NEESPI Science Investigations

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

Study of Dam/Reservoir-Induced Hydrologic Changes in Large Siberian Watersheds: Regional Analysis to Pan-Arctic Synthesis.
Categories: Integrative, Land Use, Hydrology

Principal Investigator: Alexander Shiklomanov (Alex.Shiklomanov@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Co-Investigator: Richard Lammers, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Collaborators: Vladimir Georgievsky and Igor Shiklomanov, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

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

Collaborative Research: Understanding Change in the Climate and Hydrology of the Arctic Land Region: Synthesizing the Results of the ARCSS Fresh Water Initiative Projects.
Categories: Integrative, Hydrology, Cryosphere

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
Co-Investigator: Richard Lammers, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA
Collaborators: Larry Hinzman, Igor Semiletov, Daquing Yang, and Doug Kane, University of Alaska – Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Glen Liston, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Mark Serreze and Tingjun Zhang, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Laurence Smith, University of California-Los Angeles, Los-Angeles, USA
Tony England, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Marika Holland, NCAR, Boulder, USA
Amanda Lynch, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Andrew Weaver, University of Victoria, Canada
Alexander Oltchev, Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems of RAS, Moscow, Russia

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The following proposal, which is coordinated with the NEESPI Science Plan, has been recently awarded through the NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program for 3-yr studies starting in autumn 2006:

The Eurasian fresh water cycle from GRACE and in-situ hydrological networks: distinguishing water cycle behavior in permafrost and non-permafrost regions.
Categories: Hydrology, Cryosphere

Principal Investigator: Isabella Velikogna (Isabella@colorado.edu), University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Collaborator: Laurence Smith, University of California-Los Angeles, USA

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 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, Integrative, Land Cover, Human Dimension

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.
Categories: Hydrology, Land Use, Human Dimension

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.
Categories: Hydrology, Land Use, Human Dimension

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.
Categories: Hydrology, Land Use, Human Dimension

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.
Categories: Biogeochemical Cycles, Land Use, Human Dimension

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
Maria 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

Effects of Land Use Change on the Energy and Water Balance of the Semi-Arid Region of Inner Mongolia.
Categories: Hydrology, Land Use, Integrative

Principal Investigator: Jiquan Chen (jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu), University of Toledo, USA
Co-Investigators: Asko Noormets, Univ. of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Steve McNulty & Ge Sun, Southern Global Change Program, USA
Weixin Cheng, Univ. of California - Santa Cruz, USA
Guanghui Lin, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yanfen Wang, The Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xiangming Xiao, University of New Hampshire, USA
Collaborators: Prof. Jiaguo Qi, Michigan State University, USA
Dennis Ojima & Dr. Scott Denning, Colorado State University, USA
Osbert Sun, Xingguo Han, Dr. Linhao Li, and Dr. Ke Guo, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ming Xu, Rutgers University, USA
Stable Isotope Laboratory for Ecological & Environmental Research at Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, China

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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.
Categories: Hydrology, Cryosphere Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Vladimir Aizen, (aizen@uidaho.edu), University of Idaho, USA
Co-Investigator: Elena Aizen, University of Idaho, USA
Siri Jodha S. Khalsa, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, USA
Collaborator: Valeriy Kuzmichenok, Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower, National Academy of Science, Kyrgyz Republic

The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded for a 3-yr study through NATO "Science for Peace" Program.

Extreme precipitation events: their origins, predictability and societal impacts.
Categories: Hydrology, Integrative

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)
Co-Investigators: Alexander Gershunov, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA
Sergey Ivanov, Odessa State Ecological University, Odessa, Ukraine

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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in 2004 for a 3-yr study through the International Association formed by the European Community, European Union's Member States and like minded countries acting to preserve and promote the scientific potential of the NIS (New Independent States) partner countries through East-West Scientific cooperation (INTAS):

Influence of snow vertical structure on hydrothermal regime and snow-related economical aspects in Northern Eurasia.
Categories: Hydrology, Cryosphere, Integrative

Principal Investigators: Andrey Shmakin (climate@igras.geonet.ru), Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Meinhard Breiling (meinhard.breiling@tuwien.ac.at), Technical University Vienna, Department for Landscape Planning, Vienna, Austria
Co-Investigators: Marcia Phillips, Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland
Konstantin Rubinstein, The Hydrometeorological Centre of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir Golubev, Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Moscow, Russia
Maxim Petrov, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Zdeno Kostka, Institute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia (kostka@svslm.sk)

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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded for a 3-yr study through the International Association formed by the European Community, European Union's Member States and like minded countries acting to preserve and promote the scientific potential of the NIS (New Independent States) partner countries through East-West Scientific cooperation (INTAS):

Snow cover changes over Northern Eurasia during the last Century: Circulation consideration and hydrological consequences (SCCONE).
Categories: Hydrology, Cryosphere, Integrative

Principal Investigator: Raino Heino, (Raino.Heino@fmi.fi) Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
Co-Investigators: Eiric Førland, Norwegian Hydrometeorological Institute, Norway
Lev Kitaev, RAS Institute of Geography, Russia
Aleksander N. Krenke, RAS Institute of Geography, Russia
Vycheslav N. Razuvaev, Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, Russia

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The following proposal, which is in support the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded for a 3-yr study through the Ministry of Economy of Hungary:

Optimization of forest management methods in preparation to the climate change.
Categories: Biogeochemical Cycles, Land Use

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

The following proposal, which is in support the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded through the NOAA Office of Global Programs (Program Element Climate Change Data and Detection) for a 3-yr study.

Representativeness of estimates of changes in weather extremes.
Categories: Cryosphere, Hydrology, Integrative

Principal Investigator: Pavel Ya. Groisman (Pasha.Groisman@noaa.gov), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research at NOAA/NESDIS/ National Climatic Data Center, USA
Co-Investigators: David R. Easterling, NOAA National Climatic Data Center, USA
Vyacheslav N. Razuvaev Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, Russia
Vladimir K. Petukhov, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Collaborators: Xuebin Zhang, Climate Research Unit, Meteorological Service of Canada
Gabriele Hegerl, Duke University, USA

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The following nine proposals, which are in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, were awarded through the NASA Carbon Cycle Science NRA (NRA 04-OES-01) for 3-yr studies.

