LABORATORY OF PERMAFROST GEOCHEMISTRY

Basic Research Topics

• Migration and concentration of chemical elements in undisturbed permafrost landscapes.
• Transfer and concentration of chemical elements in the areas of anthropogenic impact (industrial, agricultural and urban).

Address

Melnikov Permafrost Institute

Merzlotnaya St. 36

Yakutsk

Russia 677010

Phone: 7-4112-390-826

Email: makarov@mpi.ysn.ru

Staff

Active Projects

• Core Project VII.63.2.3. Geothermophysical and Geochemical Fields in North Asian Permafrost: Dynamics and Prediction of Future Changes. Part 4. Geochemical Processes in the Atmosphere-Surface System.
• Core Project VII.69.2.x: Multidisciplinary Studies of the Evolution of Permafrost Landscapes in East Siberia during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Part 3. Geochemical Fields in Permafrost Landscapes: Formation, Distribution and Practical Application.
• Contract with Yakutskenrgo Co. # 32/11. Reconstruction of the Temperature Monitoring Network of Boreholes at the Yakutsk Co-generation Plant.
• Collaborative Project with the Northern Hemisphere Cryosphere Program in Research Institute for Global Change of Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (NHCP/RIGC/JAMSTEC), 2010-2012. Snow Survey in Siberia (Yakutsk to Oymyakon).
• Northern Forum Project, Environmental Research and Monitoring of the Atmosphere and Oceans. Sub-Project, Acid Rain.

Selected Past Projects

• SB RAS Expedition Grant, 2011. Environmental Geochemistry of Diamond-Bearing Areas in the Permafrost Zone.
• SB RAS Expedition Grant, 2011. Snowcover Geochemistry in Taiga and Mountain-Taiga Landscapes of Eastern Yakutia.
• Project 24.4.2. Understanding and Predicting the Development of Physical and Geochemical Fields and Processes in Frozen Ground, 2005-2006.
• RAS Department of Earth Sciences, Program No. ONZ-13, Evolution of the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. Project 9. Snowcover – Terrain Relationships and Snowness Variations in the Siberian Taiga Zone and the South-Eastern Altay Mountains. Current Changes in Snowcover Chemistry in Northern Eurasia, 2010-2011.
• Public Contract with the Municipality of Yakutsk. Development of Geocryological Monitoring in Yakutsk.
• Collaborative Research Program with the Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Hokkaido University. Geochemical Study of Atmospheric Aerosols and Gases
• Collaborative Project with the Institute of Geography, University of Bremen, 2003-2005.. GIS Based Three-Dimensional Urban and Landscape Ecological Model and an Environmental Atlas for the Yakutsk Region, Eastern Siberia, as a Basis for Sustainable Land Use Planning and Development in a High Continental, Boreal Permafrost Determined, Urban and Rural Environment.
• Republic of Sakha/Yakutia Government Regional Program, Environmental Safety in Yakutia. Part 2.2. Geoenvironmental Monitoring of the Talakan-Vitim Oil Complex Area, 2003.
• Republic of Sakha/Yakutia Government Regional Program, Environmental Safety in Yakutia. Part 3. Environmental Monitoring and Rational Nature Management. Project, Operational Geochemical and Remote Monitoring of Emergency and Problem Situations, 2003.
• Public Contract #3/2002 with the Republic of Sakha/Yakutia Ministry of Environmental Protection, 2002. Development of a Control System for Transboundary Transport of Pollution in the Vilyui Region.
• Contract #22/07. Environmental Impact Assessment for the Timpton River Hydropower Development Project.
• Contract #23/07 with OOO Stroirezerv. Environmental Monitoring During the Construction Stage of the East-Siberia-Pacific Pipeline System, Aldan to Skovoridino Portion.
• Republic of Sakha/Yakutia Government Regional Programs. Project 9.19. Monitoring of Acid Precipitation, 2003-2007.
• Public Contract #1/2004 with the Republic of Sakha/Yakutia Ministry of Environmental Protection, 2004-2005. Monitoring of Environmental Contaminants in the Mirny Industrial District.
• RAS Presidium Program No. 13. Environmental and Climate Changes: Natural Disasters. Project 13.16, 2003-2005. 

