Cryosphere Category
List of Active NEESPI Projects: Collaborative Research: Understanding Change in the Climate and Hydrology of the Arctic Land Region: Synthesizing the Results of the ARCSS Fresh Water Initiative Projects. Principal Investigators: Eric Wood (efwood@princeton.edu), Princeton University, Princeton, USA;
Charles Vorosmarty (Charles.Vorosmarty@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire,
Durham, USA; John Cassano (cassano@cires.colorado.edu ), University of Colorado, Boulder, USA;
Dennis Lettenmaier (dennisl@washington.edu), University of Washington, Seattle, USA The Eurasian fresh water cycle from GRACE and in-situ hydrological networks: distinguishing water cycle behavior in permafrost and non-permafrost regions. Principal Investigator: Isabella Velikogna (Isabella@colorado.edu), University of Colorado, Boulder, USACollaborator: Laurence Smith, University of California-Los Angeles, USA Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP): The U.S. contribution to the International Permafrost Observatory Network (INPO). Principal Investigator: Vladimir Romanovsky (ffver@uaf.edu), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA Social vulnerability to climate change in Arctic western North America and eastern Russia. Principal Investigator: David Atkinson (datkinson@iarc.uaf.edu ), International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA Heterogeneity and resilience of human-rangifer system: A circumpolar social-ecological synthesis. Principal Investigator: Gary Kofinas (gary.kofinas@uaf.edu ), Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA North-eastern Siberia glacier systems: Evolution of morphology and regime for the 20th century and their projections with climatic change. Principal Investigators: Maria Ananicheva (maria_anan@rambler.ru, cest@online.ru), Institute of Geography Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and
Shuhei Takahashi (shuhei@mail.kitami-it.ac.jp), Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Japan Modelling glacial responses to climate change in the Caucasus Mountains Principal Investigators:
Maria Shahgedanova (m.shahgedanova@reading.ac.uk), Dept. of Geography,
University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom and Viktor Popovnin
(po@geogr.msu.ru) Dept. of Geography, Moscow State University, Moscow,
Russia Permafrost dynamics within the Northern Eurasia region and related impacts on surface and sub-surface hydrology. Principal Investigator: Vladimir Romanovsky
(ffver@uaf.edu) University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA Continuous fields of snow cover characteristics derived through coupling satellite data with snowpack model. Application in the river runoff modeling over NEESPI domain. Principal Investigator: Peter Romanov
(Peter.Romanov@noaa.gov) University of Maryland, College Park, MD,
USA. 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 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
Role of land cover and land use change in hydrology of Eurasian Pan-Arctic. Principal Investigator: Charles Vorosmarty
(Charles.Vorosmarty@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham,
NH, USA Estimation of seasonal snow cover and glacial area changes in central Asia (Tien Shan) during the last 50 years using NASA ESE products and in-situ data. Principal Investigator:
Vladimir Aizen, (aizen@uidaho.edu), University of Idaho, USA Influence of snow vertical structure on hydrothermal regime and snow-related economical aspects in Northern Eurasia. Principal Investigators:
Andrey Shmakin (climate@igras.geonet.ru), Institute of Geography,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Snow cover changes over Northern Eurasia during the last Century: Circulation consideration and hydrological consequences (SCCONE). Principal Investigator: Raino Heino, (Raino.Heino@fmi.fi)
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland Representativeness of estimates of changes in weather extremes.
Principal Investigator: Pavel Ya. Groisman
(Pasha.Groisman@noaa.gov), University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research at NOAA/NESDIS/ National Climatic Data Center, USA
State, structure and changes of cryosphere: Cryogenesis and its influence on natural and man-caused geosystems
Member of SIRS Mega-project.
