Research Experience:
- Joint 2D gravity and magnetic inversion, onset region of the Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica to reveal the geological structures beneath the ice
- Seismic travel time inversion, Lake Vostok, East Antarctica, to reveal the presence of the layer of unconsolidated sediments at the bottom of the lake
- 2D and 3D inversion of airborne gravity data over subglacial lakes Vostok and Concordia, East Antarctica, to obtain the bathymetry models of those lakes
- Reduction of airborne gravity data, subglacial Lake Concordia, East Antarctica

Publications:
Refereed Papers
I. Filina, V. Lukin, V. Masolov, and D. Blankenship, 2007, Unconsolidated sediments at the bottom of Lake Vostok from seismic data, “Antarctica: A keystone in a Changing World”, Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES, edited by A.K. Cooper and C.R, Raymond et al., USGS Open-File-Report 2007-1047, Short Research Paper 031, 5 p.; doi:10.3133/of2007-1047.srp031

I. Filina, D. Blankenship, L. Roy, M. Sen, T. Richter and J. Holt, 2006, Inversion of airborne gravity data acquired over subglacial lakes in East Antarctica, "Antarctica -Contributions to Global Earth Sciences", Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, edited by Dieter Fütterer, Springer Publishing House, p. 129 - 134

N. Khlupin, V. Leonov, V. Mandrikov, I. Filina, 2002, Regional complex airborne geophysical surveys of Polar Marine Geological Research Expedition in Arctic, "Razvedka i ohrana nedr", September 2002, p. 55 - 58 (in Russian)

S. Popov, I. Filina, O. Soboleva, V. Masolov, N. Khlyupin, 2002 Large scale airborne radar sounding over central part of East Antarctica, “Trudy XVI-XIX Vserossiyskih simpoziumov "Radiolokatsionnoe issledovanie prirodnyh sred", v. 2., edited by M. Marov et al., VIKU im. Mozhayskogo, 2002, p. 84-86 (in Russian)

M. Lythe, D. Vaughan and the BEDMAP Consortium, 2001, BEDMAP: a new ice thickness and subglacial topographic model of Antarctica, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 106, no. B6, p. 11335-11351

S. Popov, V. Masolov, N. Khlyupin, V. Pozdeev, I. Filina, 2001, Subglacial topography of Antarctica and bathymetry of surrounding seas in 10°E-80°E sector, “Polyarnye oblasti zemli: geologiya, tektonika, resursnoe znachenie, prirodnaya sreda”, Saint Petersburg, November 2001, p. 203-204 (in Russian)

I. Filina, A. Mironov, S. Popov, 2000, Digital Registration of Radio Echo Sounding Data and Preliminary Results of Airborne Geophysical Survey over Western Part of Franz Josef Land Archipelago, “Geophysical methods of Earth investigations”, Proceedings of the International Conference of young scientist and specialists “Geophysics-99”, edited by V.N. Strahov and V.P. Kalvarskaya, p. 183-187 (in Russian)

Conference Presentations and Abstracts
I. Filina, D. Blankenship, V. Lukin, V. Masolov, and M. Sen, 2007, New bathymetry model of Lake Vostok from airborne gravity data, Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World – Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES, edited by A.K. Cooper and C.R, Raymond et al., USGS Open-File-Report 2007-1047, Extended Abstract 178, 4 p.

I. Filina, D. Blankenship, D. Young, 2006, The Crustal Structure Beneath The Onset Region Of Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica, From Joint Interpretation Of Airborne Gravity And Magnetic Data, EOS Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract C11A-1126

I. Filina, V. Lukin, V. Masolov, D.D. Blankenship, 2006, Are there unconsolidated sediments at the bottom of Lake Vostok?, 2nd SCAR Open Science Conference “Antarctica in the Earth System”, Hobart, Tasmania, July, 12 -14, 2006

I. Filina, D. Blankenship, L. Roy, M. Sen, T. Richter and J. Holt J, 2004, The Bathymetry of Two Subglacial Lakes in East Antarctica Derived from Airborne Gravity and Radar Sounding Data, 1st SCAR Open Science Conference "Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in the Global System”, Bremen, Germany, July, 26-28

I. Filina, D. Blankenship, L. Roy, M. Sen, T. Richter, 2003, Inversion of Airborne Gravity Data over Subglacial Lakes in East Antarctica, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meeting, Abstract P51B-0446

V. Masolov, V. Lukin, A. Sheremetiev, A. Popkov, S. Popov, G. Kudryavtsev, I. Filina, 2002, Subglacial Lake Vostok Characteristics from Russian Ground-Based Geophysical Studies, Eos Trans. AGU, 83(19), Spring Meeting, Abstract B21A-04

I. Filina, A. Mironov, S. Popov, 1999, 2000, Preliminary results of Complex Aerogeophysical survey over Western Part of Franz Josef Land Archipelago, The International Conference of young scientist and specialists "Geophysics - 99", SPSU , Petrodvorets, Russia, November 9-12, 1999; Second prize. Also in International Geophysics Conference "300th Anniversary of the Geological Survey of Russia", Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 2 – 7, 2000

I. Filina, 1997, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of aluminium-27 in alexandrite crystals (BeAl2-xCrxO4), The First Russian Conference of Radiophysics for students, SPSU, Petrodvorets, Russia, December 16 - 18, 1997 (in Russian); Second prize

About Irina:
Irina Filina was born in Leningrad, USSR on September 20, 1974. After graduating from high school in 1991 she entered the Department of Physics of Saint Petersburg Sate University (SPSU). She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in May 1995 and her Master of Science degree in 1998 with specialization in nuclear magnetic resonance. After graduation from SPSU she worked as an engineer in Polar Marine Geological Research Expedition (PMGRE), Saint Petersburg, Russia. She processed radar sounding data of Franz Josef Land Archipelago, Arctic and East Antarctica. She participated at 1998, 1999, 2000 field seasons in Arctic and 2001 field season in Antarctica.

In the summer semester 2002 she entered the University of Texas at Austin as a graduate student to pursue a Ph.D. degree in Geophysics. Her advisor was Dr. Blankenship. She graduated in December 2007.