The NEESPI Study Area

The NEESPI Study Area http://neespi.org Since inception in
2004, more than 150
projects joined to the
NEESP Initiative.
Currently active are
50 of them. Other
have been completed.
Principal Investigator: Vladimir Aizen (aizen@uidaho.edu),
Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow,
Idaho, USA
•  Asian Ice Core Array (AICA): Reconstruction of Past Physical and
Chemical Climate over Central Asia.
•  Collaborative Research: Diagnosis of Changes in Alpine Water
Storages and Land Surface Degradation in Pamir Mountains and Amu
Dariya River Basin.
Co-Investigators: Elena Aizen (aizen@uidaho.edu), Department of Geography,
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
Paul A. Mayewski, Andrei V. Kurbatov, and Karl Kreutz, both at the University of
Maine, Orono, Maine, USA
Alexander Finaev (finaeff@gmail.com), Institute of Ecology and Hydropower, Tajik
Academy of Sciences, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Roland Geerken (roland.geerken@yale.edu), Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut, USA
Stanislav Nikitin (santvp@mail.tsu.ru), Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
Gennady Nosenko (gnosenko@mail.ru), Institute of Geography, RAS, Moscow,
Russia
Peter Sosin (foker@list.ru), Research Institute of Pedology, Tajik Academy of
Agriculture, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Principal Investigator: Maria Shahgedanova
(m.shahgedanova@reading.ac.uk), Department of
Geography, the University of Reading, United Kingdom
•  Modelling climate change, glacier dynamics, and water availability in
the Caucasus.
•  Evaluating the recent and future climate change and glacier dynamics
in the mountains of Southern Siberia.
Co-Investigators: Christopher Stokes (c.r.stokes@reading.ac.uk) and Katie Grant, Department
of Geography, the University of Reading, United Kingdom
Ottfried Baume (O.Baume@geographie.uni-muenchen.de), Wilfried Hagg
(Wilfried.Hagg@lrz.badw-muenchen.de), and Christoph Mayers, Department of Geography,
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Ramin Gobijishvili (geograf@gw.acnet.ge), Alexandre Javahisvili, Nino Lomidze, and David
Svanadze, Laboratory of Glaciology, Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, Tbilisi,
Georgia
Victor Popovnin (po@geogr.msu.ru), Alexander Aleynikov (shu@scanex.ru), and Pavel
Toropov, Department of Cryolithology and Glaciology, Moscow State University, Moscow,
Russia
Tatyana Khromova (tkhromova@gmail.com), Gennady Nosenko (gnosenko@mail.ru),
Stanislav Kutuzov, and Anton Muraviev, RAS Institute of Geography, Moscow, Russia
Principal Investigator: Maria Shahgedanova
(m.shahgedanova@reading.ac.uk), Dept. of
Geography, University of Reading, Reading, UK
•  DIOGENES - Dust Impacts on Glaciated Environments.
Co-Investigators: Kevin White and Margaret Woodage, both at
University of Reading, Reading, UK
Collaborator: Stanislav Kutuzov, Institute of Geography,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
•  Investigating glacier response to the recent climate
change in the Polar Urals, Russia.
Co-Investigators: Katie Grant (k.l.grant@reading.ac.uk),
Walker Institute for Climate System Research and the
Department of Geography, The University of Reading,
Reading, UK
Gennady Nosenko (gnosenko@mail.ru) and Anton Muraveoyv
(anton-yar@rambler.ru), Institute of Geography, Russian
Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Principal Investigator:Andrey F.
Glazovsky (icemass@yandex.ru),
RAS Institute for Geography,
Moscow, Russia
•  Contemporary glaciation state in the
Arctic, glaciers’ instability and iceberg
formation.
NEW Collaborative Research: Crops, Climate,
Canals and the Cryosphere in Asia - Changing
Water Resources around the Earth's Third Pole
•  US Principal Investigators: Steve Frolking(steve.frolking@unh.edu),
University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
•  Mark Friedl (friedl@bu.edu), Boston University, Massachusetts;
•  Karen Fisher-Vanden (fishervanden@psu.edu), Pennsylvania State
University; and Regine Hock (regine.hock@gi.alaska.edu), University
of Alaska-Fairbanks
•  Co-Investigators: Changsheng Li (changsheng.li@unh.edu) and Richard
Lammers (Richard.Lammers@unh.edu), both at University of New
Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
Ian Sue Wing, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; and
Sergei Marchenko (ssmarchenko@alaska.edu), Institute of Geography,
Almaaty, Kazakhstan and University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks
Collaborators: Li Le, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Fan Zhang, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Aldar P. Gorbunov (permafrost.08@mail.ru), Institute of Geography, Ministry
of Science and Education of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
RESERVE
NEESPI is an interdisciplinary
program of internationallysupported Earth systems and
science research that addresses
large-scale and long-term
manifestations of climate and
environmental change in
Northern Eurasia and beyond.
NEESPI duration ~ 10-12 years (started in 2004)
Completed and ongoing NEESPI Projects by country (or group of countries), March 2012 sorted by funding source AcDve Projects per year NEESPI Outreach, http://neespi.org
Books and thematic journal Issues in 2012
Published:
–  The 4th (the third ERL) Environ. Res. Lett. NEESPI focus issue has
been publishing on line. This Special Issue has 24 accepted
manuscripts, twenty two of them have been already published (cf.,
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/focus/NEESPI3)
In press:
–  Groisman, P.Ya. and V.I. Lyalko (eds.) "Earth System Change over
Eastern Europe" "Naukova Dumka" Publ. House, Kiev, Ukraine (in
English; May 2012).
–  Groisman P.Ya. and G. Gutman, 2012: “Environmental Changes in
Siberia: Regional Changes and their Global Consequences” , Springer
Publishing House, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (August 2012).
In preparation:
–  Chen et al.,eds., “Dryland East Asia: Land Dynamics Amid Social and
Climate Change” is scheduled to be submitted to the ”Springer”
Publishing House this summer.