Development of a Network of Permafrost Observatories in North America and Russia: The US Contribution to the International Polar Year. Principal Investigator: Vladimir Romanovsky (ffver@uaf.edu), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USACo-Investigator: Jerry Brown, International Permafrost Association, Woods Hole, Mass., USA Collaborators: Thomas Osterkamp, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA Felix Rivkin, Industrial-Research Institute of Engineering Survey for Construction, Moscow, Russia Alexander Vasiliev, Alexander Pavlov, Natalia Moskalenko, Mikhail Kanevsky, and Anna Kurchatova, All at Institute of Earth Cryosphere, Tyumen and Moscow Mikhail Zheleznyak, Nikolai Shender, and Yuri Skachkov, All at Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk, Russia David Gilichinsky, Aleksander Kholodov, and Dmitry Feodorov-Davydov, All at the Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil, Puschino, Moscow area, Russia Naum Oberman, MIRECO, Inc., Syktyvkar, Russia Dmitry Sergeev, Institute Environmental Geoscience, Moscow, Russia Dmitry Shesternev, Institute of Natural Recourses, Ecologies, and Cryology, Chita, Russia Sergei Marchenko, Institute of Geography, Almaaty, Kazakhstan Natsagdorj Shaarkhu, Institute of Geography, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia Gary Clow, USGS, Lakewood, Colorado, USA Donald (Skip) Walker, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA Larry Hinzman, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA Frederic Nelson, Nikolai Shiklomanov, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA Hanne Christiansen, The University Center in Svalbard, Norway Sharon Smith, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Heat, mass and momentum transfer in katabatic winds over glaciers and ice sheets. Principal Investigator: Irina Repina (repina@ifaran.ru), A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics RAS, RussiaCollaborators: Boris Ivanov (b_ivanov@aari.nw.ru), Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia Johannes Oerlemans, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Denmark Yury Artamonov, Marine Hydrophysical Institute NASU, Sebastopol, Ukraine Modelling climate change, glacier dynamics, and water availability in the Caucasus. Principal Investigator: Maria Shahgedanova (m.shahgedanova@reading.ac.uk), Department of Geography, the University of Reading, United KingdomCo-Investigators: Christopher Stokes (c.r.stokes@reading.ac.uk) and Katie Grant, Department of Geography, the University of Reading, United Kingdom Ottfried Baume (O.Baume@geographie.uni-muenchen.de), Wilfried Hagg (Wilfried.Hagg@lrz.badw-muenchen.de), and Christoph Mayers, Department of Geography, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany Ramin Gobijishvili (geograf@gw.acnet.ge), Alexandre Javahisvili, Nino Lomidze, and David Svanadze, Laboratory of Glaciology, Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, Tbilisi, Georgia Victor Popovnin (po@geogr.msu.ru), Alexander Aleynikov (shu@scanex.ru), and Pavel Toropov, Department of Cryolithology and Glaciology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Evaluating the recent and future climate change and glacier
dynamics in the mountains of Southern Siberia. Co-Investigators: Christopher Stokes (c.r.stokes@reading.ac.uk) and Stephen Gurney, Department of Geography, the University of Reading, United Kingdom Ottfried Baume (O.Baume@geographie.uni-muenchen.de), Wilfried Hagg (Wilfried.Hagg@lrz.badw-muenchen.de), and Christoph Mayers, Department of Geography, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany Tatyana Khromova (tkhromova@gmail.com), Gennady Nosenko (gnosenko@mail.ru), Stanislav Kutuzov, and Anton Muraviev, RAS Institute of Geography, Moscow, Russia Victor Popovnin (po@geogr.msu.ru), Alexander Aleynikov (shu@scanex.ru), and Pavel Toropov, Department of Cryolithology and Glaciology, Moscow State University, Russia Changes of snowiness in Northern Eurasia in connection to atmospheric processes. Co-Investigators:Alexander N. Krenke, Valeria V. Popova, Dmitry V. Turkov, Maria D. Ananicheva, Lev M. Kitaev, Tatiana B. Titkova , Elena A. Cherenkova, and Ekaterina D. Babina, all from the Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Collaborators: Meinhard Breiling (meinhard.breiling@tuwien.ac.at), Technical University Vienna, Department for Landscape Planning, Vienna, Austria Zdeno Kostka and Ladislav Holko, both at Institute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia Pavel Charamza, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Marcia Phillips, Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland Maxim A. Petrov, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Konstantin G. Rubinstein and Valentina M. Khan, both at The Hydrometeorological Centre of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia Vladimir N. Golubev, Sergey A. Sokratov, and Marina N. Petrushina, at Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Moscow, Russia
Estimation of seasonal snow cover, glacial and lake area changes at the Ob'/Yenisey river heads during the last 40 years using NASA ESE products and in situ data.
Contemporary glaciation state in the Arctic, glaciers’ instability and iceberg formation.
Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Arctic system carbon cycle research through model-data fusion studies using atmospheric inversion and process-based approaches. Co-Investigators: David McGuire (ffadm@uaf.edu), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA Jerry Melillo(jmelillo@mbl.edu), Bruce Peterson(Peterson@mbl.edu), Jim McClelland(jmcclelland@mbl.edu), and Dave Kicklighter(dkick@mbl.edu), Marine Biological Laboratory,Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA Ron Prinn (rprinn@mit.edu) and Mick Follows (mick@ocean.mit.edu), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA Collaborator: Sergey Zimov (sazimov@cher.sakha.ru), North-East Science Station, Cherskii, Sakha (Yakutia), Russia
Collaborative Research: Diagnosis of Changes in Alpine Water Storages and Land Surface Degradation in Pamir Mountains and Amu Dariya River Basin. Co-Investigators: Elena Aizen (aizen@uidaho.edu), University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA Roland Geerken (roland.geerken@yale.edu), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Collaborators: Arzhan Surazhakov (asurazhakov@vandals.uidaho.edu), University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA Stanislav Nikitin (santvp@mail.tsu.ru), Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia Gennady Nosenko (gnosenko@mail.ru), Institute of Geography, RAS, Moscow, Russia Alexander Finaev (finaeff@gmail.com), Institute of Ecology and Hydropower, Tajik Academy of Sciences, Dushanbe, Tajikistan Peter Sosin (foker@list.ru), Research Institute of Pedology, Tajik Academy of Agriculture, Dushanbe, Tajikistan Diagnostics and modelling of climate in polar and subpolar regions. Collaborators: Anthony R. Lupo (LupoA@missouri.edu), University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA Erich Roeckner (erich.roeckner@zmaw.de), Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany Mojib Latif (mlatif@ifm-geomar.de), Leibniz-Institut fuer Meereswissenschaften, Kiel, Germany Peter A. Stott (peter.stott@metoffice.gov.uk), UK Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Exeter, UK The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Network-CALM: Long-Term Observations on the Climate-Active Layer-Permafrost System. Abstract. Principal Investigator: Principle investigator: Frederic E. Nelson (fnelson@udel.edu), Department of Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USACo-Investigator: Nikolai Shiklomanov (shiklom@udel.edu), Department of Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA Collaborators: Alexander Vasiliev, Dmitriy Drozdov, Marina Leibman, Galina Malkova, and Natalia Moskalenko, all at the Earth Cryosphere Institute, Moscow, Russia David Gilichinskiy, Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science of RAS, Pushchino, Moscow Area, Russia Sergei Marchenko, Institute of Geography, Almaaty, Kazakhstan Anna Kurchatova, Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tumen’, Russia Valeri Grebenetz, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Dmitriy Zamolodchikov, Center for Ecology and Productivity of Forests, RAS, Moscow, Russia Galina Mazhitova, Komi Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia Sergei Zimov, Northeast Science Station, Cherskii, Saha Republic, Russia Natsagdorj Shaarkhu, Institute of Geography and Geocryology MAS, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Vladimir Romanovsky and Yuri Shur, both at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Vladimir Razhivin, Komarov Botanical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia Jerry Brown, International Permafrost Association, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA Kenneth Hinkle, Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Kathy Seybold, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA James Bockheim, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Anna Klene, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA Asian Ice Core Array (AICA): Reconstruction of Past Physical and Chemical Climate over Central Asia. Abstract. Principal Investigators: Vladimir Aizen (aizen@uidaho.edu), Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, and Paul A. Mayewski (paul.mayewski@maine.edu), University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USACo-Investigators: Elena Aizen (aizen@uidaho.edu), Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA Andrei V. Kurbatov, and Karl Kreutz, both at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA Collaborator: Alexander Finaev (finaeff@gmail.com), Institute of Ecology and Hydropower, Tajik Academy of Sciences, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Investigating glacier response to the recent climate change in the Polar Urals, Russia. Co-Investigators: Katie Grant (k.l.grant@reading.ac.uk), Walker Institute for Climate System Research and the Department of Geography, The University of Reading, Reading, UK Gennady Nosenko (gnosenko@mail.ru) and Anton Muraveoyv (anton-yar@rambler.ru), Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Snow Reflectance Transition Experiment (SNORTEX). Co-Investigators: Jouni Peltoniemi (Jouni.Peltoniemi@fgi.fi) and Sanna Kaasalainen, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Masala, Finland Garik Gutman (ggutman@nasa.gov), NASA Headquaters, Washington, DC, USA Principal Investigator: Michael O'Neal (michael@udel.edu), University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA Co-Investigator:Nikolay Shiklomanov (shiklom@udel.edu),University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA Collaborator: Jan Hjort (jan.hjort@helsinki.fi),University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Principal