Scientists learn how past forests burned to predict fires
Denmark recently hosted an annual meeting of INTERACT, the international Arctic change monitoring program. The program brings together more than 80 Arctic and high altitude research stations in Northern Europe, the USA, Canada, Greenland, Scotland, and Russia, including three TSU bases open to all project participants. In 2020, scientific working groups will conduct a wide range of studies, from clarifying the characteristics of permafrost and fire melting in boreal forests to studying the effects of heatwaves on DNA and the endurance of Arctic bumblebees.
- The results of the INTERACT II project, which is the largest to study climate change in the Arctic and the northern territories, were summed up at the annual meeting of the consortium participants,- says Olga Shaduiko, director of the TSU Center for International Collaboration. - The research confirms the trend towards climate warming, and therefore research in the Arctic and the North is becoming increasingly important. It is here that environmental transformation is most noticeable, so the demand for TSU research stations, which are part of the Interact transnational access system, is growing.
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