CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

For

Dr. Alexander Begaliev

 

PERSONAL

Birthday: March 14, 1951

Please contact by Mail at: 7789 Othello Ave., San Diego, Ca 92111

Via Phone: (858) 495-3396

Via Fax: (858) 495-3396

Via E-mail: alex5@simplyweb.net

STATUS: Permanent resident of the United States of America A#46316100

EDUCATION

1968-1973 Engineer (Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Land Reclamation) Zhambul University, USSR.

1973-1977 Candidate of Technical Sciences and Civil Engineering, Ph.D., (Post-graduate of Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources), Moscow, USSR.

1996 Doctor of Technical Sciences, Institute of Hydrogeology and Hydrophiysics, Almaty, Kazakstan.

RECENT EMPLOYMENT RECORDS

1974-1977 Research Department at Moscow Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources, Moscow, USSR (Post-graduate).

1977-1989 Head of laboratory. Institute of Water Resources and Water Management, Almaty, Kazakstan.

1989-1998 Head of Laboratory at the University of Hydrogeology and Hydrophysics, Ministry of Sciences-Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakstan.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Formation and modeling of hydrological and hydrogeological process in arid zone; research of the water and salt balances and meteorological resources on the lands; pollution process in grounndwater systems; Isotope applications for studying of formation, genesis, and pollution process in groundwater; environment and water ecology.

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS, MEMBERSHIPS AND DUTIES

Full membership in the International Academy of Ecology and Nature Management; Membership of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Hydrogeology and Hydrophysics of the Academy of Sciences;

Membership of the Technical Scientific Council of the Committee of Water Resources of the Republic of Kazakstan;

Membership of the International Association of Hydrogeologists;

Membership of the Association of Geography of the Republic of Kazakstan.

All proofs and documentations of the above will be furnished upon request.

LIST OF SELECTED TECHNICAL REPORTS

Formation and regulation of hydrogeological and melioration process of technogennous and loading territories of the Ily Basin, 1994, 490 pages.

Formation and control of Hydrogeologic-reclamative process of technogenic-burdened territories of the Ily-Balkhash Basin, 45 pages.

Water resource of the Ily-Balkhash Basin, Kazakstan. Technical report WD/96/47, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, U.K., 1996, 104 pages.

Isotope application for study pollution process of underground water in the Almaty basin.

Technical report for International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, 1997, 126 pages.

Studies of pollution process in the Balkhash Lake Basin. Technical report, Kazakstan, Almaty, 1998, 136 pages. And others.

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

Graduate Level Textbook: A.G. Begaliev, V.V. Veselov; Ecological Problems usage of water resources in the Balkhash Lake Basin, Alma-Ata, 1996, 688 pages.

A.G. Begaliev, V.V. Veselov, N.M. Zakarova, I.N. Gale; Water Resources of the Ily-Balkhash Basin, Kazakstan. British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, U.K.,1996, 124 pages.

A.G. Begaliev, A. A. Rakhymbekov; Efficiency of Irrigated Crop Production, Kaynar, Alma-Ata, 1983, 104 pages.

A.G. Begaliev, P.G. Grebeniukov; Establishing the Regime of Operation and Recommendation on Water Resources on Akdala Massif, Alma-Ata, 1991, 91 pages.

 

 

 

DISSERTATIONS

Candidate’s dissertation title: Modeling hydrogeologic conditions of irrigated lands (water and salt balances, regime and forecast), 1978, 164 pages.

Doctor’s dissertation title: Formation and regulation of hydrogeological and melioration process of technogennous and loading territories of Balkhash Lake Basin, 1996, 490 pages.

INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS OF WORK IN THE FIELD

International Symposium on Isotope Techniques in the Study of Past and current Environmental Changes in the Hydrosphere and the Atmosphere, Vienna, Austria 14-18 April, 1997; 24-26 April 1998.

Subject: Dr. Begaliev, Pollution of Water Resources in the Balkhash Lake Basin (Kazakstan).

The First International Symposium on Application of Tracer in Arid Zone Hydrology, Vienna, Austria, August 22-26, 1994 sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Sections on Isotope Hydrology and International Association of Hydrosciences, the International Committee on Tracer.

International Symposium on Water Resources and Environmental in the Central Asia Region, Urumchi, Chine, 1993, p.45; Drainage water in Balkhash irrigation areas and their influence on water resources. And others.

RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED

Grand awarded by International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, Date 1997-01-21 to enable Dr. Begaliev to participate in the International Symposium on Isotope Techniques.

Grand in the amount of $120,000 awarded by International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, Date 1996-04-17, "Application of Isotope Methods while substantiating ecological-meliorative regimes on Akdaly massif in the basin of the Balkhash lake".

Grand in the amount of $75,000 awarded by British Geological Survey, "Water Resources in the Ili- Balkhash basin", Nottinghum, U.K., 1995.

Grand in the amount of $40,000 awarded by the United States Departmental of Agriculture, "Managing water in the Balkhash Lake Basin", USA.

In July 1996 Dr. Begaliev has been awarded a scientific visit under the Agency’s Technical Cooperation Programms for 1996 to Vienna (Austria, IAEA) and San Diego, Menlo Park, (USA, US Geological Survey).

Grand in the amount of $440,000 awarded by International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, "Isotope Application for study of Pollution Sources and Transport Dynamics in Balkhash Lake Basin (Kazakstan)"., 1998-2000. And others.

 

OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST

Teaching, consulting, field work, extensive research.

LIST OF SELECTED RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

A.G. Begaliev; Formation and regulation of hydrogeological and melioration process of technogennous and loading territories of the Ili-Bakhash basin, 1994, 490 pages.

A.G. Begaliev; Formation and control of hydrogeologic-reclamative process of technogenic-burdened territories of the Ili-Bakhash basin; Kazakstan, Alma-Ata, 1994, 45 pages.

A.G. Begaliev; Development of a regime for rice field irrigation for salted areas of the Karatal Kuzilkum massif, Djambul Hydromelioration Institute, Kazakstan, 186 pages, 1975-1978.

A.G. Begaliev; Development of the basin for programmed crop harvests on the Akdala Massif, Institute of Water Resources of Kazakstan, 260 pages, 1979-1983.

A.G. Begaliev; Research on the water and salt balance and meteorological resources of irrigated lands of the Akdala massif. Development of rational regimes for irrigation of the deserts, Institute of Water Resources, Kazakstan, 443 pages, 1983-1988.

A.G. Begaliev; Complex hydrogeological research on the conditions of lands of the Akdala Massif, Institute of Hydrogeological and Hydrophisics, 338 pages, 1986-1989.

A.G. Begaliev; The influence of hydrogeological and land reclamation conditions of the Akdala collective farm on the filtration of the quality of water in the irrigation and drainage system of canals, Institute of Hydrogeological and Hydrophisics, 137 pages, 1989.

A.G. Begaliev; The impact of hydrogeologic conditions of the Akdala massif on water filtration from the irrigated canals, Institute of Hydrogeological and Hydrophisics, 101 pages, 1989.

A.G. Begaliev; Research on waste water during filtration. Water quality on irrigated areas in the collective farms, Institute of Hydrogeological and Hydrophisics, 138 pages, 1989.

A.G. Begaliev; Conditions of formation of underground water in the Tasmurunsk massif and the reasons for its agriculture usage, Institute of Hydrogeological and Hydrophisics, 147 pages, 1980.

 

 

Total publications – 64 including monographs and books in field of hydrology, hydrogeology, environment, and water ecology.