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Dr. Larysa Istomina is a leading expert in satellite remote sensing of aerosols, with a particular focus on the challenging retrieval of aerosol properties over bright surfaces such as snow and ice. Her research is critical for understanding the Arctic climate system, where aerosols play a significant but poorly quantified role. Dr. Istomina’s major contributions include the development and validation of novel algorithms that overcome the difficulty of separating aerosol signals from highly reflective snow cover. She pioneered the use of infrared observations from the AATSR instrument to retrieve aerosol optical depth (AOT) over snow, a region where traditional visible-spectrum methods fail. Her most cited work, "Retrieval of spectral aerosol optical thickness over land using ocean color sensors MERIS and SeaWiFS" (71 citations), details the widely-used Bremen AErosol Retrieval (BAER) method, while her foundational papers on infrared AOT retrieval over snow (43 and 27 citations) have established new pathways for monitoring Arctic pollution and its climatic impacts. Through these achievements, Dr. Istomina has significantly advanced our ability to observe aerosol transport and deposition in one of the most sensitive and rapidly changing environments on Earth.