The scientific community of the RS Academy (Ya) on the problems of biological safety in Yakutia

In recent years, the scientific community and the authorities of the country have attached special importance to the issues of biological safety. Global climate change may entail concomitant changes in water temperature, hydro regime. Low temperatures of permafrost rocks can ensure the long-term preservation of microorganisms in them, their accumulation. All this creates favorable conditions for the spread of pathogenic organisms from the south to the north. Within the framework of these issues , a workshop on biological safety in Yakutia was held at the Academy of Sciences.

Nikita Gavrilovich Solomonov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the RS Academy of Sciences (Ya), delivered the main report. He informed the meeting by telling examples about the problems of biological safety of Yakutia.

The resolution of the meeting stressed the importance of the presence in Yakutia of laboratories for monitoring biological safety, regarding intoxicants and viruses, which must be justified at the OUS and then the Presidium, with a decision to submit the issue to the Republican parliament.

On January 18, 2023, a workshop was also held on the organization of an international conference on climate change and permafrost melting within the framework of a significant scientific forum. It considered the preparation of an international conference on Climate change and permafrost melting within the framework of the overall architecture of the forum. The meeting heard information from the Director of the IMZ SB RAS M.N. Zheleznyak. He noted:

This conference is scheduled to be held in Yakutsk on March 22-24, 2023. Scientific directions of the conference:

  1. The current state and dynamics of the continental and subaqual cryolithozone.
  2. Thermal and mechanical interaction of natural and technical systems in the cryolithozone. Construction and survey technologies in the North.
  3.  Stability of permafrost ecosystems. Cryogenic processes and phenomena. Cryolithozone of urbanized territories.

The event should be held under the auspices of Roscongress. The working title of the conference "Sustainability of natural and technical systems of the cryolithozone in the conditions of climate change" is proposed. The program committee of the conference works under the auspices of the Academy of Sciences. Approximately 60 scientists from Russia and abroad are expected to participate.

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