Biogeochemical Cycles Category

List of Active NEESPI Projects:

1. Estimating of logging and wildfire impact on ecosystem components and carbon emissions in the Lower Angara region.
   
2. Effect of Climatic Changes on Primary Productivity, Respiration, and Evaporation of Coniferous Forests of European Part of Russia.
   
3. Climate- and Fire-induced Vegetation, Agricultural and Albedo Change in Northern Eurasia: Consequences to Gases, Aerosols and Radiative Fluxes.
   
4. Collaborative Research: The East Siberian Arctic Shelf as a Source of Atmospheric Methane: First Approach to Quantitative Assessment.
   
5. Synthesis of Forest Growth, Response to Wildfires and Carbon Storage for Russian Forests Using a Distributed, Individual-Based Forest Model.
   
6. Collaborative Research: Degrading off-shore permafrost as a current and potential source of atmospheric methane.
   
7. Landscape Dynamics and Landscape Potential for CO2-sequestration in Central Asia- Case study from Kazakhstan.
   
8. Northern Eurasia Terrestrial Biota Full Greenhouse Account.
   
9. Northern Eurasia Terrestrial Biota Full Greenhouse Account.
   
10. Response of forest growth to climate variability and change: remotely-sensed and in situ data for European Russia.
    
11. Assimilation of tower and satellite-based methane observations for improved estimation of methane fluxes over northern Eurasia.
    
12. Changes of Land Cover and Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Northern Eurasia: Impacts on Human Adaptation and Quality of Life at Regional and Global Scales.
    
13. Carbon and water balances of coniferous and mixed forests in the central part of European Russia under climatic changes.
    
14. Global Warming and Human-Nature dimension in Siberia. The social adaptation to the changes of terrestrial ecosystem with the emphasis on water environment.
    
15. Methane dynamics of Eurasian peatlands: Environmental controls on linear and non-linear pathways of CH4 emissions.
16. Eurasian Peatlands in a Changing Climate.
17. The effect of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on carbon and nitrogen transformation in forest ecosystems in permafrost zone of Central Siberia.
18. Assessing the spatial and temporal dynamics of thermokarst, methane emissions, and related carbon cycling in Siberia and Alaska.
19. Remote sensing of vegetation based on spectrally invariant structure parameters (SPRINTER).
20. Collaborative Research. IPY: The Polaris Project: Rising Stars in the Arctic.
21. Quantifying Changes in Northern High Latitude Ecosystems and Associated Feedbacks to the Climate System.
22. Diagnosis and prognosis of changes in lake and wetland extent on the regional carbon balance of northern Eurasia.
23. Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Arctic system carbon cycle research through model-data fusion studies using atmospheric inversion and process-based approaches.
24. The estimation of CO2 and CH4 fluxes in Siberia using a tower observation network.
25. IPY: Collaborative Research on Carbon, Water, and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape at Flagship Observatories and in a PanArctic Network.
26. Functioning, biodiversity, ecological and resource potential of Siberian forests.
27. Siberian Earth System Science Cluster - SIB-ESS-C.
28. Spatio-temporal characterization of boreal forest fire intensity dynamics and its impact on carbon fluxes.
29. Integrated Study for Terrestrial Carbon Management of Asia in the 21st Century Based on Scientific Advancements [Theme-2: Top-down approach (via atmospheric observation) to a regional carbon budget estimation].
30. Forest fire impact on carbon cycle in Siberia and its contribution to global warming.
31. Eurasian Railway Measurements of greenhouse, ozone-depleting, and air quality gases in TRans-Siberia Observations of the Chemistry Into the Chemistry of the Atmosphere (TROICA).
32. Boreal zone forest type and structure from EOS data sets.
33. Current climate changes over Eastern Siberia and their impact on permafrost landscapes, ecosystem dynamics, and hydrological regime.
34. The exploration of the coastal zone in the East-Siberian Sea and adjacent parts of the Laptev and Chukchi Seas.
35. Wildfire, Ecosystems, and Climate: Examining the relationships between weather, extreme fire events, and fire-induced land -cover change in the changing climate of Siberia.
36. Ecological Monitoring in Semi-Arid Central and West Asia: Drivers and Trajectories.
37. Optimization of forest management methods in preparation to the climate change.
38. Wildfire Impacts on Carbon Stocks and Exchanges in Forests of Central Siberia: Quantifying Effects of Fire Intensity, Fire Severity, and Burning Conditions.
39. Modeling the carbon dynamics of the Eurasian Boreal Forest.
40. Comparative Studies on Carbon Dynamics in Disturbed Forest Ecosystems: Eastern Russia and Northeastern China.
41. Northern Eurasian C-land Use Climate Interaction in the Semi-Arid Regions.
42. Quantifying CO2 Fluxes from Boreal Forests in Northern Eurasia: An Integrated Analysis of Flux Tower Data, Remote Sensing Data and Biogeochemical Modeling.
43. Quantifying the Effects of Land Use Change on Carbon Budgets in the Black Sea Region.
44. Development of an Integrated System of Ground-, Air- and Space-Based Observations of Biomass Burning in Northern Eurasia.