Selected Publications

in English

Chizhuk A. L., Makarov V. N. (2009). The Influence of Urban Lakes on Suprapermafrost Water Chemistry. 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. 422-424.

Chizhuk A.L. (2010). The influence of urban lakes on suprapermafrost water chemistry. 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.

Christensen J., L. R. Hole, V. A. Ginzburg, V. Makarov, A. I. Polishok, T. Ruoho-Airola, A. Stohl, S. Wilson (2006). Sources of acidifying pollutants and arctic haze precursors. - 'Acidifying pollutants, Arctic Haze and Acidification in the Arctic', - - АМАР, Helsinki, Finland, 2006. Рр. 3 -13.

Fedoseev, N.F., Fedoseeva V.I., Nechaev E.A. (1983). On the Physicochemical Properties of the Surface of Dispersed Ice (Snow). In: Permafrost, Final Proceedings, Fourth International Conference, Fairbanks, Alaska, July 17-22, 1983, pp. 222-225.

Fedoseeva V. I., Streltsova O.A. (1993). The Temperature Effect on the Re-distribution of Microelements in the Soil Massif. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Permafrost, July 5-9, 1993, Beijing, China. South China University of Technology Press, pp. 865-868.

Fedoseeva V.I., Fedoseev N.F. (2012). Quasi-Liquid Films in Glacial and Frozen Systems. 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. 149-150.

Fedoseeva, V. I. & N. F. Fedoseev (2010) Sorption of molybdate anions by a quasi-liquid film on the surface of dispersed ice. Colloid Journal, 72, 583-585.

Fedoseyeva V.I. (1998). Experimental investigations of gold migration in frozen massifs. In: A.G. Lewkowicz, M.Allard (eds). Permafrost, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference, June 23-27, 1998, Yellowknife, Canada. Centre d’etudes nordiques, Universite Laval, Yellowknife, pp. 265-268.

Fedoseyeva V.I., Fedoseyev N.F. (2003). Migration of copper ions from an underlying substrate to the snowcover. 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. 245-248.

Fedoseyeva, V. I. & N. F. Fedoseyev (2003). Migration of copper ions from an underlying substrate to the snowcover. In: ICOP 2003 Permafrost: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Permafrost, 21-25 July 2003, Zurich, Switzerland, A.A. Balkema Publishers, vol. 1, pp. 245-248.

Grenfell, T.C., S.G. Warren, V.F. Radionov, V.N. Makarov, and S.G. Zimov (2009). Expeditions to the Russian Arctic to Survey Black Carbon in Snow. EOS, American Geophysical Union. Volume 90, number 43, pp. 386-387.

Hole L. R., V. N. Makarov, J. Ø. Odland, V. N. Vasilenko (2006). Concentrations and deposition of acidifying air pollutants.-'Acidifying pollutants, Arctic Haze and Acidification in the Arctic',-. АМАР, Helsinki, Finland, 2006. Рр. 14-42.

Hole Lars R., Jesper Christensen, Veronika A. Ginzburg, Vladimir Makarov, Natalia A. Pershina, Alla I. Polischuk, Tuija Ruoho-Airola, Peotr Ph. Svistov, and Vitaly N. Vasilenko (2006). Chapter 3, Concentrations and Deposition of Acidifying Pollutants. In: AMAP Assessment 2006: Acidifying Pollutants, Arctic Haze, and Acidification in the Arctic, pp. 11-30.

Kurita, N., A. Sugimoto, Y. Fujii, T. Fukazawa, V. N. Makarov, O. Watanabe, K. Ichiyanagi, A. Numaguti & N. Yoshida (2005) Isotopic composition and origin of snow over Siberia. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 110.

Makarov V. N. (1993). Technogenic Geochemical Fields in the Permafrost Zone on the Example of Yakutia. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Permafrost, July 5-9, 1993, Beijing, China. Vol. 1. South China University of Technology Press, pp. 911- 913.

Makarov V. N. (1996). Some Problems of Engineering Geochemistry in Cryolithozone. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Cold Regions Engineering, September 11-14, 1996, Harbin, China. University of Harbin Industry Technology Press, pp. 300-301.

