The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in April 2006 by the NSF Office of Polar Programs for 3-yr studies:

Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP): The U.S. contribution to the International Permafrost Observatory Network (INPO).
Categories:  Cryosphere,  Integrative

Principal Investigator: Vladimir Romanovsky (ffver@uaf.edu), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigator: Jerry Brown, International Permafrost Association, Woods Hole, Mass., USA
Collaborators: Thomas Ostercamp, 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 Institute of Permafrost Strudies, Yakutsk, Russia
David Gilichinsky, Aleksander Kholodov, and Dmitry Feodorov-Davydov, All at Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil, Puschino, Moscow area, Russia
Gary Clow, USGS, Lakewood, Colorado, USA
Scientists from Magadan and Anadyr of Far Eastern Branch of RAS, Russia
Donald (Skip) Walker, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Larry Hinzman, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA
Frederic Nelson, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Hanne Christiansen, The University Center in Svalbard, Norway
Sharon Smith, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in November 2005 by NOAA for 5-yr studies:

Social vulnerability to climate change in Arctic western North America and eastern Russia.
Categories:  Cryosphere,  Land Use,  Human Dimension

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

The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in November 2005 by the US National Science Foundation (Office of Polar Programs) for 3-yr studies:

Heterogeneity and resilience of human-rangifer system: A circumpolar social-ecological synthesis.
Categories:  Cryosphere,  Biodiversity,  Human Dimension

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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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, has been awarded by Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany for the period January 2006 up to December 2010:

Siberian Earth System Science Cluster – SIB-ESS-C.
Categories:  Biogeochemical Cycles,  Atmospheric Aerosol/Pollution,  Land Use,  Land Cover

Principal Investigators: Christiane Schmullius (c.schmullius@uni-jena.de) and Roman Gerlach (roman.gerlach@uni-jena.de), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, 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 Biosphère (CESBIO), CNES-CNRS-Université 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
Evgeny 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

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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, has been jointly awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences (Program of Presidium RAS, # 16, Part 2 and program 3.1) and Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan, for the period up to December 2008 (with an option for prolongation into 2009):

North-eastern Siberia glacier systems: Evolution of morphology and regime for the 20th century and their projections with climatic change.
Category:  Cryosphere

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
Co-Investigator: Alexander Krenke, Institute of Geography Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Yuriy Kononov and Gregory Kapustin, both at Institute of Geography RAS, Moscow, Russia
Takao Kameda and Hiroyuki Enomoto, both at Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Japan
Konosuke Sugiura, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan
Kunio Shirasawa, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, has been awarded by UK Natural Environment Research Council, United Kingdom for the period up to September 2008:

Spatio-temporal characterization of boreal forest fire intensity dynamics and its impact on carbon fluxes.
Categories:  Biogeochemical Cycles,  Atmospheric Aerosols/Pollution

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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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, has been awarded by Humbolt University, Berlin, Germany for the period up to December 2007:

Post-socialist land use and land cover change in the Carpathians. Assessing the importance of socioeconomic and political factors on landscape dynamics and biodiversity.
Categories:  Land Use,  Land Cover,  Biodiversity,  Human Dimension

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

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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, has been awarded through the Japanese Ministry of Environment for the period up to April 2007:

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]
Categories:  Integrative,  Atmospheric Aerosol/Pollution,  Biogeochemical Cycles

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
Innokentiy Plusnin, Surgut State University, Surgut, Russia
Nikolay Fedoseev, Permafrost Research Institute, Yakutsk, Russia

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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, has been jointly awarded through the Japanese Ministry of Science and Education and Japan Science Promotion Society for the period up to 2007:

Forest fire impact on carbon cycle in Siberia and its contribution to global warming.
Categories:  Land Use,  Biogeochemical Cycles,  Atmospheric Aerosols/Pollution,  Integrative

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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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, has been recently awarded through the NASA Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Analysis Program for 3-yr studies starting in winter 2006:

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)
Categories:  Biogeochemical Cycles,  Atmospheric Aerosols/Pollution

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: Nikolay F. Elansky, Obukhov Institute Of Atmospheric Physics, Moscow, Russia
Carl A.M. Brenninkmeijer, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in the Fall 2005 jointly by Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Fund on Basic Research and Ministry of Education, and Science of Russian Federation for 3-yr studies.

