International Scientific Cooperation
Tundra degradation in the Russian Arctic (TUNDRA)
DATES OF IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECT
01.01.1998-31.03.2001
FUNDING ORGANIZATION
Framework 'Environment and Climate' Programme of the European Commission
Section Climatology and Natural Hazards (Contract Nr. ENV4-CT97-0522)
GOAL AND TASKS
TUNDRA investigated the effects of global change in the Usa Basin of the East-European Russian Arctic. The main focus of TUNDRA was to assess feedback processes to the global climate system that originate in the Arctic. Emphasis was given to changes in greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere and in freshwater runoff to the Arctic Ocean taking into account global warming, industrial pollution and the public perception of environmental degradation. TUNDRA was set up as an interdisciplinary project that involved climatologists, soil scientists, ecologists, palaeoecologists, hydrologists, pollution specialists and social anthropologists from Denmark, Finland, Russia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
PROJECT CO-ORDINATORS
Overall project co-ordinator: Dr. Peter Kuhry (Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland)
Russian co-ordinator: Dr. Vasily Ponomarev (Institute of Biology, Komi Science Centre, Syktyvkar, Russia)
