Irina Bocherikova

Irina Bocherikova, Laboratory Assistant

ResearchGate:  Irina Bocherikova

РИНЦ AuthorID:  4634-2844

1. Personal data

Name                       Bocherikova Irina

Date of birth          11.05.2000

Address                    prospect Mira, 1, 236022 Kaliningrad, Russia

E-mail: ibocherikova@yandex.ru

Web: www.atlantic.ocean.ru

2. Present position:

Laboratory Assistant, Laboratory for Marine Physics, Atlantic Branch of Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Kaliningrad, Russia

3. Research fields

marine microplastics:

  • environmental monitoring;

marine litter:

  • micro/meso/macroplastics in marine environment;
  • Experiments with sea and fresh ice with plastics

4. Language skills

English (basic); Russian (native)

5. Education:

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, 2022-2024, master (Specialty: Geoecology of the ocean and coastal territories)

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, 2018-2022 (Specialty: Geography)

6. Research Projects

2024-present: Mechanisms of sorting of plastic objects in the coastal zone of the sea and associated plastic mass fluxes within the coastal zone and into the open sea (Russian Science Foundation, project № 24-17-00099, participant)

7. Selected publications:

Journal papers:

  1. Esiukova, E., Lobchuk, O., Fetisov, S., Bocherikova, I., Kantakov, G., Chubarenko, I., 2024. Baltic plastic soup recipe: presence of paraffin increases micro- and mesoplastic contamination. Regional Studies in Marine Science 74, 103554. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2024.103554
  2. Chubarenko, I., Bocherikova, I., Esiukova, E., Isachenko, I., Kupriyanova, A., Lobchuk, O., Fetisov, S., 2023. Microplastics in sea ice: A fingerprint of bubble flotation. Science of The Total Environment 164611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164611
  3. Bocherikova, I. Yu. and I. P. Chubarenko, 2022: Microplastics content in ice, snow and under-ice water of the Curonian Lagoon in winter 2021. Journal of oceanological research, 50 (3), 102–117, https://doi.org/10.29006/1564-2291.JOR-2022.50(3).6.