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In September 2006, the IGBP Science Steering Committee granted NEESPI the
status of the IGBP External Project.
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In April 2008, The NEESPI research foci on regional modeling and studies of climate
impacts and adaptation capacity became a part of The Memorandum of Understanding for Collaboration in the Fields of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Oceanography
between the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Russian Federal
Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet).
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A new International Journal published in English and devoted to a broad spectrum of the Earth Science issues with the focus on Northern Eurasia,
Geography, Environment, Sustainability was jointly launched in 2008
by the Dept. of Geography of the Moscow State University, RAS Institute of Geography, and The Russian Geographic Society.
International Editorial Board of the Journal includes scientists from the European Union, Russia, China, Japan, the United States, Mexico, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, and Chile.
In 2010, the journal was published quarterly but is expected to become bi-monthly since 2011.
More information about the Journal (including the Table of Content and abstracts of all publications) is available HERE .
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Third NEESPI Special Issue in Environmental Research Letters. Deadline for submissions was passed. A third ERL focus issue titled "Environmental, Socio-Economic and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia and Their Feedbacks to the Global Earth System" is being published in 2011. Nineteen its manuscripts have been already published (As of December 13, 2011). Several more manuscripts are in the review process.
More information is available HERE .
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February 7-8, 2012, St. Petersburg, Russia. NEESPI Regional Workshop: «Hydrological consequences of changes in climate and land cover across Northern Eurasia»
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Extended Project Meeting for NASA Project: “Northern Eurasian Landscapes: Interactions among Humans, Hydrology, Land Cover and Land Use” .
The NEESPI scientists are cordially invited to contribute to the Scientific Program of the Workshop and to participate in discussions of the NASA Project results presented at the Meeting.
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May 20-25, 2012, Makuhari Messe, Ciba-city, Japan. Japanese Geoscience Union Annual Meeting 2012 .
The NEESPI scientists are cordially invited to contribute to the scientific program of the Meeting and, in particular, to the special Multidisciplinary International Session
"Changes in Northern Asia and the Arctic: Their feedbacks to the Globe".
Abstract submissions will be accepted from January 11 up to February 17, 2012; deadline will be at noon JST (at 3:00 UTC). Working language at the Symposium is English.
The Session will include poster and oral sessions.
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June 3-8, 2012, Arkhangelsk, Russia. XV GLACIOLOGICAL SYMPOSIUM .
The NEESPI scientists are cordially invited to contribute to the Scientific Program of Symposium.
The main topic of the Symposium is "Past, Present and Future of the Cryosphere". The
Symposium is organized by the Glaciological Association, Institute of Geography Russian
Academy of Sciences, and the Northern (Arctic) Federal University http://narfu.ru/en/. The first Symposium circular in Russian is HERE .
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June 18-22, 2012, Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El, Russian Federation. NASA Science Meeting, GOFC-GOLD and NEESPI Workshop and Regional Conference .
The NEESPI scientists are cordially invited to contribute to the Scientific Program of Symposium.
The main topic of the Conference is "Impacts of extreme weather on natural, socio-economic, and land-use systems:
Focus on the 2010 summer anomaly in the Volga region
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Conference will be hosted by the Mari State Technical University with support of START, ScanEx, EFI, IUFRO, and NEESPI. The first Conference circular will be posted shortly.
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June 24 - July 2, 2012, Irkutsk, Russia. International Conference and Early Career Scientists School on
Environmental Observations, Modeling and Information Systems
ENVIROMIS-2012. .
The NEESPI scientists are cordially invited to contribute to the Scientific Program of this Event.
The major focus of the Conference is on environment state and dynamics under Climate Change
of Northern Eurasia, particularly Siberia.. The Conference will be organized by the Siberian Center for Environment Research and
Training, Irkutsk Scientific Center and Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory SB
RAS, Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems SB RAS, Institute of
Computational Technologies SB RAS, Institute for Numerical Mathematics RAS and Russian
National Committee for IGBP with support of WMO, APN, RFBR, START, MAIRS, and
NEESPI. The first Conference circular is HERE .
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The most recent NEESPI event.
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December 2010, Rome, Italy. White Paper "Climate change impacts on forest management in Eastern
Europe and Central Asia: Dimensions, impacts, mitigation and adaptation policies", 216 pp.
