Land Use Category

List of Active NEESPI Projects:

  1. The role of environmental, socioeconomic, institutional, and land-cover/ land-use change factors to explain the pattern and drivers of anthropogenic fires in post-Soviet Eastern Europe: A case study comparison of Belarus, European Russia, and Lithuania.
  2. 200 years of land use and land cover changes and their driving forces in the Carpathian Basin.
  3. Impacts of Land Cover and Land Use Change on Water and Energy Cycle in Caspian Sea Drainage Basin.
  4. Landscape Dynamics and Landscape Potential for CO2-sequestration in Central Asia- Case study from Kazakhstan.
  5. Impacts of Land Cover and Land Use Change on Water and Energy Cycle in Caspian Sea Drainage Basin.
  6. Impacts of Land Cover and Land Use Change on Water and Energy Cycle in Caspian Sea Drainage Basin.
  7. Interactive Changes of Ecosystems and Societies on the Mongolian Plateau: From Coupled Regulations of Land Use and Changing Climate to Adaptation.
  8. Adaptation to Rapid Land-Use and Climate Changes on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: Remote Sensing and Models for Analyzing Cumulative Effects.
  9. Investigating the Relationship Between Land Use/Land Cover Change, Hydrologic Cycle, and Climate in Semi-Arid Central Asia.
  10. Grassland Ecosystems and Societal Adaptations Under Changing Grazing Intensity and Climate on the Mongolian Plateau.
  11. Land use change, protected areas, and biodiversity in the Caucasus and Ural Mountains.
  12. The Influence of Changing Forestry Practices on the Effects of Wildfire and on Interactions between Fire and Changing Climate in central Siberia.
  13. Land Abandonment in Russia: Understanding Recent Trends and Assessing Future Vulnerability and Adaptation to Changing Climate and Population Dynamics.
  14. Human Impact on Land-cover Changes in the Heart of Asia.
  15. Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in Temperate Forests of European Russia: The Past, the Current, and the Future.
  16. Northern Eurasian Landscapes: Interactions Between Humans, Hydrology, Land Cover and Land Use.
  17. Data Fusion Grid Infrastructure.
  18. Environment and sustanable development of the Mongolian Plateau Region.
  19. Estimation of seasonal dynamics of desert pasture productivity in Turkmenistan using NOAA/AVHRR data.
  20. Integrated interdisciplinary research on ecological and economic problems in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan.
  21. Integrated study of natural and climatic changes and accompanying land-use risks.
  22. Evolution of natural processes, man and his culture in late Cenozoic in Siberia and their influence on eco- and geosystems stability.
  23. Enviro-RISKS: Man-induced Environmental Risks: Monitoring, Management and Remediation of Man-made Changes in Siberia.
  24. Study of Dam/Reservoir-Induced Hydrologic Changes in Large Siberian Watersheds: Regional Analysis to Pan-Arctic Synthesis.
  25. Social vulnerability to climate change in Arctic western North America and eastern Russia.
  26. Siberian Earth System Science Cluster – SIB-ESS-C.
  27. Post-socialist land use and land cover change in the Carpathians. Assessing the importance of socioeconomic and political factors on landscape dynamics and biodiversity.
  28. Application of space-based technologies and models to address land-cover/land-use change problems on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia.
  29. Understanding the role of changes in land use/land cover and atmospheric dust loading and their coupling on climate change in the NEESPI study domain drylands.
  30. Land cover land use change effects on surface water quality: Integrated MODIS and SeaWIFS assessment of the Dneiper and Don River basins and their reservoirs.
  31. Role of land cover and land use change in hydrology of Eurasian Pan-Arctic.
  32. Impacts of Climate and Land Use Change on Wildland Fire Frequency and the Amur Tiger.
  33. Contributions of Changes in Land Use/Land Cover, Water Use, and Climate to the Hydrological Cycle Across the Central Asian States.
  34. Exacerbation of Flooding Responses Due to Land Cover/Land Use Change: A Comparative Study.
  35. Evaluating the effects of institutional change on regional hydrometeorology: Assessing the vulnerability of the Eurasian semi-arid grain belt.
  36. Global Distribution of Human Appropriation of Fresh Water: An Earth Observation-supported Strategy Linking Biophysics and Socio-economics for Addressing Water Vulnerability.
  37. Ecological Monitoring in Semi-Arid Central and West Asia: Drivers and Trajectories.
  38. Effects of Land Use Change on the Energy and Water Balance of the Semi-Arid Region of Inner Mongolia.
  39. Optimization of forest management methods in preparation to the climate change.
  40. Comparative Studies on Carbon Dynamics in Disturbed Forest Ecosystems: Eastern Russia and Northeastern China.
  41. Carbon, Climate and Managed Land in Ukraine: Integrating Data and Models of Land Use for NEESPI.
  42. Northern Eurasian C-land Use Climate Interaction in the Semi-Arid Regions.
  43. Quantifying the Effects of Land Use Change on Carbon Budgets in the Black Sea Region.
  44. Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics of China in Support of GOFC/GOLD and NEESPI Sciences.
  45. Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe: socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity, and future scenarios.
  46. Reindeer Mapper: A Remote Sensing and GIS-Based System to Bring Indigenous Traditional and Local Knowledge Together with Scientific Data and Information to Address Health Issues Resulting from Changes in Climate, Environment, Weather, and Pollution in Northern Russia.
  47. Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains.