The Largest River Systems of Northern Eurasia: Hydrological State during Warm Climatic Epochs in Past, Present and Future.
Categories:  Hydrology,  Integrative

Principal Investigator: Alexander Georgiadi (galex@online.ru), Institute of Geography, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Co-investigators: Yuriy G.Motovilov, State Institute on Applied Ecology MNR of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
Irina P. Milyukova, Nikolay I. Koronkevich, and Elena A. Kashutina, all at Institute of Geography,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Alexander V. Kislov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Larry Hinzmann, Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
Tetsuo Ohata, Institute of Observational Research for Global Change (IORGC) Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in November 2005 by the United Kingdom Royal Society under the International Project Program for 2-yr studies:

Modelling glacial responses to climate change in the Caucasus Mountains
Category:  Cryosphere

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
Co-investigators: Christopher R. Stokes and Dr. Stephen D.Gurney, both Dept. of Geography, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Dmitriy Petrakov and Aleksander Aleynikov, both Dept. of Geography, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in 2004 through the NASA Land Cover Land Use Program for 3-yr studies:

Boreal zone forest type and structure from EOS data sets.
Category:  Biogeochemical Cycles,  Land Cover

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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The following proposals, which are in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, have been recently awarded through the NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program for 3-yr studies starting in winter 2006:

Permafrost dynamics within the Northern Eurasia region and related impacts on surface and sub-surface hydrology.
Categories:  Hydrology,  Cryosphere,  Integrative

Principal Investigator: Vladimir Romanovsky (ffver@uaf.edu) University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigator: Claude Duguay, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Collaborators: John Walsh and Igor Semiletov, both at University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Mikhail Zheleznyak, RAS Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk, Russia
Vyacheslav Razuvaev, Research Institute for Hydrometeorological Information, Obninsk, Russia
Jens Christensen, Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Continuous fields of snow cover characteristics derived through coupling satellite data with snowpack model. Application in the river runoff modeling over NEESPI domain.
Categories:  Hydrology,  Cryosphere,  Integrative

Principal Investigator: Peter Romanov (Peter.Romanov@noaa.gov) University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Co-Investigator: Dan Tarpley, NOAA Office of Research and Applications, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Collaborator: Lev Kuchment, RAS Institute of Water Problems, Moscow, Russia

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Current climate changes over Eastern Siberia and their impact on permafrost landscapes, ecosystem dynamics, and hydrological regime.
Categories:  Biogeochemical Cycles,  Hydrology,  Cryosphere,  Integrative

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: Nikolay Romanovsky, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Aleksander Georgiadi, RAS Institute of Geography, Moscow, Russia

An integrated understanding of the terrestrial water and energy cycles across the NEESPI domain through observations and modeling.
Categories:  Hydrology,  Integrative

Principal Investigator: Eric Wood (efwood@princeton.edu) Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Co-Investigators: Laura Bowling, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Alexander Oltchev, Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems of RAS, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Andrey Sogachev, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Julia Kurbatova and Andrey Varlagin, both at Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems of RAS, Moscow, Russia
Natalia Vygodskaya, Jan Kochanowski University ,Kielce, Poland
Nadezhda Tchebakova, RAS Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Nina Speranskaya, Natalia Lemeshko, and Kirill Tsytsenko, All at State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Oleg Panferov, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany

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The following project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, has been jointly supported By Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Foundation for Basic Reearch (2004-2007); NSF (2003-2004), and NOAA (2005-2006). Within the Russian Federation, the project has support through the RAS Program#13, Direction 7: "Environmental Changes in the East-Siberian region under climate effects and catastrophic processes" since 2003 and funding will continue on and yearly basis pending annual reviews. In 2005 the project was supported by The International Arctic Research Center UAF and NOAA (Pacific Arctic Shelf Studies project).

The exploration of the coastal zone in the East-Siberian Sea and adjacent parts of the Laptev and Chukchi Seas.
Categories:  Biogeochemical Cycles,  Cryosphere

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

The following six proposals, which are in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, have been recently awarded through the NASA Land Cover Land Use Change Science NRA (NRA 05) for 3-yr studies in autumn 2005:

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Application of space-based technologies and models to address land-cover/land-use change problems on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia.
Categories:  Land Use,  Atmospheric Aerosol/Pollution,  Land Cover,  Human Dimension

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

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.
Categories:  Land Use,  Atmospheric Aerosols/Pollution,  Integrative

