LABORATORY OF CRYOGENIC PROCESSES

Basic Research Topics

• 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.

Address

Melnikov Permafrost Institute

36, Merzlotnaya St.

Yakutsk

Russia 677010

Phone: 7-4112-390-891

Email: vvspector@mpi.ysn.ru

Staff

Active Projects

• RAS Presidium Program no. 21. Fundamental Problems in Oceanology: Physics, Geology, Biology and Ecology. Multidisciplinary Investigations of the Arctic Shelf Subprogram. Project 6. Permafrost of the Eurasian Arctic Seas and Continental Margin: Current State, Variation Patterns, History, Transformation of Frozen and Cryotic Ground, and Hydrocarbon Emanations.
• SB RAS Expedition Grant. Study of Ice-Rich Permafrost Soils in the Lena River Valley and the Pre-Lena Plateau
• SB RAS Expedition Grant. Study of Ice-Rich Permafrost Soils in the Lena-Amga Plain
• RFBR Project, 2012-2014. Engineering-Geocryological Mapping of North-Eastern Russia at a Scale of 1:2,500,000.
• The Polaris Project
• RAS Department of Earth Sciences Program No. ONZ-11.7. Geotemperature Field and Permafrost Dynamics in Northern Eurasia. Evaluation of Current Rates of Permafrost Dynamics in the Continental and Shelf Areas of Northern Eurasia. Part 2. Evaluation of Current Rates of Permafrost Dynamics in the Shelf Areas of Northern Eurasia.
• Core Project VII.63.2.4. The Structure and State of Permafrost in Northern Asia under a Changing Climate and Anthropogenic Impacts.

• Public Contract with the Government of Sakha/Yakutia, 2011-2013. Engineering Geology Mapping of the Republic of Sakha/Yakutia at a Scale of 1:1,500,000.

• Arctic Coastal Dynamics Project

Selected Publications

Are, F. E., M. N. Grigoriev, H. W. Hubberten & V. Rachold (2005) Using thermoterrace dimensions to calculate the coastal erosion rate. Geo-Marine Letters, 25, 121-126.

Are, F., E. Reimnitz, M. Grigoriev, H. W. Hubberten & V. Rachold (2008) The influence of cryogenic processes on the erosional arctic shoreface. Journal of Coastal Research, 24, 110-121.

Dmitrenko, I. A., S. A. Kirillov, L. B. Tremblay, H. Kassens, O. A. Anisimov, S. A. Lavrov, S. O. Razumov & M. N. Grigoriev (2011) Recent changes in shelf hydrography in the Siberian Arctic: Potential for subsea permafrost instability. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 116.

Grigoriev M. N., Rachold V., Schirrmeister L. (2003): Organic carbon input to the Arctic Seas through coastal erosion. In: The organic carbon cycle in the Arctic Ocean: present and past. Edited by R.Stein and R.W.Macdonald. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 45 pp. 

Grigoriev M.N. & V. Rachold (2003). The degradation of coastal permafrost and the organic carbon balance of the Laptev and East Siberian Seas. In: Permafrost: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Permafrost, 21-25 July 2003, Zurich, Switzerland. Volume 1 (Edited by Marcia Phillips, Sarah M. Springman & Lucas U. Arenson). A.A. Balkema Publishers, pp. 319-324.

Grigoriev, M.N., Rachold, V., Bolshiyanov, D.Y., Pfeiffer, E.-M., Schirrmeister, L., Wagner, D., and Hubberten, H.-W. (eds.) (2003) Russian-German Cooperation SYSTEM LAPTEV SEA: The Expedition LENA 2002. Reports on Polar and Marine Research. 466, 341 pp.

Günther F., P.P. Overduin, A.V. Sandakov, G. Grosse, M.N. Grigoriev (2012). Thermo-Erosion along the Yedoma Coast of the Buor Khaya Peninsula, Laptev Sea, East Siberia. In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Permafrost, Salekhard, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, Russia, June 25–29, 2012. Vol. 1: International Contributions (ed. K.M. Hinkel). Salekhard: The Northern Publisher, pp. 137 -142.

Junker, R., M. N. Grigoriev & N. Kaul (2008) Non-contact infrared temperature measurements in dry permafrost boreholes. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 113.

Lantuit, H., D. Atkinson, P. P. Overduin, M. Grigoriev, V. Rachold, G. Grosse & H. W. Hubberten (2011) Coastal erosion dynamics on the permafrost-dominated Bykovsky Peninsula, north Siberia, 1951-2006. Polar Research, 30.