(Editor: Prof. Csaba Mátyás, Lead of the Sopron Regional Focus Research Center for
NEESPI Studies in Eastern Europe) was published under the auspices of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The White Paper is available for download from FAO and here.
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October 2010. Book "Earth Systems Change over Eastern Europe" (Chief Editor V.I. Lyalko, Kyiv,
Ukraine, 582 pp., ISBN 978-966-95419-01) was published in Russian under the auspices of the National Academy of Science
of Ukraine (NASU), NEESPI, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
An English version of the Book has been also prepared. It will be published by NASU (Publ. House "Naukova Dumka") in spring 2012.
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Prof. Dr. Ernst-Detlef Schulze, former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (Jena), has got
one of 40 prestigious Russian Federation State Grants which will support his work as visiting professor at the Siberian Federal University.
For more than two decades, Prof. Schulze has been involved in environmental research activity in Siberia and is well known to the
NEESPI community as an eminent researcher of the role of boreal environment in the global biochemical cycles,
as well as a "father” of the Zotino tall flux tower.
We congratulate Prof. Dr. Ernst-Detlef Schulze and Rector of the Siberian Federal University Academician Evgeny Vaganov with this success.
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August 2010. European Public Service Review on Science and Technology
distributed an article about the Stability of the SE European Forest prepared by Prof. Scaba Matias, Head of the NEESPI
Focus Research Centre for Non-boreal Eastern Europe, University of West Hungary, Sopron, Hungary.
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A new Data Analysis and Exploring System for Hydrology of the NEESPI domain has been developed
by the Water Systems Analysis Group at University of New Hampshire - Durham.
An unrestricted web-based access to the System, cf., http://neespi.sr.unh.edu/maps/,
makes it a useful tool for any hydrological assessment within Northern Eurasia.
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Book by G. Gutman and A. Reissell (Eds.), 2011 "Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate" , VI, 226 pp.
was released by Springer Publishing House on October 28, 2010.
The book is a compilation of studies on interactions of land-cover/land-use change with climate in a region where the climate warming is most
pronounced compared to other areas of the globe. The climate warming in the far North, and in the Arctic region of Northern Eurasia in particular,
affects both the landscape and human activities, and hence human dimensions is an important aspect of the topic. Environmental pollution together
with climate warming may produce irreversible damages to the current Arctic ecosystems. Regional land-atmosphere feedbacks may have large global
importance. Remote sensing is a primary tool in studying vast northern territories where in situ observations are sporadic. State-of-the-art methods of
satellite remote sensing combined with GIS and models are used to tackle science questions and provide an outlook of current land-cover changes
and potential scenarios for the future. The book is a truly international effort involving U.S. and European scientists. It is directed at broad science
community including graduate students, academics and other professionals in this field.
More details are HERE .
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Special Issue Coming Soon. The Journal of Plant Ecology will be publishing a Special Issue entitled plant-water relations
at multiple scales: integration from observations, modeling, and remote sensing.
This will be launched online in March. Read the full text of articles published from 2008 to 2011 for free online
HERE .
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September, 2010, National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) and NASA Langley Research Center. The Fulbright Fellowship.
Dr. Elena Kukavskaya, SB RAS Sukachev Institute of Forest (SB RAS IF), Krasnoyarsk,
Russia, won a Fulbright Fellowship for her proposal entitled “Using GIS, Satellite and Field Data to Estimate and Enhance Biomass Burning Emissions in Siberia”.
Dr. Kukavskaya began serving as a Fulbright Fellow in September 2010 at NIA.
Ph.D. advisor of Dr. Kukavskaya was Prof. Galina Ivanova (SB RAS IF). Over the years, Elena has developed as a scientist
through NEESPI, working on several projects that include NASA LCLUC FIREBEAR (PI: Dr. Susan Conard) and WildFireClims (PI: Dr. Amber Soja).
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Book by Heiko Baltzer (Ed.), 2010 "Environmental Change in Siberia. Earth Observattion, Field Studies and Modelling", Advances in Global Change Research, Vol.40, 300 pp.
was released by Springer Publishing House in August 2010.
