April 2, 2019

Solving the Puzzles from Cryosphere ---
Conference Program is Available

Institute of Physicoсhemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science will host the International conference "Solving the Puzzles from Cryosphere" in April 15-18, 2019, in Pushchino, Russia (http://cryosol.ru/en/cryoconference2019en.html). The main topics of the conference include:

• General, regional and historical geocryology
• Regional aspects in polar and mountain areas
• Paleoreconstructions
• Carbon in permafrost
• Permafrost soils
• Cryosphere as ecosystem: microbiological, biotechnological and astrobiological aspects
• Permafrost hydrology and hydrogeology
• Physico-chemical peculiarities of frozen ground
• Geophisycal investigations in permafrost areas
• Antarctic permafrost and soils
• Philosophical ideas about past, present and future of cryosphere

The following round tables are planned during the conference:

• Permafrost mapping
• Permafrost engineering
• Permafrost soils classification

The conference program is now available at: http://cryosol.ru/images/phocagallery/conference/cryospherepuzzles/Pushchino_ProgramAbstracts_2019.pdf