Chairs: Jiquan Chen, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States and Herman Henry Shugart Jr, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Primary Conveners: Pavel Ya Groisman, UCAR at NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States; P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, ., Sea Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Lab, 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, MI, United States, Erwan Monier, MIT, Center for Global Change Science, Cambridge, MA, United States and Sergey Gulev, UCAR at NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Ranjeet John, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
Ten Years of Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI): Results and Future Plans
Pavel Ya Groisman, UCAR at NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States, Garik Gutman, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Sergey Gulev, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS,, Sea Atmosphere Interaction And Climate Lab, Moscow, Russia and Shamil S Maksyutov, NIES National Institute of Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan
Effects of Repeated Fires in the Forest Ecosystems of the Zabaikalye Region, Southern Siberia
Elena Kukavskaya1, Ludmilla V. Buryak2, Susan G Conard3, Alexander Petkov3, Kirsten Barrett4, Olga P. Kalenskaya2 and Galina Ivanova1, (1)V.N.Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, (2)Siberian State Technological University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, (3)Rocky Mountain Research Station Missoula, Missoula, MT, United States, (4)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Isotopic Content of Ground Ice in the Lower Kolyma River Valley (Eastern Siberia)
Valentin Spektor1, Jorien Vonk2, Alexander L Kholodov3, Seth Spawn4, Vladimir B Spektor1, Varvara V Andreeva1 and Susan Natali5, (1)Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia, (2)Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)Saint Olaf College, Northfield, MN, United States, (5)Woods Hole Science Center Falmouth, Falmouth, MA, 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
Donald A Walker1, Martha K Raynolds1, Timo Kumpula2, Yuri Shur1, Mikhail Z Kanevskiy1, Gary Kofinas1, Marina O Leibman3, George V Matyshak3,4, Howard E Epstein5, Marcel Buchhorn1, Lisa Wirth1 and Bruce C. Forbes6, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, (3)Earth Cryosphere Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tyumen, Russia, (4)Lomonosov Moscow State University, Soil Science, Moscow, Russia, (5)University of Virginia Main Campus, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (6)University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
Top-down versus bottom-up estimates of methane fluxes over the East Siberian Arctic Shelf
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
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
Sergey 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
Differentiating between Land Use and Climate-driven Change using Long–term Vegetation Index Trends adjusted for Precipitation on the Mongolian Plateau
Ranjeet John1, Jiquan Chen2, Youngwook Kim3, Zutao Yang2,4, Jingfeng Xiao5, Changliang Shao4 and Ochirbat Batkhishig6, (1)Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observation, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States, (3)Univ Montana, NTSG, Missoula, MT, United States, (4)LEES lab, Toledo, OH, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, NH, United States, (6)Institute of Geography, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Soil Science, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia