Human Dimension Category

List of Active NEESPI Projects:

  1. Arctic Urban Sustainability (ARCSUS) in Russia.
  2. RCN-SEES: Building a Research Network for Promoting Arctic Urban Sustainability in Russia.
  3. Climatological, epidemiological and public health justification of a heatwave health warning system for Moldova: U.S. approaches to development.
  4. Interactive Changes of Ecosystems and Societies on the Mongolian Plateau: From Coupled Regulations of Land Use and Changing Climate to Adaptation.
  5. Adaptation to Rapid Land-Use and Climate Changes on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: Remote Sensing and Models for Analyzing Cumulative Effects.
  6. Grassland Ecosystems and Societal Adaptations Under Changing Grazing Intensity and Climate on the Mongolian Plateau.
  7. Land Abandonment in Russia: Understanding Recent Trends and Assessing Future Vulnerability and Adaptation to Changing Climate and Population Dynamics.
  8. Human Impact on Land-cover Changes in the Heart of Asia.
  9. Global Warming and Human-Nature dimension in Siberia. The social adaptation to the changes of terrestrial ecosystem with the emphasis on water environment.
  10. Northern Eurasian Landscapes: Interactions Between Humans, Hydrology, Land Cover and Land Use.
  11. Collaborative research: Humans and hydrology at high latitudes.
  12. Environment and sustanable development of the Mongolian Plateau Region.
  13. Environmental conditions of the epoch of the earliest human inhabitat of Northern Eurasia in the late pleistocene and holocene.
  14. Integrated interdisciplinary research on ecological and economic problems in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan.
  15. Comparative analysis of patterns of man-caused radionuclides migration in large water ecosystems of Siberia, the Urals and Ukraine by the example of the river Yenisei, Ob’-Irtysh river system and water reservoirs of Chernobyl restricted zone.
  16. Evolution of natural processes, man and his culture in late Cenozoic in Siberia and their influence on eco- and geosystems stability.
  17. Enviro-RISKS: Man-induced Environmental Risks: Monitoring, Management and Remediation of Man-made Changes in Siberia.
  18. Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains.
  19. Social vulnerability to climate change in Arctic western North America and eastern Russia.
  20. Heterogeneity and resilience of human-rangifer system: A circumpolar social-ecological synthesis.
  21. Post-socialist land use and land cover change in the Carpathians. Assessing the importance of socioeconomic and political factors on landscape dynamics and biodiversity.
  22. Application of space-based technologies and models to address land-cover/land-use change problems on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia.
  23. Land cover land use change effects on surface water quality: Integrated MODIS and SeaWIFS assessment of the Dneiper and Don River basins and their reservoirs.
  24. Evaluation and Forecasting of the atmospheric concentrations of allergenic pollen in Europe (POLLEN).
  25. Contributions of Changes in Land Use/Land Cover, Water Use, and Climate to the Hydrological Cycle Across the Central Asian States.
  26. Exacerbation of Flooding Responses Due to Land Cover/Land Use Change: A Comparative Study.
  27. Evaluating the effects of institutional change on regional hydrometeorology: Assessing the vulnerability of the Eurasian semi-arid grain belt.
  28. Global Distribution of Human Appropriation of Fresh Water: An Earth Observation-supported Strategy Linking Biophysics and Socio-economics for Addressing Water Vulnerability.
  29. Ecological Monitoring in Semi-Arid Central and West Asia: Drivers and Trajectories.
  30. Carbon, Climate and Managed Land in Ukraine: Integrating Data and Models of Land Use for NEESPI.
  31. Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe: socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity, and future scenarios.
  32. Reindeer Mapper: A Remote Sensing and GIS-Based System to Bring Indigenous Traditional and Local Knowledge Together with Scientific Data and Information to Address Health Issues Resulting from Changes in Climate, Environment, Weather, and Pollution in Northern Russia.

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Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains.