Investigator: Donald Walker (ffdaw@uaf.edu), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Co-Investigators:Uma Bhatt (bhatt@gi.alaska.edu), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Vladimir Romanovsky (ffver@uaf.edu), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Gary Kofinas (gary.kofinas@uaf.edu), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Howard Epstein (hee2b@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Josefino Comiso (josefino.c.comiso@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Collaborators: Pavel Orekhov (orekhov.eci@gmail.com), Earth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS, Moscow, Russia Bruce Forbes (bforbes@ulapland.fi), Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland Martha Raynolds, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Natalya Moskakenko, Earth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS, Moscow, Russia Hilmar Maier, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Marina Leibman, Earth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS, Moscow, Russia
The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Network--CALM III (2009-2014):
Long-term Observations on the Climate-Active Layer-Permafrost System. Co-Investigator: Frederick Nelson, Department of Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA Collaborators: Alexander Vasiliev, Dmitry Drozdov, Natalia Moskalenko, Galina Malkova, Marina Leibman, all at Earth Cryosphere Institute, Moscow, Russia Andrei Abramov and David Gilichinsky, both at Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Pushchino, Russia Dmitry Kaverin, Institute of Biology, Komi Science Center, Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russia Dmitry Zamolodchikov and Dmitry Karelin, both Forest Ecology and Production Center, Moscow, Russia Oleg Tregubov, Chukotka Branch of North Eastern Research Institute, Anadyr', Russia Valery Grebenetz, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, and Sergei Zimov and Sergei Davudov, both at Cherskyi Field Station, Cherskyi, Yakutia, Russia Collaborative Research: Degrading off-shore permafrost as a current and potential source of atmospheric methane. Co-Investigators: Natalia Shakhova (nshakhov@iarc.uaf.edu),University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA Samantha Joye (mjoye@uga.edu), Christof Meile, and Vladimir Samarkin; All at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, USA Collaborators: Dmitry Nicolsky and Alexander Kholodov, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA Mikhail Grigoriev, RAS Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk, Russia Pavel Rekant, VNII Okeangelogiya, Vladivostok, Russia Oleg Dudarev, Pacific Oceanological Institute, Vladivostok, Russia Collaborative Research: The East Siberian Arctic Shelf as a Source of Atmospheric Methane: First Approach to Quantitative Assessment. Abstract. Principal Investigator: Natalia Shakhova (nshakhov@iarc.uaf.edu), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USACo-Investigators: Igor Semiletov (igorsm@iarc.uaf.edu) and Gleb Panteleev (gleb@iarc.uaf.edu), both at University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA Collaborators: Mikhail Grigoriev, RAS Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk, Russia Pavel Rekant, VNII Okeangelogiya, Vladivostok, Russia Oleg Dudarev, Pacific Oceanological Institute, Vladivostok, Russia
DIOGENES - Dust Impacts on Glaciated Environments. Co-Investigators: Kevin White and Margaret Woodage, both at University of Reading, Reading, UK Collaborator: Stanislav Kutuzov, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Collaborative Research: Interactions between air temperature, permafrost and hydrology in the high latitudes of Eurasia. Principal Investigator: Dmitry Streletskiy (strelets@gwu.edu), George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA Co-Investigator: Nikolay Shiklomanov (shiklom@gwu.edu), George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA Collaborators: Sergey Davydov, North-East Science Station, Russian Academy of Sciences, Cherskiy, Yakutia, Russia and Nikita Tananaev (igl@igarka.net), Geocryology Lab., Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Igarka, Russia RCN-SEES: Building a Research Network for Promoting Arctic Urban Sustainability in Russia. Principal Investigator: Robert Orttung (rorttung@gwu.edu),George Washington University, Washington, DC, USACo-Investigators: Nikolay Shiklomanov (shiklom@gwu.edu), Dmitry Streletskiy (strelts@gwu.edu), and Marlene Laruelle (laruelle@gwu.edu), all at George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. Collaborators:: Aleksandr Pelyasov (pelyasov@sops.ru), Council for Research of Productive Forces under Russian Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Moscow, Russia, Oleg Anisimov (oleg@oa7661.spb.edu), State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, and Valery Grebenets (vgreb@inbox.ru), Department of Cryolithology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Combining remote sensing and field studies for assessment of landform dynamics and permafrost state on Yamal. Principal Investigators: Annett Bartsch (annett.bartsch@polarresearch.at), Department of Geoinformatics and Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, Austria and Marina Leibman, Earth Croysphere Institute (mleibman@online.ru), Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Russia Collaborators:: Timo Kumpula, Department of Geography, University of Eastern Finland, Finland and Birgit Heim, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany |