Scientists will determine how climate change affects the Arctic
TSU, St. Petersburg State University, the Northern (Arctic) Federal University, and a number of leading scientific centers of the Russian Federation will unite in a consortium to study environmental changes in the Arctic and the impact of these transformations on residents of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The initiative for the network project was put forward by the government of the region. The data obtained will help to more effectively build medical and preventive work with the population.
- Great attention is now focused on the Arctic. Research on climate change is being carried out by both Russian and international centers. At the same time, the local population has remained a little apart, - says Olga Shaduyko, director of the TSU Center for International Collaboration, coordinator of the SecNet network. - Two years ago, for the first time, SecNet workshop, which was held in Salekhard with the support of the authorities of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, invited representatives of indigenous peoples - the Nenets, Khanty, and Zyryans. They told how their lives have changed in the context of climate change, and it became quite obvious that these people needed to be included in research projects both as an object of study and as suppliers of the latest information.
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