More than 50 students and postgraduates from Russia, India, Pakistan, and Iran studied permafrost and analysed groundwater in Yamal during an international internship. The students also explored the ecosystems of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug affected by mining, road construction, and anthropogenic fires.
Scientific research in the fields of Geology, Geography, Ecology, Geodesy, and other related disciplines took place near Salekhard under the guidance of scientists from St Petersburg, Tyumen, Moscow, and Yamal.
The country’s first Cryology and Geotechnical Safety Laboratory is operating in Yamal. In their work, students from Iran and Pakistan used a georadar, a device that sends radio signals into the ground and records the results on a laptop computer. The measurements of the geoelectric parameters of the earth will form the basis for mathematical modelling.
Employees of the Yamal Scientific Centre for the Study of the Arctic, together with visiting colleagues, took groundwater samples from a depth of 4.8 metres. The information obtained from the laboratory studies will help not only to assess the current state of permafrost in Salekhard and the surrounding area but also to compare it with data from a decade ago.
In addition, young scientists will create a landscape map of several sites affected by gas fields, road construction, and severe anthropogenic fires from 10 to 15 years ago. Some of the data collected will be published in scientific journals under the TSU TerrArctic project.
These are the first internships for students in the district this year. By September, more than 40 future specialists in various fields will arrive in the district, including Geology, Geodesy, Cartography and Geoinformatics, Soil Science, Ecology, Construction, and others, as well as graduate students in training programmes for scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel in the fields of Biological Sciences and Engineering and Construction Technologies.
Scientific practices in Yamal have been conducted over the past three years. During this time, about 150 students and postgraduates have visited the district. The practices take place at the Scientific Centre for the Study of the Arctic.
Source: Arctic Century
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