With funding from an FSI Meeting Give, I travelled to Russia this November to participate in the Stanford United States Russia Forum (BROWSE) Opening Up Conference. There, I consulted with my partners personally for the very first time, offered ongoing operate in at the Higher School of Business Economics in Moscow, and listened to comments on my job from Russian leaders in federal government, industry and academia.
Browse is the Stanford United States Russia Online forum, a program that brings students together to research subjects relevant to US-Russia collaboration. This year, I are just one of 4 members of the Climate and Environment Working Team. My partners are Ilya Stepanov (National Study College Higher College of Economics, Russia), Kirill Vlasov (Moscow State College, Russia), and Chelsea Cervantes de Blois (University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities, U.S.A.). We are researching the impacts of ice destruction above latitude neighborhoods in Alaska and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Northwestern Siberia.
The conference began in Moscow, where we offered our research to a target market of trainees, academics and government authorities at the National Study University Greater Institution of Economics. A highlight of our conferences in Moscow was the Environment and Atmosphere Team’s browse through to the Ministry of Foreign Matters, where we consulted with Vladimir Barbin, the Senior Arctic Authorities of the Russian Federation.
We then took a trip to the city of Tyumen in Western Siberia, and the close-by town of Yalutorovsk. We met with the Governor of Tyumen, Vladimir Yakushev.
A study highlight in Tyumen was our conference with environmental law scientist Elena Gladun at Tyumen State University to discuss her research study on oil and gas regulation in Siberia and its relation to our permafrost effects research study.
Our team returned from our meetings in Moscow and Tyumen with beneficial responses from the meeting and specialist meetings. Many Thanks to FSI Conference Give support, I made progression on my browse research together with my group friends in the Environment and Setting Working Group.
Written by Ellen Ward, Earth System Scientific research doctoral candidate at Stanford College. Ellen was awarded an FSI meeting grant for Loss 2017