TSU summer school gathered students from around the world
The 5th International Summer School at TSU’s high-altitude station Aktru was held In July, devoted to the study of transformations taking place in the Arctic and Siberia in a rapidly changing climate. Participants were students and scientists from Russia, South Africa, France, Holland, Germany, Singapore, Japan, Britain, Italy, and the USA. For the undergraduates of the TSU interdisciplinary programs Studying Siberia and the Arctic and Biodiversity, the school simultaneously served as a practicum where they could take part in the research of international specialists.
At the plenary session at the TSU Research Library, scientists presented the results of their studies, and the next morning they went to the mountains of Altai. Maximum attention there was paid to the objects in the Arctic and subarctic regions that are the first to react to climate change - glaciers, permafrost, soils, and biota.
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