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>From sgrishin@mail.primorye.ru Tue Feb 22 07:47:20 2000
From: "Sergei Grishin"
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Subject: FARREX botanical expedition
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 22:46:57 +1000
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Dear colleague,
We invite our colleagues from over the world to participate in expeditions of 2000 yr. in interesting areas of Russian Far East: Lesser Xingan Mts., Kamchatka and Kuril Islands, and Sikhote-Alin Mts.

We represent the group of Russian scientists, working in Russian Academy of Sciences and associated in Far East Association for Field Research and Exploration (FARREX). Members of FARREX have large field expirience (from 10 to 20 and more years) in wild, unpopulated countries of virgin nature. From 1992 to 1999 yr. many our colleagues had worked in our expeditions in Kamchatka, Kuriles, Primorye, Magadan, Sakhalin etc. Reports of Expeditions-1999 were placed in our site http://www.farrex.vtc.ru

Our plans for summer 2000 are following (all dates below are preliminary):

Lesser Xingan Mts.: 1 June - 25 June

Aim: investigate flora and vegetation on the contact of Siberian, Mongolian and Far Eastern monsoon flora and vegetation.

Transportation: to Blagoveshchensk by train from Vladivostok or Khabarovsk. In Lesser Xingan region: by truck and raft.

Kamchatka - Northern Kuril Islands: 1 July - 25 July

Aim: investigate flora and vegetation of active volcanoes, hot springs, and most high mountains in Far East.

Areas: volc. Avachinskiy (2751 m, Eastern Kamchatka), volc. Kluchevskoy (4850 m), Tolbachik, Mt. Ploskaya (4106 m, central Kamchatka) or most powerful volcanoes of Northern Kurils: Ebeco, Alaid and Chikurachki.

Transportation: to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy directly by air or via Vladivostok.

In Kamchatka: by truck, in Kurils by air (helicopter)

Sikhote-Alin Mts. 1 August - 25 August

Aim: investigate flora and vegetation along the altitude gradient from the highest top of Sikhote-Alin Mts. - Mt. Tardoki-Yani (2077 m), from alpine zone through subalpine and boreal spruce zones to cool temperate broad-leaved Korean Pine zone.

Transportation: to Khabarovsk directly by air or via Vladivostok. From Khabarovsk to Mt. Tardoki-Yani by helicopter and back by raft and truck.

Southern Primorie. 1 September - 25 September

Aim: investigate flora and vegetation in southernmost region of Russian Far East, richest in flora and vegetation, along altitude gradients and maritime-continental gradients.

Transportation: in area by truck.

Who can participate: botanists, ecologists, geographers and other specialists, students are welcomed. Volunteers are welcomed too.

Team: Typical field crew includes 5-6 Russian persons and up to 3-5 foreign colleagues may participate.

Need in more information? Please, contact Dr. Sergei Grishin: sgrishin@mail.primorye.ru

You can get also more information on WEB site http://www.farrex.vtc.ru/Layer2/E_2000.html

Please, inform your colleagues!


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