TCOS SIBERIA
 
Funded by the European Commission DG Research -
5th Framework Programme

 
               TCOS Siberia site Cherskii
 
Location: N69o, E 161o 150 km south of the Arctic Ocean on the mouth of the Kolyma River in Northeast Siberia.
Provides a year-round base for international research in arctic biology, geophysics, and atmospheric physics.
The station also contains the Administration of the Pleistocene Park, a local experimental wildlife preserve of 160 km2.
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  • Strong changes in metabolic activity are typical for this region. Examples are soil temperature and PS activity.
  • Cherskii is a lowland with frozen pleistocene carbon.
  • Sediments contain 50 per cent ice, rest are loes sediments. Carbon stored in loess sediments is 5xthe rainforest storage
  • Soils loose during melting annually approx. 2-5  per cent of the stored, loess bound carbon
  • Proposed is studying C isotopic measurements.
         1. Dynamics of soil organics lost to groundwater and rivers.
         2. Isotopic composition of carbon fluxes.
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    Airplane Cherskii















    Amphibian airplane to be used for air profiling and sampling at Cherskii.

     

     
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