Integrative, Large scale, Modeling Category
List of Active NEESPI Projects: Study of Dam/Reservoir-Induced Hydrologic Changes in Large Siberian Watersheds: Regional Analysis to Pan-Arctic Synthesis. Principal Investigator: Alexander Shiklomanov (Alex.Shiklomanov@unh.edu),
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA 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 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 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 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 The Largest River Systems of Northern Eurasia: Hydrological State during Warm Climatic Epochs in Past, Present and Future. Principal Investigator: Alexander Georgiadi
(galex@online.ru), Institute of Geography, RAS, 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 An integrated understanding of the terrestrial water and energy cycles across the NEESPI domain through observations and modeling. Principal Investigator: Eric Wood (efwood@princeton.edu)
Princeton University, New Jersey, USA Understanding the role of changes in land use/land cover and atmospheric dust loading and their coupling on climate change in the NEESPI study domain drylands. Principal Investigator: Irina Sokolik
(isokolik@eas.gatech.edu) Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,
Georgia, 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 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 Northern Eurasia Landcover Dynamics Analysis (NELDA): Monitoring and validating the distribution and change in land cover across Northern Eurasia. Principal Investigator: Olga N. Krankina
(olga.krankina@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, USA NASA Earth Sciences Data Support System and Services for the Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative. Principal Investigator: Gregory Leptoukh
(Gregory.G.Leptoukh@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Maryland, USA Evaluation and Development of the Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) Using Observations. Principal Investigator: Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu),
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA 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 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 Effects of Land Use Change on the Energy and Water Balance of the Semi-Arid Region of Inner Mongolia. Principal Investigator:
Jiquan Chen (jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu), University of Toledo, USA Extreme precipitation events: their origins, predictability and societal impacts. Principal investigators:
Clemens Simmer, Meteorological Institute, University of Bonn (csimmer@uni-bonn.de)
and Sergey Gulev, P.P. Shirshov Instititute of Oceanology, Russia
(gul@sail.msk.ru) 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 Diagnosis and Prognosis of Changes in Lake and Wetland Extent on the Regional Carbon Balance of Northern Eurasia.
Principal Investigator: Dennis Lettenmaier (dennisl@washington.edu),
University of Washington, USA Modeling the carbon dynamics of the Eurasian Boreal Forest. Principal Investigators: Herman H. Shugart
(hhs@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, USA and 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 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 Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics of China in Support of GOFC/GOLD and NEESPI Sciences. Principal Investigator: Jiaguo Qi (qi@msu.edu),
Michigan State University, USA 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 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 Siberia Integrated Regional Study (SIRS) Among Projects integrated into SIRS are those funded by the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences as Integrated Interdisciplinary Projects for 2006-2008, and Basic Research Projects for 2007-2009 (due to a specifics of the RAS funding mechanism each large Project is undergoing a thorough review each year in order to secure continuous support) as well as Cooperative International Projects funded by several foreign Agencies and International Programs Principal Investigators:
Sub-projects of the SIRS mega-project with strong integrative component: SB RAS funded Basic Research SIRS Research Projects
Integrated study of natural and climatic changes and accompanying land-use risks
Functioning, biodiversity, ecological and resource potential of Siberian forests
Development of distributed informational analytical media for ecological systems study
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.
Enviro-RISKS: Man-induced Environmental Risks: Monitoring, Management and Remediation of Man-made Changes in Siberia
Member of SIRS Mega-project.
ENVIROMIS-2: Environmental Observations, Modeling and Information Systems - 2.
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 Integrated interdisciplinary research on ecological and economic problems in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan. 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 Ahmad 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, 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 Climate Change impacts and adaptation research on scientific issues -Retrospective Analysis and climate scenarios. Yaohui Li (yaohui-Li@163.com), Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Lanzhou, China and Wenjie Dong (dongwj@cma.gov.cn), Beijing Climate Centre, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
Assessing forest-tundra transition zone in the Northern Hemisphere with multisensor satellite data.
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.
IPY: Collaborative Research on Carbon, Water, and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape at Flagship Observatories and in a PanArctic Network.
Environmental conditions of the epoch of the earliest human inhabitat of Northern Eurasia
in the late pleistocene and holocene.