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Siberian Earth System Science Cluster - SIB-ESS-C.

Principal Investigators: Christiane Schmullius (c.schmullius@uni-jena.de) and Roman Gerlach (roman.gerlach@uni-jena.de), Friedrich-Schiller-Universitet, Jena, Germany
Co-Investigators: Heiko Balzter (hbal@ceh.ac.uk), NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) and
Climate and Land Surface Systems Interaction Centre (CLASSIC), Monks Wood, UK
Sergey Bartalev (bartalev@d902.iki.rssi.ru), Boreal Ecosystems Monitoring Laboratory, Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Thuy Le Toan (Thuy.Letoan@cesbio.cnes.fr), Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere (CESBIO),
CNES-CNRS-Universitet Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Wolfgang Lucht (wolfgang.lucht@pik-potsdam.de), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,
Biosphere Research Group, Potsdam, Germany
Sten Nilsson (nilsson@iiasa.ac.at) and Anatoly Shvidenko (shvidenk@iiasa.ac.at), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Evgeni Vaganov (eavaganov@forest.akadem.ru), Sukachev Forest Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Wolfgang Wagner (ww@ipf.tuwien.ac.at),\~ Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Spatio-temporal characterization of boreal forest fire intensity dynamics and its impact on carbon fluxes.

Principal Investigator: Martin Wooster (martin.wooster@kcl.ac.uk), King's College, London, United Kingdom
Co-Investigators: Heiko Balzter (hbal@ceh.ac.uk), NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) and Climate and Land Surface Systems Interaction Centre (CLASSIC), Huntington, UK
France Gerard, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Huntington, UK
Jörg Kaduk, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Gareth Roberts, King's College, London, UK
Tim Lynham, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
Anatoly Shvidenko, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Collaborators: Alexander Onuchin and Anatoly Sukhinin, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

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Integrated Study for Terrestrial Carbon Management of Asia in the 21st Century Based on Scientific Advancements [Theme-2: Top-down approach (via atmospheric observation) to a regional carbon budget estimation].

Principal Investigators: Gen Inoue (inouegen@nies.go.jp), Toshinobu Machida (tmachida@nies.go.jp), and
Shamil Maksyutov (shamil@nies.go.jp), National Institute for Environmental Studies,
Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Tsukuba, Japan
Co-Investigators: Boris Belan and Mikhail Arshinov, Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk, Russia
Nikolay Vinnichenko, Central Aerological Observatory, Dolgoprudny, Russia
Ilyas Gadzhiev, Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia
Sergey Mitin, Institute of Microbiology, Moscow, Russia
Innokenti Plusnin, Surgut State University, Surgut, Russia
Nikolay Fedoseev, Permafrost Research Institute, Yakutsk, Russia

Forest fire impact on carbon cycle in Siberia and its contribution to global warming.