Principal Investigators: Libor Jansky (Jansky@hq.unu.edu), Environment and Sustainable Development Programme, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan and
Anna Tengberg (Anna.Tengberg@unep.org ), Land Degradation Unit, UNEP/GEF Division, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Co-Investigators: Hans Hurni, Center for Environment and Development, University of Berne, Switzerland
Michael Stocking, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Teiji Watanabe, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
Kazuo Mizushima, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
Fabrice Renaud, United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, Bonn, Germany
Collaborators: Kokul Kasirov, State Directorate for Protected Areas "Tajik National Park", State Committee on Environment Conservation and Forestry, Tajikistan
Turuzbek Tashybekov, National Center for Mountain Region Development, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Francis Turkelboom, International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria
Zakir Khalikulov, International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Thomas Schaaf, Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences, Man and Biosphere Programme, UNESCO, Paris, France

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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
Co-Investigators: Uma Bhatt, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
Brandon Kelly, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Craig Gerlach, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
Collaborators: Alexander Vasiliev, Institute of Earth Cryosphere, Moscow, Russia
Stanislav Ogorodov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Oceana Francis-Chythlook, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
Michel dos Santos Mesquita, 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
Co-Investigators: Brad Griffith, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA
Matt Berman, at Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska - Anchorage, USA
Collaborators: Gennady Belchansky, RAS Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, Russia
David C. Douglas, Biological Science Office, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Bruce Forbes, Arctic Center, Rovaniemi, Finland
Konstantin Klokov, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Leonid Kolpashnikov, Extreme North Agricultural Research Institute, Norilsk, Russia
Stephanie Martin, University of Alaska – Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Craig Nicholson, University of Massachusetts -Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Don Russell, Environment Canada, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

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Post-socialist land use and land cover change in the Carpathians. Assessing the importance of socioeconomic and political factors on landscape dynamics and biodiversity.

Principal Investigator: Patrick Hostert (patrick.hostert@geo.hu-berlin.de), Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany
Collaborators: Bogdan Zagajewski, Warsaw University, Poland
Volker Radeloff, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Kajetan Perzanowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Daniel Müller, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany

Application of space-based technologies and models to address land-cover/land-use change problems on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia.

Principal Investigator: Donald Walker (ffdaw@uaf.edu), University of Alaska -Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigators: Gari Kofinas, Uma Bhatt, and Vladimir Romanovsky, all University of Alaska -Fairbanks, USA
Josefino Comiso, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Howard Epstein, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Collaborators: Bruce Forbes, Arctic Center, Rovaniemi, Finland
Scientists from the Earth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS, Moscow, Russia

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Land cover land use change effects on surface water quality: Integrated MODIS and SeaWIFS assessment of the Dneiper and Don River basins and their reservoirs.

Principal Investigator: Anatoly Gitelson (gitelson@calmit.unl.edu), University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
Co-Investigator: Geoffrey M. Henebry, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
Collaborators: Ludmila Kosmenko and Boris Suhorukov, Hydro-chemical Institute, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Michael Popov and Ludmila Serenko, Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth, Institute of Geosciences UNAS, Kiev, Ukraine
Mykola Zalogin, Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

Evaluation and Forecasting of the atmospheric concentrations of allergenic pollen in Europe (POLLEN).

Principal Investigators: Jaakko Kukkonen (Jaakko.Kukkonen@fmi.fi) and Mikhail Sofiev (mikhail.sofiev@fmi.fi), Finnish Meteorological Institute, Air Quality Research & Meteorological Research, Helsinki, Finland
Co-Investigators: Pilvi Siljamo, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Drs. Auli Rantio-Lehtimaki and Hanna Ranta, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Heikki Hanninen and Tapio Linkosalo, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Eero Kubin, The Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA), Finland
Siegfried Jager, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Alexander Baklanov and Alix Rasmussen, Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eugene L. Genikhovich, Main Geophysical Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia
Elena Severova Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Kjell Arild Hogda, NORUT IT AS, Norway

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Contributions of Changes in Land Use/Land Cover, Water Use, and Climate to the Hydrological Cycle Across the Central Asian States.

Principal Investigator: Charles Vörösmarty (charles.vorosmarty@unh.edu), Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, USA
Co-Investigators: Richard Lammers, Alexander Shiklomanov, Ellen Douglas, and Xiangming Xiao,University of New Hampshire, USA
Collaborators: Igor Shiklomanov State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Victor Dukhovny, Scientific-Information Center of the Interstate Coordination Water Commission of the Central Asia, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Malik Burlibaev, Kazakhstan Research Institute for Monitoring and Climate, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan

Exacerbation of Flooding Responses Due to Land Cover/Land Use Change: A Comparative Study.

Principal Investigator: Keith Eshleman, (eshleman@al.umces.edu), University of Maryland, USA
Co-Investigators: Philip Townsend, University of Maryland, USA
Mykola Zalogin, (mzalogin@yahoo.com), Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Ukraine

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Evaluating the effects of institutional change on regional hydrometeorology: Assessing the vulnerability of the Eurasian semi-arid grain belt.

Principal Investigator: Geoff Henebry (Geoffrey.Henebry@sdstate.edu), South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
Co-Investigators: Elena Lioubimtseva, Grand Valley State University, USA
William Capehart, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA
Collaborators: Lev Spivak, Remote Sensing Center, Space Research Institute, Ministry of Education and Science, Kazakhstan
Alexander N. Zolotokrylin, Geography Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Russia

Global Distribution of Human Appropriation of Fresh Water: An Earth Observation-supported Strategy Linking Biophysics and Socio-economics for Addressing Water Vulnerability.

Principal Investigator: Marc Imhoff (Marc.L.Imhoff@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Co-Investigators: Lahouari Bounoua, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, UMD, USA
Michael Glantz, Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
Bob Harris, Environmental and Societal Impact Group, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 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

Carbon, Climate and Managed Land in Ukraine: Integrating Data and Models of Land Use for NEESPI.

Principal Investigator: Francesco Tubiello (tubiello@iiasa.ac.at), Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, USA
Co- Investigators: Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA
Gunther Fischer, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
Anatoly Shvidenko, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
Mykola Zalogin, Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Ukraine

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Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe: socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity, and future scenarios.

Principal Investigator: Volker C. Radeloff (radeloff@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Collaborators: Leonid Baskin, RAS Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russia
Linas Balciaukas, Institute of Ecology, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Anna Lushchekina, Russian Man and Biosphere Committee and RAS Severtsov
Institute for Ecology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Patrick Hostert, Humboldt University, Germany
Kajetan Perzanowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Reindeer Mapper: A Remote Sensing and GIS-Based System to Bring Indigenous Traditional and Local Knowledge Together with Scientific Data and Information to Address Health Issues Resulting from Changes in Climate, Environment, Weather, and Pollution in Northern Russia.

Principal Investigator: Nancy G. Maynard, (Nancy.G.Maynard@nasa.gov) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Co-Investigator: Boris S. Yurchak, University of Maryland - College Park, USA
Collaborators: Yuri Sleptsov, Ethno-Ecological Center "Garpanga", Yakutsk, Russia
A. Polezhaev, Institute of the Biological Problems of the North, Magadan, Russia
Svein D. Mathiesen, Nordic Sami Institute, Kautokeino, Norway
Johan Mathis Turi, Association of World Reindeer Herders, World Reindeer Herders Center, Tromso, Norway

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Comparative analysis of patterns of man-caused radionuclides migration in large water ecosystems of Siberia, the Urals and Ukraine by the example of the river Yenisei, Ob’-Irtysh river system and water reservoirs of Chernobyl restricted zone     Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Principal Investigator: Andrey G. Degermendzhi (ibp@ibp.ru), Institute of Biophysics SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

Evolution of natural processes, man and his culture in late Cenozoic in Siberia and their influence on eco- and geosystems stability     Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Principal Investigators: Anatoly P. Derevyanko (derev@archaeology.nsc.ru), Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Evgeny A. Vaganov (eavaganov@forest.akadem.ru), RAS Institute of Forest Studies, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Mikhail I. Kuzmin (isc@isc.irk.ru), Institute of Geochemistry SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia

Enviro-RISKS: Man-induced Environmental Risks: Monitoring, Management and Remediation of Man-made Changes in Siberia     Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Principal Investigator: Alexander Baklanov (alb@dmi.dk), Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Integrated interdisciplinary research on ecological and economic problems in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan.

