Institute for Water and Environmental Problems SB RAS

Papanintsev St. 105, Barnaul, 656099, Russia
Phone: 7(385-2) 36-78-55, Fax: 7(385-2) 24-02-47

Field Research Facility at the Novosibirsk Reservoir (NR FRF).
Limnological station.
Field Research Facility at Altai Mountains.
  Field Research Facility at the Novosibirsk Reservoir (NR FRF). Field Research Facility at the Novosibirsk Reservoir (NR FRF).
Location: Novosibirsk Research Centre of the Siberian Branch of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk (at the Novosibirsk Reservoir coast).

Purpose:
(i) Rivers, natural and man-made lakes: An environmental impact assessment.
(ii) Coastal dynamics and shore evolution including the following topics:
- Near-shore hydrodynamics.
- Swash zone dynamics.
- Sand transport processes and associated morphological changes.
- Internal structure and properties of the beaches.
- Large-scale modelling of sea level rise impact on the coastal environment.
- Assessment and evaluation of the shore protection techniques.
- Aquatic-terrestrial ecotones of natural and man-made lakes.

Characteristics:
- Two administrative and laboratory buildings.
- Warehouses and repair facilities.
- Marina, three research vessels, and two boats.
- Car and truck.

Special equipment:
- Wind direction and velocity meters.
- Wave sensors.
- Self recording current meters.
- Innovative optic back-scattering sensors (OBS) to measure suspended sediment concentration.
- Transverse suction samplers to collect suspended sediments from an arbitrary layer above the bed.
- Sediment traps.
- Sensors to measure the groundwater level fluctuations.
- Depth changes sensors.
- Core samplers to collect 20-cm cores of beach deposits.
- Video-camera - Panasonic SVHS, professional quality, to study waves, currents and the swash zone dynamics.
- Depth finder.
- GPS and land surveying equipment.
- Mobile platform and sledges for near-shore zone studies.
- Truck mounted field control and computing centre.

Uniqueness:
- A very large man-made lake (total volume is 8.8 cub km), so called Novosibirsk Reservoir, using as a large-scale natural model for coastal and environmental studies.
- Vicinity of scientific, engineering and social infrastructure of Academgorodok - Novosibirsk Research Centre of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk (10 minutes by car and 15 minutes by urban transport). Note. You are welcome to give measuring equipment for conducting joint field experiments (wave & tide recorders, electromagnetic and/or acoustic doppler current meters, OBS, core samplers, etc.) to compensate for renting a vessel and equipment.

  Limnological station. Limnological station. Field Research Facility at Lake Teletskoye
Lake Teletskoye, Head of the Ob river, Republic of Altai, Russia

The station is situated on the shore in the northern part of Lake Teletskoye.
The square - 10¦54¦0 m¦52¦0 (100m x 100m).
Large and deep lakes are unique objects for environmental research. They are indicators of atmospheric and hydrological conditions. Due to their huge volume, these lakes can accumulate information on the physical, chemical and biological processes resulting from natural and anthropogenic environmental changes. Because they are reservoirs of information, large lakes are the best objects for large-scale research on eutrophication, pollutants transport and paleoclimate.
In 1989, a program of long-term ecological study began. It includes the hydrophysical, hydrochemical, hydrobiological and paleolimnological investigations. The lake lies in 300 km to the east of the Semipalatinsk test site , and is in the proximity to agricultural areas of Middle Asia where intensive use of pesticides has been practised. As such, the sedimentary record of the lake should provide an excellent setting for examining the fate of radionuclides and other contaminants in aquatic system.
Under the International Program "Global Monitoring System" the Russian Hydrometeorology Committee established the station of complex environmental monitoring on the lake. The chemical and radiological monitoring of surface water, soil and precipitation is executed at this station.
As the unique natural object with long geological past, lake Teletskoye was included by the Institute of Limnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences to the Program on lakes history investigations.
Doctor Edd C. Carmack from the Institute of Ocean Sciences (Canada) suggested Lake Teletskoye, as well as other 26 lakes for immediate research within the World Lake Climate Study. This programme includes Lake Baikal and many famous American and African lakes.
Professor Jean Klerkx from the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren (Belgium) suggested to include the research on bottom profiles, chemical compositions of sediment, hydrothermal and hydrobiological characteristics of Lake Teletskoye in the International Programme CASIMIR. This programme is an international programme of comparative investigation of new tectonic and sedimentation processes in the rift lakes, including lakes Baikal, Tanganjica, Njasa and Issykkul. The investigations of Lake Teletskoye is also the part of the Program of the Altai International Centre for Humanities and Biospheric Researches (Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences)   Field Research Facility at Altai Mountains. Field Research Facility at Altai Mountains
Gorno-Altaisk biogeochemical base of IWEP SB RAS is located in Kyzyl-Ozek settlement (Altai Territory) in low-mountain forest zone of northern Altai. Investigations on biogeochemistry of heavy metals (Hg, Cd, Pb, Zn, V, Cr,Ni), arsenic, iodine, fluorine, selenium, artificial (Cs-137, Sr-90) and natural radionuclides are carried out. Alongside long-standing studies on mountain soils genesis and officinal plants introduction are executed.

The aim of investigation is to reveal regularities of chemical elements behaviour in mountain landscapes components (soils, plants, water, atmospheric air).