The main goals of Laboratory’s research is to further understanding of the structure, development history, genesis, age and dynamics of permafrost in north-eastern Asia and to investigate its effects on the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and technosphere. Areas of research include:

• Study of cryogenic features and processes in the natural and disturbed areas of permafrost
• Study of the patterns and evolution of cryogenic processes in the coastal and offshore areas of the Laptev and East-Siberian seas
• Monitoring of frost-related features and processes in the communities of central Yakutia
• Investigation of geomorphic processes in the plains, plateaus and mountains of the Middle-Taiga zone
• Paleoenvironmental reconstruction and climato-stratigraphic study of permafrost histories during the Neogene, Quaternary and Holocene

Research Staff

Valentin Spektor Ph.D., Head of Laboratory
Alexey Galanin D.Sc., Principal Research Scientist
Mikhail Grigoriev D.Sc., Principal Research Scientist
Viktor Kunitsky D.Sc., Principal Research Scientist
Sergey Razumov D.Sc., Principal Research Scientist
Vladimir Spektor D.Sc., Principal Research Scientist
Stanislav Zabolotnik Ph.D., Leading Research Scientist
Mark Shatz Ph.D., Leading Research Scientist
Semen Gotovtsev Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist
Igor Klimovsky Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist
Anna Kut, Research Scientist
Pavel Zabolotnik, Research Scientist
Igor Syromyatnikov, Junior Research Scientist
Alexey Dyachkovsky, Junior Research Scientist
Maria Pavlova, Junior Research Scientist
Vasily Lytkin, Research Assistant
Georgy Maximov, Research Assistant
Maria Nestereva, Research Assistant
Alexandra Cherepanova, Research Assistant
Grigory Shaposhnikov, Research Assistant

Technical Staff

Kliment Kirensky, Senior Technical Assistant
Irina Klimova, Senior Technical Assistant
Vladimir Nikolaev, Senior Technical Assistant
Varvara Andreeva, Technical Assistant
Natalya Misharina, Technical Assistant

Address

Melnikov Permafrost Institute
Merzlotnaya St., 36
Yakutsk, Russia 677010
Tel.: 7-4112-390891 Email: vvspector@mpi.ysn.ru