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On May 20, 2016, the International Team released for public consideration
Northern Eurasia Future Initiative (NEFI): Facing the challenges and pathways of Global Change in the 21st century. White Paper.
The NEFI Science Plan is a continuation of the NEESPI Science Plan and describes the Northern Eurasian Future Initiative
research foci. NEFI was designed and currently proposed as a regional component of the ICSU "FUTURE EARTH" Resarch Programme.
The NEFI Science Plan Executive Summary
is HERE.
After 6 months of discussions of the White Paper (it had been posted at this site), the final its version was released
HERE.
This release has been done only after a review manuscript that elaborates and describes the NEFI Science Foci was published in "Progress in Earth and Planetary Science"
(PEPS) journal. Thus, the PEPS publication became the first peer-reviewed publication of the NEFI Science Plan.
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The First NEFI Special Issue in Environmental Research Letters is currently in preparation.
This ERL focus issue titled "Northern Eurasia in the Global Earth and Human Systems: Changes, Interactions, and Sustainable Societal Development"
is being compiled mostly from the invited manuscripts of the authors presented their research results at the NEESPI-NEFI Workshops and Open Science Sessions since May 2015.
The Scope of the Special Issue is closely connected with the NEFI Science Plan and is available at the ERL web site
HERE.
The deadline for submissions of the manuscripts from the invited research teams' members was expanded to December 30, 2022. Now this deadline has been expired. The NEFI leadership is looking for another international journal(s) for concentrated NEFI-related publications. |
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December 1-17, 2020, "San Francisco", California, USA.
American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting.
This AGU Fall Meeting has been
virtual and lengthy
Scientists interested in a broad range of studies in Northern Eurasia participated in this world-class Earth Science Meeting and and attended a special
NEFI Session: "Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia" at the Global Environmental Change Section of the Meeting.
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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.
The Next Research Step. The Northern Eurasia Future Initiative (NEFI) has been designated an essential continuation of NEESPI. A key principle of NEFI is that these developments must be through science based strategies co-designed with regional decision makers, who are task to lead their societies as they are confronted with environmental and institutional challenges. Another unique goal of NEFI is to develop Integrated Assessment Models that will enable the evaluation of economic decisions in response to changing environmental conditions to provide decision-support tools and products for management consideration to substantiate and justify mitigation and adaptation strategies. Since 2017, NEESPI has been gradually terminated by attrition and NEFI is taking its place.
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December 9-13, 2019, San Francisco, California, USA.
American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting.
Scientists interested in a broad range of studies in Northern Eurasia have participated in this world-class Earth Science Meeting and, in particular, attended a special
NEFI Sessions: "Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia" at the Global Environmental Change Section of the Meeting.
On December 10th, two NEFI Sessions were held: poster GC21E session, and oral GC21C session.
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May 27 - June 6, 2019, Moscow, RUSSIA.
International Conference and Young Scientists School
on Computational Information Technologies for Environmental Sciences: "CITES-2019" .
The NEESPI and NEFI scientists were invited to participate in the School and, in particular, in its Session 5 "Workshop of the Future Earth and NEFI Programs". Presentation languages at Session 5 were in Russian and/or in English.
The NEFI Workshop was held in the last day of the SCHOOL.
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July 5-11, 2018, Tomsk, RUSSIA.
International Conference and Young Scientists School
on Environmental Observations, Modeling and Information Systems ENVIROMIS-2018: First Announcement .
The NEESPI and NEFI scientists contributed to the School Program.
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The NEESPI and NEFI Science Teams deeply regret to inform their colleagues that the First Chief Scientist of the NEESP Initiative,
Academician Aleksander Sergeevich Isaev, died after long illness on the 30th of August, 2018.
Bright and kind memory to the great man and scientist!
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May 20-25, 2017, Makuhari, Chiba, JAPAN.
Japanese and American Geophysical Unions Joint Annual Meeting .
The NEESPI scientists participated in this world-class Earth Science Meeting and, in partular, attending a special
NEESPI/NEFI Session MIS01 "Environmental, socio-economic and climatic changes in Northern Eurasia". .
Two Oral Sessions and one Poster Session were held on May 20th, 2017. Working languages at the Meeting are Japanese and English.
MIS01 is an International Session and its Working Language was English.
Two Oral Sessions and one Poster Session were held on May 20th, 2017.
Abstracts and Presentations at these three Sessions are listed and available for download HERE.
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The Forth NEESPI Special Issue in Environmental Research Letters is currently in preparation/review.
This ERL focus issue titled "Northern Eurasia in the Global Earth System: Changes and Interactions" (2013/2017) has been compiled mostly from the
invited manuscripts of the authors presented their research results at the NEESPI Workshops and Open Science Sessions during the 2012-2017 period. The Scope of the Special Issue is available at the ERL web site
HERE.
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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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Third NEESPI Special Issue in Environmental Research Letters.
Publication of the third ERL focus issue titled "Environmental, Socio-Economic and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia and Their
eedbacks to the Global Earth System" (2011/2012) has been completed on October 26, 2012. The Issue includes twenty five manuscripts. An unlimited access to these papers is available at the ERL web site
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Book by P. Groisman and G. Gutman (Eds.), 2013 "Regional Environmental Changes in Siberia
and Their Global Consequences", XII, 357 pp.
was released by Springer Publishing House on September 2nd, 2012.
The Book is a compilation of results from studies on Siberia by the institutions of the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring
(RosHydroMet) and of the Russian Academy of Sciences (in particular, of its Siberian Branch); the US universities and agencies (NASA, NOAA, and NSF); the
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Austria); Friedrich-Schiller University, Germany; Danish Meteorological Institute; and other European
institutions.
The volume was written by an international team consisting of scientists from the USA, Europe, and Russia under the auspices of the Northern Eurasia Earth
Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI). It should be of interest to those involved in studying recent and ongoing changes in Siberia, be they senior scientists, early
career scientists, or students. More details are HERE .
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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.
The journal is published bi-monthly.
More information about the Journal (including the Table of Content and abstracts of all publications) is available HERE .
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The most recent NEESPI events.
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December 11-15, 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting .
The NEFI and NEESPI scientists participated in this largest Earth Science Meeting and, in partular, attended two Sessions:
NEESPI/NEFI Session GC070. "Sustainable development under environmental, socio-economic and climatic changes in Northern Eurasia" and
Session GC027. "Dynamics of Arid and Mountain Landscapes: Evaluating Change in Vulnerable, Variable Environments". .
For GC070, oral and poster sessions were held on December 14, 2017.
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December 12-16, 2016, San Francisco, California.
American Geophysical Union Annual Fall Meeting .
The NEESPI scientists participated in this world-largest Earth Science Meeting and, in partular, in a special
NEESPI/NEFI Session "Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia and Their Feedbacks to the Global Earth System and Society ". .
Two Sessions: Poster, GC33A.
and Oral, GC32A
were held on December 14th, 2016.
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July 11 – July 16, 2016, Tomsk, Russia. International Conference and Early Career Scientists School on Environmental Observations, Modeling
and Information Systems “ENVIROMIS-2016 Event”.
The NEESPI scientists contributed to the Scientific Program of the Event.
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December 14-18, 2015, San Francisco, California.
American Geophysical Union Annual Fall Meeting .
The NEESPI scientists have participated in this world-largest Earth Science Meeting and, in partular, contributed to a special NEESPI/NEFI Session GC029 (#8395)
"Environmental, Socio-economic and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia and their Feedbacks to the Global Earth System and Society". .
Two Sessions: Poster, GC31B.
and Oral, GC33F were held on December 16th, 2015.
The Sessions' presentations have been uploaded HERE and HERE .
The NEESPI scientists also attended two more groups of the NEESPI-related sessions:
(1) GC11I Climate-Vegetation Interaction and Land Cover/Land Use Change in Semi-Arid Grassland Ecosystems (on Monday, December 14th, 2015) and the corresponding poster session GC13B at the same afternoon; and
(2) C43A: Climate-Carbon-Cryosphere Interactions in the East Siberian Arctic Ocean: Past, Present, and Future II (oral session on Wednesday, 16 December 2015)
with the following poster Session in the afternoon of Thursday, December 17th, 2015.
