2010 year: financial support of ConocoPhillips Russia Inc. to scientific and
studying activity of geographical faculty Lomonosov Moscow State University
Participating in IPY Oslo Science Conference (8-12 June) and Third
European Conference on Permafrost, Svalbard (13-17 June)
Participants from department of
Cryolithology and Glaciology Geographical faculty MSU
Upper route - professors V. Grebenets and I. Streletskaya;Lower route – students E. Panchenko, D. Shmelev, A. Abramova, L. Polyakova
IPY Oslo Science Conference
Commencement meetingYoung participants on icebreaker, 7 June
Delegates in Frammuseet
At a conference
Discussions of student’s posters
Sizing up of International Polar Year (2007-2008). More then 2300 participants from 80 counters.
Third European Conference on Permafrost, Svalbard
“Destruction of buildings and underground constructionscaused by the cryogenic weathering in Cryolithozone” oral presentation by V. Grebenets
Field excursions
V. Grebenets and his poster
Graduates of department Cryolithology and Glaciology at the conference
European Conference on Permafrost spend each five years. In this year it was chosen Svalbard. More then 250 participants from Russia, Europe, North America, China and others.
International University Field Courses, West Siberia, 2009Landscape and permafrost study on the North of
West Siberia.
Study the pleistocene formations and
paleogeographic reconstructions
Description and study of arctic soil
Study of cryostructure of sediments
Participate in CALM projectThermometric research in bore-
holes
Field works in Norilsk region.
Measure of shores of thermokarst lake
Alas Work on CALM grid near Talnakh
Division tundra landscapes into different types
Cleaning-up core of pingo
Measurements of polygons in tundra
Study of engineering of cold regions and geoecological problems of Norilsk industry hub.
Studying of problems connected with wrong exploitation of buildings
Studying of technique of drilling
Studying of problems connected with
exploitation of human reservoirs at cryolithozone
Studying of variety of engeneering
decigions in building at cryolithozone
Estimating of destruction of
ecological systems by human activity
Studying of instability of
shore monuments built in ice-rich shores
Permafrost and Pereglacial processes: Yenisei bay and Western Taymyr
Leader of group: I.D. StreletskayaResearcher group
Participants fromLomonosov Moscow State UniversityAll-Russian Research Institute of Geology and Mineral resources of Ocean RAS (VNIIOkeangeologia), St. PetersburgEarth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS, Tyumen
The purpose of the trip was to study different types of ground ice: ice wedges, ice complex, pingos, massive ground ice .
Studying region
Cameral work Collecting samples
On ice exposure
Student’s scientific expedition in winter vacations
Central of European Russia, study of season freezing of the ground
Additional some financial support was given for investigations of snow cover and snow regime in different part of Russia.