Institute of Physicoсhemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Scientific Council on Earth Cryology and Institute of Earth Cryosphere of Russian Academy of Sciences would like to invite you to take part in the International conference "Permafrost in XXI century: basic and applied researches”. The conference will be held from September 27 to October 01, 2015, in Pushchino, Russia. Registration fee is 3500 Russian rubles, the banquet ticket is about 2500 Russian rubles. Students and Ph.D. students are welcome to participate without registration fee.  Working languages are Russian and English. Foreign participants will be provided with a simultaneous English translation.

Program

The main topics of the conference will be:

• General, regional and historical geocryology
• Permafrost response to climat change
• Physico-chemical aproach in permafrost studies
• Permafrost engineering and hazards
• Permafrost soils
• Permafrost hydrology and hydrogeology
• Microbiology, biotechnology and astrobiology aspects of permafrost research
• Geophysical and remote sensing data in permafrost investigations
• Education of the new generation of permafrost researchers

Several roundtables will be organized: TSP, CALM, Antarctic permafrost and soils (AntPaS). The special PYRN event will celebrate 10-th Anniversary of this young permafrost researchers network. Additional ones can be organized on request. We invite researchers of wide range of studies of the cryosphere in the Arctic, Antarctic and mountain areas of the Earth.

Chairman: Vladimir Melnikov (Academician of RAS)
Co-Chairman: Valery Kudeyarov (Corresponding Member of RAS, Prof., Director of IPCBPSS RAS)
Chair of the Scientific Committee: Elizaveta Rivkina (Head of Soil Cryology Laboratory IPCBPSS RAS)
Chair of the local Organizing Committee: Andrey Abramov (Soil Cryology Laboratory IPCBPSS RAS)
Secretary of the local Organizing Committee: Svetlana Chudinova (Soil Cryology Laboratory IPCBPSS RAS)