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Study of Dam/Reservoir-Induced Hydrologic Changes in Large Siberian Watersheds: Regional Analysis to Pan-Arctic Synthesis.

Principal Investigator: Alexander Shiklomanov (Alex.Shiklomanov@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Co-Investigators: Richard Lammers, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Collaborators: Vladimir Georgievsky and Igor Shiklomanov, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

Social vulnerability to climate change in Arctic western North America and eastern Russia.

Principal Investigator: David Atkinson (datkinson@iarc.uaf.edu ), International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigators: Uma Bhatt, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
Brandon Kelly, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Craig Gerlach, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
Collaborators: Alexander Vasiliev, Institute of Earth Cryosphere, Moscow, Russia
Stanislav Ogorodov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Oceana Francis-Chythlook, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
Michel dos Santos Mesquita, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA

Siberian Earth System Science Cluster – SIB-ESS-C.

Principal Investigators: Christiane Schmullius (c.schmullius@uni-jena.de) and Roman Gerlach (roman.gerlach@uni-jena.de), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
Co-Investigators: Heiko Balzter (hbal@ceh.ac.uk), NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) and Climate and Land Surface Systems Interaction Centre (CLASSIC), Monks Wood, UK
Sergey Bartalev (bartalev@d902.iki.rssi.ru), Boreal Ecosystems Monitoring Laboratory, Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Thuy Le Toan (Thuy.Letoan@cesbio.cnes.fr), Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), CNES-CNRS-Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Wolfgang Lucht (wolfgang.lucht@pik-potsdam.de), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Biosphere Research Group, Potsdam, Germany
Sten Nilsson (nilsson@iiasa.ac.at) and Anatoly Shvidenko (shvidenk@iiasa.ac.at), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Evgeni Vaganov (eavaganov@forest.akadem.ru), Sukachev Forest Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Wolfgang Wagner (ww@ipf.tuwien.ac.at),  Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

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Post-socialist land use and land cover change in the Carpathians. Assessing the importance of socioeconomic and political factors on landscape dynamics and biodiversity.

Principal Investigator: Patrick Hostert (patrick.hostert@geo.hu-berlin.de), Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany
Collaborators: Bogdan Zagajewski, Warsaw University, Poland
Volker Radeloff, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Kajetan Perzanowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Daniel Müller, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany

Application of space-based technologies and models to address land-cover/land-use change problems on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia.

Principal Investigator: Donald Walker (ffdaw@uaf.edu), University of Alaska -Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigators: Gari Kofinas, Uma Bhatt, and Vladimir Romanovsky, all University of Alaska -Fairbanks, USA
Josefino Comiso, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Howard Epstein, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Collaborators: Bruce Forbes, Arctic Center, Rovaniemi, Finland
Scientists from the Earth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS, Moscow, Russia

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Understanding the role of changes in land use/land cover and atmospheric dust loading and their coupling on climate change in the NEESPI study domain drylands.

