#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists from the SB RAS Oil and Gas Geology and Geophysics Institute named after A.A. Trofimuk (INGG) have developed a program for the development of the Samoilovsky Island research station in the Lena river delta as an international center for the Arctic comprehensive research for 2023–2027.
Among the areas that are already being developed on Samoilovsky Island are permafrost science and permafrost soils monitoring, Quaternary geology and complex geophysical work, greenhouse gas flows measurement and climate studies, geoecology, soil science, hydrology and geochemistry.
They also conduct research in the field of seismology, shallow seismic exploration and electrical tomography, geobotany, thermometry and geochemistry, stratigraphy and paleontology.
Meanwhile, scientists believe that research at the station should be carried out all year round: this is required by the carbon test site and a magnetic observatory organizing, which will allow studying the north magnetic pole, which is now moving towards the Arctic coast of the Russian Federation.
“As part of the development program, a large-scale renovation of the station is planned, which has been an effective and modern scientific outpost in the Lena delta for ten years”, Interfax-Russia quotes the INNG report.
Another important task in the coming years is the expansion of scientific cooperation. The station was originally designed as an international one. The new format of the international expedition has already been discussed with colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Prospects for the station development are also planned to be discussed at a meeting of the Presidium of the Scientific Expert Council of the State Commission for Arctic Development, which will be held today, September 11, as part of the VIII Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, as well as in November at the All-Russian Conference with international participation II Laverov Readings – Arctic: Current Problems and Challenges.
Earlier it was reported that the North Pole – 41 station changed the ice floe: the old one began to collapse. A scientific expedition will depart from St. Petersburg to the Bear Islands archipelago to study the polar bear population. Also, a Chinese scientific expedition set off from Shanghai on the icebreaker Xuelong-2 across the Arctic ocean.
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Text: Elena Popova, Photo: Olga Alexandrova and Denis Kozhevnikov
