Andriy Utevsky

Dr. Andriy Utevsky, Senior Researcher of the Department of Biological Researches

Associate Professor, Dept. of Zoology and Animal Ecology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Born: May 6, 1967 in Kharkiv.

1991 – graduated from the O.M. Gorky Kharkov State University., Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology.

1995 – received the PhD degree at the I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of the NAS of Ukraine..

Thesis: Fish Leeches (Hirudinea; Piscicolidae) of Antarctic Seas (Morphology, Classification, Geographical Distribution, Ecology) .

Scientific interests:
Phylogeny and taxonomy of Antarctic fish leeches.
Molecular genetic barcoding of Antarctic invertebrates and their biodiversity.
The origin of the Antarctic deep-sea fauna.
Formation of invertebrate benthic communities, their landscape ecology and interaction with land.
Creation of underwater monitoring sites and marine protected areas.
Underwater photo and video.

Experience:
Wintering biologist of the 8th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition (2003-2004), a participant of seasonal Antarctic expeditions in 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011-12. Made 207 dives in Antarctic waters to depths up to 60 meters.
Participant of the expedition to Svalbard (Norway) 2009
Participant of the hydrobiological expeditions to Kazakhstan (2007) and Azerbaijan (2017).
Participant of the marine ecological expeditions to the White, Barents and Kara Seas in 1988-90.
In 2011 completed an internship at the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey.
Described 10 new species of fish leeches from Antarctica, South Africa and the Pacific.

Projects: Leadership and Participation.
1. Study of the structure and functioning of typical Antarctic ecosystems – justification for the creation of biogeographic landfills. 2017. GDR No. 35-17. State registration number 0117U007599
2. Organization and visualization of biota and terrain bottom research data near the Academic Vernadsky Antarctic Station using GIS and web technologies. 2017. GDR No. 20-17. State Registration Number 0117U003557 (2017 Grant from the President of Ukraine to Support Young Scientists Research, Head O.I. Sinn, Scientific Advisor A.Yu. Utevsky)
3. Three-dimensional model Galindez I.: biodiversity and the environment. 2016. GDR No. 46-16, State Registration Number 0116U000972.
4. Creation of a database of genes that determine the stability of benthic invertebrate marine protected areas of the Argentine Islands to extreme environmental factors. 2015. GDR No. 35-15. State registration number 0115U007218.
5. Creation of Penguin Point biogeographic landfill: model profile and its characteristics. 2015. GDR No. 36-15. State registration number 0115U007217
6. Creation of Stella Creek biogeographic landfill: model profile and its characteristics. 2013. GDR No. 43-13, State Registration Number 0113U005694.
7. “Contribution to the Cybertaxonomy Initiative: Revision of Antarctic Leeches”. CAML / SCAR-Mar-BIN TOTAL Foundation Minigrant. (2010-2011).
8. “Marine ecosystems and biodiversity expertise”. Cambridge Colleges Hospitality Scheme visitor (University of Cambridge, British Antarctic Survey) (2011).

Monographs
1. Andrei Utevsky (2007) Antarctic Piscicolid Leeches. Bonner Zoologische Monographien.№54. 80 p.
2. Утевский А.Ю., Утевская О.М., Луценко Д.Г., Луценко Е.Л. Книга для подводных пловцов – SCUBA DIVING. Харьков: Грамматика, 2008. 416 с.
3. Утевский А.Ю., Утевская О.М., Луценко Д.Г., Луценко Е.Л. Книга для подводных пловцов – SCUBA DIVING. Харьков: Торсинг, 2002. 360 с.
4. Утевский А.Ю., Утевская О.М., Луценко Д.Г., Луценко Е.Л. Книга для подводных пловцов – SCUBA DIVING. Харьков: Торсинг, 2001. 312 с.

