Gorno-Altaisk & Aktash, Altai Mountains, RUSSIA
(August 8 - August 14, 2022)
40 years of Arctic and Alpine Mycology
Symposium organized by: Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
Co-organizer: Gorno-Altaisk State University (Gorno-Altaisk, Altai Republic, Russia)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
President:
Anton Shiryaev (Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg).
Local Organizers:
Babin Valery (Rector of Gorno-Altaisk State University, Gorno-Altaisk).
Secretary:
Henning Knudsen (Copenhagen University, Copenhagen);
Viсtor Mukhin (Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg);
Irina Gorbunova (Central Siberian Botanical Garden, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk);
Julia Khimich (Institute of North Ecological Problems, Kola Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Apatity);
Olga Shiryaeva (Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg);
Maria Sukhova (Gorno-Altaisk State University, Gorno-Altaisk);
Marina Levkina (Gorno-Altaisk State University, Gorno-Altaisk);
Juhani Paivarinta (Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki).
Here you can see the rules for Registration and preparation of Abstracts, the necessary documents for processing an Invitation for obtaining a Russian visa and Fees.
The symposium is held every four years in various regions of the Holarctic, where zonal and alpine tundra are common in order to study the systematic, ecology and biogeography of Arcto-Alpine fungi. The symposium was first held in 1980 in Barrow (Alaska, USA). It will be held in Russia for the second time: in 1996, the fifth symposium was held in the town Labytnangi (Yamal-Nenetsk Autonomous District) on the basis of the Arctic Research Station of Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Brach of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2022, participants of the ISAM11 will conduct research in the alpine tundra, as well as in the amazing cryo-arid tundra-steppes of Altai Mountains
Figure. Distribution of Altai Republic in Russia.
Past locations of ISAM
|
№ |
Place |
Country |
Year |
Number of participants |
|
1 |
Barrow, Alaska |
U.S.A. |
1980 |
25 |
|
2 |
Fetan |
Switzerland |
1984 |
28 |
|
3 |
Svalbard |
Norway |
1988 |
23 |
|
4 |
Lanslebourg |
France |
1992 |
26 |
|
5 |
Labytnangi |
Russia |
1996 |
31 |
|
6 |
Kangerlussuaq/Sisimut |
Greenland |
2000 |
23 |
|
7 |
Finse |
Norway |
2004 |
27 |
|
8 |
Beartooth Plateau, RockyMts. |
U.S.A. |
2008 |
25 |
|
9 |
Kevo, Lapland |
Finland |
2012 |
28 |
|
10 |
Mts. Hakusan & Sugadaira, Honshu |
Japan |
2016 |
24 |
|
11 |
Gorno-Altaisk & Aktash, Altai Mts. |
Russia |
2022 |
25 (expected) |
The usual number of participants in ISAM is 25 (see ISAM rules). The maximum number of participants (31) was in Labytnangi (Russia), which is explained by the participation of a large number of Russian mycologists in order to popularize the study of fungi in the Arctic regions.
The Altai mountains are in southern Siberia and form the major mountain range in the western Siberia biogeographic region and provides the sources of its greatest rivers – the Ob and the Irtysh. Three separate areas are inscribed: Altaisky Nature Reserve and a buffer zone around Lake Teletskoye; Katunsky Nature Reserve and a buffer zone around Mountain Belukha; and the Ukok Quiet Zone on the Ukok plateau. The total area covers 1,611,457 ha. The region represents the most complete sequences of altitudinal vegetation zones in central Siberia: steppe, forest-steppe, mixed forest, and subalpine vegetation to alpine vegetation. The Altai region represents an important and original center of biodiversity of mountain plant and animal species in northern Asia, a number of which are rare and endemic. The site is also an important habitat for endangered animal species such as the snow leopard.
The official language of the Symposium and Foray will be English.
The Opening Ceremony of ISAM 11 and plenary talks will be held August 3 at 10 a.m. in the main building of Gorno-Altaisk State University. ISAM_Venue (Room № 143, 2nd Floor, Lenkin Str., 2, Gorno-Altaisk town, Altai Republic). Here you can find an ISAM Scientific Program.
Here you can see the preliminary Schedule and program of excursions during ISAM, as well as the plan of pre- and post-symposium.