Andrey Shmakin
It is with great sorrow that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has learnt of the death of Dr Andrey Shmakin who passed way on 28 June 2013 aged 51 as a result of injuries he sustained from a car accident.
Dr Shmakin was one of the Lead Authors of the IPCC’s Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN).
Dr Shmakin was born on 5 October 1961, in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). In 1983 he graduated from the Meteorology and Climatology Department in the Division of Geography at Moscow State University. He did his army service from 1983 to 1985.
In 1985 Dr Shmakin joined the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences where he worked until his death. He became a research scientist in 1989 and was appointed head of the institute’s Laboratory of Climatology in 2003. In 2012 he was elected Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Dr Shmakin was also a member of the Committee on System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and of the Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences section of the National Geophysical Committee of Russia. He was the Russia’s national delegate to the International Committee on Antarctic Research as well as a member the editorial board of the scientific journal Ice and Snow.
Andrey will be greatly missed by his colleagues in the IPCC, fellow authors and colleagues at the Russian Academy of Sciences.