The book covers a round-up of environmental changes in Siberia with a focus on the terrestrial biosphere but also discussing climate and atmosphere and the hydrological cycle. It concludes with a discussion of information system approaches that are being developed to safeguard and make accessible spatial and temporal data for environmental studies. More than half of the 43 contributors to the Book are the NEESPI scientists.
More details are HERE .
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SAD NEWS. Our friend and one of the NEESPI founders, Dr. Donald Deering, passed away on February 15, 2010.
We are posting here a personal In Memorium note written by Dr. Garik Gutman.
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The entire Focus Issue on 'Climatic and Environmental Change in Northern Eurasia' has now been published in
Environmental Research Letters (ERL), Vol. 4, No. 4 and and Vol. 5, No. 1. The articles are permanently free to read at
at the journal web site,
where the Annotation to the Focus Issue is followed with links to 32 research and 2 editorial papers.
Looking at the ongoing climatic and environmental changes in Northern Eurasia, this NEESPI Focus Issue of ERL
introduces an assortment of varied studies of different aspects of contemporary change in Northern Eurasia,
most of which have been presented at one of the NEESPI Workshops and/or American Geophysical Union
and European Geosciences Union NEESPI Open Sessions during the past 12 months.
The Focus Issue Editorial with reduced resolution for quick download is here .
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Selected papers of the Non-Boreal Eastern Europe NEESPI Meeting (Odessa, Ukraine, August 2008) were published as a Book:
P.Y. Groisman and S. V. Ivanov (Eds.)
"Regional Aspects of Climate-Terrestrial-Hydrologic
Interactions in Non-boreal Eastern Europe" by Springer Publishing House.
The book chapters cover five topics: Observational issues in nonboreal
Eastern Europe, Regional climate changes, Air pollution aspects, Land cover
and land use changes, and Changes in the Black Sea and its coastal zone. More details are on http://springer.com/978-90-481-2240-0.
The Book annotation is here .
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Introduction |
The Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative,
or NEESPI, is a currently active, yet strategically evolving program
of internationally-supported Earth systems science research, which has
as its foci issues in northern Eurasia that are relevant to regional
and Global scientific and decision-making communities (see NEESPI
Mission Statement).
This part of the globe is undergoing significant changes
– particularly those changes associated with a rapidly warming
climate in this region and with important changes in governmental structures
since the early 1990s and their associated influences on land use and
the environment across this broad expanse. How this carbon-rich, cold
region component of the Earth system functions as a regional entity
and interacts with and feeds back to the greater Global system is to
a large extent unknown. Thus, the capability to predict future changes
that may be expected to occur within this region and the consequences
of those changes with any acceptable accuracy is currently uncertain.
One of the reasons for this lack of regional Earth
system understanding is the relative paucity of well-coordinated, multidisciplinary
and integrating studies of the critical physical and biological systems.
By establishing a large-scale, multidisciplinary program of funded research,
NEESPI is aimed at developing an enhanced understanding of the interactions
between the ecosystem, atmosphere, and human dynamics in northern Eurasia.
Specifically, the NEESPI strives to understand how the land ecosystems
and continental water dynamics in northern Eurasia interact with and
alter the climatic system, biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of
the Earth.
The contemporaneous changes in climate and land use
are impacting the biological, chemical, and physical functions of the
northern Eurasia, but little data and fewer models are available that
can be used to understand the current status of this expansive regional
system, much less the influence of the northern Eurasia region on the
Global climate. NEESPI seeks to secure the necessary financial and related
institutional support from an international cadre of sponsors for developing
a viable understanding of the functioning of northern Eurasia and the
impacts of extant changes on the regional and Earth systems. Many types
of ground and integrative (e.g., satellite; GIS) data will be needed
and many models must be applied, adapted or developed for properly understanding
the functioning of this “cold” and diverse regional system.
Mechanisms for obtaining the requisite data sets and models and sharing
them among the participating scientists are essential and require international
and active governmental participation.
NEESPI additionally seeks to operate synergistically
in concert with a variety of national and international science programs
– particularly those relevant to Global change research. Ultimately,
NEESPI-developed enhanced knowledge of this region will be able to be
applied to addressing specific concerns that face national and international
decision-makers of the partnering institutions and countries.
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