Diagnosis and Prognosis of Changes in Lake and Wetland Extent on the Regional Carbon Balance of Northern Eurasia.
Categories: Biogeochemical Cycles, Hydrology, Integrative

Principal Investigator: Dennis Lettenmaier (dennisl@washington.edu), University of Washington, USA
Co-Investigators: Laura Bowling, Purdue University, USA
Kyle McDonald, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Collaborators: Nina A. Speranskaya and Kirill V. Tsitsenko State Hydrological Institute, Russia
Daniil Kozlov and Yuriy N. Bochkarev, Moscow State University, Russia
Reiner Schnur, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Martin Heimann, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Gianfranco De Grandi, Joint Research Centre, Italy

Wildfire Impacts on Carbon Stocks and Exchanges in Forests of Central Siberia: Quantifying Effects of Fire Intensity, Fire Severity, and Burning Conditions.
Categories: Biogeochemical Cycles, Atmospheric Aerosols/Pollution

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

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Modeling the carbon dynamics of the Eurasian Boreal Forest.
Categories: Biogeochemical Cycles, Integrative

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

Comparative Studies on Carbon Dynamics in Disturbed Forest Ecosystems: Eastern Russia and Northeastern China.
Categories: Biogeochemical Cycles, Land Use

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

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

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

Northern Eurasian C-land Use Climate Interaction in the Semi-Arid Regions.
Categories: Biogeochemical Cycles, Land Use

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

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

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

Quantifying the Effects of Land Use Change on Carbon Budgets in the Black Sea Region.
Categories: Biogeochemical Cycles, Land Use

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

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Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics of China in Support of GOFC/GOLD and NEESPI Sciences.
Categories: Land Use, Integrative, Land Cover

Principal Investigator: Jiaguo Qi (qi@msu.edu), Michigan State University, USA
Co-Investigators: Changsheng Li, University of New Hampshire, USA
Cuizhen Wang, University of Missouri - Columbia, USA
Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, USA
Jiyuan Liu, Institute of Geographic Information and Natural
Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Drs. Joseph Messina, Mark Cochrane, Runsheng Yin, USA
Peng Gong, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Shuguang Liu, EROS Data Center, USA
Shuming Bao, University of Michigan, USA
Wei Gao, Colorado State University, USA
William Salas, Applied Geosolutions, LLC, USA
Xiangming Xiao, University of New Hampshire, USA
Yongyun Yin, British Columbia, Canada
Collaborators: Drs. Genian Lv and Wanchang Zhang, Nanjing University, China
Guoping Lei, Northeast Agricultural University, China
Jiaping Wu, Zhejiang University, China
Jiemin Wang, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Institute, China
Jintao Xu, Institute of Geographic Information and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Lin Zheng, Jiangxi Normal University, China
Drs. Qingdong Shi and Xiaoling Pan, Xinjiang University, China
Drs. Yanhua Bao and Zhigang Li, Heilongjiang Bureau of Survey and Mapping, China
Ya-Qiu Jin, Fudan University, China
Zhongdong Feng, Lanzhou University, China

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The following four Pilot Investigation proposals, which are in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, were awarded through the NASA Land Cover Land Use Change Program in the past 12 months:

Development of an Integrated System of Ground-, Air- and Space-Based Observations of Biomass Burning in Northern Eurasia.
Categories: Biogeochemical Cycles, Atmospheric Aerosols/Pollution, Integrative, Land Cover

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

Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe: socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity, and future scenarios.
Categories: Land Use, Land Cover, Biodiversity, Human Dimension

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

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The following pilot investigation proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded through the NASA Land Cover Land Use Change Program in year 2005 and has been completed at that year:

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.
Categories: Land Use, Biodiversity, Human Dimension

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: Yuriy 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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The following mega-project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, has been launched under the auspices of the Siberian Branch of The Russian National Committee for IGBP in September 2006 for up to the next 3 years.

Siberia Integrated Regional Study (SIRS)

Categories: Integrative

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:
Evgeny Vaganov (eavaganov@forest.akadem.ru), RAS Institute of Forest Studies, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Evgeny Gordov (gordov@scert.ru), Siberian Center for Environmental Research, Tomsk, Russia
Michael Kabanov (kabanov@imces.ru), RAS Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Tomsk, Russia
Mikhail I. Kuzmin (isc@isc.irk.ru), Institute of Geochemistry SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Vasily Lykosov (lykossov@inm.ras.ru), RAS Institute for Numerical Mathematics, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir P. Melnikov (melnikov@ikz.ru), Tyumen Scientific Center SB RAS, RAS Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen, Russia
Oleg F. Vasiliev (vasiliev@ad-sbras.nsc.ru), Novosibirsk Branch Institute for Water and Environmental Problems, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Co-Investigators:
Alexander Baklanov (alb@dmi.dk), Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Andrey G. Degermendzhi (ibp@ibp.ru), Institute of Biophysics SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Anatoly P. Derevyanko (derev@archaeology.nsc.ru), Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Anatoly M. Fedotov (fedotov@sbras.ru), Institute of Computational Technologies SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Vyacheslav I. Kharuk (kharuk@ksc.krasn.ru), Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Nikolay A. Kolchanov (kol@bionet.nsc.ru), Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Vladimir N. Krupchatnikov (vkrup@ommfao1.sscc.ru), Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Victor I. Kuzin (kuzin@sscc.ru), Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Alexander A. Onuchin (onuchin@ksc.krasn.ru), Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Vladimir V. Penenko (penenko@sscc.ru), Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Petr Yu. Pushistov (push@uriit.ru), Ugra Research Institute of Information Technologies, Khanty-Mansiisk, Russia
Vladimir V. Shaidurov (shidurov@icm.krasn.ru), Institute of Computational Modeling SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Collaborators:
Gerard Begni (begni@medias.cnes.fr), MEDIAS-FRANCE, Toulouse, France
Nikolay N. Filatov (nfilatov@nwpi.krc.karelia.ru), Northern Water Problems Institute KRC RAS, Petrozavodsk, Russia
Martin Heimann (martin.heimann@bgc-jena.mpg.de), Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Kostas Karatzas (kkara@eng.auth.gr), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Igor L. Karol’ (karol@main.mgo.rssi.ru), Main Geophysical Observatory, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Igor I. Mokhov (mokhov@ifaran.ru), A.M.Obukhov Institute for Atmospheric Physics, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Gennady N. Panin (panin@aqua.laser.ru), Institute of Water Problems RAS, Moscow, Russia
Anatoly Shvidenko (shvidenk@iiasa.ac.at), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Galina Tolkacheva (nigmi@albatros.uz), Research Institute for Hydrometeorological Information, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Edige Zakarin (zakarin@kgc.kz), KazGeoKosmos, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Sergey Zilitinkevich (sergej.zilitinkevich@fmi.fi), Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

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Sub-projects of the SIRS mega-project:

SB RAS funded Basic Research SIRS Research Projects

1. Integrated study of natural and climatic changes and accompanying land-use risks
Categories: Integrative, Land Use. Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Lead Investigator: Michael V. Kabanov (post@imces.ru), SB RAS Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Tomsk, Russia.

2. Functioning, biodiversity, ecological and resource potential of Siberian forests
Categories: Integrative Biodiversity, Biogeochemical Cycles. Member of SIRS Mega-project.

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

3. Study of hydrological and ecological processes in Siberian water bodies and development of scientific basis for water use and water resources protection (taking into account anthropogenic factor and climate change)
Categories: Hydrology. Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Lead Investigator: Oleg F. Vasiliev (vasiliev@ad-sbras.nsc.ru), Novosibirsk Branch Institute for Water and Environmental Problems, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia.

4. State, structure and changes of cryosphere: Cryogenesis and its influence on natural and man-caused geosystems
Categories: Cryosphere. Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Lead Investigator: Vladimir P. Melnikov (melnikov@ikz.ru), Tyumen Scientific Center SB RAS, RAS Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen, Russia.

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Integrated Interdisciplinary SIRS Research Projects

5. 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
Categories: Hydrology, Human Dimension. Member of SIRS Mega-project.

