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International Summer School "Spasskaya Pad": students from Japan and Europe have studied climate change

  • 19 August 2014
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International Summer School "Spasskaya Pad": students from Japan and Europe have studied climate change

Results of students research at the University of Hokkaido (Japan) and NEFU, conducted in the scientific school "Spasskaya Pad", were presented at the International Conference "The Role of Permafrost Ecosystems in a Changing Climate".

According to Aleksandra Fedorova, the secretary of the international projects of the Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone SB RAS, students of the federal university and Hokkaido University have conducted field and laboratory studies on the research station "Spasskaya Pad" in six areas: photosynthesis, soil respiration, the influence of forest fires and deforestation, soil hydrothermal regime and other. Classes are held from 1 to 7 August.

"The project of the summer school is developed by professors Trofim Maksimov and Atsuko Sugimoto. School participants learnt a wide range of sciences: climatology, meteorology, hydrology, plant physiology, ecology, forestry, and attended the lectures of famous scientists. Thus, Trofim Maksimov presented a lecture on the global carbon budget, Atsuko Sugimoto - on the heat flow, moisture and carbon dioxide in boreal forests ", said Aleksandra Fedorova.

Also in the end of July, International Research and Education Center BEST at NEFU Institute of Natural Sciences conducted field research courses for students from Germany and Denmark at the station "Spasskaya Pad". "The students had small research tasks that they did using portable scientific instruments. Students also attended lectures of scientists on global climate change and biogeochemical cycles in the permafrost zone, modern methods and instrumental base for their study, permafrost reaction to modern climate change and other interesting lectures", said Aleksandra Fedorova.

Foreign students visited the Kingdom of permafrost, "Orto Doydu" zoo, bizonary in Khangalassky region, visited the Dirin Yuryakh site, tukulanakh and the National Nature Park "Lena Pillars".

Author: Tatiana NOKHSOROVA, NEFU Newsroom

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