C budget of Ecosystems, Cities and Villages on Permafrost in the Eastern Russian Arctic

COPERA

Call

  • Arctic 1

Project Website

Principal Investigator

Atsuko Sugimoto, Hokkaido University, Japan

Partners

Takeshi Ohta, Nagoya University, Japan Mikhael Prisyazhny, North-Eastern Federal University, Russia Rikie Suzuki, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan Kenji Yoshikawa, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, United States

Funders

Project Objective

The environmental impacts of population and emissions growth in this environmentally vulnerable region and the need for viable low carbon energy solutions for Arctic residents drive the COPERA project. The research team will establish a permafrost, hydrological, and meteorological observing network in cooperation with local communities to estimate CO2 sequestration by the permafrost ecosystem (tundra and taiga) and CO2 emissions from cities and villages.

Call Objective

Through this Call for Proposals on Arctic Observing and Research for Sustainability, the Belmont Forum seeks to bring together integrated teams of natural scientists, social scientists, and stakeholders to develop projects that utilize existing Arctic observing systems, data sets and models to evaluate key sustainability challenges and opportunities in the Arctic region across one or more of four possible themes.

Region

  • Asia

Country

Duration

57 months

Call Date

May 1, 2014

Project Award Date

2014