9-00-2204: Development of theoretical grounds to regulate anthropogenic impact on North water ecosystems

- Leaders:
• Moiseenko T. I., Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Kashulin N. A., Doctor of Biological Sciences

- Main executives:
• Moiseenko T. I., Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Dauvalter V.A., Doctor of Geographical Sciences
• Ilyashuk B.P., Candidate of Biological Sciences
• Vandysh O.I., Candidate of Biological Sciences
• Kashulin N.A., Doctor of Biological Sciences
• Lukin A.A., Doctor of Biological Sciences

- Objectives - Development of informative integral criteria of water quality indices; assessment of biological effects of long-term sublethal impacts of pollutants and development of scientific grounds to use biological indicators to assess the level of industrial pollution of Arctic and Subarctic water reservoirs.

9-00-2205 Paleoecological reconstruction and forecast of global changes of environment and climate
- Leaders:
• Moiseenko T. I., Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Dauvalter V. A., Doctor of Geographical Sciences

- Responsible executive Ilyashuk B.P., Candidate of Biological Sciences
- Objectives – Development of methodology for paleoecological investigations of aquatic ecosystems giving grounds for indicator species of diatom algae and Chironomidae larvae.

Project «Long-term changes in biological diversity of water reservoirs of Lapland biosphere reserve as indicators of background changes»
Leader– Kashulin N.A., Doctor of Biological Sciences
- Partners – Lapland Biosphere Reserve
- Objectives - Formation of concepts of modern trends in changes of freshwater biodiversity in the European Subarctic under the impact of local and global environmental transformations as a scientific basis for forecast and conservation of species.

Project «Sustainable development of the Pechora region in changing environment and society» (SPICE) (EC grant «Copernicus», project No. ICA2-CT-2000-10018).
INEP KSC RAS Coordinator - Dauvalter V. A., Doctor of Geographical Sciences.

Laboratory of Aquatic Ecosystems Ecology of the INEP KSC RAS is a principal contractor and belongs to the investigation group «Pollution of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems», it coordinates the 5th item of the project «Water pollution based on investigation of surface water and bottom sediments».
- Partners – Biology Institute, Komi SC, RAS
Institute for Economics, Ural Branch, RAS
Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland
Forest Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland
University of Nottingham, UK
University of Aberdeen, UK
London University, UK
- Objectives – Assessment of water pollution (heavy metals, oil-products) in the Pechora region, including the total assessment of distribution and transport of pollutants through the Pechora river system into the Barents sea.