Principal Investigator: Paul Vlek (s.aengenendt-baer@uni-bonn.de), The Center for Development Research, The University of Bonn, Germany
Co-Investigators: Christopher Martius, (c.martius@uni-bonn.de, project coordinator in Bonn), The Center for Development Research (ZEF), The University of Bonn, Germany
John Lamers (j.lamers@zef.uzpak.uz; project coordinator in Uzbekistan), ZEF/UNESCO project at the State University of Urgench, Uzbekistan
Peter Mollinga, Bernhard Tischbein, and Mossadegh-Manschadi, ZEF, University of Bonn, Germany
Gerd Rücker, German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Collaborators: Umid Abdullaev and Gulchehra Khazankhanova, Uzbek State Uzgipromeliovodkhoz Institute (UZGIP), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Ruzumboy Eshchanov, Hayot Ibrakhimov, and Asia Khamzina, State University of Urgench, Urgench, Uzbekistan
Victor Dukhovny, Scientific Information Centre of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (SIC-ICWC), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Nazar Ibragimov, Uzbek Cotton Research Institute, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Khokhimdjon Khomidov, Uzbek Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Alim Pulatov, Tashkent Institute for Irrigation and Mechanization (TIIM), Uzbekistan
Ken Sayre, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), El Batan, Mexico
Yulia Shirokova, SANIIRI (Irrigation Institute), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Reiner Wassmann, Institute for Research on the Atmosphere (IMK-IFU), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Garmisch- Partenkirchen, Germany

Environmental conditions of the epoch of the earliest human inhabitat of Northern Eurasia in the late pleistocene and holocene.

Principal Investigator: Andrey A. Velichko (paleo_igras@mail.ru, paleo@online.ru), RAS Institute for Geography, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Eleva Y. Novenko, RAS Institute for Geography, Moscow, Russia
Nancy Bigelow (ffnhb@uaf.edu), University of Alaska - Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA
Jacques Cinq-Mars (jacques.cinqmars@sympatico.ca), Canadian Museum of Civilisation, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Pavel M. Dolukhanov (Pavel.Dolukhanov@ncl.ac.uk), University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Roger Engelmark, University of Umeo, Umeo, Sweden
Petri Halinen, Lavento Mika, and Matti Saarnisto, all three from University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Knut Helskog, Jakob Moller, and Bjornar Olsen, all three from University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway
David Yesner (AFDRY@uaa.alaska.edu) University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA
Svend Funder (Svf@snm.ku.dk, svf@savik.geomus.ku.dk) Geological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Environment and sustanable development of the Mongolian Plateau Region.

Principal Investigator: Lin Zhen (zhenl@igsnrr.ac.cn), Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Co-Investigators: Jiyuan Liu, Yunfeng Hu, Xuelin Liu, and Yunjie Wei, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Ochirbat Batkhishig, Dechingungaa Dorjgotov and Adiya S. Shiirev, Institute of Geography of Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaan Bator, Mongolia
Yuhai Bao, Inner Mogolian Normal University, Hohhot, China

Collaborative research: Humans and hydrology at high latitudes.

Principal Investigator: Richard Lammers (Richard.Lammers@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA
Co-Investigators: Lawrence Hamilton, Alexander Shiklomanov, and Charles Vorosmarty, all at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA
Collaborators: Daniel White and Lilian Alessa, both at the University of Alaska - Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
Igor Shiklomanov, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Oleg Golovanov, Arctic and Antarctic research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

Northern Eurasian Landscapes: Interactions Between Humans, Hydrology, Land Cover and Land Use.

