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Cherskii
Norilsk City is located at 70N in the Russian Arctic (from Webcams Mania)
Northeast Science Station
Location: 69º N, 161º E
Funding agencies: Soros Foundation
Russian Science Foundation
Department of Energy
National Science Foundation
Station director: Sergei A. Zimov (sazimov@cher.sakha.ru)
Main web site: http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/fffsc/station.html
Facilities: There are two laboratories and multiple field sites at the Northeast Science Station. Travel to and from the station is possible via road, water, and air on machines owned by the facility. There are fully equipped houses and two dormitories that house visiting scientists, researchers, and students. The Polaris Project also uses a 30ft barge capable of housing people for multiple days.
Site News: A report in a July issue of the AGU Eos talks about the Polaris project, a 30 day, 20 person, field course taking place at the Northeast Science Station.
Topography and History: The Northeast Science Station began in 1989 with a group of scientists from the Pacific Institute of Geography of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS). The station is located in the Nizhnekolymskii Ulus of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), 150km south of the Arctic Ocean. The station is inhabited year-round and is 3km from the town of Cherskii, which is located at the mouth of the Kolyma River. The administration of Pleistocene Park also operates out of the Northeast Science Station facilities. Pleistocene Park is a 160km^2 experimental wildlife preserve. The main research carried out at the station is the study of global carbon and methane fluxes. Pleistocene Park research focuses on the cause of the Pleistocene extinctions (see articles below under Cherskii in the News). The general topography includes many lakes, streams, an estuary, the Kolyma River, and mountains. Various aquatic ecosystems can be found in the watershed while Pleistocene Park contains many large mammals with the goal of reintroducing Siberian Tigers into the preserve.
Table of Measurements
Station Identifier: 25123
Station Abbreviation: HA
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Measurement/Instruments
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Continuous Measurements
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| Precipitation chemistry |
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AON |
| Surface eddy correlation fluxes of CO2, H2O |
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S. Zimov |
| Surface energy balance (3 towers) |
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Available measurements and scientific equipment
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| Meteorology - surface (Air temperature, precipitation, wind speed) |
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| Meteorology -upper air |
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| Gas analysis (2 gas chromatographs, 2 portable infrared gas analyzers, 4 high-resolution infrared gas analyzers, equipment for collecting gas samples for isotopic analysis, dissolved oxygen analyzer) |
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| Chemical analysis (CHN analyzer, spectrophotometer, ph meters, electronic balances, glass-fiber filtration systems, distilled/deionized water supply, muffle furnace) |
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| Ecological field sampling (LiCor leaf area meter; soil corers; portable field balances; drill for ice, permafrost, and lake sediments; stream discharge meters; sample drying ovens) |
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| Eddy covariance measurements - 3 sites (Sonic anemometers, infrared gas analyzers, data loggers (temperature, soil moisture, relative humidity, wind speed direction, atmospheric pressure), radiation sensor (net radiation, incoming and outgoing SW radiation, incoming and outgoing LW radiation, photosynthetically active radiation) |
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Other relevant links:
Data archives:
Pleistocene Park Tower - University of Alaska Fairbanks/AON
Informational links:
Global Network of Isotopes in Precipitation (GNIP)
Local current weather
Terrestrial Carbon Observation System (TCOS)
Pleistocene Park Tower - University of Alaska Fairbanks/AON
Cherskii in the News:
"A Bold Plan to Re-Create a Long-lost Siberian Ecosystem"
"Pleistocene Park Could Solve Mystery of Mammoth's Extinction"
"Thawing Permafrost Could Supercharge Warming, Study Says"
All information on this page was gathered from the web sites listed above. We welcome your comments - if you have any additions or corrections that apply to this page, please forward them to lisa.darby@noaa.gov.
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