The conference will be held at the Melnikov
Permafrost Institute in Yakutsk,
Russia, during
three days (5-8 August, 2008).

Themes

• Regional and historical geocryology
• Periglacial processes and forms
• Hydrology and hydrogeology in cold regions
• Climate change, landscape dynamics and permafrost
  evolution
• Impact of climate change on infrastructure in
  frozen-ground areas

Languages: Russian and
English

Paper
presentation: oral and poster

Time
for presentation: oral 10-15 min., poster 2-3 min.

Excursions

- local sight-seeing tour
during the conference

- post-conference excursion to
Central Yakutia, including the Lena
Columns National
Park and unique groundwater springs, 8-10 August
2008.

Abstracts

Potential participants are
asked to send a pre-registration form and an abstract on conference themes by April 10, 2008 to <YanaS_82@mail.ru> or <mpi@ysn.ru>.
Please indicate “Melnikov Centenary Forum” in e-mail header Subject field.

Abstract
Format

• Abstracts must be submitted in rtf, WORD-97 or
  later, using Normal style. Times New
  Roman, 12 point is used. Line spacing 1.5 lines for the text and single
  for the title, author and affiliation. Margins are 2.0 cm top, bottom and
  left and 1.5 cm right. The first line indent is 1.25 cm.
• The title and text are flush left.
• An abstract should not exceed 2 pages (A4).
• The title should not exceed two lines and should
  be in bold capital letters.
• Author names are typed on a new line in bold
  letters.
• Affiliation is given under the authors’ name in
  bold letters. In case of more than one author, authors’ names are
  asterisked and the affiliation for each author is given.

The authors will be
notified of the acceptance of the abstracts and presentation form (oral or
poster) during April 2008.

A volume of abstracts will be published before the conference.