Principal Investigator: Irina Sokolik (isokolik@eas.gatech.edu) Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Co-Investigators: Robert Dickinson, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Yongjiu Dai, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
George Golitsyn, Obukhov Institute of Atrmospheric Physics, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Rimma Bektursunova, Eurasian National University, Akmolla, Kazakhstan
Beatrice Marticorena, Lab. Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), Paris, France
Gilles Bergametti, Lab. Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), Paris, France
Dulam Jugder, Institute Meteorology and Hydrology, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia
Yaping Shao, City University of Hong Kong, China
Itsushi Uno, Institute Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Masao Mikami, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
Youngsin Chun, Meteorological Research Institute, Seoul, Korea

Land cover land use change effects on surface water quality: Integrated MODIS and SeaWIFS assessment of the Dneiper and Don River basins and their reservoirs.

Principal Investigator: Anatoly Gitelson (gitelson@calmit.unl.edu), University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
Co-Investigator: Geoffrey M. Henebry, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
Collaborators: Ludmila Kosmenko and Boris Suhorukov, Hydro-chemical Institute, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Michael Popov and Ludmila Serenko, Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth, Institute of Geosciences UNAS, Kiev, Ukraine
Mykola Zalogin, Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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Role of land cover and land use change in hydrology of Eurasian Pan-Arctic.

Principal Investigator: Charles Vorosmarty (Charles.Vorosmarty@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Co-Investigators: George Hurtt, Xianming Xiao, Richard Lammers, and Alexander Shiklomanov, all at University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Collaborator: Igor Shiklomanov, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

Impacts of Climate and Land Use Change on Wildland Fire Frequency and the Amur Tiger.

Principal Investigator: Tatijana Loboda (tloboda@hermes.geog.umd.edu ), University of Maryland, Department of Geography, USA
Co-Investigator: Chris Justice, University of Maryland, Department of Geography, USA

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Contributions of Changes in Land Use/Land Cover, Water Use, and Climate to the Hydrological Cycle Across the Central Asian States.

Principal Investigator: Charles Vörösmarty (charles.vorosmarty@unh.edu), Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, USA
Co-Investigators: Richard Lammers, Alexander Shiklomanov, Ellen Douglas, and Xiangming Xiao,University of New Hampshire, USA
Collaborators: Igor Shiklomanov State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Victor Dukhovny, Scientific-Information Center of the Interstate Coordination Water Commission of the Central Asia, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Malik Burlibaev, Kazakhstan Research Institute for Monitoring and Climate, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan

Exacerbation of Flooding Responses Due to Land Cover/Land Use Change: A Comparative Study.

Principal Investigator: Keith Eshleman, (eshleman@al.umces.edu), University of Maryland, USA
Co-Investigators: Philip Townsend, University of Maryland, USA
Mykola Zalogin, (mzalogin@yahoo.com), Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Ukraine

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Evaluating the effects of institutional change on regional hydrometeorology: Assessing the vulnerability of the Eurasian semi-arid grain belt.

Principal Investigator: Geoff Henebry (Geoffrey.Henebry@sdstate.edu), South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
Co-Investigators: Elena Lioubimtseva, Grand Valley State University, USA
William Capehart, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA
Collaborators: Lev Spivak, Remote Sensing Center, Space Research Institute, Ministry of Education and Science, Kazakhstan
Alexander N. Zolotokrylin, Geography Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Russia

Global Distribution of Human Appropriation of Fresh Water: An Earth Observation-supported Strategy Linking Biophysics and Socio-economics for Addressing Water Vulnerability.

Principal Investigator: Marc Imhoff (Marc.L.Imhoff@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Co-Investigators: Lahouari Bounoua, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, UMD, USA
Michael Glantz, Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
Bob Harris, Environmental and Societal Impact Group, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA

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Ecological Monitoring in Semi-Arid Central and West Asia: Drivers and Trajectories.

Principal Investigator: Roland Geerken (roland.geerken@yale.edu), Yale University, USA
Co-Investigator: Ronald Smith , Yale University, USA
Collaborators: Eddy DePauw, The Int.Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, Syria
Adel Jouda and G. Qatasha, The Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands, Syria
Maryia Glazirina, The Regional Center of Hydrology in Central Asia, Uzbekistan
Christoph Schaer, The Department of Atmospheric and Climate Studies of the Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Switzerland
Hermann Kaufmann, The Remote Sensing Division of the GeoResearch Center, Potsdam, Germany

Effects of Land Use Change on the Energy and Water Balance of the Semi-Arid Region of Inner Mongolia.

