Subject: RS of Baikal lake - partnership proposition
From: "Sergey V.Semovskij"
Date: 13 Nov 1996 12:02:02 GMT
Dear colleagues,
I am going to leave my present place of work for the Baikal Region
"This is no ordinary lake. Baikal is the world's largest lake by volume,
holding 20% of all the earth's liquid fresh water! Four hundred miles
long and averaging about fifty miles wide, it is over one mile deep.
Moreover, the lake's bottom is a layer of sediment over five miles thick,
making the Baikal rift the earth's deepest non-oceanic trench."
(Text courtesy of NASA SeaWifs and Earth Island's
"http://www.earthisland.org/ei/baikal.html")
I am looking for people in the community who can have an interest in Baikal
RS studies partnership. The area of studies is (and as I know it's new for
the Baikal region) - to use satellite imagery available (CZCS, AVHRR, MOS
on IRS and "Priroda", OCTS and future SeaWiFS) for lake ecosystem studies -
three dimensional physical field and ecosystem simulation by surface data,
hydrodynamic and ecodynamic models coupling.
The possible sources of funds for cooperation can be for European - 1997
INTAS project (Russians need to have a 2-3 partners on the West to have a
support), INCO-COPERNICUS DGXII 1997 project and other possibilities.
I begin my activities now because as I know, I will have only e-mail
account in Irkutsk not such excellent Internet attempt as here in Poland.
Thank You in advance for contact
Yours
Sergey V.Semovski, Dr.
Institute of Oceanology, Sopot, Poland
URL http://www.iopan.gda.pl/~siergej