Welcome to the Siberian Environmental Change Seminar on 16th November (online). This seminar presents the results from a newly released Ambio Special Issue on Siberia and environmental change that INTERACT has contributed to. Topics of the seminar include everything from wildfires in the Siberian taigaBoreal forest, a nearly continuous belt of coniferous trees across North America and Eurasia. Taiga is dense forest with many fallen trees and marshy soil. The term derives form the southern Siberian Turkic-Mongol... More, to the world’s largest wetland The Great Vasyugan Mire, to thawing permafrostPermafrost is frozen ground that remains at or below zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit) for two or more years. It forms in regions where the mean annual temperature is... More and methaneA colourless, odourless gas (chemical formula CH4). Some microbesproduce methane. It can also be found in underground deposits. Methane is the main component of natural gas, which is is an important... More emissions and beyond.
Time: Tuesday, 16 November 2021, 10:00-12:00 UK time (13:00-15:00pm Moscow time)
Venue: Online in Zoom
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/siberian-environmental-change-special-issue-of-ambio-journal-tickets-188597459077
