Nikolai Basharin

Nikolai Basharin

Junior Research Scientist
Laboratory of GIS and Mapping

TeI.: +7-4112-390894
Email: Nikolay_B89@mail.ru

Education

Research Interests

Current and Recent Projects

SB RAS Basic Research Project, 2021-2025: Geocryological Processes and Hazards in Permafrost Landscapes of Eastern Siberia (Participant)
Russian Foundation for Basic Research – National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant (RFBR Grant No. 20-55-53014, 2020-2022: Study of Permafrost Changes Induced by Climate Warming in the Siberian Arctic and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (Participant)
Contract Project, Institut Giprostroymost St Petersburg AO, 2020: Permafrost Characterization for the Lena River Toll Bridge Project Site Investigation (Participant)
Contract Project, Institut Giprostroymost St Petersburg AO, 2020: Permafrost Characterization for the Lena River Toll Bridge Project Site Investigation (Participant)
SB RAS Basic Research Project IX.127.2.3 (2017-2020): Integrated Studies to Understand the Dynamics of Natural and Human-Affected Landscapes in the East Siberian Permafrost Region – Block 4. GIS Mapping of Permafrost and Related Landscapes in East Siberia
Contract Project, Sakhatelecom Co. (Yakutsk), 2019: Identifying Potential Thermokarst Areas along the Proposed Fiber Optic Cable Line from Mirny to Suntar to Vilyuisk
Contract Project, Sakhatelecom, 2019: Developing Guidelines for Selecting Burial Depth of Fiber Optic Cables with Permissible Crush (3 kN/cm² to 7 kN/cm²) and Tensile (7 kN/cm² to 40 kN/cm²) Loads in the Active Layer of Permafrost in the Section from Udachny to Verkne-Munskoe to Olenek (Participant)

Field Work

2020 Field observations (soil moisture content, permafrost temperature, active-layer thickness, thermokarst dynamics) at monitoring sites Neleger, Spasskaya Pad, Yukechi, Kerdyugen, Umaibyt, Nemyugyuntsy and Syrdakh in central Yakutia and Tiksi and Batgai in northern Yakutia; UAV surveys for terrain modeling
2020 Field investigations for a roadway foundation monitoring program, Nam, Amga and Khangalas areas, central Yakutia
2020 Lena River Toll Bridge Project area – UAV and ground survey for detailed landscape characterization, active-layer thickness measurements
2019 Monitoring observations in central and Arctic Yakutia
2018-2020 Permafrost and terrain investigations along the Power of Siberia Pipeline corridor
2020 2020 Field investigations to examine the behavior of roadway foundations, Nam, Amga and Khangalas area, central Yakutia
2012-present – permafrost terrain studies in Central Yakutia
2011–2012 – Changes in fluvial erosion, Eheleekh Island, Lena River
2011–2012 – Landscape dynamics, Neleger and Spasskaya Pad monitoring sites, Central Yakutia
2011 – Thermokarst dynamics at the Yukechi site, 45 km east of Yakutsk

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