Principal Investigator: Jiquan Chen (jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu), University of Toledo, USA
Co-Investigators: Asko Noormets, Univ. of Toledo, USA
Steve McNulty & Ge Sun, Southern Global Change Program, USA
Weixin Cheng, Univ. of California - Santa Cruz, USA
Guanghui Lin, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yanfen Wang, The Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xiangming Xiao, University of New Hampshire, USA
Collaborators: Prof. Jiaguo Qi, Michigan State University, USA
Dennis Ojima & Dr. Scott Denning, Colorado State University, USA
Osbert Sun, Xingguo Han, Dr. Linhao Li, and Dr. Ke Guo, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ming Xu, Rutgers University, USA
Stable Isotope Laboratory for Ecological & Environmental Research at Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, China

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Optimization of forest management methods in preparation to the climate change.

Principal Investigator: Sandor Szalai, (szalai.s@met.hu), Hungarian Meteorological Service (OMSZ), Hungary
Co-Investigator: Csaba Mátyás (cm@emk.nyme.hu), University of West Hungary, Institute of Environmental Sciences. Sopron, Hungary

Comparative Studies on Carbon Dynamics in Disturbed Forest Ecosystems: Eastern Russia and Northeastern China.

Principal Investigator: Guoqing Sun (guoqing@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov), University of Maryland, USA
Co- Investigators: Jeffrey G. Masek, Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Olga Krankina, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, USA
Vyacheslav Kharuk, RAS Sukachev Institute of Forest, Russia
Zengyuan Li, Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China
Collaborator: Vladimir Trush, Far East State Forest Inventory Enterprise "DALLESPROECT", Russia

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Carbon, Climate and Managed Land in Ukraine: Integrating Data and Models of Land Use for NEESPI.

Principal Investigator: Francesco Tubiello (tubiello@iiasa.ac.at), Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, USA
Co- Investigators: Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA
Gunther Fischer, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
Anatoly Shvidenko, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
Mykola Zalogin, Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Ukraine

Northern Eurasian C-land Use Climate Interaction in the Semi-Arid Regions.

Principal Investigator: Dennis Ojima (dennis@nrel.colostate.edu), Colorado State University, USA
Co-Investigators: Xiangming Xiao, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, USA
Jeff Hicke, Colorado State University, USA
Collaborators: Kanat Akshalov, Barayev Kazakh Research Institute of Grain Farming, Kazakhstan
Togtohyn Chuluun, Ministry of Construction and Urban Development, Mongolia
Bakhtiyor Mardonov, Research Institute of Regional Problems, Samarkand Division of
Uzbek’s Academy of Science, Uzbekistan
Muhtor Nasyrov, Samarkand State University, Uzbekistan
Svetlana Nikulina, UNDP/Government of Uzbekistan Environment Programme, Uzbekistan
Sayat Temirbekov, Kazakhstan National Institute of Botany, Kazakhstan

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Quantifying the Effects of Land Use Change on Carbon Budgets in the Black Sea Region.

Principal Investigator: Curtis Woodcock (curtis@bu.edu), Boston University, USA
Co-Investigators: Xiaowen Li and Mutlu Ozdogan, Boston University, USA
Richard Houghton, The Woods Hole Research Center, USA
Collaborators:
Vlad Gancz and Viorel Blujdea, Forest Research and Management Institute, Ilfov, Romania
Kostantin Dichev and Hristo Nikolov, Green Balkans Federation, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Mykola Zalogin, Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
Niko Beroutchachvili, Geographical Society of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
Emin Zeki Baskent, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey and
Aydin Tufekcioglu, Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey

Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics of China in Support of GOFC/GOLD and NEESPI Sciences.