Principal Investigator: Irina Sokolik (isokolik@eas.gatech.edu) Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Co-Investigators: Robert Dickinson, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Yongjiu Dai, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
George Golitsyn, Obukhov Institute of Atrmospheric Physics, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Rimma Bektursunova, Eurasian National University, Akmolla, Kazakhstan
Beatrice Marticorena, Lab. Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), Paris, France
Gilles Bergametti, Lab. Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), Paris, France
Dulam Jugder, Institute Meteorology and Hydrology, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia
Yaping Shao, City University of Hong Kong, China
Itsushi Uno, Institute Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Masao Mikami, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
Youngsin Chun, Meteorological Research Institute, Seoul, Korea

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Wildfire, Ecosystems, and Climate: Examining the relationships between weather, extreme fire events, and fire-induced land -cover change in the changing climate of Siberia.
Categories:  Biogeochemical Cycles,  Atmospheric Aerosols/Pollution,  Integrative,  Land Cover

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;
Herman H. (Hank) Shugart, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

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.
Categories:  Hydrology,  Land Use,  Atmospheric Aerosols/Pollution,  Land Cover,  Human Dimension

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
Mikhail 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

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Role of land cover and land use change in hydrology of Eurasian Pan-Arctic.
Categories:  Cryosphere,  Hydrology,  Land Use,  Integrative,  Land Cover

Principal Investigator: Charles Vorosmarty (Charles.Vorosmarty@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Co-Investigators: George Hurtt, Xianming Xiao, Richard Lammers, and Alexander Shiklomanov, all at University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Collaborator: Igor Shiklomanov, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

Northern Eurasia Landcover Dynamics Analysis (NELDA): Monitoring and validating the distribution and change in land cover across Northern Eurasia.
Category:  Integrative,  Land Cover

Principal Investigator: Olga N. Krankina (olga.krankina@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, USA
Co-Investigators: Jeffrey Morrisette and Jeffrey Masek, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Guoqing Sun and Ivan Csiszar, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Warren Cohen, USDA Forest Service
Marc Friedl and Curtis Woodcock, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Collaborators: Evgeny Loupian, Dmitriy Ershov, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
Evgeny Gordov, Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Tomsk, Russia
Natalia Vandysheva and Alexander Maslov, Center for Development of Information Technologies, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir V. Elsakov, Komi Science Center, Institute of Biology, Syktyvkar, Russia Vladimir Kharuk, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Mykola Zalogin, Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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The following project has been launched by NASA Data Systems Science Mission Directorate in winter 2006 for a two-year-long period to support the NEESPI Science Plan implementation:

NASA Earth Sciences Data Support System and Services for the Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative.
Category:  Intergrative

Principal Investigator: Gregory Leptoukh (Gregory.G.Leptoukh@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Co-Investigators: Ivan Csiszar and Peter Romanov, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Collaborators: Vladimir Kattsov, Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory of Roshydromet, St.Petersburg, Russia
Konstantin Rubinstein, Hydrometcentre of Russia, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir Gershenzon, Research & Development Center ScanEx, Moscow, Russia
Harry Grebenchuk, Scientific-Research Center for Radiobiology and Radiation Ecology, Tbilisi, Georgia
Sergey Venevsky, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, UK Met Office, Exete United Kingdom

Support for the following international project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, have been recently extended by the NOAA Office of Global Programs for period up to March 2007:

Evaluation and Development of the Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) Using Observations.
Categories:  Hydrology,  Intergrative

Principal Investigator: Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Co-Investigators: Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Nina Speranskaya, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Irina V.Trofimova, Institute of Telecommunications of the UAS, Kiev, Ukraine
Tatiyana I. Adamenko, Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
Suxia Liu and Xingguo Mo, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Erdenetsetseg Divaa, National Agency of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Environment Monitoring, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, has been awarded through the NASA Earth System Science Fellowship program for the period up to August 2007:

Impacts of Climate and Land Use Change on Wildland Fire Frequency and the Amur Tiger.
Categories:  Land Use,  Atmospheric Aerosols/Pollution,  Biodiversity

Principal Investigator: Tatiyana Loboda (tloboda@hermes.geog.umd.edu ), University of Maryland, Department of Geography, USA
Co-Investigator: Chris Justice, University of Maryland, Department of Geography, USA

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The following international project has been launched by the Finnish Academy of Sciences in collaboration with several Institutions in the European Union and Russia for 3-yr studies in winter 2005.

Evaluation and Forecasting of the atmospheric concentrations of allergenic pollen in Europe (POLLEN).
Categories:  Atmospheric Aerosols/Pollution,  Integrative,  Human Dimension

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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The following seven proposals, which are in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, have been recently awarded through the NASA NEWS (Water Cycle) NRA-05 for 3-yr studies starting October 2005.

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