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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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The first portion of the Focus Issue on 'Climatic and Environmental Change in Northern Eurasia' has now been published in
Environmental Research Letters (ERL), Vol. 4, No. 4 and is permanently free to read at
at the journal web site.
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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March 16-19, 2010, Miami, Florida, USA. "2010 State of the Arctic Conference". More Information.
The NEESPI scientists are invited to contribute to the Scientific Program of the Conference.
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June 8-12, 2010, Oslo, Norway. "Polar Science - Global Impact", International and Interdisciplinary Science Conference devoted to the International Polar Year Research Results. More Information.
The NEESPI scientists are invited to contribute to the Scientific Program of the Conference.
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June 14-18, 2010, Miedzyzdroje, Wolin Island, Poland. The 6th Study Conference on BALTEX.
More Information is available here.
NEESPI is co-sponsoring the Conference and the NEESPI scientists are cordially invited to contribute to its Scientific Program.
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July 5-15, 2009, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The eleven-day-long scientific and educational Event that included
(a) an International Young Scientists School on Computational Information Technologies for Environmental Sciences CITES-2009 (July 5-10, 2009; Bene: the Working language at the School is Russian,
(b) an International Conference on Computational Information Technologies for Environmental Sciences CITES-2009 (July 11-13, 2009; Bene: the Working language at the Conference and at the following NEESPI Workshop is English, and
(c) a Regional NEESPI Research Workshop devoted to Climatic, Environmental, Land Cover-Land Use Change Studies in Siberia. (July 14-15, 2009).
Conference and Workshop programs and presentations.
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December 15-19, 2008 "NEESPI Session at the Fall AGU Meeting, San-Francisco, California, USA.
Three Global Change NEESPI Sessions:
"Land-Atmosphere-Cryosphere Interactions in Northern Eurasia" were sponsored by Global Environmental Change AGU Focus
Group and is Co-Sponsored by Atmospheric Sciences, Biogeosciences, Cryosphere, Hydrology, and Paleoceanography
and Paleoclimatology AGU Sections and Focus Groups. Forty seven presentations were submitted.
The Poster Session GC41A was held on the 18th of December.
Two oral Sessions (Session GC52A) and
(Session GC53C) were held on the 19th of December.
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August 23-28, 2008, Odessa, Ukraine. NATO Advanced Research Workshop “Regional aspects of climate-terrestrial-hydrologic
interactions in Eastern Europe“ (NEESPI Regional Non-boreal Europe Meeting).
Hosts: Odessa State Politechnical and Environmental Universities, Odessa, Ukraine.
The Workshop Materials.
The Workshop Statement.
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June 2-6, 2008. NEESPI Regional Science Team Meeting devoted to the High Latitudes of the NEESPI domain,
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. By invitation only.
The Meeting Agenda.
The Meeting List of Participants.
Meeting presentations and materials are posted here.
Extended abstracts of selected oral and poster presentations have been prepared for publication in
iLEAPS Report Series No 1. Estimated date of publication: December 2009.
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December 10-14, 2007 "NEESPI Session at the Fall AGU Meeting, San-Francisco, California, USA.
Session GC02: "Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI): Integrated Approach to Regional Climate and Environment Change Studies" is sponsored by Global Environmental Change AGU Focus Group and is Co-Sponsored by Atmospheric Sciences, Biogeosciences, Cryosphere, Hydrology, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, and Public Affairs AGU Sections and Focus Groups. Three NEESPI Sessions have been scheduled for the 11th of December:
Oral Session GC21B, Moscone Center West, Room 3002, 08:00 to 10:00 AM ; Oral Session GC21A Moscone Center West, Room 3002, 10:20 to 12:20 AM , and Poster Session GC23A, Moscone Center Exh. Hall B, 13:40 to 17:00 AM.
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November 12-14, 2007 Eurasian Hydroclimatology: observations, change, attribution, and impacts,
Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.
International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska - Fairbanks.
By invitation only.
Workshop materials.
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October 22-26, 2007 The Second Asia CliC Symposium "The state and fate of Asian Cryosphere".
Symposium materials.
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September 16-19, 2007. NEESPI Regional Science Team Meeting devoted to the Dry Land Areas of the NEESPI domain (by invitation only), Urumqi, China. The Meeting was held in conjunction with the Regional NASA Land Cover Land Use Change (LCLUC) Science Team Meeting.
First Announcement at the LCLUC web site.
Program,
Meeting Materials
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September 11-13, 2007. The Second International Symposium on Arid Climate Change and Sustainable Development (ISACS), Lanzhou, China. Symposium Program.
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August 12-17, 2007 Workshop "Northern Eurasia Land Surface
Properties and Change and its Role in the Global Earth System", Aspen Global Change Institute, Aspen, Colorado, USA.
By invitation only. List of Participants,
Workshop Report.
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The Forth ESSP Global Land Project Information Letter was distributed on December 20, 2007.
The Letter is filled with the latest information about conferences and other activities related to Land Studies.
To read the Letter click here. NEESPI was endorsed by GLP in January 2007.
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After testing, a new NEESPI data access portal has been launched on April 2, 2007.
The GES DISC NEESPI portal is a multi-sensor, online, easy access data archive and distribution system to provide advanced data management capabilities in support of the NEESPI scientific objectives. Its tools include data analysis and visualization, data mining and other techniques for better science data usage.
The portal integrates remote sensing data from MODIS, AVHRR, and other instruments on board polar-orbiting satellites, with customized data products from climatology data sets and models into a single “one-stop-shopping” interdisciplinary NEESPI Data Center for Remote Sensing Products.
Visit the portal.
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The International Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN) generated a bibliographic database
with dissertation and master theses related to permafrost research. Its first version (created in 2008) contains more than 900 references, mostly from EU, Russia, USA, and Canada. However, the bibliography compilers are still missing input from China, Mongolia and central Asian countries and invite further contributions to the database (contact person: Dr. Guido Grosse, ggrosse@gi.alaska.edu). The NEESPI community is welcome to use the database.
Complete citation of the bibliography is:
Grosse G, Lantuit H (2008): PYRN-Bib 3.2: The Permafrost Young Researchers Network Bibliography of Permafrost-Related Theses. Permafrost Young Researchers Network, 72 pp. (Permanent handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.31101) .
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NEESPI in the News: The 6th issue of the AGU Atmospheric Science Newsletter published an article about the NEESPI International Summer School "Environmental Studies in the Boreal Forest Zone" (July 2007, Fedorovskoe, Tver area, Russia) see page 4. After an electronic version of the
paper by Dr. Amber Soja and her colleagues (Amber J. Soja, Nadezda M. Tchebakova, Nancy H.F. French, Michael D. Flannigan, Herman H. Shugart, Brian J. Stocks, Anatoly I. Sukhinin, E.I. Parfenova, F. Stuart Chapin III and Paul W. Stackhouse, Jr. "Climate-induced boreal forest change: Predictions versus current observations" in the Special NEESPI Issue of Global and Planetary Change, 56, Issue 3-4, April 2007)
became available at the www.sciencedirect.com,
she was interviewed by Associate Press journalist (cited in ~100 national and international
newspapers) and thereafter by U.S. National Public Radio
1.30 min mp3 file. On January 5, 2007, tens of millions of viewers of one of the central
Russian TV channels, NTV, observed in the prime-news-time (program "Segodnya") an interview with Prof. Vladimir
Romanovsky (University of Alaska-Fairbanks) about the impact of the ongoing climatic changes on the
permafrost thaw.
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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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