Russian-German Cooperation: Laptev Sea System : [2. Workshop Russian-German Cooperation: Laptev Sea System

• Main Authors: Kassens, Heidemarie, Piepenburg, Dieter, Thiede, Jörn, Timokhov, Leonid, Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang, Priamikov, Sergey M.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polarforschung 1995
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Delta Island; Laptev Sea; Pacific; Berichte zur Polarforschung; Ice; laptev; lena delta; permafrost; Polarforschung; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/28058/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/28058/1/Kassens-etal_BerPolarforsch-176-1995.pdf

PREFACE : The Laptev Sea System The Arctic Ocean, in particular the wide Eurasian shelf seas comprise some of the most sensitive elements of the global environment which are believed to respond at a very early time to Global Change. The renewed interest in the Arctic, the large scale international research efforts devoted to the Arctic, as well as the presently available new technology to carry out research in ice-infested areas, have opened many new avenues to conduct investigations On the variability of the depositional environments of the Eurasian shelf seas. The Laptev Sea is of particular importance in the string of the Eurasian shelf seas because feeding the Transpolar Drift of the Arctic sea-ice Cover it exports relatively the largest amounts of sea ice into the Open Arctic Ocean, because it is farthest away from the influence of the Atlantic and Pacific waters, and because it is under the influence of rapidly changing fresh water fluxes from the Siberian hinterland (Fig. 1, Sea ice drift paths in the Arctic Ocean). The morphology of the seafloor, the rapidly changing coast lines of the fragil Lena Delta Island frame work as well as the presence of submarine permafrost are examples for the dynamics of the entire Laptev Sea System. - Fig. 1 - In order to address the natural properties of the Laptev Sea System a joint research project is carried out between a number of Russian and German research institutions under the framework of the "Laptev Sea System Project" (Fig. 2, Research institutions under the framework of the "Laptev Sea System Project"). Every year expeditions are carried out in the area on Russian or German research vessels where multi-disciplinary and binational working groups are addressing some of the identified scientific themes. Results from these joint investigations are then discussed in a series of RussianIGerman workshops which are held alternatively in Russia or Germany. The second workshop 'Russian-German Cooperation: Laptev Sea System' was held in November 1994 in St. Petersburg in ...