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

6. Development of distributed informational analytical media for ecological systems study
Categories: Integrative. Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Lead Investigators: Nikolay A. Kolchanov (kol@bionet.nsc.ru), Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Anatoly M. Fedotov (fedotov@sbras.ru), Institute of Computational Technologies SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Evgeny P. Gordov, (gordov@scert.ru), SB RAS Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Tomsk, Russia.

7. Evolution of natural processes, man and his culture in late Cenozoic in Siberia and their influence on eco- and geosystems stability
Categories: Integrative, Land Use, Human Dimension. Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Lead 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

8. Development of tools for satellite ecological monitoring of Siberia and Far East on the basis of new informational and telecommunicational methods and technologies
Categories: Land Cover . Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Lead Investigators: Vladimir V. Shaidurov (shidurov@icm.krasn.ru), Institute of Computational Modeling SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Vyacheslav I. Kharuk (kharuk@ksc.krasn.ru), RAS Institute of Forest Studies, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

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Cooperative International SIRS Research projects

9. Enviro-RISKS: Man-induced Environmental Risks: Monitoring, Management and Remediation of Man-made Changes in Siberia
Categories: Integrative, Biodiversity, Land Use, Human Dimension. Member of SIRS Mega-project.

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

10. ENVIROMIS-2: Environmental Observations, Modeling and Information Systems - 2.
Categories: Integrative. Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Lead Investigator: Evgeny Gordov (gordov@scert.ru), Siberian Center for Environmental Research, Tomsk, Russia.

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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded by the NSF Office of Polar Programs for 3-yr studies. The study will be initiated in spring 2007.

Development of a Network of Permafrost Observatories in North America and Russia: The US Contribution to the International Polar Year.
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 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

The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research for a three-year-long period up to December 2007. The project joined NEESPI in autumn 2006.

Heat, mass and momentum transfer in katabatic winds over glaciers and ice sheets.
Categories: Cryosphere.

Principal Investigator: Irina Repina (repina@ifaran.ru), A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics RAS, Russia
Collaborators: 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

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The following two proposals, which are coordinated with the NEESPI Science Plan, were awarded in February 2007 for a 3-yr study through the International Association formed by the European Community, European Union's Member States and like minded countries acting to preserve and promote the scientific potential of the NIS (New Independent States) partner countries through East-West Scientific cooperation (INTAS): More information

Modelling climate change, glacier dynamics, and water availability in the Caucasus.
Categories: Cryosphere.

Principal Investigator: Maria Shahgedanova (m.shahgedanova@reading.ac.uk), Department of Geography, the University of Reading, United Kingdom
Co-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.
Categories: Cryosphere.

Principal Investigator: Maria Shahgedanova (m.shahgedanova@reading.ac.uk), Department of Geography, the University of Reading, United Kingdom
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

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The following International Project, the objectives of which corroborate with the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) to The Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn (ZEF) for a four year long period starting in May 2007 [The project, a continuation of the ZEF project on “Economic and Ecological Restructuring of Land- and Water Use in Khorezm, Uzbekistan” initiated in 2001, intends at developing sustainable options for land and water use while increasing the economic livelihood of the rural population in the irrigated lowlands of Central Asia (Aral Sea Basin). Additional funding for stipends of doctoral students is provided by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); More information]:

Integrated interdisciplinary research on ecological and economic problems in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan.
Categories: Integrative. Land Use. Hydrology, Human Dimension.

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 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, 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

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The following proposal, which is in support the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded through the NOAA Office of Global Programs (Program Element Climate Change Data and Detection) for a 3-yr study starting in June 2007:

Precipitation intensity over the northern extratropics.
Category: Hydrology.

Principal Investigator: Pavel Groisman (Pasha.Groisman@noaa.gov), UCAR at NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, USA
Co-Investigator: David Easterling, (David.R.Easterling@noaa.gov), NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, USA
Collaborators: Vyacheslav Razuvaev (razuvaev@meteo.ru) and Olga Bulygina (bulygina@meteo.ru), Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, Obninsk, Russia
Esphir Bogdanova, Main Geophysical Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia
Olga Zolina, Meteorological Institute, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany
Xuebin Zhang, Meteorological Service of Canada, Downsview, Ontario, Canada
Paul Whitfield, Meteorological Service of Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Pan-Mao Zhai, Dept. of Prediction Service and Disaster Mitigation, Chinese Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
Heikki Tuomenvirta, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Hans Aleksandersson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden
Eirik Førland and Inger Hanssen-Bauer, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Marshall Shepherd,The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

The following two projects which are in support of the NEESPI Science Plan have been jointly launched by Meteorological Service of Canada and China Meteorological Administration for 3-yr studies starting in November 2006:

Climate Change impacts and adaptation research on scientific issues -Retrospective Analysis and climate scenarios.
Category: Integrative.

Principal Investigators: Paul Whitfield (Paul.Whitfield@ec.gc.ca), Meteorological Service of Canada - Pacific and Yukon Region, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
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

Spatial Variations in recent climate variations in seasonal climate of Inner Mongolia.
Category: Hydrology.

Principal Investigators: Paul Whitfield (Paul.Whitfield@ec.gc.ca), Meteorological Service of Canada - Pacific and Yukon Region, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and
Pei Hao (pepihaho@yahoo.com), Meteorological Bureau of Inner Mongolia, China Meteorological Administration, Hohhot, China

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The following five proposals which are in support of the NEESPI Science Plan were awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences (Program of Presidium RAS, # 16, Part 2) for the period up to December 2010 as a part of the International Polar Year and its aftermath activities in Russia:

Diagnostics and modelling of climate in polar and subpolar regions.
Categories: Integrative, Cryosphere.

Principal Investigator: Igor I. Mokhov (mokhov@ifaran.ru), RAS Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Moscow, Russia
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

Contemporary glaciation state in the Arctic, glaciers’ instability and iceberg formation.
Category: Cryosphere.

Principal Investigator: Andrey F. Glazovsky (icemass@yandex.ru), RAS Institute for Geography, Moscow, Russia
Collaborator: Mark Dyurgerov (Mark.Dyurgerov@colorado.edu) Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Environmental conditions of the epoch of the earliest human inhabitat of Northern Eurasia in the late pleistocene and holocene.
Categories: Integrative, Human Dimension.

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

Temperature distribution, trace gas components, dynamic and chemical processes in the atmosphere of polar and subpolar regions.
Category: Atmospheric Aerosol/Pollution.

Principal Investigator: Nikolay F. Elansky (n.f.elansky@mail.ru), RAS Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Andreas Stohl (ast@nilu.no), Norsk institutt for luftforskning, Kjeller, Norway
James W. Elkins (james.w.elkins@noaa.gov), NOAA/Earth System Research Lab., Boulder, Colorado USA
Irina N. Sokolik, (isokolik@eas.gatech.edu), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Changes of snowiness in Northern Eurasia in connection to atmospheric processes.
Category: Cryosphere.