Principal Investigator: Jiaguo Qi (qi@msu.edu), Michigan State University, USA
Co-Investigators: Changsheng Li, University of New Hampshire, USA
Cuizhen Wang, University of Missouri - Columbia, USA
Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, USA
Jiyuan Liu, Institute of Geographic Information and Natural
Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Drs. Joseph Messina, Mark Cochrane, Runsheng Yin, USA
Peng Gong, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Shuguang Liu, EROS Data Center, USA
Shuming Bao, University of Michigan, USA
Wei Gao, Colorado State University, USA
William Salas, Applied Geosolutions, LLC, USA
Xiangming Xiao, University of New Hampshire, USA
Yongyun Yin, British Columbia, Canada
Collaborators: Drs. Genian Lv and Wanchang Zhang, Nanjing University, China
Guoping Lei, Northeast Agricultural University, China
Jiaping Wu, Zhejiang University, China
Jiemin Wang, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Institute, China

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Post-USSR land cover change in Eastern Europe: socioeconomic forcings, effects on biodiversity, and future scenarios.

Principal Investigator: Volker C. Radeloff (radeloff@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Collaborators: Leonid Baskin, RAS Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russia
Linas Balciaukas, Institute of Ecology, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Anna Lushchekina, Russian Man and Biosphere Committee and RAS Severtsov
Institute for Ecology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Patrick Hostert, Humboldt University, Germany
Kajetan Perzanowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Jintao Xu, Institute of Geographic Information and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Lin Zheng, Jiangxi Normal University, China
Drs. Qingdong Shi and Xiaoling Pan, Xinjiang University, China
Drs. Yanhua Bao and Zhigang Li, Heilongjiang Bureau of Survey and Mapping, China
Ya-Qiu Jin, Fudan University, China
Zhongdong Feng, Lanzhou University, China

Reindeer Mapper: A Remote Sensing and GIS-Based System to Bring Indigenous Traditional and Local Knowledge Together with Scientific Data and Information to Address Health Issues Resulting from Changes in Climate, Environment, Weather, and Pollution in Northern Russia.

Principal Investigator: Nancy G. Maynard, (Nancy.G.Maynard@nasa.gov) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Co-Investigator: Boris S. Yurchak, University of Maryland - College Park, USA
Collaborators: Yuri Sleptsov, Ethno-Ecological Center "Garpanga", Yakutsk, Russia
A. Polezhaev, Institute of the Biological Problems of the North, Magadan, Russia
Svein D. Mathiesen, Nordic Sami Institute, Kautokeino, Norway
Johan Mathis Turi, Association of World Reindeer Herders, World Reindeer Herders Center, Tromso, Norway

Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains.

Principal Investigators: Libor Jansky (Jansky@hq.unu.edu), Environment and Sustainable Development Programme, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan and
Anna Tengberg (Anna.Tengberg@unep.org ), Land Degradation Unit, UNEP/GEF Division, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Co-Investigators: Hans Hurni, Center for Environment and Development, University of Berne, Switzerland
Michael Stocking, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Teiji Watanabe, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
Kazuo Mizushima, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
Fabrice Renaud, United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, Bonn, Germany
Collaborators: Kokul Kasirov, State Directorate for Protected Areas "Tajik National Park", State Committee on Environment Conservation and Forestry, Tajikistan
Turuzbek Tashybekov, National Center for Mountain Region Development, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Francis Turkelboom, International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria
Zakir Khalikulov, International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Thomas Schaaf, Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences, Man and Biosphere Programme, UNESCO, Paris, France

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Integrated study of natural and climatic changes and accompanying land-use risks
    Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Principal Investigator: Michael V. Kabanov (post@imces.ru), SB RAS Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Tomsk, Russia.

Evolution of natural processes, man and his culture in late Cenozoic in Siberia and their influence on eco- and geosystems stability     Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Principal Investigators: Anatoly P. Derevyanko (derev@archaeology.nsc.ru), Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Evgeny A. Vaganov (eavaganov@forest.akadem.ru), RAS Institute of Forest Studies, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Mikhail I. Kuzmin (isc@isc.irk.ru), Institute of Geochemistry SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia

Enviro-RISKS: Man-induced Environmental Risks: Monitoring, Management and Remediation of Man-made Changes in Siberia     Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Principal Investigator: Alexander Baklanov (alb@dmi.dk), Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Integrated interdisciplinary research on ecological and economic problems in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan.

Principal Investigator: Paul Vlek (s.aengenendt-baer@uni-bonn.de), The Center for Development Research, The University of Bonn, Germany
Co-Investigators: Christopher Martius, (c.martius@uni-bonn.de, project coordinator in Bonn), The Center for Development Research (ZEF), The University of Bonn, Germany
John Lamers (j.lamers@zef.uzpak.uz; project coordinator in Uzbekistan), ZEF/UNESCO project at the State University of Urgench, Uzbekistan
Peter Mollinga, Bernhard Tischbein, and Ahmad Mossadegh-Manschadi, ZEF, University of Bonn, Germany
Gerd Rücker, German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Collaborators: Umid Abdullaev and Gulchehra Khazankhanova, Uzbek State Uzgipromeliovodkhoz Institute (UZGIP), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Ruzumboy Eshchanov, Hayot Ibrakhimov, and Asia Khamzina, State University of Urgench, Urgench, Uzbekistan
Victor Dukhovny, Scientific Information Centre of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (SIC-ICWC), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Nazar Ibragimov, Uzbek Cotton Research Institute, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Khokhimdjon Khomidov, Uzbek Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Alim Pulatov, Tashkent Institute for Irrigation and Mechanization (TIIM), Uzbekistan
Ken Sayre, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), El Batan, Mexico
Yulia Shirokova, SANIIRI (Irrigation Institute), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Reiner Wassmann, Institute for Research on the Atmosphere (IMK-IFU), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Garmisch- Partenkirchen, Germany

Estimation of seasonal dynamics of desert pasture productivity in Turkmenistan using NOAA/AVHRR data.

Principal Investigator: Lea Orlovsky (orlovsky@bgu.ac.il), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Co-Investigators: Felix Kogan (Felix.Kogan@noaa.gov), NOAA/NESDIS Environmental Monitoring Branch, Washington D.C., USA
Batyr Mamedov, Turkmenistan Desert Research Institute, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Lev Spivak, Remote Sensing Center, Space Research Institute, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Environment and sustanable development of the Mongolian Plateau Region.

Principal Investigator: Lin Zhen (zhenl@igsnrr.ac.cn), Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Co-Investigators: Jiyuan Liu, Yunfeng Hu, Xuelin Liu, and Yunjie Wei, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Ochirbat Batkhishig, Dechingungaa Dorjgotov and Adiya S. Shiirev, Institute of Geography of Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaan Bator, Mongolia
Yuhai Bao, Inner Mogolian Normal University, Hohhot, China

Data Fusion Grid Infrastructure.
Categories:  Integrative and Land Use.

Principal Investigators: Ladislav Hluchy (hluchy.ui@savba.sk), Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Paul Kopp (Paul.Kopp@cnes.fr), Centre National d'Etudes spatiales, Tolouse, France
Natalia Kussul (inform@ikd.kiev.ua), Space Research Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Evgeny Loupian (evgeny@d902.iki.rssi.ru),Space Research Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia.

Northern Eurasian Landscapes: Interactions Between Humans, Hydrology, Land Cover and Land Use.

Principal Investigator: Alexander Shiklomanov (alex.shiklomanov@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
Co-Investigators: Charles Vorosmary, Richard Lammers, and Xiangming Xiao, all at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
Nikolai Shiklomanov, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Collaborators: Olga Krankina (olga.krankina@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Igor Shiklomanov, Nina Speranskaya, Oleg Anisimov, and Mikhail Markov, all at the State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Mikhail Tretiakov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Sergey Myagkov, National Institute of Hydrometeorology (NIGMI), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Natalia Agaltsova, National Hydrometeorological Service, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Lyubov Lebed, Kazakh Research Institute of Ecology and Climate (KazNIIEK), of the Ministry of Environment Protection, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Grigory Chekan, Hydrometeorological Center of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus

Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in Temperate Forests of European Russia: The Past, the Current, and the Future.

Principal Investigator: Mutlu Ozdogan (ozdogan@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Co-Investigators: Volker Radeloff and David J. Lewis, both at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Collaborators: Alexander Maslov, Institute of Forest Science, Moscow, Russia and
Dmitry Aksenov, "Transparent World", Moscow, Russia

Human Impact on Land-cover Changes in the Heart of Asia.

