The Institute of Physicoсhemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Scientific Council on Earth Cryology and Institute of Earth Cryosphere of Russian Academy of Sciences would like to invite you to take part in the International conference "Permafrost in XXI century: basic and applied researches". The conference will be held from September 27 to October 01, 2015, in Pushchino, Russia. Registration fee is 50 euro, the banquet ticket is about 30 euros. Students and Ph.D. students are welcome to participate without registration fee. Accommodation in Pushchino hotels (25-100 euros per day). Working languages are Russian and English. Foreign participants will be provided with a simultaneous English translation.
The abstracts in English should be no more than 4000 characters including spaces (one page of A4 format). Deadline for registration and abstracts is June,1, 2015. Main topics will be:
- General, regional and historical geocryology
- Permafrost response to climat change
- Physico-chemical approach in permafrost studies
- Permafrost engineering and hazards
- Permafrost soils
- Microbiology, biotechnology and astrobiology aspects of permafrost research
- Geophysical and remote sensing data in permafrost investigations
- Education of the new generation of permafrost researchers
Several roundtables will be organized: TSP, CALM, Antarctic permafrost and soils (ANPAS). The special PYRN event will celebrate 10th Anniversary of this young permafrost researchers network. Additional ones can be organized on request. We invite researchers of wide range of studies of the cryosphere in the Arctic, Antarctic and mountain areas of the Earth.