ISTC Executive Director, Norbert Jousten, attended the inauguration ceremony for the ZOTTO Tower in Siberia. The Tower will be used for atmospheric measurements related to global climate change research.

ISTC Project supports Global Climate Change Research

On 21 June, ISTC Executive Director, Norbert Jousten, attended the inauguration ceremony for the ZOTTO Tower in Siberia. The Tower will be used for atmospheric measurements related to global climate change research. 

Funding from the Max Planck Society / Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany enabled the building of a tall tower (300 meters) measurement site at Jenissej in Central Siberia. The site encompasses living quarters, laboratories, and has its own power supply. The construction of the Tower and its auxiliary buildings is the result of a number of years of collaborative work between German and Russian Institutes, in cooperation with the ISTC, and initial research takes place under the auspices of the ISTC Partner Program. 

The Tower will be used to gather measurements to test the hypothesis that significant trends in atmosphere-ecosystems exchange are occurring as a result of the past decade’s observed atmospheric warming. The Siberian measurements are paralleled by measurements at a tower station in North Bavaria, Germany.

The inauguration ceremony was attended by ISTC and senior representatives from the Max Planck Society / Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany, the Moscow Institute of Atmospheric Optics, as well as from the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science and the V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyask, which will be active on the ISTC project.