| Wednesday 7 March (Location: RIHN Lecture Hall) |
| 9:00 | Registration |
| 9:30 | Opening ceremony
Yo-ichiro Sato (Deputy Director-General of RIHN) (opening address)
Tetsuya Hiyama (introducing objectives of the conference) |
| [Session 1] Water and carbon budgets at plot scale (chaired by Yuji Kodama) |
| 9:50 | (keynote speech)
“The main results of 20-year-old joint studies between Russia and Japan on a changing climate and permafrost in
north-east Siberia, Russia”Trofim C. Maximov |
| 10:15 | “Seasonal variation of linkage between net ecosystem exchange of H2O and CO2 over boreal forest at eastern Siberia” Ayumi Kotani, Takeshi Ohta, Trofim C. Maximov |
| 10:40 | “Key features of soil CO2 efflux in taiga larch forests of central and south-eastern Yakutia” Roman Petrov, Alexander V. Kononov, Trofim C. Maximov |
| 11:05 | Break |
| 11:20 | “Snowmelt heat balance of the snowpack in a larch forest in eastern Siberia” Yuji Kodama |
| 11:45 | “Simulation of soil water and temperature in eastern Siberian taiga forests by a one-dimensional land-surface model” Takeshi Yamazaki |
| 12:10 | “Changes in relationship between larch tree growth and climate in eastern Siberia over past 100 years” Shunsuke Tei, Atsuko Sugimoto, Hitoshi Yonenobu, Trofim C. Maximov |
| 12:35 | Discussion |
| 13:00 | Lunch and poster presentations |
[Session 2] Water and carbon cycles in regional-continental scale
(chaired by Eddy Moors) |
| 14:00 | (keynote speech)
“Feedback mechanisms between the water and carbon cycle at a regional scale”Eddy Moors |
| 14:25 | “Seasonal and interannual variations of the Lena River discharge and those relationships with atmospheric water cycle” Kazuhiro Oshima, Tetsuya Hiyama |
| 14:50 | “Interannual variation of summer hydro-climate in eastern Siberia” Tetsuzo Yasunari, Tatsuro Watanabe, Hatsuki Fujinami |
| 15:15 | Break |
| 15:30 | “Ecosystem function of taiga-tundra boundary in eastern Siberia” Atsuko Sugimoto |
| 15:55 | “Simulation study of the vegetation structure and function in eastern Siberian larch forests using the individual- based vegetation model SEIB-DGVM” Hisashi Sato |
| 16:20 | Discussion, closure at 17:00 |
| Thursday 8 March (Location: RIHN Lecture Hall) |
[Session 3] Permafrost degradation and greenhouse gases emission
(chaired by Jacobus (Ko) van Huissteden) |
| 9:00 | (keynote speech)
“Landcover classification of the Great Vasyugan mire for estimation of methane emission”I. Kleptsova, M. Glagolev, E. Lapshina, S. Maksyutov |
| 9:25 | “Validation of methane emission model using eddy covariance observations and footprint modeling” A. Budishchev, Y. Mi, A. Gallagher, J. van Huissteden, G. Schaepman A.J. Dolman, T.C. Maximov |
| 9:50 | “Increased greenhouse gas emission from thaw ponds in Siberian arctic tundra on continuous permafrost” Angela Gallagher, Bingxi Li, Artem Budishchev, Jacobus van Huissteden, Monique Heijmans |
| 10:15 | Break |
| 10:30 | “Ecosystem recovery: a neglected factor in carbon release by permafrost degradation” Jacobus (Ko) van Huissteden, Angela Gallagher, Artem Budishchev |
| 10:55 | “Removal of Betula nana causes permafrost degradation and triggers changes in geomorphology and hydrology” Ake Nauta, Monique Heijmans, Daan Blok, Frank Berendse |
| 11:20 | “Analysis of water, heat and carbon balances over the Siberia region by using biosphere model BEAMS” Kazuki Aiba, Takahiro Sasai, Yasushi Yamaguchi |
| 11:45 | Discussion |
| 12:15 | Lunch and poster presentations |
| 13:15 | RIHN tour |
[Session 4] Permafrost landscape and groundwater regime
(chaired by Alexander Fedorov) |
| 14:00 | (keynote speech)
“Permafrost landscapes response to recent climate changes in eastern Siberia”Alexander Fedorov |
| 14:25 | “Effect of extreme hydroclimatic conditions on groundwater systems in permafrost, central Yakutia” Leonid Gagarin, Alexander Kolesnikov |
| 14:50 | “Residence time estimation of permafrost groundwater at Yakutsk region, eastern Siberia” Tetsuya Hiyama, Kazuyoshi Asai, Alexander Kolesnikov, Leonid Gagarin, Victor Shepelev |
| 15:15 | Break |
[Session 5] Flood-induced hazards and benefits
(chaired by Hiroki Takakura) |
| 15:30 | (keynote speech)
“The local conceptualization of river ice thawing and the spring flooding of the Lena River under the global warming”Hiroki Takakura |
| 15:55 | “Flood disaster caused by permafrost degradation in the far north of Siberia” Toru Sakai, Tetsuya Hiyama, Junko Fujiwara, Semen Gotovtsev, Leonid Gagarin |
| 16:20 | “Regional problems of the reducing vulnerability to extreme floods and climate change: Уakutia case” Vanda Ignatуeva |
| 16:45 | “Flood and migration policy in the Republic of Sakha” Junko Fujiwara |
| 17:10 | Discussion, closure at 17:45
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| Friday 9 March (Location: RIHN Lecture Hall) |
[Session 6] Wild and domestic animals in sub-Arctic region
(chaired by Shirow Tatsuzawa) |
| 9:00 | (keynote speech)
“Current Status of the wild reindeer populations and domestic reindeer farming in Sakha Republic”Innokentiy M. Okhlopkov |
| 9:25 | “The migration of eastern Siberian wild reindeer: where, when, how and why do they do?” Shirow Tatsuzawa, Innokentiy M. Okhlopkov, Egor V. Kirillin, Egor A. Nikolaev, Nikita G. Solomonov |
| 9:50 | “Reindeer herding and environmental change in the Kobyai and Olenyok districts, Sakha Republic” Atsushi Yoshida |
| 10:15 | “Reindeer herding and environmental change in the Tompo district, Sakha Republic” Atsushi Nakada |
| 10:40 | Break |
| 10:55 | “Furbearer hunting and invasive alien species issues in Yakutia” Tohru Ikeda |
[Session 7] Adaptation to climate change
(chaired by Susan A. Crate) |
| 11:20 | (keynote speech)
“Water, water everywhere: perceptions of chaotic water regimes in northeastern Siberia, Russia”Susan A. Crate |
| 11:45 | “History of development of transport infrastructure in Yakutia” Sardana Boyakova |
| 12:10 | “Biblical suggestions of CSR in regard to energy projects in Lensk district, Republic of Sakha: focusing on climate and environmental problems” Kyong Wan Lee |
| 12:35 | Discussion |
| 13:00 | Lunch and poster presentations |
| 14:00 | General Discussion |
| 15:30 | Closing ceremony
Tetsuya Hiyama (concluding remarks)
Tsugihiro Watanabe (Deputy Director-General of RIHN) (closing address) |
