At the Siberian Federal University, within the framework of the work of the world-wide scientific and educational center (REC) “Yenisei Siberia”, a meeting of the working group of an innovative project of national importance on taking into account the carbon budget was held. Natural ecosystems of Russia were regulated. The press service of the university reported this.
According to Sergei Verkhovets, director of the project office of the Yenisey Siberian Research Center, the task of the assembled experts is to develop a methodology for collecting and processing data using dynamic vibration methods, which will make it possible to determine the quantity. Heat and energy radiated from the local ecosystem. For example, emission and absorption: how much carbon dioxide this or that type of vegetation releases into the atmosphere and how much is taken from it into certain components of phytocenosis.
Academician Evgeny Vaganov, scientific director of the Siberian Federal University, emphasized the importance of creating a unified Russian database for carbon budget accounting that is constantly available to users. In his opinion, such a basis should be universal and should be used, among other things, to reach the level of international publications.
Vladimir Shishov, director of the Institute of Basic Biology and Biotechnology at the Siberian Federal University, said that last year scientists at the university tackled a new topic: forest climate projects.
“This is an understudied problem that requires the development of a regulatory framework, the development of uniform measurement methods and the verification of forest climate projects. In Siberia, especially in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, such projects can be very large and cover millions of hectares of forest – in this context “I would like to see a technique where mobile measurements, including those based on vortex vibrations, are inaccessible in regions,” he said.
SFU Vice-Rector for Research Ruslan Baryshev noted the special importance of environmental issues in SFU’s scientific environment.
“If you look at the Siberian Federal University and evaluate our qualifications, you will see that most of them are concentrated in the field of ecology and green economy,” Baryshev said.
He believes that studies in the field of carbon policy will contribute to the target model of the university and the development of the region.
The world-class climate research and education center “Yenisei Siberia” was founded in 2019. Its members include 28 scientific and educational organizations and enterprises in the real sector of the economy. The aim of the REC is to achieve global scientific and technological leadership in key sectors of specialization of the Yenisey Siberian economy and solve the problems of socio-ecological development of the regions.