Articles
1. Utevsky, S., Kovalchuk, A., Kovalchuk, N., Utevsky, A., Chernyshev, A.V. (2019) A new species of the genus Johanssonia Selensky, 1914 (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) collected in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench at the greatest depth ever recorded for fish leeches. Progress in Oceanography 176:102-133 DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102133
2. Utevsky A, Utevsky S. (2018) New Antarctic deep-sea weird leech (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae): morphological features and phylogenetic relationships. Systematic Parasitology, 95(8), 849-861
3 A. Utevsky, E. Sinna, D. Smyrov, M. Shrestha, Y. Gamulya, G. Ukhno, R. Khodzhaeva, Y. Utevsky, V. Levenets and S. Utevsky (2018) Next steps in development of Marine Protected Area in the Argentine Islands Archipelago water area. CCAMLR: WG-EMM-18/32.
4. Khomenko, A., Utevsky, S., Palatov, D., Utevsky, A. (2017) On the distribution of Dina stschegolewi (Hirudinida: Erpobdellidae) in the South Caucasus. Zoology in the Middle East 64(1):88-90. DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2017.1414980
5. Сінна О. І, Попов В.С., Утєвський А.Ю. (2017) Морфометричний аналіз рельєфу дна акваторій засобами ГІС (на прикладі району Української антарктичної станції «АКАДЕМІК ВЕРНАДСЬКИЙ»). Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна, Серія «Геологія. Географія. Екологія». – Випуск 47.- С. 153-155. https://doi.org/10.26565/2410-7360-2017-47-20
6. Utevsky A., Gordeev I. (2015) New tentacled leech Ceratobdella quadricornuta n. g., n. sp. (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) parasitic on the starry skate Raja georgiana Norman from the Scotia Sea, Antarctica. Systematic Parasitology, 3 (91), p. 203–210.
7. Utevsky A.Yu., Tabikelova K.S., Sennaya E.I., Utevsky S.Yu. (2015) Changes of population structure in common benthic species of the proposed Stella Creek MPA in the vicinity of the Akademik Vernadsky Station, Galindez Island, Antarctica. CCAMLR: ЕММ-15-41.
8. Utevsky A.Yu., Sennaya E.I., Kolesnykova M.Yu. (2014) Realization of the Marine Protected Area network in the Akademik Vernadsky Station region. CCAMLR: WG-EMM-14/41.
9. Сінна О.І., Утєвський А.Ю., Попов В.С. (2015) Цифрове моделювання рельєфу дна акваторії у районі Української антарктичної станції «Академік Вернадський». Проблеми безперервної географічної освіти і картографії: Збірник наукових праць. — Харків: ХНУ імені В. Н. Каразіна. — Вип. 21. — С. 31-35.
10. Utevsky A.Yu., Kolesnykova M.Yu., Shmyrov D.V., Sinna О.I. (2014) Development of the Marine Protected Area Network in the Argentine Islands area (Akademik Vernadsky Station, Ukraine). Ukrainian Antarctic journal. – No.13.– P. 225-230.
11. Chepeleva L.V., Sizova Z.A., Yukhno G.D., Utevsky S.Yu., Gamulya Yu.G., Utevsky A.Yu., Roshal A.D. (2014) Use of chemical markers in Antarctic ecosystem studies of Demaria Mount. УАЖ, № 13, С. 231-241.
12. Рошаль А.Д., Краснопёрова А.П., Дикий И.В., Юхно Г.Д., Сизова З.А., Шмырев Д.В., Гамуля Ю.Г., Утевский А.Ю. (2013) Примитивные почвы горы Demaria (Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula): морфология, минеральный состав, вертикальное распределение. УАЖ, № 12. С. 265-281.
13. Utevsky A.Yu. (2012) On Marine Protected Area network in the Akademik Vernadsky Station region. Meeting Document. CCAMLR: SC-CAMLR-XXXI/BG/04.
14. Utevsky A.Yu. (2012) The first site of the Marine Protected Area network in the Akademik Vernadsky Station region: Argentine Islands, Skua Creek. Meeting Document. CCAMLR: WG-EMM-12/25.
15. Д икий І., Утєвський А.,Трохимець В. (2012) Біотичне різноманіття Архіпелагу Аргентинські острови (Західна Антарктика)//Динаміка біорізноманіття 2012: Зб. наук. пр. – Луганськ: ДЗ «ЛНУ імені Тараса Шевченка».- С. 29-32.
16. Claude De Broyer, Bruno Danis, with 64 SCAR-MarBIN Taxonomic Editors (2011) How many species in the Southern Ocean? Towards a dynamic inventory of the Antarctic marine species. Deep Sea Research II, 58, p. 1-17.
17. A.Yu. Utevsky (2007) A new genus and species of marine fish leech (Annelida: Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) from South Africa. African Invertebrates, Vol. 48(2). P. 41-46.
18. Utevsky S. Y., Utevsky A. Y., Schiaparelli S., Trontelj P. (2007) Molecular phylogeny of pontobdelline leeches and their place in the descent of fish leeches (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae). Zoologica Scripta 36: 271-280.
19. Utevsky, A.Yu. (2005) An identification key to Antarctic fish leeches (Hirudinea; Piscicolidae). Ukrainian Antarctic Journal, 3: 135-144.
20. Utevsky, A.Yu. (2004) A new species of marine leeches (Hirudinea; Piscicolidae) from the coastal waters of South Africa. Vestnik Zoologii, 38 (5). P. 79-83.
21. Utevsky, A.Yu. (1997) New species of piscicolid leeches (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae). Vestnik Zoologii, (1-2). P.17-24 (in Russian)
22. Utevsky, A.Yu. (1995) A new Antarctic leech genus (Hirudinea; Piscicolidae). Vestnik Zoologii, (5-6). P.3-12 (in Russian)
23. Utevsky, A.Yu. (1994) A new genus of Antarctic piscicolid leeches (Hirudinea: Rhynchobdellida). Vestnik Zoologii, No 4. P.73-76 (in Russian)
24. Epshtein, V.M., Utevsky, A.Yu, and Utevsky, S.Yu. (1994) The system of fish leeches (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae). Genus 5(4). P. 401-409.
25. Epshtein, V.M., Utevsky, A.Yu. (1994) A new marines leech Cryobdella ljadovi sp.n (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) from Antarctic seas. Zoosystematica Rossica, Vol.3, No 1. P.23-25
26. Utevsky, A.Yu. (1993) A new marine leech Nototheniobdella sawyerigen.n., sp.n. (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) from Antarctic seas. Zoosystematica Rossica, Vol.2, No 2. P.237-240