Lantuit, H., P. P. Overduin, N. Couture, S. Wetterich, F. Are, D. Atkinson, J. Brown, G. Cherkashov, D. Drozdov, D. L. Forbes, A. Graves-Gaylord, M. Grigoriev, H. W. Hubberten, J. Jordan, T. Jorgenson, R. S. Odegard, S. Ogorodov, W. H. Pollard, V. Rachold, S. Sedenko, S. Solomon, F. Steenhuisen, I. Streletskaya & A. Vasiliev (2012) The Arctic Coastal Dynamics Database: A New Classification Scheme and Statistics on Arctic Permafrost Coastlines. Estuaries and Coasts, 35, 383-400.

Nikiforov, S. L., Y. A. Pavlidis, V. Rachold, M. N. Grigoryev, F. M. Rivkin, N. V. Ivanova & M. M. Koreisha (2005) Morphogenetic classification of the Arctic Coastal Zone. Geo-Marine Letters, 25, 89-97.

Overduin P.P., M. Grigoriev, F. Günther, S. Wetterich, A. Makarov (2012). The rate of subsea permafrost degradation in the 25 years following coastal erosion at Muostakh Island, Laptev Sea. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Permafrost, Salekhard, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, Russia June 25–29, 2012. Vol. 4, Extended Abstracts. Tyumen, Ekaterinburg: The Fort Dialog-Iset Publisher, pp. 435-436.

Pavlidis, Y. A., I. O. Leont'ev, S. L. Nikiforov, F. Rahold, M. N. Grigor'ev, S. R. Razumov & A. A. Vasil'ev (2007) General forecast of the evolution of the coastal zone of the Eurasian Arctic seas in the 21st century. Oceanology, 47, 116-126.

Rachold V., M. Lack & M.N. Grigoriev (2003). A Geo Information System (GIS) for Circum-Arctic coastal dynamics. In: Permafrost: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Permafrost, 21-25 July 2003, Zurich, Switzerland. Volume 2 (Edited by Marcia Phillips, Sarah M. Springman & Lucas U. Arenson). A.A. Balkema Publishers, pp. 923-927.

Rachold, V., M. N. Grigoriev, F. E. Are, S. Solomon, E. Reimnitz, H. Kassens & M. Antonow (2000) Coastal erosion vs riverine sediment discharge in the Arctic Shelf seas. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 89, 450-460.

Razumov S.O. (2011). Modeling of geological cryogenic processes under changing natural and technogenic conditions [in Russian with an English abstract]. Permafrost Engineering, Proceedings of the IX International Symposium, 3-7 September 2011, Mirny, Russia (ed. R.V. Zhang). Yakutsk: Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS Press, pp. 121-126.

Razumov, S. O. 2003. Coastal cryogenic processes and carbonate balance of the coastal waters of eastern Arctic seas in the light of a changing climate.

Razumov, S.O. (2010) Permafrost as a factor of the dynamics of the coastal zone of the Russian East Arctic Seas. Oceanology, 50, 262-267.

Romanovskii, N. N., H. W. Hubberten, A. V. Gavrilov, V. E. Tumskoy, G. S. Tipenko, M. N. Grigoriev & C. Siegert (2000) Thermokarst and land-ocean interactions, Laptev Sea Region, Russia. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 11, 137-152.

Safronov, A. F., E. Y. Shits, M. N. Grigor'ev & M. E. Semenov (2010) Formation of gas hydrate deposits in the Siberian Arctic shelf. Russian Geology and Geophysics, 51, 83-87.

Sandakov A.V., M.N. Grigoriev, F. Günther, P. Overduin (2012). The Wash-Out of Organic Carbon from Degrading Shores and its Distribution at the Under-Water Coastal Slope (the Buor-Khaya Peninsula, the Laptev Sea). Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Permafrost, Salekhard, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, Russia June 25–29, 2012. Vol. 4, Extended Abstracts. Tyumen, Ekaterinburg: The Fort Dialog-Iset Publisher, pp. 494-495.

Schirrmeister, L., G. Grosse, M. Schnelle, M. Fuchs, M. Krbetschek, M. Ulrich, V. Kunitsky, M. Grigoriev, A. Andreev, F. Kienast, H. Meyer, O. Babiy, I. Klimova, A. Bobrov, S. Wetterich & G. Schwamborn (2011) Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental records from the western Lena Delta, Arctic Siberia. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 299, 175-196.

Schirrmeister, L., G. Grosse, V. Kunitsky, D. Magens, H. Meyer, A. Dereviagin, T. Kuznetsova, A. Andreev, O. Babiy, F. Kienast, M. Grigoriev, P. P. Overduin & F. Preusser (2008) Periglacial landscape evolution and environmental changes of Arctic lowland areas for the last 60 000 years (western Laptev Sea coast, Cape Mamontov Klyk). Polar Research, 27, 249-272.

