- to develop schemes of city territories
zoning according to the environmental
risks degree and biosphere and human
fragility,
- to develop models and systems for the
modelling of mesoclimate and pollution
transport in a typical city with a back-
ground of dynamically changing large-
scale processes.
educational strategy, the Centre initiated
and organised the multidisciplinary inter-
national Conference and Young Scientist
School CITES-2003 (Tomsk, September
1-10, 2003), which was supported by
grant of the EC 5
Committee of the International
Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.
Nearly 80 young researchers from
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan and Georgia gathered in
Tomsk to receive new knowledge on
recent achievements and major results
obtained in this quickly developing area.
All School participants received certifi-
cates and grades for practical work.
environmental science took place on
September 8-11, 2003. Besides the
School participants, more than 50
researchers from Russia, NIS and Europe
took part in this conference. Experts
working in this area reported on the most
recent results obtained by them and their
colleagues. Among the invited lecturers
were known scientists from abroad: Dr
Gerard Begni, Director of MEDIAS-
France, Martin Heimann (Germany), EC
project manager on the investigation of
the carbon cycle in Siberia, Dr Domenico
Anfossi (Italy), Senior Researcher of the
Instituto di Scienze dell'Atmosera e del
Clima, Prof. E. A. Zakarin (Kazakhstan),
Head of laboratory of the Institute of
Space Research.
ROMIS SSA project, an International
conference on Environmental
Observations, Modelling and Infor-
mation Systems ENVIROMIS-2004
2004) is being organised. The
Conference will be devoted to the
state-of-the-art and usage of mod-
ern environmental observation
techniques, computational and
information technologies for
assessment, modelling and miti-
gation of environment variations
under natural and anthropogenic
pressure including those caused
by Global Change. Invited lec-
tures will be presented by leading
NIS and European specialists,
which will allow young partici-
pants to get first-hand information
on hot topics of Environmental
Sciences. The Conference will
facilitate interdisciplinary co-
operation between young and
prominent researchers thus giving
a solid foundation of Earth
System study on global and
regional level as well.
detailed discussions of the clima-
tic Hot Spots recently detected in
Northern Eurasia. Being a region where
climate variations are most pronounced
and with potential influences on the
Earth System operation as a whole, it has
attracted recently the attention of a num-
ber of research and funding organisa-
tions, notably the Siberian Branch of
RAS, NASA, IGBP and FP6 ESD
Programme. A special 3-day workshop
"Towards the integrated multidisci-
plinary study of the Northern Eurasia cli-
matic Hot Spot" devoted to this theme is
included in the conference agenda. The
workshop will take place on July 23-25,
2004. It will bring together the scientific
community at large involving scientists
from the INTAS members and the NIS
with representatives of national and
international organisations in science,
industries and other groups relevant for
the aims of the workshop. Being
addressed to as one of the research prio-
rities of the FP6 ESD Programme, the
planned strategic scientific workshop
will engage the participants in in-depth
and forward-looking discussions about
the optimal ways to address scientific
research topics and potential areas of co-
operation, and aims to define future
scientific priorities to this end as well as
to identify research groups and projects
the ERA, or even into specific FP6
actions within this and other research
priorities. The workshop will be used to
present and to discuss relevant national
and international projects, notably
INTAS and FP5/FP6 projects. Among
those are FP5 projects SIBERIA 2 and
TCOS-Siberia. A particular effort will be
made to bring together contractors
involved in projects funded by the EC
Framework Programme, INTAS project
participants and participants of relevant
NIS projects, notably of SB-RAS funded
integrated projects on environmental
issues.
experts on Computational Information
Technologies for Environmental
Sciences will be organised in
Novosibirsk during March 2005.
research Institutes as well as with envi-
ronmentally oriented research organisa-
tions in NIS countries, including Belarus,
Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
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