Dr Kanayim Teshebaeva is an Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences with over 15 years of expertise in geospatial technologies, remote sensing, and climate change research in high-mountain and Arctic regions. She holds a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Potsdam and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), and an M.Tech in Remote Sensing and GIS from the UN-affiliated Center for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific.
Her research centers on satellite-based monitoring of permafrost, landslides, earthquakes, and geomorphic processes, utilizing advanced methods such as Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) time-series analysis and cloud-based geospatial platforms. Dr Teshebaeva has contributed to numerous international research initiatives, including postdoctoral roles at GFZ and the Free University of Amsterdam, and consultancy work with IFAD, FAO, and UNDP.
She has published in leading peer-reviewed journals, presented at international conferences, and actively mentors students and early-career researchers. Committed to capacity building, she regularly leads workshops and summer schools on climate risk assessment and geospatial technologies.
Publications
- Ferrer, J. V., Samprogna Mohor, G., Dewitte, O., Pánek, T., Reyes‐Carmona, C., Handwerger, A. L., … Korup, O. (2024). Human Settlement Pressure Drives Slow‐Moving Landslide Exposure. Earth's Future, 12(9), e2024EF004830.
- Puzanov, A., Drost, H., Kirillov, V., Lovtskaya, O., Balykin, D., Koveshnikov, M., … Kovalevskaya, N. (2024). Comprehensive monitoring of Central Yamal lakes based on multispectral imaging usage. Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 21(1), 308-322.
- Teshebaeva, K., van Huissteden, K. J., Echtler, H., Puzanov, A. V., Balykin, D. N., Sinitsky, A. I., … Dolman, H. A. J. (2021). Permafrost Dynamics and Degradation in Polar Arctic From Satellite Radar Observations, Yamal Peninsula. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 741556.
- Plutalova, T., Teshebaeva, K., Balykin, D., Puzanov, A., Huissteden, J., Koveshnikov, M., … Kovalevskaya, N. (2021). Central Yamal vegetation monitoring based on Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 imagery. In Spatial Data Processing for Monitoring of Natural and Anthropogenic Processes 2021 (pp. 330-342).
- van Huissteden, J., Teshebaeva, K., Cheung, Y., Magnússon, R. Í., Noorbergen, H., Karsanaev, S. V., … Dolman, A. J. (2021). Geomorphology and InSAR-Tracked Surface Displacements in an Ice-Rich Yedoma Landscape. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 680565.