Pavel A. Toropov, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Meteorology & Climatology Dept., Geographical Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 2002, he graduated from this department as a Master. Nowadays, he is a skilled researcher in mountain, seacoast, and plain hydrometeorology. His PhD thesis, defended in 2007, was dedicated to the thermal and humidity regime of the East European Plain in different epochs, but later his main scientific interests shifted to glacial meteorology. Besides carrying out extensive observations on alpine glaciers, he also investigates changes in mountain climate at various evolutionary stages and their interaction with past and present glaciations. Currently, Dr.Toropov is appointed to the position of Head of Glaciology Dept. in the Inst. of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences.