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14 April 2013

‘Geographical Investigations in Yakutia: the History, the Present and the Future’ Conference

August 25-28, 2013 Yakutsk, Russia

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The Yakutia Department of the Russian Geographical Society invites to attend a conference entitled ‘Geographical Investigations in Yakutia: the History, the Present and the Future’. The conference will be held in Yakutsk on August 25-28, 2013 hosted by the North-Eastern Federal University. The conference will mark the 100th anniversary since the foundation of the Yakutia Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society and welcomes contributions on the history of geographical investigations in north-eastern Russia, Arctic biodiversity and climate change, landscape and permafrost studies, mapping and GIS technologies, geographical education, and socio-economic development of north-eastern Russia.

For details, click here for the Announcement (in Russian)

 

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9 November 2012

Seed Repository in Permafrost

The Melnikov Permafrost Institute has completed construction of an underground repository at Yakutsk intended to store seeds under stable subzero temperatures. The facility with a storage area of 90 sq. m lies in permafrost at a depth of 9.15 m from the surface. Reliant on the natural cold only, it will provide safe and cost-effective long-term storage of seeds.

 

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Learn more about the project here