The estimation of CO2 and CH4 fluxes in Siberia using a tower observation network.
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), Laboratory,Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA Bruce Peterson(Peterson@mbl.edu), Laboratory,Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA Jim McClelland(jmcclelland@mbl.edu), Laboratory,Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA 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
Environment and sustanable development of the Mongolian Plateau Region. 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
Data Fusion Grid Infrastructure. Paul Kopp (Paul.Kopp@cnes.fr), Centre National d'Etudes spatiales, Tolouse, France Natalia Kussul (inform@ikd.kiev.ua), Space Research Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine Evgeny Loupian (evgeny@d902.iki.rssi.ru),Space Research Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia.
Diagnosis and prognosis of changes in lake and wetland extent on the regional
carbon balance of northern Eurasia. Co-Investigator: Kyle McDonald (kyle.c.mcdonald@jpl.nasa.gov), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, NASA, USA Collaborators: Sergey A. Zimov, Northeast Science Station, Cherskii, Russia Martin Heimann, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany Reiner Zimmermann, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany Masanobu Shimada, JAXA/EORC, Tsukuba, Japan
Quantifying Changes in Northern High Latitude Ecosystems
and Associated Feedbacks to the Climate System. Co-Investigators: Michelle Mack (mcmack@ufl.edu), University of Florida, Gainesville, USA Jim Randerson (jranders@uci.edu) and Yufang Jin, both at University of California, Irvine, USA Collaborators: Sergey A. Zimov, Northeast Science Station, Cherskii, Russia Richard Houghton, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
Collaborative Research. IPY: The Polaris
Project: Rising Stars in the Arctic. John Schade (schade@stolaf.edu), Saint Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA; Karen Frey (kfrey@clarku.edu), Clark University, Worchester, Massachusetts, USA; Katey Walter (ftkmw1@uaf.edu), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA; Andrew Bunn (andy.bunn@wwu.edu), Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA; Sudeep Chandra (sudeep@cabnr.unr.edu), University of Nevada, Reno, USA; William Sobczak (wsobczak@holycross.edu), College of the Holy Cross, Worchester, Massachusetts, USA Co-Investigators: Sergey Zimov (sazimov@cher.sakha.ru), Northeast Science Station, Cherskii, Russia; Jo Beld (beld@stolaf.edu), Saint Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA
Northern Eurasian Landscapes: Interactions Between Humans, Hydrology, Land Cover and Land Use. 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
Human Impact on Land-cover Changes in the Heart of Asia. 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 Principal Investigator: Quinlai Zhuang (qzhuang@purdue.edu), Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana,USA Co-Investigators: Jerry Melillo (jmelillo@mbl.edu), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA David Kicklighter (dkick@mbl.edu), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA John Reilly (jreilly@mit.edu), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Collaborators: Nadezhda Tchebakova (ncheby@forest.akadem.ru), V.N. Sukachev Forest Institute, Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Anatoly Shvidenko (shvidenk@iiasa.ac.at), International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria Anna Peregon (anna.peregon@nies.go.jp), Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia; Andrey Sirin (sirin@proc.ru), Institute of Forest Sciences, Russian Academy of Science; Shamil Maksyutov (shamil@nies.go.jp), National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan Guangsheng Zhou ( gszhou@ibcas.ac.cn), Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Elena Parfenova (lyeti@forest.akadem.ru), V.N. Sukachev Forest Institute, Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia NASA Data and Services Supporting Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study in Eastern Asia.