Principal Investigator: Masami Fukuda (mfukuda@pop.lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp or Masami.Fukuda@ma4.seikyou.ne.jp ), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Co-Investigator: Kunihide Takahashi (kun23@for.agr.hokudai.ac.jp), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Collaborators: Aleksander Fedorov, RAS Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk, Russia
Trofim Mikhailov and Roman Desyatkin, both at the RAS Institute of Biological Problems in the Cryosphere, Yakutsk, Russia

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Eurasian Railway Measurements of greenhouse, ozone-depleting, and air quality gases in TRans-Siberia Observations of the Chemistry Into the Chemistry of the Atmosphere (TROICA).

Principal Investigator: James W. Elkins (james.w.elkins@noaa.gov), NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado USA
Co-investigator: Dale F. Hurst, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado USA
Collaborators: Nikolai F. Elansky, Obukhov Institute Of Atmospheric Physics, Moscow, Russia
Carl A.M. Brenninkmeijer, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

Boreal zone forest type and structure from EOS data sets.

Principal Investigator: Jon Ranson (Jon.Ranson@nasa.gov), Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Co-Investigators: Daniel S. Kimes, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Vyacheslav Kharuk, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

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Current climate changes over Eastern Siberia and their impact on permafrost landscapes, ecosystem dynamics, and hydrological regime.

Principal Investigator: Larry Hinzman (ffldh@uaf.edu) University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigator: Kenji Yoshikawa and Vladimir Romanovsky both at University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Collaborators: Nikolai Romanovsky, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Aleksander Georgiadi, RAS Institute of Geography, Moscow, Russia

The exploration of the coastal zone in the East-Siberian Sea and adjacent parts of the Laptev and Chukchi Seas.

Principal Investigator: Valentin Sergienko (sergienko@hq.febras.ru) , Far Eastern Branch of RAS, Vladivostok, Russia
Collaborator: Igor Semiletov (igorsm@iarc.uaf.edu), International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA

Wildfire, Ecosystems, and Climate: Examining the relationships between weather, extreme fire events, and fire-induced land -cover change in the changing climate of Siberia.

Principal Investigator: Amber Soja (a.j.soja@larc.nasa.gov), NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Co-Investigators: David Westberg and Paul Stackhouse both with NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Anatoly Sukhinin, Galina Ivanova, Elena Parfenova, and Nadezhda Tsebakova, all at V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Sib. Branch RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia;
Hank Shugart, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

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Ecological Monitoring in Semi-Arid Central and West Asia: Drivers and Trajectories.

Principal Investigator: Roland Geerken (roland.geerken@yale.edu), Yale University, USA
Co-Investigator: Ronald Smith , Yale University, USA
Collaborators: Eddy DePauw, The Int.Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, Syria
Adel Jouda and G. Qatasha, The Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands, Syria
Maryia Glazirina, The Regional Center of Hydrology in Central Asia, Uzbekistan
Christoph Schaer, The Department of Atmospheric and Climate Studies of the Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Switzerland
Hermann Kaufmann, The Remote Sensing Division of the GeoResearch Center, Potsdam, Germany

Optimization of forest management methods in preparation to the climate change.

Principal Investigator: Sandor Szalai, (szalai.s@met.hu), Hungarian Meteorological Service (OMSZ), Hungary
Co-Investigator: Csaba Metyes (cm@emk.nyme.hu), University of West Hungary, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Sopron, Hungary

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Wildfire Impacts on Carbon Stocks and Exchanges in Forests of Central Siberia: Quantifying Effects of Fire Intensity, Fire Severity, and Burning Conditions.

Principal Investigator: Susan G. Conard (sconard@fs.fed.us), USDA Forest Service, USA
Co-Investigators: Wei Min Hao, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, USA
Douglas J. McRae, Canadian Forest Service, Canada
Galina A. Ivanova, and Anatoly I. Sukhinin, RASSB Sukachev Institute of Forest Research, Russia

Modeling the carbon dynamics of the Eurasian Boreal Forest.

Principal Investigators: Herman H. Shugart (hhs@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, USA and
Aleksander S. Isaev, RAS Center for Ecological Problems and Productivity of Forests, Russia
Co-Investigators: Vyacheslav Kharuk, RAS Forest Institute, Russia
Georgiy N. Korovin, RAS Center for Ecological Problems and Productivity of Forests, Russia
Dmitri V. Ershov, RAS Center for Ecological Problems and Productivity of Forests, Russia
Dmitri G. Zamolodchikov, RAS Center for Ecological Problems and Productivity of Forests, Russia
Vladislav G. Sukhovolski, RAS Forest Institute, Russia

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Comparative Studies on Carbon Dynamics in Disturbed Forest Ecosystems: Eastern Russia and Northeastern China.

Principal Investigator: Guoqing Sun (guoqing@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov), University of Maryland, USA
Co- Investigators: Jeffrey G. Masek, Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Olga Krankina, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, USA
Vyacheslav Kharuk, RAS Sukachev Institute of Forest, Russia
Zengyuan Li, Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China
Collaborator: Vladimir Trush, Far East State Forest Inventory Enterprise "DALLESPROECT", Russia

Northern Eurasian C-land Use Climate Interaction in the Semi-Arid Regions.

Principal Investigator: Dennis Ojima (dennis@nrel.colostate.edu), Colorado State University, USA
Co-Investigators: Xiangming Xiao, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, USA
Jeff Hicke, Colorado State University, USA
Collaborators: Kanat Akshalov, Barayev Kazakh Research Institute of Grain Farming, Kazakhstan
Togtohyn Chuluun, Ministry of Construction and Urban Development, Mongolia
Bakhtiyor Mardonov, Research Institute of Regional Problems, Samarkand Division of
Uzbek’s Academy of Science, Uzbekistan
Muhtor Nasyrov, Samarkand State University, Uzbekistan
Svetlana Nikulina, UNDP/Government of Uzbekistan Environment Programme, Uzbekistan
Sayat Temirbekov, Kazakhstan National Institute of Botany, Kazakhstan

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Quantifying CO2 Fluxes from Boreal Forests in Northern Eurasia: An Integrated Analysis of Flux Tower Data, Remote Sensing Data and Biogeochemical Modeling.

Principal Investigator: Changsheng Li (changsheng.li@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, USA
Co-Investigators: Xiangming Xiao, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, USA
Annette Schloss, University of New Hampshire, USA
Collaborators: Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Max-Plank-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany
Natalia N. Vygodskaya, RAS Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems, Russia
Sergey A. Bartalev, RAS Space Research Institute, Russia
Sergey A. Blagodatsky, RAS Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Sciences, Russia

Quantifying the Effects of Land Use Change on Carbon Budgets in the Black Sea Region.

Principal Investigator: Curtis Woodcock (curtis@bu.edu), Boston University, USA
Co-Investigators: Xiaowen Li and Mutlu Ozdogan, Boston University, USA
Richard Houghton, The Woods Hole Research Center, USA
Collaborators:
Vlad Gancz and Viorel Blujdea, Forest Research and Management Institute, Ilfov, Romania
Kostantin Dichev and Hristo Nikolov, Green Balkans Federation, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Mykola Zalogin, Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
Niko Beroutchachvili, Geographical Society of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
Emin Zeki Baskent, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey and
Aydin Tufekcioglu, Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey

Development of an Integrated System of Ground-, Air- and Space-Based Observations of Biomass Burning in Northern Eurasia.

