VALENTINA A. TESLENKO

TITLE:

Researcher, Laboratory of Freshwater Hydrobiology, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia.

EDUCATION:

M.S., hydrobiology, Far Eastern University, Department of Biology and Soil Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1977.

Ph.D., Biology, Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1992.

POSITIONS:

Research Assistant, Laboratory of Freshwater Hydrobiology, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1981.

Engineer, Laboratory of Freshwater Hydrobiology, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1986.

Scientific worker, Laboratory of Freshwater Hydrobiology, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1988.

Researcher, Laboratory of Freshwater Hydrobiology, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1992.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

Russian Hydrobiological Society.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

Numerous field expeditions throughout the Russian Far East; Japan; survey and inventory of the Kuril Islands, July-August of 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.

PUBLICATIONS:

Since 1986, more than 20 scientific publications on the systematics, distribution, life cycles, growth, metabolism, reproduction, feeding, energetics, and ecology of Plecoptera.

Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:

• TESLENKO, V. A. 1986. Evaluation of the hydrobiological regimen in the Rudnaya River. pp. 116-127, In: Benthic Organisms in Freshwaters of the Soviet Far East. Vladivostok, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, DVNC AN SSSR Press.

• Alimov, A. F., and V. A. TESLENKO. 1988. Structural functioning characteristics of river zoobenthos in the zone of anthropogenic activity. Hydrobiol. Jour., 2:27-31.

• TESLENKO, V. A., and L. A. Zhiltzova. 1989. Larvae of the Siberian and Far Eastern genera of the family Perlidae (Plecoptera). Vestnik Zool., 4:14-30.

• TESLENKO, V. A., and L. A. Zhiltzova. 1992. A new species of the genus Mesyatsia Ricker and Ross from Southern Primorye (the Russian Far East). Aquatic Insects, 1:57-63.

• Zhiltzova, L. A., V. A. TESLENKO, and P. Zwick. 1993. A new species of the genus Kogotus Ricker from Southern Primorye (the Russian Far East). Aquatic Insects, 3:177-184.