Arctic

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Roselectronics holding company has completed factory tests of a new weather and ice monitoring complex, which will provide detailed weather information for any requested area of ​​the terrain, and will also provide data to sea vessels in the Arctic in the absence of communication ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The results of the second season of the joint field school of the Polar and Moscow State Universities students in Norilsk have been summed up. At a joint meeting of two groups of future specialists in the field of geology and permafrost science with ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. An international team of scientists from eight BRICS countries is planning to set off on a round-the-world scientific expedition around Antarctica on the ship Akademik Treshnikov. The researchers include representatives of Russia and Brazil. “A Russian-Brazilian round-the-world expedition around Antarctica will begin in the fall. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On August 2 and 3, Sharypovo will host the Otkrytie (eng.: Openning) festival, dedicated to dinosaurs, science, creativity and music. This is the second festival, but for the first time it is being held on an all-Russian scale. Festival participants will enjoy lectures by paleontologists, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Pacific Floating University expedition will set off from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on August 2. For 36 days, the scientific team on the research vessel Professor Multanovsky will assess the state of coastal marine ecosystems of the Far Eastern seas in the context of global climate change ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Traveler and polar explorer Fedor Konyukhov has spent 14 days on the ice of a single drifting station having broken his own record of 2021. That year his drift lasted ten days, or more precisely 249 hours and 25 minutes, the Konyukhov international travel ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Iceberg rescue immersion suit has been successfully tested in the ice pool of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. As reported by the institute, the suit is made of heat-protective material with an increased brittleness limit to a range from -57°C to -61°C. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. According to experts from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), a decrease in sea ice cover associated with rising temperatures is the most discussed manifestation of global warming in the Arctic. Thus, in 2023, the temperature in the Russian Arctic was 1.12°C above normal: ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The research vessel Mikhail Somov delivered construction materials to Hooker island, Tikhaya bay, on the territory of the Russian Arctic national park to create the world’s northernmost Arctic museum there. The project is being implemented by the Russian Arctic national park and the Arctic Museum ...