Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:43 | 
May 24, 2016
Igarka-Toulouse Experience Presented at a Meeting of European and Siberian Universities
Fifty years ago, in June 1966, French president Charles de Gaulle visited Novosibirsk Academgorodok. This historic visit resulted in several agreements that facilitated cooperation in research and development between the Fifth Republic and USSR in the decades ahead. Recent years have seen an increasing interest in academic collaboration between French and Siberian universities. Problems and possible solutions in cooperation with European universities in Siberia have been discussed at a commemorative conference held from 19-22 April 2016 in Novosibirsk and Tomsk with attendance by universities, research institutes and diplomatic missions. Dr. Nikita Tananaev who leads an MPI’s research team in Igarka, northern Yenisey area, shared his experience in cooperating with researchers from Toulouse and presented the Igarka Geocryology Lab as a possible field platform for interactions and collaboration between Siberian and French students and professors. The full presentation can be found here. Please also visit the Campus-France website for other presentations.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 August 2016 11:08 |
11 April 2016
In Memory of Dr. Rostislav Kamensky
A conference in memory of Dr. Rostislav Kamensky (1936-2008) was held at the Melnikov Permafrost Institute on 7 April 2016. Dr. Kamensky who would have marked his 80th birthday that day made significant contributions to permafrost engineering research. He pioneered field and theoretical research on the thermal interaction of engineering structures with frozen soils and environment, pipeline laying methods in permafrost, and refrigeration systems in northern construction. For 50 years, his life was inseparably associated with Yakutia and the Permafrost Institute where he began to work in 1958 after graduating from the Kuybyshev Institute of Engineering at Moscow. From 1988 to 2003 Kamensky was director of the Permafrost Institute. At this position, he showed himself as a talented science administrator. His wise and able leadership helped the Institute go, with minimum losses, through the period of the toughest socio-economic crisis that hit the country in the 1990s. Kamensky had trained many of the current generation of permafrost scientists and engineers who gathered at MPI on his birthday to present talks on the role of engineering geocryology in cold regions development.
Last Updated on Monday, 30 May 2016 12:37 |
19 October 2015
MPI Scientists at the General Meeting of Yakutian Geographers
The Yakutia Regional Branch of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS-YRB) held its general meeting in Yakutsk on 14 October 2015. The meeting was attended by 131 Society members and representatives from the Yakutian government, Academy of Sciences, and North-Eastern Federal University. The Chair of the Branch, Grigory Savvinov, reported on the activities during the last five years. In the discussions that followed the delegates highlighted the broad scope of activities undertaken by the Society members in Yakutia. Those who had made significant contribution to dissemination of geographical knowledge and promotion of research in the field of geography and environmental protection were awarded with the RGS-YRB Badge of Merit. Among the awardees was the MPI Director, Dr. Mikhail Zhelezniak. Three MPI members were elected to the new RGS-YRB Council: Rosalia Ivanova as Scientific Secretary, Alexander Fedorov as Head of the Committee on Physical Geography, and Mikhail Zhelezniak will chair the Grants Committee.
Last Updated on Monday, 30 May 2016 12:45 |
31 March 2016
Melnikov Prize Awarded to Nick Torgovkin
Nick Torgovkin, a junior research scientist at MPI Laboratory of Groundwater and Geochemistry, has been awarded the P.I. Melnikov Prize for his research project, “Geoenvironmental characteristics of precipitation and soils in urban areas on permafrost: a case study of Yakutsk” (supervisor: Dr., Prof. Vladimir Makarov). The P.I. Melnikov Prize was established in 2007 by the MPI administration to encourage and stimulate young scientists of the Permafrost Institute and to motivate students of the North-Eastern Federal University to pursue careers in permafrost science. This monetary award is presented annually to the best research projects conducted by junior researchers, post-graduate students and undergraduates. Torgovkin received this year’s prize of R 50,000 in a stiff competition among twelve young researchers, with only few points ahead of his nearest rivals Lyudmila Lebedeva ("Assessing water input into the Kolyma HPS reservoir in the changing climate") and Ivan Vakhrin ("Effect of cryogenic structure and ice content on properties of thawing soils").
Last Updated on Monday, 26 October 2015 15:05 |
20 August 2015
Dr. Mikhail Grigoriev Turns 60
Dr. Mikhail Grigoriev, Vice Director of MPI, will turn 60 on August 23, 2015. He is known internationally for his long-term research activities in the Arctic to study coastal and subsea permafrost. A brief account of his research career can be found here.
Mikhail has chosen not to celebrate his anniversary; however, messages of congratulations are welcome at:
Melnikov Permafrost Institute, ul. Merzlotnaya, 36 Yakutsk 677010
Fax: 7-4112-334476
E-mail: mpi@ysn.ru, grigoriev@mpi.ysn.ru, migri@mail.ru