Principal Investigator: Igor Okladnikov (oig@scert.ru), Siberian Center for Environmental research and Training, Tomsk, Russia
Collaborators:Olga Krankina (olga.krankina@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Renchin Tsolmon (tsolmon@num.edu.mn), National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Land Abandonment in Russia: Understanding Recent Trends and Assessing Future Vulnerability and Adaptation to Changing Climate and Population Dynamics.

Principal Investigator: Kirsten de Beurs (kdebeurs@ou.edu), University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Co-Investigators: Geoffrey Henebry (Geoffrey.Henebry@sdstate.edu), South Dakota State University, Brookins, South Dakota, USA
Grigory Ioffe (gioffe@radford.edu), Radford University, Radford, Virginia, USA
Collaborator: Tatyana Nefedova, RAS Institute of Geography, Moscow, Russia

The Influence of Changing Forestry Practices on the Effects of Wildfire and on Interactions between Fire and Changing Climate in central Siberia.

Principal Investigator: Susan Conard (SGConard@aol.com), US Forest Service, Washington, DC, USA
Co-Investigators: Nadezhda Tchebakova (ncheby@forest.akadem.ru), V.N. Sukachev Forest Institute, Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Amber Soja (amber.j.soja@nasa.gov), National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, Virginia, USA
Wei Min Hao (whao@fs.fed.us), USDA Forest Service, Missoula, Montana, USA
Elena Parfenova (lyeti@forest.akadem.ru), V.N. Sukachev Forest Institute, Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Galina Ivanova (GAIvanova@ksc.krasn.ru), V.N. Sukachev Forest Institute, Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Douglas McRae (dmcrae@nrcan.gc.ca), Natural Resources Canada, Great Lakes Forest Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Anatoly Sukhinin (boss@ksc.krasn.ru), V.N. Sukachev Forest Institute, Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Land use change, protected areas, and biodiversity in the Caucasus and Ural Mountains.

Principal Investigator: Volker Radeloff (radeloff@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin,USA
Co-Investigators: Daniel Muller (d.mueller@geo.hu-berlin.de), Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Berlin, Germany
Patrick Hostert (patrick.hostert@geo.hu-berlin.de), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Tobias Kuemmerle (tobias.kuemmerle@geo.hu-berlin.de), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Leonid Baskin (baskin@orc.ru), Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Grassland Ecosystems and Societal Adaptations Under Changing Grazing Intensity and Climate on the Mongolian Plateau.

Principal Investigator: Daniel Brown (danbrown@umich.edu), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan,USA
Co-Investigators: Arun Agrawal (arunagra@umich.edu), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan,USA
Yichun Xie (yxie@emich.edu), Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
Kathleen Bergen (kbergen@umich.edu), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan,USA
Collaborators: Yongfei Bai, The Inner Mongolia Grassland Ecosystem Research Station, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China and
William Welsh, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA

Investigating the Relationship Between Land Use/Land Cover Change, Hydrologic Cycle, and Climate in Semi-Arid Central Asia.

Principal Investigator: Mutlu Ozdogan (ozdogan@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Collaborators: Chen Xi, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Urumqi, China
Alishir Kurban, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Urumqi, China

Adaptation to Rapid Land-Use and Climate Changes on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: Remote Sensing and Models for Analyzing Cumulative Effects.

Principal Investigator: Donald Walker (ffdaw@uaf.edu), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Co-Investigators:Uma Bhatt (bhatt@gi.alaska.edu), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Vladimir Romanovsky (ffver@uaf.edu), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Gary Kofinas (gary.kofinas@uaf.edu), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Howard Epstein (hee2b@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Josefino Comiso (josefino.c.comiso@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Collaborators: Pavel Orekhov (orekhov.eci@gmail.com), Earth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS, Moscow, Russia
Bruce Forbes (bforbes@ulapland.fi), Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
Martha Raynolds, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Natalya Moskakenko, Earth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS, Moscow, Russia
Hilmar Maier, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Marina Leibman, Earth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS, Moscow, Russia

Interactive Changes of Ecosystems and Societies on the Mongolian Plateau: From Coupled Regulations of Land Use and Changing Climate to Adaptation.