Principal Investigator: Andrey B. Shmakin (andrey_shmakin@mail.ru), RAS Institute for Geography, Moscow, Russia
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, all at Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Moscow, Russia

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The following two proposals which are in support of the NEESPI Science Plan were awarded by NASA in May 2007 for the 3-yr-long period as a part of the Agency contribution to the International Polar Year:

Assessing forest-tundra transition zone in the Northern Hemisphere with multisensor satellite data.
Category: Land Cover, Integrative.

Principal Investigator: K. Jon Ranson (jon.ranson@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Co-Investigators: Ross F. Nelson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Guoqing Sun, Dept. of Geography, University of Maryland-College Park, Maryland, USA
Hank Margolis, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Vyacheslav I. Kharuk, RAS Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, 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.
Category: Cryosphere, Integrative. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Vladimir Aizen (aizen@uidaho.edu), University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
Co-Investigators: Elena Aizen and Arzhan Surazhakov, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
Collaborators: Stanislav A. Nikitin and Uriu K. Narojniy, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia

The following project which is coordinated with the NEESPI Science Plan was launched by The U.S. Agency for International Development for 3-yr studies starting in November 2004:

Estimation of seasonal dynamics of desert pasture productivity in Turkmenistan using NOAA/AVHRR data.
Category: Land use.

Principal Investigator: Lea Orlovsky (orlovsky@bgu.ac.il), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Co-Investigators: Felix Kogan (Felix.Kogan@noaa.gov), NOAA/NESDIS Environmental Monitoring Branch, Washington D.C., USA
Batyr Mamedov, Turkmenistan Desert Research Institute, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Lev Spivak, Remote Sensing Center, Space Research Institute, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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The following project which is coordinated with the NEESPI Science Plan was launched by The U.S. National Science Foundation for 5-yr studies starting in 2007:

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

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

The following project which is coordinated with the NEESPI Science Plan was launched by The Ministry of Environment, Japan through Global Environmet Research Coordination System for 5-yr studies starting in April 2007:

The estimation of CO2 and CH4 fluxes in Siberia using a tower observation network.
Categories: Integrative, Biogeochemical Cycles.

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

The following project which is coordinated with the NEESPI Science Plan was launched by the U.S. National Science Foundation for 3-yr studies starting in August 2005:

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

Principal Investigator: Qianlai Zhuang (qzhuang@purdue.edu), Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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

The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in November 2005 by Chinese Academy of Sciences for 3-yr studies:

Environment and sustanable development of the Mongolian Plateau Region.
Categories: Integrative, Land Use, Human Dimension.

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

The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in 2007 through the International Association formed by the European Community, European Union's Member States and like minded countries acting to preserve and promote the scientific potential of the NIS (New Independent States) partner countries through East-West Scientific cooperation (INTAS) for 2-yr studies:

Data Fusion Grid Infrastructure.
Categories: Integrative and Land Use.

Principal Investigators: Ladislav Hluchy (hluchy.ui@savba.sk), Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
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.

The following three proposals, which are in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, were awarded in November 2007 by the NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program for 3-yr studies:

Diagnosis and prognosis of changes in lake and wetland extent on the regional carbon balance of northern Eurasia.
Categories: Integrative, Biogeochemical Cycles.

Principal Investigator: Dennis Lettenmaier (dennisl@u.washington.edu), University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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.
Categories: Integrative, Biogeochemical Cycles.

Principal Investigator: Scott Goetz (sgoetz@whrc.org), Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
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

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

Principal Investigator: Guido Grosse (ggrosse@gi.alaska.edu), Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigators: Katey Walter, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Vladimir Romanovsky (ffver@uaf.edu) Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Collaborators: Sergey A. Zimov, Northeast Science Station, Cherskii, Russia
Lawrence Plug, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Mary Edwards,University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Lee Slater, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Paul Valdes, Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System (QUEST) Program, Bristol, UK
Peter Frenzel, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany; and
Pan-Arctic Lake-Ice Methane Monitoring Network (PALIMMN) collaborators.

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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in September 2007 by the NSF Division of the Undegraduate Education for 3-yr studies:

Collaborative Research. IPY: The Polaris Project: Rising Stars in the Arctic.
Categories: Integrative with a strong education component and Biogeochemical Cycles.

Principal Investigators: Robert Holmes (rmholmes@whrc.org), Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA;
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

The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in 2006 by the Finnish Academy of Sciences for 3-yr studies:

Remote sensing of vegetation based on spectrally invariant structure parameters (SPRINTER).
Categories: Land Cover, Biogeochemical Cycles.

Principal Investigator: Pauline Stenberg (Pauline.Stenberg@helsinki.fi), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Co-Investigators: Matti Mõttus and Miina Rautiainen, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Ranga B. Myneni and Yuri Knyazikhin, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Tiit Nilson (nilson@aai.ee) and Andres Kuusk, Tartu Observatory, Tõraverre, Estonia

The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in 2007 by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research for 3-yr studies:

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

Principal Investigator: Stanislav Prokushkin (prokushkin@ksc.krasn.ru), V.N. Sukachev Insitute of Forest, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Co-Investigators: Anatoly Prokushkin, Svetlana Yevgrafova, Oxana Masyagina, Irina Tokareva, and Tatiana Bugaenko, all at V.N. Sukachev Insitute of Forest, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Collaborator: William H. McDowell (bill.mcdowell@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA

The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in 2007 by NASA Program for Interdisciplinary Studies for 3-yr studies:

Evaluation of habitat availability for large carnivores under a changing climate and disturbance regime: an Amur Tiger and Amur Leopard case study.
Category: Biodiversity. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Herman H. Shugart (hhs@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Co-Investigators: Ivan Csiszar (icsiszar@hermes.geog.umd.edu), Tatiana Loboda (tloboda@hermes.geog.umd.edu), and Guaqing Sun (guoqing.sun-1@nasa.gov), all at University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Collaborator: Dale Miquelle (dalemiq@vlad.ru), Wildlife Conservation Society, Russia

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The following proposal, which corroborates with the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in 2005 by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) for 5-yr studies:

Eurasian Peatlands in a Changing Climate.
Category: Biogeochemical Cycles.

Principal Investigator: Martin Wilmking (wilmking@uni-greifswald.de), Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany
Collaborators: Elena Lapshina, Department of International Programs, Yugra State University, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
Jukka Alm, Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA), Joensuu, Finland
Sanna Saarnio, Joensuu University, Finland

The following project that is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan was awarded in 2007 by the German Science Foundation (DFG) for 3 to 5 yr studies:

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

Principal Investigator: Martin Wilmking (wilmking@uni-greifswald.de), Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany
Collaborators: Elena Lapshina, Department of International Programs, Yugra State University, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
Pertti Martikainen, Biogeochemistry Research Group, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in 2006 by the NSF Arctic System Science Program for 4-yr studies:

Collaborative research: Humans and hydrology at high latitudes.
Categories: Hydrology, Human Dimension.

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, Alaska, 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

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The following three proposals, which are in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, were awarded in March 2008 by the NASA Land-Cover/Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Program for 3-yr studies:

Collaborative Research: Diagnosis of Changes in Alpine Water Storages and Land Surface Degradation in Pamir Mountains and Amu Dariya River Basin.
Categories: Hydrology, Cryosphere. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Vladimir Aizen (aizen@uidaho.edu), University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
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

Northern Eurasian Landscapes: Interactions Between Humans, Hydrology, Land Cover and Land Use.
Categories: Integrative, Human Dimension, Land Use, Hydrology.

