Chairs: Jiquan Chen, Michigan State University, CGCEO/Geography, East Lansing, MI, United States and Herman Henry Shugart, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Primary Convener: Pavel Groisman, UCAR at NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States; P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Co-conveners: Ranjeet John, University of Toledo, Landscape Ecology & Ecosystem Science, Dprt. of Environmental Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States; Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States, Erwan Monier, University of California Davis, Land, Air & Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States and Sergey Gulev, UCAR at NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States
OSPA Liaison: Ranjeet John, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
Ten Years of Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI): Results and Future Plans (7424)
Pavel Groisman, UCAR at NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States, Garik Gutman, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Sergey Gulev, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and Shamil S Maksyutov, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Satellite Observation Center, Tsukuba, Japan
Effects of Repeated Fires in the Forest Ecosystems of the Zabaikalye Region, Southern Siberia (2331)
Elena A. Kukavskaya, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences - separate subdivision of the FRC KSC SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Ludmilla V. Buryak, The Branch of FBU VNIILM “Centre of the forest pyrology”, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Susan G Conard, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, United States, Alexander Petkov, Rocky Mountain Research Station Missoula, Missoula, MT, United States, Kirsten Barrett, Centre for Landscape and Climate Research, School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester / Leicester Institute for Space and Earth Observation, University of Leicester, University Road, LE1 7RH, UK, Leicester, United Kingdom, Olga P. Kalenskaya, Academician M.F. Rechetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Krasnoyarsk, Russia and Galina Ivanova, V.N.Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Evolution of permafrost landscapes under technogenic impacts (11958)
Aligyushad G. Kerimov1, Valery I Grebenets2, Dmitry A Streletskiy3, Nikolay I Shiklomanov3 and Kelsey E Nyland4, (1)(1) Engineering Scientific Company ”Ecofoundations”, Norilsk, Russia, (2)Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Cryolithology and Glaciology Department, Moscow, Russia, (3)George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, (4)The George Washington University, Department of Geography and Environment, Washington, DC, United States
Isotopic Content of Ground Ice in the Lower Kolyma River Valley (Eastern Siberia) (7125)
Valentin Spektor1, Jorien Vonk2, Alexander L Kholodov3, Seth Spawn4, Vladimir B Spektor1, Varvara Andreeva1 and Susan Natali5, (1)Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia, (2)Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)The Nature Conservancy, Minneapolis, United States, (5)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States
Rapid Arctic Transitions in Relation to Infrastructure and Climate Change: Comparison of the Permafrost and Geoecological Conditions in the Bovanenkovo Gas Field, Russia and the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, Alaska (8266)
Donald A Walker1, Martha K Raynolds2, Timo Kumpula3, Yuri Shur4, Mikhail Z Kanevskiy4, Gary Kofinas4, Marina O Leibman5, George V Matyshak6,7, Howard E Epstein8, Marcel Buchhorn4, Lisa Wirth4 and Prof. Bruce C. Forbes, PhD9, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Geobotany Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Eastern Finland, Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, Joensuu, Finland, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)Tyumen Scientific Center, Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen, Russia, (6)Lomonosov Moscow State University, Soil Science, Moscow, Russia, (7)Earth Cryosphere Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tyumen, Russia, (8)University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, United States, (9)University of Lapland, Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland
Top-down versus bottom-up estimates of methane fluxes over the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (19139)
Natalia E Shakhova1, Igor Peter Semiletov1,2, Irina Repina3, Anatoly Salyuk4, Denis Kosmach4, Denis Chernykh5 and Artem Aniferov3, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)National Tomsk Research Polytech University, Russia, Tomsk, Russia, (3)Inst Atmospheric Physic, Moscow, Russia, (4)Russian Academy of Sciences, Pacific Oceanological Institute FABRAS, Vladivostok, Moscow, Russia, (5)Russian Academy of Sciences, Pacific Oceanological Institute, Moscow, Russia
Peatland classification of West Siberia based on Landsat imagery (21431)
Irina Terentieva1,2, Mikhail Glagolev3,4, Elena Lapshina2 and Shamil S Maksyutov5, (1)Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, (2)Yugra State University, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, (3)Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, (4)Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Forest Science, Uspenskoe, Russia, (5)National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
High-latitude steppe vegetation and the mineral nutrition of Pleistocene herbivores (27821)
Sergei P Davydov1, Anna Davydova1, Raisa Makarevich2, Michael M Loranty3 and Gennady Boeskorov4, (1)NorthEast Science Station, Pacific Institute of Geography, FEB RAS, Cherskii, Russia, (2)Pacific Institute of Geography FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia, (3)Colgate University, Geography, Hamilton, NY, United States, (4)Institute of Diamond and Precious metals Geology SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia
Annual Changes of Paddy Rice Planting Areas in Northeastern Asia from MODIS images in 2000-2014 (18702)
Xiangming Xiao1, Geli Zhang2, Jinwei Dong3, Michael A Menarguez4, Weili Kou4, Cui Jin4, Yuanwei Qin5, Yuting Zhou6, Jie Wang4 and Berrien Moore III7, (1)School of Biological Sciences, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (2)China Agricultural University, College of Land Science and Technology, Beijing, China, (3)Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (5)Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (6)University of Oklahoma, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, (7)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
Differentiating between Land Use and Climate-driven Change using Long–term Vegetation Index Trends adjusted for Precipitation on the Mongolian Plateau (19420)
Ranjeet John1, Jiquan Chen2, Youngwook Kim3, Zutao Yang4,5, Jingfeng Xiao6, Changliang Shao4 and Ochirbat Batkhishig7, (1)University of South Dakota, Department of Biology and Department of Sustainability and Environment, Vermillion, SD, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, (3)Univ Montana, NTSG, Missoula, MT, United States, (4)LEES lab, Toledo, OH, United States, (5)University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States, (7)Institute of Geography, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Soil Science, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia