Neva Lowland (St. Petersburg region, Russia)

Collaborators: Dr. Dmitry Sadokov