Principal Investigator: Ivan Csiszar (icsiszar@hermes.geog.umd.edu), University of Maryland, USA
Co-Investigators: Tatiana Loboda, University of Maryland, Department of Geography, USA
Collaborators: Dmitry Ershov, Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity, Moscow, Russia
Alexey Mazurov, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir Belov, Institute for Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk, Russia
Anatoly Sukhinin, Sukachev Forest Institute, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Sergei Tashchilin, Institute for Solar and Terrestrial Physics, Irkutsk, Russia

Functioning, biodiversity, ecological and resource potential of Siberian forests
    Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Principal Investigator: Evgeney A. Vaganov (institute@forest.akadem.ru), RAS Institute of Forest Studies, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

IPY: Collaborative Research on Carbon, Water, and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape at Flagship Observatories and in a PanArctic Network.

Principal Investigator: Syndonia Bret-Harte (msbretharte@alaska.edu), Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigators: Gus Shaver (gshaver@mbl.edu), Marine Biological Lab., Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
John Hobbie (jhobbie@mbl.edu), Marine Biological Lab., Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
Ed Rastetter (erastett@mbl.edu), Marine Biological Lab., Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
Brian Barnes (ffbmb@uaf.edu), Institute of Arctic Biology,University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
Sergey Zimov (sazimov@cher.sakha.ru), North-East Science Station, Cherskii, Sakha (Yakutia), Russia
Katey Walter (ftkmw1@uaf.edu), Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA

The estimation of CO2 and CH4 fluxes in Siberia using a tower observation network.


Principal Investigators: Toshinobu Machida (tmachida@nies.go.jp) and Shamil Maksyutov (shamil@nies.go.jp), National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Co-Investigators: Boris Belan and Mikhail Arshinov, Institute of Atmospheric Optic, Tomsk, Russia
Sergey Mitin, Institute of Microbiology, Moscow, Russia
Innokentiy Plusnin, Surgut State University, Surgut, Russia
Nikolay Fedoseev, Permafrost Research Institute, Yakutsk, Russia

Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Arctic system carbon cycle research through model-data fusion studies using atmospheric inversion and process-based approaches.

Diagnosis and prognosis of changes in lake and wetland extent on the regional carbon balance of northern Eurasia.

Quantifying Changes in Northern High Latitude Ecosystems and Associated Feedbacks to the Climate System.

Assessing the spatial and temporal dynamics of thermokarst, methane emissions, and related carbon cycling in Siberia and Alaska.

Collaborative Research. IPY: The Polaris Project: Rising Stars in the Arctic.

Remote sensing of vegetation based on spectrally invariant structure parameters (SPRINTER).

The effect of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on carbon and nitrogen transformation in forest ecosystems in permafrost zone of Central Siberia.

Eurasian Peatlands in a Changing Climate.

Methane dynamics of Eurasian peatlands: Environmental controls on linear and non-linear pathways of CH4 emissions.

Global Warming and Human-Nature dimension in Siberia. The social adaptation to the changes of terrestrial ecosystem with the emphasis on water environment.

Carbon and water balances of coniferous and mixed forests in the central part of European Russia under climatic changes.

Changes of Land Cover and Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Northern Eurasia: Impacts on Human Adaptation and Quality of Life at Regional and Global Scales.

Assimilation of tower and satellite-based methane observations for improved estimation of methane fluxes over northern Eurasia.

Response of forest growth to climate variability and change: remotely-sensed and in situ data for European Russia.

Northern Eurasia Terrestrial Biota Full Greenhouse Account.

Landscape Dynamics and Landscape Potential for CO2-sequestration in Central Asia- Case study from Kazakhstan.

Synthesis of Forest Growth, Response to Wildfires and Carbon Storage for Russian Forests Using a Distributed, Individual-Based Forest Model.    Abstract.

Collaborative Research: The East Siberian Arctic Shelf as a Source of Atmospheric Methane: First Approach to Quantitative Assessment.    Abstract.

Climate- and Fire-induced Vegetation, Agricultural and Albedo Change in Northern Eurasia: Consequences to Gases, Aerosols and Radiative Fluxes. Abstract.

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