Tomsk Polytechnic University contributes vigorously to the study of the Russian Arctic shelf, particularly to the Arctic climate system affected by the global warming. Scientists are studying the transport and transformation of organic carbon in the Arctic land-shelf-atmosphere system, massive emissions of methane from the bottom sediments of the Eastern Arctic seas into the water column-atmosphere interface.
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Contributions of TPU scientists in the area:
Dr. Maria Kirgina
Division for Chemical Engineering, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering
Prof. Igor Semiletov
Division for Geology, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering
Dr. Natalya Guseva
Head of the Division for Geology, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering
Dr. Alexey Ruban
Division for Geology, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering
- The East Siberian Shelf, lithology, geochemistry of sedimentary process, recent sedimentation, authigenic mineral formation, diagenesis, methane seeps.
- Current sedimentation processes in the Arctic seas.
Dr. Elena Gershelis
Division for Geology, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering
- Conditions that lay behind the accumulation, transport and transformation of terrestrial organic matter in the Arctic seas.
- Patterns by which organic carbon accumulates and transforms on the East Siberian Arctic Shelf.
- Patterns by which organic matter accumulates and transforms in the coastal areas along the Eastern Arctic seas.
- Clear definition of the mechanisms by which terrestrial organic carbon transfers and transforms on the East Siberian Arctic Shelf.