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December 5-9, 2011, San Francisco, California. American Geophysical Union Annual Fall Meeting . The NEESPI scientists actively contributed to the Scientific Program of the Meeting and in particular to the special NEESPI Session (GC16. Environmental, Socio-economic and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia and their Feedbacks to the Global Earth System: The Role of Remote Sensing and Integrative Studies). Both Poster and Oral Sessions were held on December 8, 2011.

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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 .

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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. The paper reprint is available here.

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.

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 .

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). More details.

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 .

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.

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 .

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 .

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. The Workshop developed the further NEESPI strategy for the next 5 years. List of Participants, Workshop Report.

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.

In September 2006, the IGBP Science Steering Committee granted NEESPI the status of the IGBP External Project.

Mega-project "Siberia Integrated Regional Study" joined NEESPI in autumn 2006. More details

NEESPI Data and Publication Policies.NEESPI Data and Publication Policies have been discussed and adopted at the 1st NEESPI Science Team Meeting (February 22-24, 2006, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria). view

January 20-21, 2006 Third iLEAPS Science Steering Committee (SSC) Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, USA. At the Meeting, the NEESPI status was presented by the NEESPI Project Scientist view presentation and endorsed by the SSC view endorsement

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