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

Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in Temperate Forests of European Russia: The Past, the Current, and the Future.
Categories: Land Use, Land Cover.

Principal Investigator: Mutlu Ozdogan (ozdogan@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Co-Investigators: Volker Radeloff and David J. Lewis, both at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Collaborators: Alexander Maslov, Institute of Forest Science, Moscow, Russia and
Dmitry Aksenov, "Transparent World", Moscow, Russia

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The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in 2008 by the MEXT (Ministry of Science, Education, Culture and Sports) for 5-yr studies:

Global Warming and Human-Nature dimension in Siberia. The social adaptation to the changes of terrestrial ecosystem with the emphasis on water environment.
Categories: Human Dimension, Hydrology, and Biogeochemical Cycles.

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

The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in January 2008 by the RFBR (Russian Foundation for Basic Research) for 3-yr studies. The project is a continuation and a complement of two ongoing and one recently completeted projects supported by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and RFBR ("A mathematical model for estimation of the water vapour and carbon dioxide fluxes between non-uniform forest ecosystems and the atmosphere" (2006-2007, RFBR, Summary of results); "Stability of forest ecosystems in the Central European part of Russia under climatic changes" [2007-2008 ongoing, Grant of Presidium of RAS, Program "Biodiversity"]; "Estimation of Gross (GPP) and Net Primary (NPP) Productions of coniferous and mixedforests of the Central part of European Russia" [2007-2008 ongoing, Grant of Presidium of RAS, Program "Biological resources of Russia: Fundamental basis of rational management"].

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

Principal Investigator: Alexander Oltchev (aoltche@gmail.com, aoltche@gwdg.de), Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Co-Investigators: Julia Kurbatova and Fedor Tatarinov, both at Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Alexander Molchanov, Institute of Forestry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Uspenskoe, Moscow area, Russia
Elena Novenko, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Natalja Melnikova, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Malcolm Hughes (mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu), The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Tatiana Sazonova (alt86@yandex.ru) and Vladislava Pridacha, Both at Forest Research Institute, Petrozavodsk, Russia
Natalia Shaluhina, Timiryazev State Agricultural University, Moscow, Russia
Pavel Konstantinov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

The following proposal, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in March 2008 by the Asian-Pacific Network Program (Head Quarter in Kobe, Japan) for 3-yr studies:

Human Impact on Land-cover Changes in the Heart of Asia.
Categories: Biodiversity, Integrative, Human Dimension, and Land Use.
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

The following project, which corroborates with the NEESPI Science Plan, has been continuously funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation since early 1990s (the current funding is secured to October 2009):

The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Network-CALM: Long-Term Observations on the Climate-Active Layer-Permafrost System.
Category: Cryosphere. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Principle investigator: Frederic E. Nelson (fnelson@udel.edu), Department of Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Co-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
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
Sergei Marchenko, Institute of Geography, Almaaty, Kazakhstan
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

The following project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation in summer 2008 for a 4-years-long period:

Asian Ice Core Array (AICA): Reconstruction of Past Physical and Chemical Climate over Central Asia.
Category: Cryosphere. Abstract.

Principal Investigators: Vladimir Aizen (aizen@uidaho.edu), Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA and Paul A. Mayewski (paul.mayewski@maine.edu), University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA
Co-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

The following project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was funded by the National Geographic Trust for Research and Exploration in summer 2008 for a 2-years-long period:

Investigating glacier response to the recent climate change in the Polar Urals, Russia.
Category: Cryosphere.

Principal Investigator: Maria Shahgedanova (m.shahgedanova@reading.ac.uk), Walker Institute for Climate System Research and the Department of Geography, The University of Reading, Reading, UK
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

The following project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was funded by the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC; http://www.istc.ru) in September 2007 for a 2-years-long period:

Trans-Continental Transport of Air Pollution from Central Asia.
Category: Atmospheric Aerosol/Pollution.

Principal Investigator: Igor Granberg (igran@ifaran.ru, igranberg@gmail.com), A.M.Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Co-Investigators: Boris B. Chen (lidar@istc.kg), Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, Bishkek,Kyrgyz Republic
Vladimir P. Makarov (makarov44@rambler.ru), Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, National Academy Sciences, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Collaborators: Gregory R. Carmichael (gregory-carmichael@uiowa.edu), University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Jamie Schauer (jjschauer@wisc.edu), Water Science and Engineering Laboratory, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Paul A. Solomon (solomon.paul@epamail.epa.gov), US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The following field project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was funded jointly by Finnish Meteorological Institute and Météo-France in autumn 2008 for a 3-years-long period:

Snow Reflectance Transition Experiment (SNORTEX).
Category: Cryosphere. Abstract.

Principal Investigators: Jean-Louis Roujean (jean-louis.roujean@meteo.fr), Météo-France, Toulouse, France and Terhikki Manninen (terhikki.manninen@fmi.fi), Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
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

The following project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was funded by the German Research Foundation in spring 2009 for a 3-years-long period:

Spatial and Temporal Scales and Mechanisms of Extreme Precipitation Events over Central Europe (STAMMEX).
Category: Hydrology. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Olga Zolina (ozolina@uni-bonn.de), Meterologisches Institut, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany
Colaborators: Sergey Gulev (gul@sail.msk.ru), Sea Air Interaction Laboratory, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, Moscow, Russia
Pavel Groisman (pasha.groisman@noaa.gov), UCAR at NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Alexander Gershunov (sasha@ucsd.edu), Scripps Institution for Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA

The following 15 projects, which are in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, were funded by the NASA Land Cover Land Use Change Program in spring 2009 for a 3-years-long period:

Land Abandonment in Russia: Understanding Recent Trends and Assessing Future Vulnerability and Adaptation to Changing Climate and Population Dynamics.
Categories: Human Dimension and Land use. Abstract.

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

The Influence of Changing Forestry Practices on the Effects of Wildfire and on Interactions between Fire and Changing Climate in central Siberia.
Categories: Land Cover and Land use. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Susan Conard (SGConard@aol.com), US Forest Service, Washington, DC, USA
Co-Investigators: Nadezhda Tchebakova (ncheby@forest.akadem.ru), V.N. Sukachev Forest Institute, Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Amber Soja (amber.j.soja@nasa.gov), National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, Virginia, USA
Wei Min Hao (whao@fs.fed.us), USDA Forest Service, Missoula, Montana, USA
Elena Parfenova (lyeti@forest.akadem.ru), V.N. Sukachev Forest Institute, Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Galina Ivanova (GAIvanova@ksc.krasn.ru), V.N. Sukachev Forest Institute, Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Douglas McRae (dmcrae@nrcan.gc.ca), Natural Resources Canada, Great Lakes Forest Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Anatoly Sukhinin (boss@ksc.krasn.ru), V.N. Sukachev Forest Institute, Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

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

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, Moscow, Russia
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

Remote Sensing of Forest Structure across Multiple Scales from Leaves to Canopies and Stands.
Category: Land Cover. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Yuri Knyazikhin (jknjazi@crsa.bu.edu), Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts,USA
Collaborator: Pauline Stenberg (pauline.stenberg@helsinki.fi), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Land use change, protected areas, and biodiversity in the Caucasus and Ural Mountains.
Categories: Biodiversity and Land Use. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Volker Radeloff (radeloff@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin,USA
Co-Investigators: Daniel Muller (d.mueller@geo.hu-berlin.de), Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Berlin, Germany
Patrick Hostert (patrick.hostert@geo.hu-berlin.de), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Tobias Kuemmerle (tobias.kuemmerle@geo.hu-berlin.de), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Leonid Baskin (baskin@orc.ru), Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Grassland Ecosystems and Societal Adaptations Under Changing Grazing Intensity and Climate on the Mongolian Plateau.
Categories: Land Use and Human Dimension. Abstract.

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

Investigating the Relationship Between Land Use/Land Cover Change, Hydrologic Cycle, and Climate in Semi-Arid Central Asia.
Categories: Land Use and Hydrology. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Mutlu Ozdogan (ozdogan@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Collaborators: Chen Xi, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Urumqi, China
Alishir Kurban, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Urumqi, China

Integrating Field and Remotely Sensed Data for Improved Characterization of Permafrost Landscapes in the Russian Arctic.
Category: Cryosphere. Abstract.

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

Assimilation of tower and satellite-based methane observations for improved estimation of methane fluxes over northern Eurasia.
Categories: Biogeochemical Cycles and Hydrology. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Dennis Lettenmaier (dennisl@u.washington.edu), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Collaborators: Kyle McDonald (kyle.mcdonald@jpl.nasa.gov), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA
Toshinobu Machida (tmachida@nies.go.jp), National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Shamil Maksyutov (shamil@nies.go.jp), National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Mikhail Arshinov (michael@iao.ru), Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk, Russia

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

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)
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

Contribution to studies of LCLUC in Northern Eurasia.
Category: Land Cover. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Olga Krankina (krankinao@fsl.orst.edu), Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Co-Investigator: Robert Kennedy (robert.kennedy@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Collaborators: Warren Cohen (warren.cohen@oregonstate.edu), USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Dirk Pflugmacher (dirk.pflugmacher@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Patrick Hostert (patrick.hostert@geo.hu-berlin.de), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Igor Okladnikov (oig@scert.ru), Siberian Center for Environmental Research, Tomsk, Russia

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

Principal Investigator: Malcolm Hughes (mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu), University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Co-Investigator: Andrew Bunn (andy.bunn@wwu.edu), Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, USA
Collaborators: Alexander Oltchev, Severtsov Institute of Ecology, Moscow, Russia and
Christopher Baisan, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

NASA Data and Services Supporting Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study in Eastern Asia.
Category: Integrative. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Gregory Leptoukh (Gregory.G.Leptoukh@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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

Interactive Changes of Ecosystems and Societies on the Mongolian Plateau: From Coupled Regulations of Land Use and Changing Climate to Adaptation.
Categories: Integrative, Land Use and Human Dimension. Abstract.

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

Impacts of Land Cover and Land Use Change on Water and Energy Cycle in Caspian Sea Drainage Basin.
Categories: Hydrology and Land Use. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Sassan Saatchi (ssaatchi@ucla.edu), University of California - Los Angeles, California, USA
Co-Investigator: Dara Entekhabi (darae@mit.edu), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Collaborators: Sergey Dobrolyubov (science@geogr.msu.ru), Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Herman Shugart (hhs@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Hamid Ghaffarzadeh (hamid.ghaffarzadeh@undp.org), UNDP, Caspian Sea Environment Program, Geneva, Switzerland
Serik Akhmetov (serik.akhmetov@mail.ru), Institute of Geography, National Academy of Science, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan
A. Babak Hedjazi (hedjazi@archi.unige.ch), Central Asia-Caucasus Forum Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
More collaborators will be invited to secure deliverables of this project.

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in 2006 by the IIASA National Member Organizations for 5-yr studies:

Northern Eurasia Terrestrial Biota Full Greenhouse Account.
Category: Biogeochemical Cycles. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Anatoly Shvidenko(shvidenk@iiasa.ac.at), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Co-Investigators: Dmitry Schepashenko (schepd@iiasa.ac.at), Ian McCallum, and Matthias Jonas, All at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Estella Vedrova, Lyudmila Mukhortova, Vladimir Sokolov, and Sergey Farber, all at V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Leonid Vaschuk, Pribaikal Forest and Inventory Forest Enterprise, Irkutsk,Russia
Vyacheslav Rozhkov, V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute, Moscow,Russia
Dmitry Efremov, Far Eastern Research Forestry Institute, Khabarovsk, Russia

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in summer 2009 for 5-yr studies:

The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Network--CALM III (2009-2014): Long-term Observations on the Climate-Active Layer-Permafrost System.
Category: Cryosphere. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Nikolay Shiklomanov (shiklom@UDel.Edu), The George Washington University, Washington, DC USA
Co-Investigator: Frederick Nelson, Department of Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Collaborators: Alexander Vasil'ev, 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

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in 2007 by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research:

Landscape Dynamics and Landscape Potential for CO2-sequestration in Central Asia- Case study from Kazakhstan.
Categories: Biogeochemical Cycles, Land Cover, Land Use. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Martin Kappas(mkappas@gwdg.de), Institute of Geography, University of Göttingen, Germany
Co-Investigator: Pavel Propastin (ppropas@uni-goettingen.de), Institute of Geography, University of Göttingen, Germany
Collaborator: Nadiya Muratova, Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Image Analysis, Kazakh Academy of Science, Almaty, Kazakhstan

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in autumn 2009 by the NSF Office of Polar Programs for 3-yr studies:

Collaborative Research: Degrading off-shore permafrost as a current and potential source of atmospheric methane.
Categories: Biogeochemical Cycles and Cryosphere. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Igor Semiletov (igorsm@iarc.uaf.edu), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
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

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in winter 2009 by the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) for 2-yr studies:

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

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in summer 2010 by NASA/NOAA Joint Precipitation Science Research Program for 3-yr studies:

In situ Precipitation Dataset in High Latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere for Calibration of GPM Mission Products .
Category: Hydrology. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Pavel Ya. Groisman (pasha.groisman@noaa.gov), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Project Scientist at NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, USA
Co-Investigators: Daqing Yang(daqing@npolar.no), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Xiaolan Wang (Xiaolan.Wang@ec.gc.ca), Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Vyacheslav Razuvaev (razuvaev@meteo.ru), Russian Institute for Hydrometeorology, Obninsk, Russia, and
Esfir Bogdanova (Esfir.Bogdanova@gmail.com), Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia
Collaborators: Olga Bulygina (bulygina@meteo.ru), Russian Institute for Hydrometeorology, Obninsk, Russia and
Paul Whitfield (Paul.Whitfield@ec.gc.ca), Environment Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, has been and will be jointly supported by Roshydromet (Russia) and The Ministry of Education of The Republic of Kyrgyzstan for the next three years:

Monitoring of the Atmospheric Composition in the Center of Eurasia .
Category: Atmospheric Aerosol/Pollution. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Felix V. Kashin (kashin@typhoon.obninsk.ru), State Institute, Research and Production Association "Typhoon", Obninsk, Kaluga area, Russia
Co-Investigators: Nikita Ye. Kamenogradsky (nikita@typhoon.obninsk.ru) and Vladimir N. Aref'ev, State Institute, Research and Production Association "Typhoon", Obninsk, Kaluga area, Russia
Valery P. Sinyakov, Kyrgyzstan State National University, Bishkek, The Republic of Kyrgyzstan

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, has been supported by - Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany for 2008-2010 period with possible prolongation to 2013:

International Water Research Alliance Saxony (IWAS) - model region Eastern Europe.
Category: Hydrology. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Thomas Berendonk (thomas.berendonk@tu-dresden.de), Technische Universität Dresden, Institute of Hydrobiology, Dresden, Germany
Co-Investigators: Thomas Pluntke (Thomas.Pluntke@tu-dresden.de) and Marco Leidel (marco.leidel@tu-dresden.de), Dept. of Meteorology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Jochen Schanze (j.schanze@ioer.de), Johanna Truemper (Johanna.Truemper@tu-dresden.de), and Cornelia Burmeister (Cornelia.Burmeister@tu-dresden.de), Dept. of Environmental Development and Risk Management, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany and
Björn Helm (Bjoern.Helm@tu-dresden.de) Institute of Urban Water, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Collaborators:
Grigory Chekan, Hydrometeorological Center of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
Andriy Mikhnovich, Ivan Franko University, Lviv, Ukraine

The following Project, which is coordinated with the NEESPI Science Plan for dry areas of the NEESPI domain, has been supported by Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology for the 2010-2014 period under the National Key Basic Research Development Plan:

Impact of climate changes on the hydrological cycle, water resources security, and on adaptive strategy in China.
Category: Integrative.

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

The following Project, which is coordinated with the NEESPI Science Plan, has been jointly supported by the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research for the 2009-2011 period:

Analysis of blocking characteristics and associated climate anomalies based on observational data and model simulation for the 20th and 21st centuries.
Category: Integrative. Abstract.

Principal Investigators: Anthony R. Lupo (LupoA@missouri.edu), University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA and Igor I. Mokhov (mokhov@ifaran.ru), A.M. Obukhov Insititute for Atmospheric Physics, RAS, Moscow, Russia

The following Project, which is coordinated with the NEESPI Science Plan, has been jointly supported by the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) and the Ministry of Ukraine for Education and Science for the 2010-2012 period:

Formulating and Evaluating Water Resources Adaptation Options to Climate Change Uncertainty in the Carpathian Region.
Categories: Hydrology and Integrative.

Principal Investigators: Eugene Z. Stakhiv (Eugene.Z.Stakhiv@usace.army.mil), Institute for Water Resources, Alexandria, Virginia, USA and Ivan Kovalets (ik@env.com.ua), Institute of Mathematical Machine and System Problems (IMMSP),Cybernetics Center, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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

The following Project, which is coordinated with the NEESPI Science Plan, has been supported by NASA Carbon Program in winter 2010-2011 for the next three years:

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

Principal Investigator: Herman H. Shugart (hhs@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA and
Co-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

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in December 2010 by the NSF Office of Polar Programs for 3-yr studies:

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

Principal Investigator: Natalia Shakhova (nshakhov@iarc.uaf.edu), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Co-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

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in December 2010 by the NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change Program for 3-yr studies:

200 years of land use and land cover changes and their driving forces in the Carpathian Basin.
Categories: Land Use, Land Cover. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Volker Radeloff (radeloff@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Co-Investigators: Éva Konkoly-Gyuró (egyuro@emk.nyme.hu) and Géza Kiraly, both at Institute of Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of West Hungary, Sopron, Hungary
Jacek Kozak (jkozak@gis.geo.uj.edu.pl), Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Tobias Kuemmerle (kummerle@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Lubos Halada (lubos.halada@savba.sk),Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences Branch Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia
Daniel Müller (mueller@iamo.de), Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany
Urs Gimmi (urs.gimmi@wsl.ch), Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, and
Patrick Hostert (patrick.hostert@geo.hu-berlin.de), Department of Geography, Humboldt-University at Berlin, Berlin, Germany

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in autumn 2010 by the NASA Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science Program for 3-yr studies:

Climate- and Fire-induced Vegetation, Agricultural and Albedo Change in Northern Eurasia: Consequences to Gases, Aerosols and Radiative Fluxes.
Categories: Biogeochemical Cycles, Integrative. and Atmospheric Aerosol/Pollution. Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Amber. Soja (amber.j.soja@nasa.gov), National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, Virginia, USA
Co-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

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in spring 2011 by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research for 3-yr studies:

Effect of Climatic Changes on Primary Productivity, Respiration, and Evaporation of Coniferous Forests of European Part of Russia.
Category: Biogeochemical Cycles .

Principal Investigator: Alexander V. Olchev (aoltche@gwdg.ge), A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Co-Investigators: Olga A. Desherevskaya, Julia A. Kurbatova (kurbatova.j@gmail.com), and Natalia V. Shaluhina, All at A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Pavel I. Konstantinov and Elena P. Kuznetsova, Both at Dept. of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Vladislava B. Pridacha (pridacha@krc.karelia.ru) and Tatiana A. Sazonova, Both at the Forest Research Institute, Karelian Research Center, RAS, Petrozavodsk, Russia
Alexey G. Molchanov, Institute of Forest Science, RAS, Uspenskoe, Moscow Region, Russia; and
Malcolm Hughes (mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu), University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in autumn 2011 by the Russian Ministry for Science and Education for 2-yr studies:

The nature of extreme precipitation over Europe and North America.
Category: Hydrology .

Principal Investigator: Sergey K. Gulev (gul@sail.msk.ru), P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanography, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Co-Investigators: Pavel Groisman (pasha.groisman@noaa.gov), UCAR at NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Olga Zolina (ozolina@uni-bonn.de), Meteorological Institute, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany and
Clemens Simmer (csimmer@uni-bonn.de), Meteorological Institute, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany

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The following three Projects, which are in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, were awarded in autumn 2011 by the Russian Ministry for Science and Education for 3-yr studies:

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.
Category: Integrative Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Georgy S. Golitsyn (gsg@ifaran.ru), A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Co-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.
Category: Integrative Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Vladimir A. Semenov (vasemenov@mail.ru), A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Co-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.
Category: Integrative Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Igor I. Mokhov (mokhov@ifaran.ru), A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Co-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

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in January 2012 by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers for 2-yr studies:

European and Russian Extreme Events: Mechanisms, Variability and Future Climate Change.
Category: Integrative Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Vyacheslav Ch. Khon (khon@ifaran.ru), A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Co-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

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in autumn 2011 by the US National Science Foundation for 3-yr studies:

Collaborative Research: Crops, Climate, Canals and the Cryosphere in Asia - Changing Water Resources around the Earth's Third Pole.
Category: Integrative 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, USA
Co-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.
Jianjun Qiu, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing;
Xunhua Zheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing;
Chaoqing Yu, Tsinghua University, Beijing; Dr. Chunjiang Liu, Shanghai Jioatong University, Shanghai;
Bo Zhu, Institute of Montanuous Environment and Hazards, CAS, Chengdu;
Xuezheng Shi, Nanjing Institute of Soil Sciences, CAS, Nanjing.