Principal Investigator: Jiquan Chen (jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu), University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Co-Investigators: Shiqiang Wan (swan@ibcas.ac.cn), Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Lin Zhen (zhenl@igsnrr.ac.cn), Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Ochirbat Batkhishig (batkhishig@gmail.com), Institute of Geography of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia
Togtohyn Chuluun (chuluun@nrel.colostate.edu), National University of Mongolia and the Global Change National Committee, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia
Collaborators: Ge Sun (Ge_Sun@ncsu.edu) and Steven McNulty (steve_mcnulty@ncsu.edu) both USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Jian Ni (jni@ibcas.ac.cn), Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Ranjeet John (ranjeet.john@utoledo.edu) and Burkhard Wilske (Burkhard.Wilske@utoledo.edu), both at University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Ke Guo (guoke@ibcas.ac.cn) and Linghao Li, both at Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Dennis Ojima (ojima@heinzctr.org), John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Washington, DC, USA
Xiangzheng Deng (dengxz.ccap@igsnrr.ac.cn), Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Dechingunga Dorjgotov (o_batkhishig@yahoo.com), (batkhishig@gmail.com), Institute of Geography of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia

Impacts of Land Cover and Land Use Change on Water and Energy Cycle in Caspian Sea Drainage Basin.

Principal Investigator: Sassan Saatchi (ssaatchi@ucla.edu), University of California - Los Angeles, California, USA
Co-Investigator: Dara Entekhabi (darae@mit.edu), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts , USA
Collaborators: Sergey Dobrolyubov (science@geogr.msu.ru), Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Herman Shugart (hhs@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Hamid Ghaffarzadeh (hamid.ghaffarzadeh@undp.org), UNDP, Caspian Sea Environment Program, Geneva, Switzerland
Serik Akhmetov (serik.akhmetov@mail.ru), Institute of Geography, National Academy of Science, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan
A. Babak Hedjazi (hedjazi@archi.unige.ch), Central Asia-Caucasus Forum Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
More collaborators will be invited to secure deliverables of this project.

Landscape Dynamics and Landscape Potential for CO2-sequestration in Central Asia- Case study from Kazakhstan.

Principal Investigator: Martin Kappas(mkappas@gwdg.de), Institute of Geography, University of Göttingen, Germany
Co-Investigator: Pavel Propastin (ppropas@uni-goettingen.de), Institute of Geography, University of Göttingen, Germany
Collaborator: Nadiya Muratova, Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Image Analysis, Kazakh Academy of Science, Almaty, Kazakhstan

200 years of land use and land cover changes and their driving forces in the Carpathian Basin.

Principal Investigator: Volker Radeloff (radeloff@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Co-Investigators: Éva Konkoly-Gyuró (egyuro@emk.nyme.hu) and Géza Kiraly, both at Institute of Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of West Hungary, Sopron, Hungary
Jacek Kozak (jkozak@gis.geo.uj.edu.pl), Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Tobias Kuemmerle (kummerle@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Lubos Halada (lubos.halada@savba.sk),Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences Branch Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia
Daniel Müller (mueller@iamo.de), Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany
Urs Gimmi (urs.gimmi@wsl.ch), Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, and
Patrick Hostert (patrick.hostert@geo.hu-berlin.de), Department of Geography, Humboldt-University at Berlin, Berlin, Germany

The role of environmental, socioeconomic, institutional, and land-cover/ land-use change factors to explain the pattern and drivers of anthropogenic fires in post-Soviet Eastern Europe: a case study comparison of Belarus, European Russia, and Lithuania.

Principal Investigator: Jessica L. McCarty (mccarty@mtu.edu), Michigan Tech Research Institute, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Co-Investigators: Peter Potapov (potapov@umd.edu), University of Maryland-College Park, Maryland, USA and
Alexander Prishchepov (prishchepov@iamo.de), IAMO, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe;Halle, Germany
Collaborators:: Svetlana Turubanova (sveta@umd.edu), and Matthew C. Hansen (mhansen@umd.edu) both at University of Maryland-College Park, Maryland, USA;
Dmitry Rukhovich (landmap@yandex.ru) and Polina Koroleva (soilmap@yandex.ru), both at V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Institute, Moscow, Russia;
Maxim Dubinin (maxim.dubinin@nextgis.org), NEXTGIS, Moscow, Russia.

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