Schwamborn, G., V. Rachold & M. N. Grigoriev (2002) Late Quaternary sedimentation history of the Lena Delta. Quaternary International, 89, 119-134.

Siegert C., H.-W. Hubberten, L. Schirrmeister, S. Wetterich, P.P. Overduin, J. Boike, M.N. Grigoriev, V.V. Kunitsky, N.N. Romanovskii, V.E. Tumskoy, D.Yu. Bolshiyanov, G. Fedorov (2012). Joint Russian-German Research on Terrestrial and Subsea Permafrost in Siberia - Results, Potentials and Perspectives. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Permafrost, Salekhard, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, Russia June 25–29, 2012. Vol. 4, Extended Abstracts. Tyumen, Ekaterinburg: The Fort Dialog-Iset Publisher, pp. 549-550.

Spector, V. B. & I. S. Vasiliev (2010) The negative temperature anomaly near the surface (Lenskie Stolby, republic of Sakha-Yakutia). Doklady Earth Sciences, 432, 708-709.

Spektor V. B., Spektor V. V., Bakulina N. T. (2011). Buried snow on the Lena-Amga Rivers plain. Earth’s Cryosphere, Vol. XV, no. 4: 16–20.

Spektor V., Kerchengolts B., Lifshitz S., Spektor V. (2010). Interaction between hydrosphere and atmosphere in a carbonate-methane system of the planetary climate. In: The Application of Technologies for the Conservation of Nature in Cold Regions: Materials of the IX International Symposium on Cold Regions Development, June 1-5, 2010, Yakutsk, Russia.

Spektor V., Torgovkin Y., Zhang R., Shestakova A., Spektor V. (2009). Spatial Distribution of Main Engineering-Geological Groups of Frozen Ground and Related Geological Processes in Yakutia. In: Recent Development of Research on Permafrost Engineering and Cold Region Environment, Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Permafrost Engineering, 15-17 October 2009, Xi’an, China (eds. Ming Huo, Wei Ma and Fujun Niu). Lanzhou: Lanzhou University Press, рp. 324-326.

Spektor V.B., V.V. Spektor, and N.T. Bakulina  (2008). New Data on the Ice Complex of the Lena-Amga Rivers Plain (Central Yakutia). In: Kane, D.L. & Hinkel, K.M. (eds). Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, Volume 2. Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, pp. 1681-1684.

Spektor V.B., Ya.I. Torgovkin, V.V. Spektor, A.A. Shestakova (2012). Preliminary assessment of frozen ground stability and associated exploration hazards in the Russian Northeast. In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Permafrost, Salekhard, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, Russia June 25–29, 2012. Vol. 4, Extended Abstracts. Tyumen, Ekaterinburg: The Fort Dialog-Iset Publisher, pp. 565-566.

Spektor, V. B. & B. M. Kershengol'ts (2007) Carbonate geochemical model of the global climate. Doklady Earth Sciences, 416, 1118-1119.

Spektor, V. B. & V. V. Spektor (2009) Karst Processes and Phenomena in the Perennially Frozen Carbonate Rocks of the Middle Lena River Basin. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 20, 71-78.

Winterfeld, M., L. Schirrmeister, M. N. Grigoriev, V. V. Kunitsky, A. Andreev, A. Murray & P. P. Overduin (2011) Coastal permafrost landscape development since the Late Pleistocene in the western Laptev Sea, Siberia. Boreas, 40, 697-713.

Zhang R.V., V.B. Spektor, O.I. Alekseeva, Ya.I. Torgovkin, A.A. Shestakova, L.D. Ivanova, V.V. Spektor. (2011). Engineering and geocryological map of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and adjacent areas, scale 1:2,500,000 [in Russian with an English abstract]. Permafrost Engineering, Proceedings of the IX International Symposium, 3-7 September 2011, Mirny, Russia (ed. R.V. Zhang). Yakutsk: Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS Press, pp. 18-23.

Zhang R.V., V.B. Spektor, O.I. Alekseeva, Ya.I. Torgovkin, A.A. Shestakova, L.D. Ivanova, V.V. Spektor (2011). Engineering and geocryological map of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and adjacent areas, scale 1:2,500,000 [in Russian with an English abstract]. Permafrost Engineering, Proceedings of the IX International Symposium, 3-7 September 2011, Mirny, Russia (ed. R.V. Zhang). Yakutsk: Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS Press, 2011, pp.18-23.

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