The following two Projects, which are in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in 2012 by the NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change (LCLUC) Program for 3-yr studies:

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.
Category: Integrative Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Kathleen Bergen (kbergen@umich.edu), School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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 of studies on institutional change and LCLUC effects on carbon, biodiversity, and agriculture after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Category: Integrative Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Volker Radeloff (radeloff@wisc.edu), Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI 53706,USA
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, Dept. 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 (ozdogan@wisc.edu), 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, Ilfov, Romania
Urs Gimmi (urs.gimmi@wsl.ch), Land-Use History Group, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Lubos Halada (lubos.halada@savba.sk), 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 (jkozak@gis.geo.uj.edu.pl), Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
Daniel Müller (mueller@iamo.de, d.mueller@geo.hu-berlin.de) 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

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in August 2011 by the NASA Carbon Cylcle Program for 3-yr studies:

Synthesis and Integration of Recent Research Characterizing the Carbon Cycle of Northern Eurasia .
Category: Integrative Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Michael A. Rawlins (rawlins@geo.umass.edu), Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in 2012 by the FP7 Marie Curie fellowship programme for 3-yr studies:

DIOGENES - Dust Impacts on Glaciated Environments.
Category: Cryosphere

Principal Investigator: Maria Shahgedanova (m.shahgedanova@reading.ac.uk), Dept. of Geography, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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.

The following Russian-French joint project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, funded by RFBR (Russia) and CNRS (France) for the next 3 years was launched in summer 2012:

Quantifying the impact of the summer 2010 fires in Russia on regional air quality using regional modeling with in situ and satellite observations.

Category: Atmospheric Aerosol/Pollution

Principal Investigators: Igor I. Mokhov (mokhov@ifaran.ru), A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics RAS, Moscow, Russia and
Solene Turquety, University of Pierre and Marie Curie / Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (IPSL), Toulouse, France (turquety@aero.jussieu.fr)
Co-Investigators: Mirseid Akperov (aseid@ifaran.ru), Alexander Chernokulsky (a.chernokulsky@ifaran.ru), Alexey Eliseev (eliseev@ifaran.ru), Konstantin Moiseenko (konst.dvina@gmail.com), Natalia Pankratova, Karim Shukurov, Roman Shumsky, Anastasia Vasilieva (vivechar@gmail.com) all at the A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics RAS, Moscow, Russia and
Laurent Menut, Stavros Stromatas, Dmitry Khvorostyanov, and Hervé Le Treut, all at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie / Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (IPSL), Toulouse, France

The following International Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, funded by Russian Ministry for Education and Science for the next 2 years was launched in summer 2012:

Structure and climatic changes of extreme precipitation over Europe and North America: Processes, risks, and predictability.

Category: Hydrology

Principal Investigator: Sergey K. Gulev (gul@sail.msk.ru), P.P. Shirshov Inst. for Oceanology, RAS, Moscow, Russia Co-Investigators: Pavel Groisman (pasha.groisman@noaa.gov), UCAR at NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, USA
Olga Zolina (ozolina@lgge.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr), Le Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, LGGE, Grenoble, France, and
Sergey Kravtsov (kravtsov@uwm.edu), Dept. of Mathemathics, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in summer 2012 by the US National Science Foundation for 3-yr studies:

Collaborative Research: Interactions between air temperature, permafrost and hydrology in the high latitudes of Eurasia.

Categories: Hydrology and Cryosphere

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

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in winter 2012/13 by the US National Science Foundation for 5-yr studies:

RCN-SEES: Building a Research Network for Promoting Arctic Urban Sustainability in Russia.

Categories: Human Dimension and Cryosphere

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

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in autumn 2012 by the Norwegian Research Council for 3-yr studies:

Arctic Urban Sustainability (ARCSUS) in Russia.

Category: Human Dimension

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

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in autumn 2012 by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research for 2-yr studies:

Estimating of logging and wildfire impact on ecosystem components and carbon emissions in the Lower Angara region.

Category: Biogeochemical Cycles

Principal Investigator: Elena Kukavskaya (kukavskaya@ksc.krasn.ru), V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Co-Investigator: Galina A. Ivanova(gaivanova@ksc.krasn.ru), V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Collaborators:: Susan Conard,(sgconard@aol.com), former at the U.S. Forest Service; and Anna Bogorodskaya, Sergey Zhila, and Ekaterina Kireeva, all three at V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

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The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in autumn 2012 by the NASA LCLUC Program for 3-yr studies:

The role of environmental, socioeconomic, institutional, and land-cover/ land-use change factors to explain the pattern and drivers of anthropogenic fires in post-Soviet Eastern Europe: a case study comparison of Belarus, European Russia, and Lithuania.

Category: Land Cover, Land Use

Principal Investigator: Jessica L. McCarty (mccarty@mtu.edu), Michigan Tech Research Institute, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Co-Investigators: Peter Potapov (potapov@umd.edu), University of Maryland-College Park, Maryland, USA and
Alexander Prishchepov (prishchepov@iamo.de), IAMO, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe;Halle, Germany
Collaborators:: Svetlana Turubanova (sveta@umd.edu), and Matthew C. Hansen (mhansen@umd.edu) both at University of Maryland-College Park, Maryland, USA;
Dmitry Rukhovich (landmap@yandex.ru) and Polina Koroleva (soilmap@yandex.ru), both at V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Institute, Moscow, Russia;
Maxim Dubinin (maxim.dubinin@nextgis.org), NEXTGIS, Moscow, Russia.

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The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in autumn 2011 by the Russian Ministry of Science and Education for 3-yr studies:

Creation of Laboratory of Agroecological Monitoring and Ecosystem Projecting, “LAMP”.

Category: Integrative 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.

The following Project, which is in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, was awarded in autumn 2013 by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Austrian Science Fund for 4-yr studies:

Combining remote sensing and field studies for assessment of landform dynamics and permafrost state on Yamal.

Category: Cryosphere

Principal Investigators: Annett Bartsch (annett.bartsch@polarresearch.at), Department of Geoinformatics and Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, Austria and Marina Leibman (mleibman@online.ru), Earth Croysphere Institute, 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

The following two Projects, which are in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, were awarded in autumn 2013 by the NASA LCLUC Program for 3-yr studies:

LCLUC Synthesis: Ecosystem-Society Interactions on a Changing Mongolian Plateau.

Category: Integrative 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,
Jingfeng Xiao (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.

Category: Integrative Abstract.

Principal Investigator: Qianlai Zhuang (qzhuang@purdue.edu), Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Co-Investigators: Jerry Melillo ( jmelillo@mbl.edu) and David Kicklighter (dkicklighter@mbl.edu), both at Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
John Reilly (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

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The following two Projects, which are in support of the NEESPI Science Plan, were awarded in summer 2014 by the Russian National Foundation for 3-yr studies:

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, Russia
Co-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, Russia
Co-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, RAS Institute of Computational Mathematics, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir Yu. Razzhivin, RAS 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

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