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In 1980 Chuvilin E.M. graduated Geocryology Department of the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University. From 1980 to 1983 he continued the study as a Ph.D. student at the Geological Faculty. After successful graduation, he was assigned to the Department of Geocryology of Moscow State University, where he worked as a Junior Research Scientist (1983-1987), Research Scientist (1987-1988), Assistant (1988-1989), and Leading Research Scientist (1989-1993). From 1993 to 2018, he worked as an Associate Professor at the Department of Geocryology, where he developed and taught a number of training courses dedicated to general geocryology, physical chemistry and petrography of frozen rocks, gases and gas hydrates in the permafrost zone, and also conducted practical exercises on these courses. Along with working at Moscow State University for part-time work at 0.5 rates, he worked as Senior Research Scientist at the Schlumberger Moscow Research Center (2006-2015), as well as a Leading Research Scientist at the Skoltech Hydrocarbon Production Center (2014-2017). From 2018 to the present, he has been working full-time as a Leading Research Scientist at the Skoltech Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery.
The area of scientific interests of Chuvilin E.M. is physical chemistry and petrography of frozen and hydrate saturated rocks, gases and gas hydrates in the permafrost zone, experimental modeling of hydrate and ice formation processes in rocks, investigation of the properties of frozen and hydrate saturated rocks, migration of organic and mineral pollutants in the permafrost zone. With his participation and under his leadership, experimental technologies have been developed to study the processes of ice and hydrate formation in freezing and frozen rocks and their influence on the properties of rocks. He was a participant in the discovery of the self-preservation effect of gas hydrates at low temperatures (1988). Chuvilin E.M. has more than 300 publications (including articles in high-ranking journals, paragraphs, and sections in monographs and textbooks), as well as 21 patents for inventions. Currently, he has the following scientific activity indices Scopus -27, WoS -23.
Chuvilin E.M. was the head of many grants of the Russian Federal Property Fund, Russian Science Foundation, CRDF, as well as Russian and international scientific projects, including projects with Gazprom, Total, and the Geological Survey of Canada. He repeatedly traveled abroad to participate in joint scientific research, conferences, and seminars (USA, Canada, Japan, China, UK, Norway, Germany, Belgium, etc.). In 1996, he worked for several months in Canada (Carleton University and the Geological Survey of Canada), where he was engaged in gas hydrate research. A year and a half (2001-2002) he worked in the Gas Hydrate Laboratory at The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Sapporo).
Under his leadership, 59-student diplomas, as well as 10 PhD dissertations, were defended. Currently, he is the head of the Laboratory of Permafrost and Gas Hydrates at the Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery, as well as the supervisor of dissertations and master’s theses at Skoltech and Moscow State University, and he teaches the Permafrost and Gas hydrates course for undergraduates at Skoltech.
Supervisor: Mikhail Spasennykh
Research Area
Experimental, theoretical and field studies on permafrost and gas hydrates in the oil and gas production regions in the Arctic and on the Arctic shelf
Projects
LIST OF REFERRED PUBLICATIONS IN SCOPUS & WOS
PATENTS
Education
June 1984: Ph.D. Geology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Ph.D. Thesis on Geocryology.
September 1980: M.S. Geology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Suggested topics for master’s theses
PhD theses defended under the supervision of E. Chuvilin
2022 -Ekimova Valentina (Skoltech) – Experimental modeling of gas hydrates interaction with a salt solution in permafrost
2021 -Grebenkin Sergey (Melnikov Permafrost Institute) – Regularities of changes in sediment permeability during ice and hydrate formation.
2021 -Davletshina Dinara (Melnikov Permafrost Institute) – Regularities of the formation and decomposition of gas hydrates in frozen sediments
2013 -Bukhanov Boris (MSU) – Patterns of changes in the thermal conductivity of gas and hydrate–bearing sediments under various pressure and temperature conditions.
2011 -Guryeva Olga (MSU) – Hydrate formation processes during CO2 sequestration in permafrost.
2004 -Kozlova (Tkacheva) Ekaterina (MSU) – Regularities of hydrate and ice formation in gas–saturated sediments.
2002 -Miklyaeva Evgeniya (MSU) – Regularities of oil transfer in frozen and freezing grounds in case of their technogenic pollution.
2001 -Perlova Elena (MSU) – Features of the gas content of permafrost on the example of the northwestern part of the Yamal Peninsula.
1997 -Smirnova Olga (MSU) – Migration of ions of chemical elements in frozen sediments and ice (co-supervisor Ershov E.D).
1996 -Naletova (Sokolova) Natalia (MSU) – Mass transfer and cryogenic structure and texture formation in freezing saline sediments (co-supervisor Ershov E.D).