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April 9-12,2015, Prague, Czech Republic. NEESPI Event: "Celebrating ten years of Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership
Initiative Research: Synthesis and Future Plans" was hosted by Charles University in Prague. The Event included overview synthesis
lectures and science planning devoted to orderly NEESPI transition to the "Future Northern Eurasia" Program. Attendance of the Event was by invitation.
The Event timeline and venue information is HERE.
The Event Program is HERE.
The Workshop attendsies are listed HERE.
Within the Program a special Poster Session was organized. Its presentations are listed HERE. More than half of the posters are already attached to this list.
Link to the first programmatic poster.
The Event was held back to back with the Transatlantic Training in East European and Baltic countries in the area of Earth Observations
(TAT-3; 7-9 April, 2015, Prague) and the following EGU Assembly
(12-17 April, 2015, Vienna, Austria) to secure "cross-pollination" for the early-career scientists and students.
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June 28 – July 5, 2014, Tomsk, Russia. International Conference and Early Career Scientists School on Environmental Observations, Modeling
and Information Systems "ENVIROMIS-2014 Event".
The NEESPI scientists have contributed substantially to the Scientific Program of the Event.
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May 19-24, 2013, Makuhari Messe, Ciba-city, Japan. Japanese Geoscience Union Annual Meeting 2013.
The NEESPI scientists contributed to the scientific program of the Meeting and, in particular, to special Multidisciplinary International Session
A-CC03 "Changes in Northern Eurasia and the Arctic: Their feedbacks to the Globe".
The Session included poster and oral sessions.
Both these sessions were held on May 22nd, 2013 as the part of the JPGU Annual Meeting. Working language at the Symposium was English.
The session program and abstracts will be posted soon.
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Junuary 17-20, 2013, Novosibirsk, The Russian Federation.
World Snow Forum 2013.
More than two thirds of the global seasonal snow cover resides in Northern Eurasia.
Therefore, the NEESPI scientists substantially contributed to the Scientific Program of the Forum at
the International Congress on
Ecology of Northern Territories 2013. The congress Business Program is
HERE.
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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 substantially contributed to the Scientific Program of this Event.
The major focus of the Conference was on environment state and dynamics under Climate Change
of Northern Eurasia, particularly Siberia.. The Conference was organized by the Siberian Center for Environment Research and
Training, Irkutsk Scientific Center and Institute for System Dynamics (SCERT) 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 .
The entire EVENT PROGRAM is here. The conference presentations will be posted shortly at the SCERT and NEESPI web sites.
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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 contributed 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 was hosted by the Mari State Technical University with support of START, ScanEx, EFI, IUFRO, and NEESPI.
The further Conference information is HERE The Conference Program is HERE.
Presentations and selected posters are available at the dedicated web site of the VolgaTech University. The Conference proceedings are HERE (bene: 16.5 Mb; part of proceedings is in Russian).
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June 3-8, 2012, Arkhangelsk, Russia. XV GLACIOLOGICAL SYMPOSIUM .
The NEESPI scientists have contributed to the Scientific Program of Symposium.
The main topic of the Symposium is "Past, Present and Future of the Cryosphere". The
Symposium was organized by the Glaciological Association, Institute of Geography Russian
Academy of Sciences, and the Northern (Arctic) Federal University.
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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»
and
Extended Project Meeting for NASA Project: “Northern Eurasian Landscapes: Interactions among Humans, Hydrology, Land Cover and Land Use” .
The NEESPI scientists have contributed to the Scientific Program of the Workshop and participated in discussions of the NASA Project results presented at the Meeting.
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SAD NEWS. Our friend and one of the NEESPI Project and Science Support Center Leaders, Dr. Gregory Leptoukh, passed away on January 12, 2012.
In Memorium.
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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 was published by NASU (Publ. House "Naukova Dumka") in May 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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The Journal of Plant Ecology has published a Special Issue entitled plant-water relations
at multiple scales: integration from observations, modeling, and remote sensing.
Read the full text of articles published from 2008 to 2012 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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