Main Researcher
DSc (Geological and Mineralogical Sciences), Professor
Paleoecology and Biostratigraphy Laboratory
Marine Geology
Geologist, DSc (Geological-Mineralogical Sciences) (1984), Professor (1989), from 1981 to 2005 – head of the Laboratory of paleoecology and biostratigraphy, 2005 chief researcher, Laboratory of paleoecology and biostratigraphy
In 1957 he graduated from the Geological faculty of Moscow state University and began working at the Institute of Oceanology, where he is currently working.
In 1964 he defended the MSU PhD thesis "the Stratigraphy of bottom sediments from the North Atlantic ocean planktonic foraminifera". In this work he for the first time in the world of science was reconstructed late Quaternary paleo-temperature of the surface water on the structure of thanatocoenoses planktonic foraminifera. For the first time in our country, he carried out the paleo-temperature analysis by the ratio of oxygen isotopes in shells of foraminifera (Barash, Gromov, 1969).
In 1984 he defended his thesis for the degree of doctor of geological-mineralogical Sciences on the topic "Quaternary paleoceanology Atlantic ocean", since 1989 – Professor, specialty "Geology of oceans and seas".
He is the founder and head of this direction of paleooceanology as paleooceanological reconstruction on paleoecological data.
For the first time in the world in 1960 years he established a statistical relations between environmental conditions and ocean distribution of the planktonic foraminifera, which allowed to solve the inverse problem is to reconstruct ecological conditions in the fossil complexes of these organisms.
He is one of the creators of "a Large cylindrical dredge", an indispensable instrument in the geological routes.
He participated in numerous oceanological expeditions in the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific oceans, in the Norwegian, Japanese, Okhotsk, Solomon and new Guinea seas on expedition vessels "Mikhail Lomonosov", "Equator" and the boats of the Institute.
He leads the working group "Stratigraphy" of the Scientific Council on problems of World ocean of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He is the author of about 200 published scientific works, including 6 monographs and Atlas.
- Barash M.S. Environmental Conditions as the Cause of the Great Mass Extinction of Marine Organisms in the Late Devonian // Doklady Earth Sciences. 2017. V. 475. Part 2. P. 845–848. researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Causes of the Great Mass Extinction of Marine Organisms in the Late Devonian // Oceanology. 2016. V. 56. N 6. P. 863-875. researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Changes in Environmental Conditions as the Cause of the Marine Biota Great Mass Extinction at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary // Doklady Earth Sciences. 2016. V. 466. Part 2. P. 119-122. ISSN 1028-334X. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Abiotic Causes of the Great Mass Extinction of Marine Biota at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary // Oceanology. June 2015. V. 55. N. 3. P. 374-382. DOI: 10.1134/S0001437015030017. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Environmental Conditions of the Mass Extinction of Marine Biota at the End of the Ordovician //Doklady Earth Sciences. 2014. V. 456. No. 2. P. 667-669. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Mass Extinction of Marine Biota at the Boundary of the Late Ordovician and Silurian in Response to Changes in Environmental Conditions // Oceanology. 2014. V. 54. No. 6. P. 780-787. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Evolution and Development of Marine Biota in the Paleozoic as Affected by Abiotic Factors // PROBLEMS OF BIOSPHERE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION. V. 2. E.M. GALIMOV (Ed.). Chapter 10. NY: Nova Science Publishers. 2014. P. 229-262. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Evolution and Development of Marine Biota in the Paleozoic As Affected by Abiotic Factors // In book: PROBLEMS OF BIOSPHERE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION, 2014. Edition: 1, Chapter: 10, Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. † New York, Editors: E. M. GALIMOV. P. 229-262. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Interaction of the Reasons for the Mass Biota Extinctions in the Phanerozoic // Oceanology. 2013. V. 53. No. 6. P. 739-749. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Causes and Prime Causes of Mass Biotic Extinctions in the Phanerozoic // Doklady Earth Sciences. 2012. V. 445. Part 2. P. 925-928. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Mass Extinction of Ocean Organisms at the Paleozoic-Mesozoic Boundary: Effects and Causes // Oceanology. 2012. V. 52. No. 2. P. 238-248. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Causes of Mass Extinction of Sea Organisms at the Paleozoic-Mesozoic Boundary // Doklady Earth Sciences. 2011. V. 438. Part 2. P. 750-753. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Environmental Changes in the Neogene and the Biotic Response // Oceanology. 2011. V. 51. No. 2. P. 306-314. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Factors Responsible for Catastrophic Extinction of Marine Organisms at the Mesozoic-Cenozoic boundary // Oceanology. 2011. V. 51. No. 4. P. 640-651. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Paleozoic apocalypse: what causes? // Biosphere Origin and Evolution. III Int. Conf. October 16-20, 2011. Crete, Greece. Abstracts. P.135-137. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Mass extinction and Ecological turnovers at the Permian-Triassic boundary: causes and effects // Proc. Sixth Intern. Conf. «Environmental Micropaleontology, Microbiology and Meiobenthology», EMMM-2011, September 19-22, 2011. Moscow: PIN RAS. P. 49-50.
- Barash M.S. Response of Oceanic Organisms to Abiotic Events in the Paleogene // Oceanology. 2009. V. 49. No. 3. P. 385-395. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Evolution of the Mesozoic Oceanic Biota: Response to Abiotic Factors // Oceanology. 2008. V. 48. No. 4. P. 538-553. © Pleiades Publishing, Inc., 2008. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S., Matul A.G., Kazarina G.Kh., Khusid T.A., Abelmann A., Biebow N., N?rnberg D., Tiedemann R. Paleoceanography of the central Sea of Okhotsk during the middle Pleistocene (350-190 ka) as inferred from micropaleontological data // Oceanology. 2006. Т. 46. № 4. С. 501-512. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S. Development of marine biota in the Paleozoic in response to abiotic factors // Oceanology. 2006. V. 46. № 6. P. 848-858. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S., Chekhovskaya M.P., Biebow N., N?rnberg D., Tiedeman R. On the Quaternary paleoceanology of the southeastern part of the Sea of Okhotsk from lithology and planktonic foraminifera // Oceanology. 2005. Т. 45. № 2. С. 257-268. www.researchgate.net
- Khusid T.A., Barash M.S., Biebow N., N?rnberg D., Tiedemann R. Late Quaternary environmental changes on the Southeastern slope of the Sea of Okhotsk inferred from benthic foraminifera // Oceanology. 2005. V. 5. P. 413-419. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S., Kazarina G.Kh., Kruglikova S.B., Safarova S.A., Khankishieva L.M. On the Neogene Paleogeography of the North Yamato Rise (Sea of Japan) from Biostratigraphic and Seismostratigraphic Data // Oceanology. 2003. V. 43. No. 4. P. 542-550. www.researchgate.net
- Khusid T.A., Barash M.S. Middle-Late Quaternary benthic foraminifera communities in the central part of the Okhotsk Sea (the north-western Pacific) // FORAMS 2002. Int. Symp. on Foraminifera. 4-8 Febr. 2002. Perth, Australia. 2002. P.100-101. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S., Bubenshchikova N.V. About the reason of abnormal distribution of N. pachyderma sin. in Quaternary sediments of the Okhotsk Sea as a subarctic basin of the northwest Pacific // FORAMS 2002. Int. Symp. on Foraminifera. 4-8 Febr. 2002. Perth, Australia. 2002. P. 82. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S., Yushina G., Spielhagen R.F. Reconstructions of the Quaternary Paleohydrological Variability by Planktonic Foraminifers (North Atlantic,Reykjanes Ridge) // Oceanology. V. 42. No. 5. 2002. P. 711-722. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259333321
- Kuzin I.P., Barash M.S. On the Influence of the Rayleigh Waves from the Strongest (M > 7.5) Central American Earthquakes on the Sedimentary Formations within the Clarion-Clipperton Province // Oceanology. 2002. V. 42. No. 4. P. 547-556 . www.researchgate.net
- Kuzin I.P., Barash M.S. A Possible Mechanism for the Ferromanganese Nodules "Floating" in the Near Equatorial Part of the Pacific Ocean // Oceanology. 2002. V.42. No. 5. P. 709-713. www.researchgate.net
- Kuzin I.P., Barash M.S. Mechanism of manganese nodules accumulation and their maintenance at the sediment surface (Clarion-Clipperton Province, the Pacific) // Minerals of ocean. Int. Conf. 20-23 April. St.Petersburg. VNIIOkeangeologia. 2002. P. 55-57. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S., Bubenshchikova N.V., Kazarina G.Kh., Khusid T.A. Paleoceanography of the Central Part of the Sea of Okhotsk over the Past 200 ky (on the Basis of Micropaleontological Data). // Oceanology. 2001. V. 41. No. 5. P.723-735. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S., Bubenshchikova N.W., Kasarina G.Kh. Influence of the Quaternary climatic fluctuation on the structure of the upper water layer on the Okhotsk Sea // 7-th Intern. Confer. on Paleoceanography. Sapporo. Septemb. 2001. P. 79. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S., Kruglikova S.B., Mukhina. Stratigraphic features of the sedimentary formations of the Clarion-Clipperton province (Eastern equatorial Pacific) // Oceanology. 2000. V. 40. V. 3. P. 396-405. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S., Kruglikova S.B. Age of manganese nodules of the Clarion-Clipperton Province and the problem of nodule maintenance at the sediment surface // PACON-99 Proceedings. Symp. on "Humanity and the World Ocean: Interdependence at the Dawn of the New Millenium". Honolulu: PACON International, 2000. P. 220-230. www.researchgate.net
- Barash M.S., Yushina I.G. Reconstructions of the Quaternary North Atlantic paleohydrological variability by means of planktic foraminifera data (method of factor analysis and spline interpolation) // Reports on Polar Research. Eds. R. Spielhagen, M. Barash et al. AWI for Polar and Marine Research. Berichte zur Polarforshung. 1999. N 306. P. 4-35. www.researchgate.net
