Fifth International Summer School fo
r Students and Young Scientists, 7-21 July 2018:
"Natu
ral and human environment of Arctic and Alpine areas: relief, soils, permaf
rost, glaciers, biota and life style of native ethnic groups in a rapidly c
hanging climate"
About the schoo l: The Fifth International Research-Educational Summer School “Nat ural and human environment of Arctic and Alpine areas: relief, soils, perma frost, glaciers, biota and life style of native ethnic groups in a rapidly changing climate” will start in the cozy city of Tomsk. This famous cultura l center has been named “the Siberian Cambridge”. There will be 2 days for the field excursion to the High Altai (1200 km South from Tomsk). This will cross different landscapes, such as south taiga, sub-taiga, forest-step, s tep, mountain taiga, mountain meadow, mountain tundra, glacial and periglac ial areas. Participants will observe different geographical provinces, such as West-Siberian Plain, Piedmont Altai, North Altai, High Central Altai an d High South-East Altai. All this will provide an opportunity to become acq uainted with a great variety of landscapes, different types of reliefs and paleogeographical relics, well-expressed geological structures and evidence s of earthquakes, amazing biodiversity in wild ecosystems, unique archaeolo gical objects and the dynamic variety of nomadic populations. The main part of the School will be held at the Aktru Research Station of the National R esearch Tomsk State University. The Station was founded by M.V. Tronov, the distinguished scientist and Professor of the Tomsk State University, who i s a founder of the Siberian Glaciological Scientific School. There will be various field excursions as well as lectures at the Station and in its surr oundings.
The two-day journey back to To msk will repeat the trans-zonal excursions. Other interesting places will t hen be seen and elucidated in the lectures.
Please see the booklet or website for further information.< /p> DTSTAMP:20260421T104615Z DTSTART;TZID=UTC;VALUE=DATE:20180707 DTEND;TZID=UTC;VALUE=DATE:20180722 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR