NEW PERMAFROST AND GLACIER RESEARCH -- NEW PERMAFROST AND GLACIER RESEARCH -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PERMAFROST -- GEOTECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE IN MOUNTAIN PERMAFROST -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MOUNTAIN INFRASTRUCTURE AND ALPINE PERMAFROST -- SOME ASPECTS OF ALPINE PERMAFROST HYDROLOGY -- GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF ALPINE PERMAFROST -- GEOTHERMAL CONSIDERATIONS IN ALPINE PERMAFROST -- DESIGN PROCESS -- SITE INVESTIGATION -- LABORATORY TESTING -- MONITORING OF ENVIRONMENT AND STRUCTURE -- CONSTRUCTION CHALLENGES IN MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTS -- CASE HISTORIES, PROBLEMS AND TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PERMAFROST MODELING IN WEATHER FORECASTS AND CLIMATE PROJECTIONS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORY OF SOIL PHYSICS -- SIMULATING FROZEN GROUND -- UNCERTAINTY IN PERMAFROST MODELING -- SIMULATING WILDFIRE IMPACTS -- CHALLENGES -- EVALUATION -- FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIA IN PERMAFROST: ISOLATION, BIODIVERSITY, PHENOTYPIC AND GENOTYPIC ANALYSIS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- СHARACTERIZATION OF PERMAFROST SEDIMENTS -- ISOLATION AND PRIMARY CHARACTERIZATION OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT STRAINS FROM PERMAFROST -- STUDY OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE SPECTRUM OF PERMAFROST STRAINS -- LOCALIZATION OF RESISTANCE DETERMINANTS IN GENOMES OF PERMAFROST STRAINS -- IDENTIFICATION OF RESISTANCE DETERMINANTS IN PERMAFROST BACTERIAL STRAINS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE RECENT PERMAFROST IN NORTH-WESTERN CANADA AND THE PLEISTOCENE RELICT CRYOGENIC FORMS IN CENTRAL EUROPE (HUNGARY) -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DISTRIBUTION OF PERMAFROST IN CANADA -- CRYOGENIC FEATURES IN CANADA -- DESCRIPTION OF SITES IN HUNGARY -- RELICT CRYOGENIC FORMS IN HUNGARY -- CRYOGENIC FEATURES AND THEIR IMPLICATION FOR PALAEOCLIMATE -- CONCLUSION.

REFERENCES -- PERIGLACIAL LANDFORMS AND PROCESSES ON DISKO ISLAND, GREENLAND -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- STUDY AREA -- ROCK GLACIERS -- PINGOS -- PERIGLACIAL WEATHERING PROCESSES -- PATTERNED GROUND AND ACTIVE LAYER PHENOMENA -- FLUVIAL AND COASTAL LANDFORMS AND PROCESSES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- MOUNTAIN PERMAFROST DEGRADATION IN THE NEPAL HIMALAYAS AND THE RUSSIA ALTAI MOUNTAINS -- ABSTRACT -- PERMAFROST STUDIES IN NEPAL HIMALAYAS -- KHMBU HIMAL -- MEASUREMENTS OF GROUND TEMPERATURE LAPSE RATES AT 50-CM DEPTH AND PIT SURVEYS -- THE LAPSE RATE CHANGE OF THE GT50 IN 1973 AND 2004 -- FINDING OF THE FROZEN LAYER -- PERMAFROST DEGRADATION BETWEEN 1973 AND 2004 -- PERMAFROST STUDIES IN RUSSIA ALTAI -- THE SOUTH CHUYSKIY RANGE -- PHENOMENA RELATED TO PERMAFROST DEGRADATION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- GLACIERS -- THE FORMER GLACIATION OF HIGH- (TIBET) AND CENTRAL ASIA AND ITS GLOBAL CLIMATIC IMPACT - AN ICE AGE THEORY WITH A REMARK ON POTENTIAL WARMER CLIMATIC CYCLES IN THE FUTURE -- SHORT ABSTRACT -- EXTENDED ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EMPIRICAL DATA -- 3. SYNOPSIS OF THE EXTENT OF THE INLAND-ICE IN TIBET SINCE THE EARLIEST LGP -- 4. THE TIBET PLATEAU - A STABILIZING FACTOR FOR THE CLIMATE SYSTEM -- 5. START AND END OF WARM CLIMATES -- 6. OPEN QUESTIONS, SIMULATION DESIGN AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- FUNGI IN HIGH ARCTIC GLACIERS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. FUNGI IN POLAR REGIONS -- 2. GLACIAL ICE AS POTENTIAL ECOLOGICAL NICHES FOR XEROTOLERANT/ HALOTOLERANT FUNGI -- 3. COLLECTION OF SAMPLES, ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF FUNGI FROM HIGH ARCTIC GLACIERS -- 4. PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PARAMETERS AT THE ISOLATION SITES -- 6. DIVERSITY OF FUNGI -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE EXPANSION OF SUPRAGLACIAL LAKES IN THE HIMALAYAS: ITS HISTORY AND MECHANISMS -- ABSTRACT.

INTRODUCTION -- STUDY SITES AND OBSERVATIONS -- OBSERVATIONAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF WIND -- NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF LAKE CURRENTS PREPARATION -- SIMULATED RESULTS -- CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- SURGE-TYPE GLACIERS ON DISKO ISLAND, GREENLAND -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- STUDY AREA -- METHOD -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.