Whales of the Southern Ocean / Advances in Polar Ecology Bd.5 (PDF)

Yuri Aleskeysvich Mikhalev was graduated from Biological department of Kishinev State University 1963 with major in biologist-zoologist, and was hired as senior scientist in the sea mammal laboratory in Odessa branch of AzCherNIRO. He took part as a scientific group member in 6 cruises of Soviet whaling fleets "Slava" (1965-66), "Sovetskaya Ukraina" (1964-65), "Yuri Dolgorukiy" (1966-67) and scientific-research vessel "Bodriy-25" (1973-74 and 1974-75).



1970 he became a chief of the mammal laboratory in Odessa branch of AzCherNIRO. He is author of more that 100 papers, most of them were published abroad. His first thesis was about biology of Antarctic fin whale reproduction (Scientific Council of All-union Institute of Sea Fishery and Oceanography, Moscow, 1972). Two doctorate theses were about biology of whales of Southern Hemisphere (specialty "environment protection and rational use of nature resources", Scientific Council of Institute of Ecology Problems and Evolution, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 1997, and "zoology", Scientific Council of Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kiev, 2005). He was awarded with 150-years of Antarctica discovery medal for his research of Antarctic cetaceans.



When 1982 the mammal laboratory was closed he started to work as professor of anatomy and physiology department of State Pedagogical University (Odessa, Ukraine). Now he is working in the Institute of Marine Biology of Ukrainian Academy of Science in Odessa.

Since 1994 he is an independent expert of Scientific Committee of International Whaling Commission (IWC), since 1995 he is a member of the Marine Mammal Council (Moscow, Russia).