Co-Investigator: Suhung Shen (suhung.shen-1@nasa.gov), George Mason University/GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Collaborator: Wang Pan-xing (wangpanxing1705@sina.com), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China 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 Collaborators: Ge Sun (Ge_Sun@ncsu.edu) and Steven McNulty (steve_mcnulty@ncsu.edu) both USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA Jian Ni (jni@ibcas.ac.cn), Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China Ranjeet John (ranjeet.john@utoledo.edu) and Burkhard Wilske (Burkhard.Wilske@utoledo.edu), both at University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA Ke Guo (guoke@ibcas.ac.cn) and Linghao Li, both at Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China Dennis Ojima (ojima@heinzctr.org), John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Washington, DC, USA Xiangzheng Deng (dengxz.ccap@igsnrr.ac.cn), Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Dechingunga Dorjgotov (o_batkhishig@yahoo.com), (batkhishig@gmail.com), Institute of Geography of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia Principal Investigator: Jun Xia (xiaj@igsnrr.ac.cn), Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Co-Investigators: Qingyun Duan (qyduan@bnu.edu.cn), College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China Yong Luo (yluo@cma.gov.cn), National Climate Center, Chinese Meteorological Adninistration, Beijing, China Zhenghui Xie (zxie@last.iap.ac.cn), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Xinguo Mo (moxg@igsnrr.ac.cn), Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Silong Zhang (slzhang@mwr.gov.cn), Water Information Center, Ministry of Water Resources, Beijing, China Collaborators: Pavel Groisman (pasha.groisman@noaa.gov), UCAR at NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, North Carolina, USA Analysis of blocking characteristics and associated climate anomalies based on observational data and model simulation for the 20th and 21st centuries. Formulating and Evaluating Water Resources Adaptation Options to Climate Change Uncertainty in the Carpathian Region. Co-Investigators: Mark Zheleznyak (mark@env.com.ua), Andriy Demydenko (andriyd@env.com.ua), Oleksiy Boyko (alexb@env.com.ua), and Sergey Kivva (slk@env.com.ua). All at the Institute of Mathematical Machine and System Problems (IMMSP),Cybernetics Center, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine Synthesis of Forest Growth, Response to Wildfires and Carbon Storage for Russian Forests Using a Distributed, Individual-Based Forest Model. Abstract. Principal Investigator: Herman H. Shugart (hhs@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA andCo-Investigators: Tatiana Loboda(tloboda@hermes.geog.umd.edu), University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland , USA Olga Krankina (olga.krankina@oregonstate.edu) Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Alexander Isaev (isaev@cepl.rssi.ru), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Collaborators: Dmitry V. Ershov (Ershov@ifi.rssi.ru), Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and Jacquelyn Shuman (jmk9m@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Climate- and Fire-induced Vegetation, Agricultural and Albedo Change in Northern Eurasia: Consequences to Gases, Aerosols and Radiative Fluxes. Abstract. Principal Investigator: Amber. Soja (amber.j.soja@nasa.gov), National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, Virginia, USACo-Investigators: Paul W. Stackhouse Jr., (paul.w.stackhouse@nasa.gov), NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA Nadezda Tchebakova (ncheby@forest.akadem.ru), RAS Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Irina N. Sokolik (isokolik@eas.gatech.edu), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Mian Chin (mian.chin@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Qian Tan (qiantan@nasa.gov), University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Elena Parfenova (lyeti@forest.akadem.ru), RAS Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Herman H. Shugart (hhs@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, and Jacquelyn Shuman (jmk9m@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Collaborator: Galina Lysanova, Institute of Geography, Irkutsk, Russia Complex studies of the impact of anthropogenic and wildfire atmospheric emissions on air quality and climate in North Eurasia with use of observational data and numerical modeling of the atmospheric composition. Abstract. Principal Investigator: Georgy S. Golitsyn (gsg@ifaran.ru), A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, RussiaCo-Investigators: Konstantin B. Moiseenko, (konst.dvina@gmail.com), Andrey I. Skorokhod, Natalia V. Pankratova, Elena V. Berezina, Roman A. Shumsky, Eugeny I. Grechko, and Vadim S. Rakitin, all at the A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia and Hui-Jun Wang and Meigen Zhang both at Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Investigation of the formation mechanisms and tendencies of change of climatic anomalies and dangerous weather events in the Black Sea region based on climate modelling and instrumental observations. Abstract. Principal Investigator: Vladimir A. Semenov (vasemenov@mail.ru), A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, RussiaCo-Investigators: Igor I. Mokhov (mokhov@ifaran,ru), Maxim M. Arzhanov, Arseny Yu. Artamonov, Alexander V. Chernokulsky, and Irina A. Repina (repina@ifaran.ru), all at the A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia and Alexander B. Polonsky, Marine Hydrophysical Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sevastopol, Ukraine Analysis of blocking characteristics and assessment of its influence on extreme weather events in Russian Federation under climate change based on mathematical modelling and monitoring data. Abstract. Principal Investigator: Igor I. Mokhov (mokhov@ifaran.ru), A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, RussiaCo-Investigators: Mirseid G. Akperov, Alexander V. Chernokulsky (chern_av@ifaran.ru), Alexey V. Eliseev, Vyazcheslav Ch. Khon, and Alexander V. Timazhev, all at the A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia and Anthony R. Lupo, School of Natural Resources University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA European and Russian Extreme Events: Mechanisms, Variability and Future Climate Change. Abstract. Principal Investigator: Vyacheslav Ch. Khon (khon@ifaran.ru), A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, RussiaCo-Investigators: Igor I. Mokhov, Mirseid G. Akperov, Maxim M. Arzhanov, Anastasia V. Vasilieva, and Alexander V. Chernokulsky, all at the A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia; Sergey K. Gulev, Alexander V. Gavrikov, Irina A. Rudeva, and Natalia D. Tilinina, all at the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanography, RAS, Moscow, Russia; and Mojib Latif, Vladimir Semenov, Geraldine Wong, Ralf Hand, Wan-Ling Tseng, and Claudia Volosciuk, all at Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University, Kiel, Germany Collaborative Research: Crops, Climate, Canals and the Cryosphere in Asia - Changing Water Resources around the Earth's Third Pole. Abstract. Principal Investigators: Steve Frolking(steve.frolking@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA; Mark Friedl (friedl@bu.edu), Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Karen Fisher-Vanden (fishervanden@psu.edu), Pennsylvania State University,University Park, Pensylvania, USA; and Regine Hock (regine.hock@gi.alaska.edu), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USACo-Investigators: Changsheng Li (changsheng.li@unh.edu) and Richard Lammers (Richard.Lammers@unh.edu), both at University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA Ian Sue Wing, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; and Sergei Marchenko (ssmarchenko@alaska.edu), Institute of Geography, Almaaty, Kazakhstan and University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Collaborators: Li Le, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China Fan Zhang, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China Aldar P. Gorbunov (permafrost.08@mail.ru), Institute of Geography, Ministry of Science and Education of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
LCLUC synthesis: Forested Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Far East of Northern Eurasia under the Combined Drivers of Climate and Socio-Economic Transformation. Co-Investigators: Herman H. Shugart (hhs@virginia.edu) Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Tatiana Loboda (loboda@umd.edu), Department of Geography, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA Josh Newell (jpnewell@umich.edu) and Dan Brown (danbrown@umich.edu), Both at School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Collaborators: Olga Krankina (Olga.Krankina@oregonstate.edu), Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Yuri Blam (IEIE@NSC.IEIE.RU), Department of Economical Informatics, Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences – Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk, Russia; and Stephanie Hitztaler (shitztal@umich.edu), Independent Scholar, USA
Synthesis and Integration of Recent Research Characterizing the Carbon Cycle of Northern Eurasia
. Co-Investigators: Dennis P. Lettenmaier (dennisl@u.washington.edu), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; , USA Kyle C. McDonald (kyle.c.mcdonald@jpl.nasa.gov), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA Collaborators: Guido Grosse and David McGuire, both at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA John Kimball, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA; and Galina Ivanova (GAIvanova@ksc.krasn.ru), V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Synthesis of studies on institutional change and LCLUC effects on carbon, biodiversity, and agriculture after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Co-Investigators: Peter Potapov, Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University, Brookings SD 57007, USA Curtis E. Woodcock (curtis@bu.edu) and Pontus Olofsson, Both at Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA Tobias Kuemmerle and Matthew Hansen , Both at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam D-14412, Germany Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Dep. of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI 53706, USA Scott Gehlbach, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI 53706, USA Mutlu Ozdogan, Anna M. Pidgeon,Camilo Alcantara, and Eugenia Bragina, All at Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison,Madison WI 53706,USA Leonid Baskin and Maxim Dubinin, Both at Russian Academy of Sciences, Severtsov Institute for Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, Russia Vladimir Gancz, Forest Research and Management Institute, Bucharest, Romania Urs Gimmi, Land-Use History Group, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland Lubos Halada, Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Branch Nitra, SK-949 01 Nitra, Slovakia Patrick Hostert, Department of Geography, Humboldt-University Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany Géza Király, Department of Surveying and Remote Sensing, University of West Hungary, H-9401 Sopron, Hungary Jacek Kozak, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, Poland Daniel Müller and Alexander Prishchepov, Both at Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), 06120 Halle, Germany; and Kajetan Perzanowski, Dept. of Applied Ecology, Catholic University of Lublin, 20-708 Lublin, Poland Creation of Laboratory of Agroecological Monitoring and Ecosystem Projecting, “LAMP”. Abstract. Principal Investigators: Riccardo Valentini (rik@unitus.it) University of Tuscia, Italy Ivan Vasenev (vasenev@timacad.ru) Russian K.A. Timiryazev State Agrarian University.Co-Investigator: Julia A. Kurbatova (kurbatova.j@gmail.com), A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, RAS, Moscow, Russia. LCLUC Synthesis: Ecosystem-Society Interactions on a Changing Mongolian Plateau. Abstract.Principal Investigators: Jiquan Chen (jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu) University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA and Daniel G. Brown (danbrown@umich.edu), University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, USA Collaborators: Ochirbat Batkhishig (batkhishig@gmail.com), Mongolian Academy of Sciences and Tsolmon Renchin (tsolmonren@gmail.com), National University of Mongolia, both in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia Arun Agrawal (arunagra@umich.edu) and Kathleen Bergen (kbergen@umich.edu), both at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, (j.xiao@unh.edu), Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA, Yichun Xie (yxie@emich.edu), Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA, Qianglai Zhuang (qzhuang@purdue.edu), Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, Ge Sun (gesun@ncsu.edu), SGCP, USDA Forest Service, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, and Ranjeet John (Ranjeet.John@utoledo.edu) and Song Qian, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA. Regional and Global Climate and Societal Impacts of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Northern Eurasia: A Synthesis Study Using Remote Sensing Data and An Integrated Global System Model. Abstract. Principal Investigator: Qianlai Zhuang (qzhuang@purdue.edu), Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USACo-Investigators: Jerry Melillo (jmelillo@mbl.edu) and David Kicklighter (dkicklighter@mbl.edu), both at Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA John Reill: (jreilly@mit.edu), Andrei Sokolov (sokolov@mit.edu), Sergey Paltsev (paltsev@mit.edu), and Erwan Monier (emonier@mit.edu), all at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Collaborators: Nadezhda Tchebakova (ncheby@ksc.krasn.ru) and Elena Kukavskaya (kukavskaya@ksc.krasn.ru), both at V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Andrey Sirin (sirin@ilan.ras.ru), Institute of Forest Science, Russian Academy of Sciences; Uspenskoye, Moscow Region, Russia, and Mikhail Glagolev (m_glagolev@mail.ru), Moscow State University and Institute of Forest Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia The development of ecosystem spatial-temporal thermodynamics theory and methods of thermodynamic variables measurement. Category: Integrative Abstract. Principal Investigator: Yuriy Georgievich Puzachenko (puzak@orc.ru), A.N.Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, RussiaCo-Investigators: Andrey V. Varlagin, Alexander V. Olchev (aoltche@gmail.com), Robert B. Sandlersky, Ivan I. Shironya, Mikhail Yu. Puzachenko, Julia A. Kurbatova (kurbatova.j@gmail.com) Vitaliy K. Avilov, and Olga A. Kuricheva; all at the A.N.Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia Collaborator: Pavel Ya. Groisman (pasha.groisman@noaa.gov), UCAR Project Scientist at NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, North Carolina, USA Evaluating critical thresholds of climate change impacting major regional environmental systems in Russia for developing adaptation strategies. Category: Integrative Abstract. Principal Investigator: Oleg A. Anisimov (oleg@oa7661.spb.edu) State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, RussiaCo-Investigators: Elena L. Zhiltsova and Olga M. Semenova, both at the State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia Artem B. Sherstyukov, All-Russia Institute for Hydrometeorological Information, Obninsk, Kaluga area, Russia Evgeny M. Volodin, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Moscow, Russia Vladimir Yu. Razzhivin, Botanical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia Nikolay I. Shiklomanov (shiklom@gwu.edu) and Dmitry A. Streletskiy (strelets@gwu.edu), both at George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA |