ANDREI A. BALANOV

TITLE:

Research Scientist, Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

EDUCATION:

B.S., Far East State University, Vladivostok, Russia, 1988.

Ph.D., Biology, Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1995.

POSITIONS:

Student, Far East State University, Vladivostok, 1983-1988.

Junior Researcher, Institute of Marine Biology, Vladivostok, 1988-1991.

Post-graduate student, Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 1991-1994.

Research Scientist, Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 1995-present.

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:

Taxonomy, distribution, feeding ecology, and biology of fishes of the North Pacific Ocean.

PUBLICATIONS:

• BALANOV, A. A., and Y. N. Ilyinsky. 1990. Specific composition and biomass of the mesopelagic fishes of the Bering Sea. Proc. Int. Symp. on Bering Sea fishes, 2-5 April 1990, Khabarovsk, USSR/Seattle, pp. 316-321.

• BALANOV, A. A., and Y. N. Ilyinsky. 1992. Composition and biomass of the mesopelagic fishes of the Bering and Okhotsk seas. Vopr.Icht. (Moscow), 32(1):56-63. [In Russian.]

• BALANOV, A. A. 1992. New records of deep-sea fishes from the pelagic zone of the Bering Sea. Vopr. Icht. (Moscow), 32(4):151-154. [in Russian.]

• BALANOV, A. A. 1994. Feeding of dominant mesopelagic fishes in the Bering Sea. Jour. Ichthyology (Moscow), 34(6):73-82.

• Sazonov, Y.I., A. A. BALANOV, and V. V. Fedorov. 1993. Smoothhead fishes (Alepocephaloidei) of the western North Pacific Ocean. Inst. Oceanol., Russ. Akad. Nauk. (Moscow), 128:40-68. [In Russian with English summary.]

• BALANOV, A. A., D. L. Pitruk, A. M. Orlov. 1994. The diet and some peculiarities of feeding of piscivorous mesopelagic fishes of the Bering Sea. Izv. TINRO. (Vladivostok), 116:105-110. [In Russian with English summary.]

• BALANOV, A. A., K. M. Gorbatenko, and T.A. Gorelova. 1994. Diurnal dynamics of feeding of mesopelagic fishes of the Bering Sea in summer. Vopr. Icht. (Moscow), 34(4):534-541. [In Russian).

• BALANOV, A. A., K. M. Gorbatenko, and A. Y. Efimkin. 1994. Seasonal dynamics of feeding in mesopelagic fishes of the Bering Sea. Vopr.Icht. (Moscow), 34(6):791-799. [In Russian.]

• BALANOV, A.A., K. M. Gorbatenko, and A. Y. Efimkin. 1995. Daily dynamics of feeding of mesopelagic fishes of the Bering Sea during the autumn. Russ. J. Mar. Biol. (Vladivostok), 21(2):106-111.

• BALANOV, A. A., and V. I. Radchenko. 1995. Composition and distribution of fishes in meso- and bathypelagic zone of the Bering and Okhotsk Seas. pp. 335-343, In: B. N. Kotenev and V. V. Sapozhnikov (eds). Complex studies of the Bering Sea ecosystem. VNIRO-press, Moscow. [In Russian.]

• BALANOV, A. A., Y. N. Iliynsky, and O. A. Orlov. 1995. Rare mesopelagic fishes: Scopelosaurus harryi, Arctozenus rissoi, Magnisudis atlantica and Tactostoma macropus in the western North Pacific Ocean. Part 1. Taxonomic descriptions. Vopr. Ichthyol. (Moscow), 35(1):23-27 [In Russian.]