FORUM FOR YOUNG PERMAFROST SCIENTISTS

- The Past, Present and Future
of Geocryology -

Yakutsk, Russia, August 2-15, 2010

The Organizing Committee is pleased to invite
young researchers, as well as university and post-graduate students to the
Forum for Young Permafrost Scientists which will be held in Yakutsk,
eastern Siberia, from August 2 to 15, 2010.
This Forum will be one of the events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the
foundation of the Melnikov Permafrost Institute.

ORGANIZER

Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk, Russia

EVENTS

The Forum will include two events:

1. Geocryological Conference (August 2-5, 2010)

2. Geocryological Field Workshop (August 6-15,
2010).

1.
GEOCRYOLOGICAL CONFERENCE

The conference will be held at the Melnikov
Permafrost Institute in Yakutsk
from August 2 to 5, 2010.

Themes:

·       
Regional
and historical geocryology

·       
Periglacial
processes and forms

·       
Hydrology
and hydrogeology in cold regions

·       
Permafrost
changes and landscape dynamics

·       
Climate change
and engineering structures on permafrost

Languages: Russian and English

Paper presentation: oral and poster

Excursion: A local sigh-seeing tour will be offered during
the conference.

Proceedings: Conference proceedings will be published
before the conference. Authors are requested to submit papers on the conference
themes before May 1, 2010.

2. GEOCRYOLOGICAL
FIELD WORKSHOP

The field workshop will be held from August 6 to
15, 2010 and will focus on ground ice, thermokarst and thaw depressions
(alases). Participants will travel in central Yakutia to examine permafrost conditions,
hydrogeology, and frost-related processes and forms in this area. Lectures and
tutorials will be given by the Permafrost Institute senior scientists.

REGISTRATION FEES

Conference                                           US$20

Field workshop                                    US$250

Application ends April 1, 2010

If you are interested
in this Forum, please use the following contact information to receive an application form:

CONTACT ADDRESS

Yana Stambovskaya or Anna Urban

ul. Merzlotnaya 36

Melnikov Permafrost Institute

Yakutsk, Russia 677010

E-mail: VNMF2010@rambler.ru

Phone: 7-4112-334 696 (Yana Stambovskaya), 7-4112-334 761 (Anna Urban)

Fax: 7-4112-334 476