Makarov V. N. (2003). Permafrost active layer as the concentrator of contaminants in northern regions. In: ICOP 2003: Permafrost. Extended Abstracts Reporting Current Research and New Information (Edited by Wilfried Haeberli & Dagmar Brandova). Glaciology and Geomorphodynamics Group, Geography Department, University of Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 99-100.

Makarov V. N. (2006). Soil salinization in northern urban areas is an engineering problem. Engineering Geology for Tomorrow's Cities, The 10th IAEG Congress, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 6-10 September 2006. Pр.277-281.

Makarov V. N. (2010). Assessment of atmospheric emissions from the Yakutsk GRES-2 project. 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.

Makarov V. N. and G. P. Levchenko (1998). Hydrogen Ion Concentration in the Precipitation and Snowpacks in Yakutia. Journal of Global Environment Engineering, vol. 4, pp.119-126.

Makarov V. N., Shats M. M. (2000). Geoecological Situation in an Airport on Permafrost. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Permafrost Engineering, 21-23 September 2000, Lanzhou, China, Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology, Vol. 22 Suppl., pp. 235-238.

Makarov V.N. (1988). Properties of geochemical fields in the permafrost zone. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Permafrost, August 2-5, 1988, Trondheim, Norway. Vol. 1 (Ed. Kaare Senneset), pp. 401-405.

Makarov V.N. (2004). Environmental Problems Related to Diamond Mining in Permafrost Areas - The Case History of the Anabar Placer Mine, North-Western Yakutia. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Permafrost Engineering, September 5-7, 2004, Lanzhou, China. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology, Vol. 26, Supplement Aug. 2004, pp. 257-262.

Makarov V.N. (2006). Monitoring of acid deposition in central Yakutia. Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research, Special Issue 59, pp. 116-126.

Makarov V.N. (2007). Atmospheric deposition fluxes of hydrogen, sulfur and nitrogen in Central Yakutia. – Proceedings of the Third International Conference “The Role of Permafrost Ecosystems in Global Climate Change”, 27-31 August 2006, Yakutsk.- Yakutsk: YSN Publishing House SB RAS, pp. 175-180.

Makarov V.N. (2010). Environmental geochemistry of urban areas in Yakutia. 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.

Makarov V.N., Fukasawa T. (2011). Temporal variation in anthropogenic nitrogen inputs to the active layer in Yakutsk, Russia. Journal of Global Environment Engineering. Vol. 16, pp. 11-17.

Makarov, V. N. & M. M. Shatz (2002). Permafrost and geoecological conditions in the Talakan-Vitim Oil Project area. In: Permafrost Engineering, Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium, 2-4 September 2002, Yakutsk, Russia, vol. 2 (ed. R.M. Kamensky). Yakutsk: Permafrost Institute SB RAS Press, vol. 2, pp. 22-27.

Makarov, V. N. (1983). Migration of Elements in Water in Taiga-Permafrost Landscapes. In: Permafrost, Final Proceedings, Fourth International Conference, Fairbanks, Alaska, July 17-22, 1983, pp. 253-258.

Makarov, V. N. (2002). Active layer modification and its effect on the infrastructure of Yakutsk. In: Permafrost Engineering, Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium, 2-4 September 2002, Yakutsk, Russia, vol. 2 (ed. R.M. Kamensky). Yakutsk: Permafrost Institute SB RAS Press, vol. 1, pp. 173-178.

Makarov, V. N. (2011). Geochemical landscape and endemic Viluyskiy encephalomyelitis (North-East Russian). 4th International Conference on Medical Geology. GEOMED2011. 20-25 September, Bari, Italy, pp. 123–125.

Makarov, V., Fukasawa, T., Ohta S. (2007). Variation of Atmospheric Aerosol Carbon Concentration in Yakutia. Journal of Global Environment Engineering, vol. 12, pp.87-96.

Nakagawa, F., N. Yoshida, Y. Nojiri & V. N. Makarov (2002) Production of methane from alassesin eastern Siberia: Implications from its C-14 and stable isotopic compositions. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 16.

Shangareeva, O. V., V. I. Fedoseeva & N. F. Fedoseev (2006) Determination of the specific surface area of FORUM fluoroplastic powder by the dye adsorption from solutions. Colloid Journal, 68, 651-653.

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