Oceanography, Ocean Technology and Marine Biology

Maksim Koval graduated from the Far East Technical University of Fishery Industry (Vladivostok, Russia) in 1994 (specialties: hydrobiology and ichthyology). Same year began to work in Kamchatka Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (KamchatNIRO, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky). In 1994-2011 was participant and coordinator of marine research expeditions in offshore and coastal water of the North Pacific and the Far East Seas (including international cruises under North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission programs). In 2007 has defended a PhD with the dissertation “Forage base and feeding particularities of Pacific salmon in the Kamchatkan waters of the Okhotsk and Bering seas and in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean”. Since 2012 main research project: Ecology of Coastal, Estuarine and Freshwater Ecosystem of the Kamchatka.