2010 year: financial support of ConocoPhillips Russia Inc. to scientific and

studying activity of geographical faculty Lomonosov Moscow State University

Participating in IPY Oslo Science Conference (8-12 June) and Third

European Conference on Permafrost, Svalbard (13-17 June)

Participants from department of

Cryolithology and Glaciology Geographical faculty MSU

Upper route - professors V. Grebenets and I. Streletskaya;Lower route – students E. Panchenko, D. Shmelev, A. Abramova, L. Polyakova

IPY Oslo Science Conference

Commencement meetingYoung participants on icebreaker, 7 June

Delegates in Frammuseet

At a conference

Discussions of student’s posters

Sizing up of International Polar Year (2007-2008). More then 2300 participants from 80 counters.

Third European Conference on Permafrost, Svalbard

“Destruction of buildings and underground constructionscaused by the cryogenic weathering in Cryolithozone” oral presentation by V. Grebenets

Field excursions

V. Grebenets and his poster

Graduates of department Cryolithology and Glaciology at the conference

European Conference on Permafrost spend each five years. In this year it was chosen Svalbard. More then 250 participants from Russia, Europe, North America, China and others.

International University Field Courses, West Siberia, 2009Landscape and permafrost study on the North of

West Siberia.

Study the pleistocene formations and

paleogeographic reconstructions

Description and study of arctic soil

Study of cryostructure of sediments

Participate in CALM projectThermometric research in bore-

holes

Field works in Norilsk region.

Measure of shores of thermokarst lake

Alas Work on CALM grid near Talnakh

Division tundra landscapes into different types

Cleaning-up core of pingo

Measurements of polygons in tundra

Study of engineering of cold regions and geoecological problems of Norilsk industry hub.

Studying of problems connected with wrong exploitation of buildings

Studying of technique of drilling

Studying of problems connected with

exploitation of human reservoirs at cryolithozone

Studying of variety of engeneering

decigions in building at cryolithozone

Estimating of destruction of

ecological systems by human activity

Studying of instability of

shore monuments built in ice-rich shores

Permafrost and Pereglacial processes: Yenisei bay and Western Taymyr

Leader of group: I.D. StreletskayaResearcher group

Participants fromLomonosov Moscow State UniversityAll-Russian Research Institute of Geology and Mineral resources of Ocean RAS (VNIIOkeangeologia), St. PetersburgEarth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS, Tyumen

The purpose of the trip was to study different types of ground ice: ice wedges, ice complex, pingos, massive ground ice .

Studying region

Cameral work Collecting samples

On ice exposure

Student’s scientific expedition in winter vacations

Central of European Russia, study of season freezing of the ground

Additional some financial support was given for investigations of snow cover and snow regime in different part of Russia.