Principal Investigator: Alexander Shiklomanov (alex.shiklomanov@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
Co-Investigators: Charles Vorosmary, Richard Lammers, and Xiangming Xiao, all at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
Nikolai Shiklomanov, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Collaborators: Olga Krankina (olga.krankina@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Igor Shiklomanov, Nina Speranskaya, Oleg Anisimov, and Mikhail Markov, all at the State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Mikhail Tretiakov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Sergey Myagkov, National Institute of Hydrometeorology (NIGMI), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Natalia Agaltsova, National Hydrometeorological Service, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Lyubov Lebed, Kazakh Research Institute of Ecology and Climate (KazNIIEK), of the Ministry of Environment Protection, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Grigory Chekan, Hydrometeorological Center of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus

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

Principal Investigator: Gen Inoue (inouegen@nagoya-u.ac.jp), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Co-Investigators: Takeshi Ohta (takeshi@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Atsuko Sugimoto (atsukos@ees.hokudai.ac.jp), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Hiroki Takakura (hrk@mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Collaborators: Trofim Maximov, Institutute for Biological Problems of Criolitozone, Yakutsk, Russia

Human Impact on Land-cover Changes in the Heart of Asia.

Principal Investigator: Igor Okladnikov (oig@scert.ru), Siberian Center for Environmental research and Training, Tomsk, Russia
Collaborators:Olga Krankina (olga.krankina@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Renchin Tsolmon (tsolmon@num.edu.mn), National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Land Abandonment in Russia: Understanding Recent Trends and Assessing Future Vulnerability and Adaptation to Changing Climate and Population Dynamics.

Principal Investigator: Kirsten de Beurs (kdebeurs@ou.edu), University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Co-Investigators: Geoffrey Henebry (Geoffrey.Henebry@sdstate.edu), South Dakota State University, Brookins, South Dakota, USA
Grigory Ioffe (gioffe@radford.edu), Radford University, Radford, Virginia, USA
Collaborator: Tatyana Nefedova, RAS Institute of Geography, Moscow, Russia

Grassland Ecosystems and Societal Adaptations Under Changing Grazing Intensity and Climate on the Mongolian Plateau.

Principal Investigator: Daniel Brown (danbrown@umich.edu), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan,USA
Co-Investigators: Arun Agrawal (arunagra@umich.edu), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan,USA
Yichun Xie (yxie@emich.edu), Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
Kathleen Bergen (kbergen@umich.edu), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan,USA
Collaborators: Yongfei Bai, The Inner Mongolia Grassland Ecosystem Research Station, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China and
William Welsh, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA

Adaptation to Rapid Land-Use and Climate Changes on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: Remote Sensing and Models for Analyzing Cumulative Effects.

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

Interactive Changes of Ecosystems and Societies on the Mongolian Plateau: From Coupled Regulations of Land Use and Changing Climate to Adaptation.

Principal Investigator: Jiquan Chen (jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu), University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Co-Investigators: Shiqiang Wan (swan@ibcas.ac.cn), Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Lin Zhen (zhenl@igsnrr.ac.cn), Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Ochirbat Batkhishig (batkhishig@gmail.com), Institute of Geography of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia
Togtohyn Chuluun (chuluun@nrel.colostate.edu), National University of Mongolia and the Global Change National Committee, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia

Climatological, epidemiological and public health justification of a heatwave health warning system for Moldova: U.S. approaches to development.    Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Roman Corobov (rcorobov@sanepid.md), National Center for Scientific and Applied Preventive Medicine, Cishineu, Moldova
Co-Investigator: Kristie L. Ebi (krisebi@essllc.org), ESS, LLC, Alexandria, VA, USA

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, USA,
Co-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

Arctic Urban Sustainability (ARCSUS) in Russia.

Principal Investigator: Nikolay Shiklomanov (shiklom@gwu.edu), George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Co-Investigator: Dmitry Streletskiy (strelets@gwu.edu)). George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Collaborators:: 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

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