Master’s theses defended under the supervision of E. Chuvilin since 2018
2023 – Pankratova Elena ( Skoltech). Effect of Pressure Decreasing and Temperature Rising on Thermal Conductivity Changes of Frozen Hydrate Bearing Sandy Reservoirs.
2023 – Krivokhat Ekaterina (Skoltech). Experimental Modeling of the Interaction of Frozen Hydrate-Saturated Rocks With Saline Solutions.
2022 – Zolotarev Aleksandr (Skoltech). Computationally efficient forward seismic modeling in heterogeneous multi-scale media using meshless scheme with radial basis functions (co-supervisor Pissarenko)
2020 – Merkulova Maria (Skoltech). Determination of temperature conditions of pore water transition to hydrate and ice in the Turonian reservoirs
2020 – Ogienko Mariia (Skoltech). Evaluation of the thermal interaction of gas production wells with gas hydrate bearing permafrost
2020- Mahankali Varun (Skoltech). Assessing the nature and degree of various factors influencing the geomechanical properties of hydrate-bearing sediments
2020- Mingareeva Gusel (MSU). Determination of the freezing temperature of soils and the content of unfrozen water in them in the spectrum of negative temperatures by measuring the activity of pore moisture
2020- Maksim Zhmaev (MSU). Changes in gas permeability of frozen sandy rocks during the formation and decomposition of gas hydrates
2019 – Shevchik Franz (MSU). Assessment of unfrozen water content in frozen rocks of various compositions based on experimental determinations of pore moisture activity
2018 – Ekimova Valentina (Skoltech). Experimental modeling of methane recovery from gas hydrate saturated sediments by flue gas / nitrogen injection
Research Interests
The area of scientific interests of Chuvilin E.M. is physical chemistry and petrography of frozen and hydrate saturated rocks, gases and gas hydrates in the permafrost zone, experimental modeling of hydrate and ice formation processes in rocks, investigation of the properties of frozen and hydrate saturated rocks, migration of organic and mineral pollutants in the permafrost zone.
Past Project
2023 – Skoltech Staff Excellence Award (Skoltech Open Vote) in the “Strategic Research Excellence Award” category for permafrost and gas hydrate research in the Arctic
2008 – awarded a diploma from the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia
2005 -awarded a diploma from the Ministry of Education of Russia
1997- awarded the medal “850th Anniversary of Moscow”
1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001 -five times was awarded the title Soros Associate Professor
1994- the title of Associate Professor
1993- the title of Senior Researcher
1992- Honored Associate Professor of the Glaciology and Geocryology Institute of the Academy of Sciences of China
Popular science publications
2023 – Chuvilin E., Sokolova N. Temperature anomalies of bottom sediments in the Arctic seas (in Russian). https://goarctic.ru/nauka-i-kultura/temperaturnye-anomalii-donnykh-otlozheniy-arkticheskikh-morey/
2022 – Chuvilin E., Sokolova N. What do the hillocks on the surface of the tundra hide in themselves? (in Russian). https://goarctic.ru/priroda/chto-tayat-v-sebe-bugry-na-poverkhnosti-tundry/
2021 – Chuvilin E., Sokolova N. Gas hydrates in “non-permafrost” (in Russian) https://goarctic.ru/news/gazovye-gidraty-v-nevechnoy-merzlote/
2020 – Chuvilin E., Sokolova N. Frozen – frosty, thawed – unfrozen: such different arctic soils (in Russian) https://goarctic.ru/regions/myerzlye-moroznye-talye-nemyerzlye-takie-raznye-arkticheskie-grunty/
2020 – Chuvilin E., Sokolova N. Paradoxes of the Arctic: non-freezing water in permafrost (in Russian) https://goarctic.ru/work/paradoksy-arktiki-nezamerzayushchaya-voda-v-merzlote/?sphrase_id=4967
2020 – Chuvilin E., Sokolova N. Methane breath underwater permafrost (in Russian) https://goarctic.ru/work/metanovyy-vydokh-podvodnoy-merzloty/
2019 – Chuvilin E., Sokolova N. Craters are changing the landscape of the Arctic (in Russian) https://goarctic.ru/work/kratery-menyayut-landshaft-arktiki/
2019 – Chuvilin E., Sokolova N. Methane in permafrost – resource or danger? (in Russian) https://goarctic.ru/work/metan-v-merzlote-resurs-ili-opasnost/
Press response
English
2017- Response to the article in Energy & Fuels about Effect of Hydrate Formation Conditions on Thermal Conductivity of Gas-Saturated Sediments. https://advanceseng.com/effect-of-hydrate-formation-conditions-on-thermal-conductivity-of-gas-saturated-sediments/
2019 – Response to the article in Geosciences about new reason for the release of methane into the atmosphere on the Arctic shelf. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/492576
2020 – Response to the article in Geosciences about Gas-emission craters of northern West Siberia: characteristics, models of gas accumulation and explosive gas emissions. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/sios-hbm060320.php
2020 – Press response to field research of a new gas emission crater in Yamal (August, 2020). https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/uncategorized/5998409/giant-holes-forms-siberia-melting-permafrost/amp/; https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/04/world/craters-tundra-siberia-trnd-scn/index.html; https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/09/colossal-crater-found-Siberia-what-made-it/
2021 – Response to the article in Energy & Fuels about Gas Permeability of Sandy Sediments: Effects of Phase Changes in Pore Ice and Gas Hydrates. https://phys.org/news/2021-06-permafrost-methane-arctic.html; https://earth-chronicles.com/science/researchers-show-how-permafrost-releases-methane-in-the-warming-arctic.html
2021 – Response to the article in Geosciences about Formation of Gas-Emission Craters in Northern West Siberia: Shallow Controls. https://shirlleycoyle.wordpress.com/2021/09/28/the-ground-is-literally-exploding-due-to-climate-change-in-siberia-and-its-going-to-get-worse/
2021 – Response to the article in Marine and Petroleum Geology about Thermal properties of sediments in the East Siberian Arctic Seas. https://www.hse.ru/en/news/research/547235402.html; https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kbmzb/the-arctic-seafloor-is-degrading-and-could-be-a-climate-time-bomb
2022 – Response to the article in Cold Regions Science and Technology about Freezing point and unfrozen water contents of permafrost soils: Estimation by the water potential method. https://www.skoltech.ru/en/2022/03/new-technique-for-monitoring-soil-freezing-will-make-building-on-permafrost-safer/
2022 – Response to the article in Geosciences about Simulating Thermal Interaction of Gas Production Wells with Relict Gas Hydrate-Bearing Permafrost. https://phys.org/news/2022-04-gas-saturated-permafrost-oil-gas-wells.html?msclkid=ef3f68ffc40d11ec89ad2ff45b53b5de; https://www.miragenews.com/research-predicts-thawing-of-gas-saturated-766577/?msclkid=b89df8eec40e11ec8b8eabec018789a2
2022 – Response to the articles in Geosciences and Energy&Fuels about various aspects of the penetration of sea salt and other salts into frozen soil containing gas hydrates. https://phys.org/news/2022-08-reveal-salt-climate.html
2022 – Storys in CNN’s science newsletter. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/04/world/craters-tundra-siberia-trnd-scn/index.html; https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/12/world/permafrost-climate-change-explainer-scn/index.html/
2022 – Turkish TV interview about craters in Siberia. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/environment/methane-blowout-craters-in-siberia-are-canary-in-a-coal-mine-for-global-climate-/2686703
2022 – Responses to Interview for Newsweek. https://outsider.com/outdoors/news-outdoors/watch-100-foot-wide-gate-to-hell-crater-opens-russian-town/
Russian
2018 – Response to the article in Cold Regions Science and Technology about The effect of gas hydrates on the strength of permafrost. https://nauka.tass.ru/nauka/6816952
2018- The article about Gas emissions from frozen rocks in Yamal. https://www.promved.ru/articles/article.phtml?id=3209&nomer=117
2019- Response to the article in Geosciences about new reason for the release of methane into the atmosphere on the Arctic shelf. https://tass.ru/nauka/6452770; https://naked-science.ru/article/sci/otkryta-novaya-prichina-vybrosa; https://ria.ru/20190521/1553665276.html
2019- Response to the articles in Scientific reports about Gas from fuel combustion has been adapted to extract methane from permafrost. https://nauka.tass.ru/nauka/7446905; https://naked-science.ru/article/column/uchenye-nashli-novyj-sposob-izvlecheniya-metana-iz-vechnoj-merzloty?amp
2020 – Response to the articles in Geosciences about Gas-emission craters of northern West Siberia: characteristics, models of gas accumulation and explosive gas emissions. https://ria.ru/20200603/1572405293.html; https://nauka.tass.ru/nauka/8636891; https://vz.ru/news/2020/6/3/1042947.html
2020 – Press response to the participation of employees of the Skoltech Hydrocarbon Production Center in the 2019-2020 Arctic marine expedition. https://old.sk.ru/news/b/articles/archive/2020/01/29/ne-upustit-liderstva-v-odnom-iz-vazhneyshih-napravleniy-nauk-o-zemle.aspx; https://www.skoltech.ru/2020/12/uchenye-skolteha-v-sostave-mezhdunarodnoj-arkticheskoj-ekspeditsii-novye-otkrytiya-i-gorizonty-dlya-nauchnyh-issledovanij/
2021 – Response to the article in Energy & Fuels about Gas Permeability of Sandy Sediments: Effects of Phase Changes in Pore Ice and Gas Hydrates. http://www.ngv.ru/news/issledovateli_pokazali_kak_vechnaya_merzlota_vydelyaet_metan_v_tepleyushchey_arktike/; https://scientificrussia.ru/articles/issledovateli-pokazali-kak-vechnaya-merzlota-vydelyaet-metan-v-tepleyushchej-arktike;
2021 – Response to the article in Marine and Petroleum Geology about Thermal properties of sediments in the East Siberian Arctic Seas. https://scientificrussia.ru/articles/sol-led-tocit-ucenye-nazvali-priciny-uazvimosti-podvodnoj-merzloty; https://lenta.ru/news/2021/12/29/ice/
2022 – Response to the article in Cold Regions Science and Technology about Freezing point and unfrozen water contents of permafrost soils: Estimation by the water potential method. https://nauka.tass.ru/nauka/14063541?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop; https://naked-science.ru/article/column/novaya-tehnologiya-otsenki-zamerzaniya-vody-v-gruntah
2022 – Response to the article in Geosciences about Simulating Thermal Interaction of Gas Production Wells with Relict Gas Hydrate-Bearing Permafrost. https://naked-science.ru/article/column/sprognozirovano-tayanie-gazonasyshhennoj-merzloty?msclkid=d4d6d379c40c11eca7aa4eec05c23c20; https://nangs.org/news/upstream/uchjonye-sprognozirovali-tayanie-gazonasyshchennoj-merzloty-vokrug-dobyvayushchikh-skvazhin-rossijskoj-arktiki?msclkid=c13af81fc40c11ecb0c61f4e5169084d
2022 – Response to the articles in Geosciences and Energy&Fuels about various aspects of the penetration of sea salt and other salts into frozen soil containing gas hydrates. https://nauka.tass.ru/nauka/15597333; https://mir24.tv/news/16521618/uchenye-nashli-mehanizmy-vliyayushchie-na-proniknovenie-soli-v-podvodnuyu-vechnuyu-merzlotu; https://naked-science.ru/article/column/uchenye-vyyasnili-v-chem-sol-globalnogo
2022 – About Interview with the PRIME Economic Information Agency (Russia Today media group). https://1prime.ru/energy/20220425/836744219.html; https://gazo.ru/ru/news/sector/ekspert-predupredil-ob-ugrozakh-dlya-dobychi-gaza-v-arktike/; https://www.angi.ru/news/2898314-Таяние
2022 – Participation in the Russian Geographical Society Festival from Skoltech. https://elementy.ru/events/444062/Skoltekh_na_Festivale_RGO_Evgeniy_Chuvilin_Rossiyskaya_Arktika_i_zagadki_vechnoy_merzloty?period=m
2022 -The film about Skoltech scientists at the Festival of Contemporary Scientific Films. https://www.skoltech.ru/2022/09/filmy-pro-uchyonyh-skolteha-pokazhut-v-kinoteatrah-moskvy/
2023 – Response to the article in Marine and Petroleum Geology about temperatures of bottom sediments and underwater permafrost on the Russian Arctic shelf. https://naked-science.ru/article/column/v-skoltehe-predstavili-no; https://www.atomic-energy.ru/news/2023/09/21/138920; https://neftegas.info/news/article/21279
2023 –About «Vesti-Yamal» report on a visit to the carbon test site in Labytnangi. https://vesti-yamal.ru/ru/vjesti_jamal/rossiiskie_uchenye_prileteli_na_yamal_dlya_izucheniya_tayaniya_vechnoi_merzloty/; https://goarctic.ru/news/uchenye-iz-skolkovo-prileteli-na-karbonovyy-poligon-v-labytnangi-yanao-dlya-izucheniya-tayaniya-vech/
2023 –About Batagaika thermokarst sinkhole. https://dzen.ru/a/ZDUEdJfq7GBJG8Vi
2023 – From TASS interview about the solar eclipse in Yamal (September, 19380. https://tass.ru/spec/solnechnoe-zatmenie?
2024 – Review of cratering models in the north of Western Siberia. https://dzen.ru/a/ZbM9TmoqZwOACafs
2024 – Response to the article in Cold Regions Science and Technology about Gas flow in frozen hydrate-bearing sediments exposed to compression and high-pressure gradients: Experimental modeling. https://iz.ru/1774404/denis-gricenko/detonacionnyi-bum-vzryvy-v-arktike-smodeliruut-s-pomosu-ustanovki