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Dynamics and History of the Laptev Sea and its Continental Hinterland: A Summary

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Land-Ocean Systems in the Siberian Arctic

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Russian and German scientists have investigated the extreme environmental system in and around the Laptev Sea in the Siberian Arctic. For the first time a major comprehensive research program combining the efforts of several projects addressed both oceanic and terrestrial processes, and their consequences for marine and terrestrial biota, landscape evolution as well as land-ocean interactions. The primary scientific goal of the multidisciplinary program was to decipher past climate variations and their impact on contemporary environmental changes. Extensive studies of the atmosphere, sea ice, water column, and sea-floor on the Laptev Sea Shelf, as well as of the vegetation, soil development, carbon cycle, permafrost behaviour and lake hydrology, and sedimentation on Taymyr Peninsula and Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago were performed during the past years under a framework of joint research activities. They included land and marine expeditions during spring (melting), summer (ice free), and autumn (freezing) seasons. The close bilateral cooperation between many institutions in Russia and Germany succeeded in drawing a picture of important processes shaping the marine and terrestrial environment in northern Central Siberia in Late Quaternary time. The success of the projects, which ended in late 1997, resulted in the definition and establishment of a new major research effort which will concentrate on establishing a better understanding of the paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental record of the area. This is important because it allows to be able to judge rates and extremes of potential future environmental changes.

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  1. GEOMAR Forschungszentrum für marine Geowissenschaften, Wischhofstrasse 1-3, D 24148, Kiel, Germany

    J. Thiede, H. A. Bauch, J. Hölemann & H. Kassens

  2. Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, State Research Center, 38 Bering St., 199226, St.Petersburg, Russia

    L. Timokhov, D. Y. Bolshiyanov, I. Dmitrenko, S. Pivovarov & S. Priamikov

  3. Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 903 Koyukuk Dr, P.O. Box 757320, AK 99775-7320, Fairbanks, USA

    H. Eicken

  4. Alfred-W’egener-Institut Polar- und Meeresforschung, Postfach 120161, D 27568, Bremerhaven, Germany

    J. Thiede, K. Fahl & R. Stein

  5. Lena-Delta State Reserve, 28 Fiodorova St., 678400, Tiksi, Yakutia, Russia

    A. Gukov

  6. Alfred-We gener-Institut Polar- Meeresforschung, Forschungsstelle Potsdam, Telegrafenberg A43, D 14473, Potsdam, Germany

    H.-W. Hubberten, M. Melles, V. Rachold & C. Siegert

  7. Institut für Polarökologie, Universität Kiel, Wischhofstrasse 1-3, D 24148, Kiel, Germany

    K. V. Juterzenka, M. Schmid & M. Spindler

  8. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Universitetskaya, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Y. Petryashov

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Thiede, J. et al. (1999). Dynamics and History of the Laptev Sea and its Continental Hinterland: A Summary. In: Kassens, H., et al. Land-Ocean Systems in the Siberian Arctic. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60134-7_52

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