FCIARctic’ research and expert services

FCIARctic has the staff, expertise and equipment for conducting the high-quality research and applied developments on a wide range of issues in the interests of industrial companies, small and medium-sized enterprises, state and municipal organizations, NGOs and individuals.

The Center employs over 260 researchers within units located directly in the Arctic Zone of Russia, in the cities of Arkhangelsk and Naryan-Mar, in the Primorsky district of the Arkhangelsk region.

High qualification of the FCIARctic’ employees is confirmed by hundreds of publications in highly rated Russian and foreign journals, dozens of Russian national patents, by accredited laboratories and certified research methods.

The contribution of the FCIARctic’ research teams to the economic, social and ethno-cultural development of the territories in the Russian North and the country as a whole has been marked by dozens of honorary state ranks and awards, grants from leading Russian and foreign scientific foundations, contracts with business companies in industries such as bio-resources processing, wood chemistry, environmental protection, mining, agriculture, preservation and effective use of cultural heritage.

The infrastructure includes the Center for Collective Use of Scientific Equipment «Critical Technologies of the Russian Federation in the Field of Environmental Safety of the Arctic», unique scientific installations «Arkhangelsk Seismic Network» and «Russian Museum of Biodiversity Centers», research and educational center «Monitoring of Natural and Technology-related Hazards in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Areas».

Currently the Center is preparing for a new step in modernization of its scientific and technological base: for 2020 it is planned to commission a new laboratory complex with modern equipment, which will increase the level and volume of research and development, expert analysis services, and innovative products.

• Services and expertise for geology and geophysics, extraction of mineral resources, industrial security
• Seismic monitoring and micro-zoning of territories, monitoring and diagnostics of critical engineering facilities.
• Geo-ecological monitoring in the areas of extraction industries, processing plants and oil pipelines, industrial centers.
• Monitoring the formation processes and forecasting changes in the radionuclide and chemical composition of potable and mineral groundwater, assessing the immunity of aquifers.
• Monitoring of the content of radionuclides in building materials, assessment and forecast of radon hazard in residential areas.
• Development of hydrologically correct DEMs and allocation of areas predisposed to the development of erosion.
• Exploration of solid minerals, incl. identification of diagnostic signs of kimberlite pipes and other minerals, including radioactive ones, by radio-geochemical data.
• Radiological studies of potable water intakes.
• Allocation and sorting of mineral deposits.
• Development of additional search criteria for oil and diamonds in DEMs and geodynamic settings.
• Search and justification of promising peat deposits and places for its processing, development of peat extraction methods.
• Services and expertise in ecology and bio-resources
• Preparation of integrated environmental survey and environmental impact assessment (EIA) reports.
• Development of information on species listed in the Red Book of the Arkhangelsk region and other regions.
• Monitoring and counting the populations of hunting animal species.
• Hydro-biological assessment of the status of water reservoirs.
• Studies of the species composition and resource potential of biological resources at test sites. Definition of pests and diseases of tree-shrub species in green spaces of cities.
• Development of recommendations on conservation of biodiversity on timber harvesting fields.
• Services for environmental safety
• Comprehensive biogeochemical assessment of the ecological status of environmental objects.
• Expert consulting services and environmental impact assessment.
• Monitoring of normalized organochlorine compounds in technological environments in pulp & paper industry.
• Monitoring the ecological status of continental and coastal aquatic ecosystems.
• Development of measures for land reclamation and environmental protection during industrial development of peat deposits.
• Monitoring processes controlling the biogeochemical carbon cycle and associated macro- and microelements in continental and coastal aquatic ecosystems.
• Monitoring and assessment of the radiation in natural environments and territories, forecasting of changes in the radio-ecological situation.
• Radio-ecological monitoring of oil & gas production facilities in areas of intensive development of mining and processing plants, assessment of the radiological status of the environment, population and personnel.
• Radio-geo-ecological surveys on the surfaces of deposits, dumps, mine workings, surface and underground waters, bottom sediments, soils, plants.
• Radiological surveys of protected natural areas, monitoring the migration and accumulation of radionuclides in natural objects and trophic chains, assessing the impact of potentially radiation-hazardous objects on the ecological state of protected areas and dose loads on biota.
• Radiation and environmental surveys in the construction and operation of buildings and structures.
• Analytical control of natural, groundwater and wastewater quality, analysis of the radionuclide composition of formation and associated waters.
• Analysis and control of eco-toxicants of natural and techno-genic origin in industrial facilities and the environment based on highly informative methods and systems.
• Evaluation of consumer properties of finished peat products for markets.
• Services for agriculture, agricultural management and food safety
• Agricultural breeding and seed production of crops, introduction of agricultural plants in the Arctic.
• Monitoring of vegetation cover and development of resource-saving technologies for improving and rational use of hayfields and pastures.
• Projects of the disturbed and oil-contaminated lands restoration.
• Assessment of the breeding value of animals, examination of the origin, physique, genetic and breeding quality of cattle and horses.
• Development of breeding and breeding systems for cattle and horses.
• Inventory of natural hayfields and pastures, compilation of natural and economic characteristics of forage lands, monitoring of the state of vegetation cover on the basis of soil, geo-botanical and agricultural surveys. Development of resource-saving technologies for improving and rational use of hayfields and pastures.
• Consulting on the automation of primary zoo-technical and pedigree accounting in agricultural enterprises and enterprises.
• Assessment of professional qualities and qualifications of agricultural workers.
• Analysis of documentary and archival materials on vegetable growing, land management, dairy cattle breeding, peat farming, hunting, crop production.
• Services in reindeer herding
• Ecological and epizootological, zoo-technical, geo-botanical monitoring in reindeer herding, improvement of methods for deep processing of reindeer husbandry products.
• Testing drugs of therapeutic and prophylactic action for use in reindeer husbandry and improving methods of methods and processing of drugs.
• Comprehensive assessment of reindeer populations and micro-populations, development of systems for breeding and breeding work with reindeers.
• Geo-botanical surveys and on-farm land management of deer pastures, development of projects for the restoration of disturbed and oil-polluted tundra.
• Improving the organization and working conditions of reindeer herders. Analysis of documentary and archival materials on reindeer herding, hunting and crop production in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
• Services in bio-medical field
• Biomedical and immunological examinations of the population living in extreme climatic conditions.
• Research and consulting services on regionalization of territories according to biomedical parameters.
• Monitoring and analysis of the nervous, cardiovascular, endocrine systems in the local, indigenous and alien populations in the Arctic and the North, including depending on the specifics of work and professional experience.
• Development of new promising means and methods of life support and management of adaptive metabolic reactions of the human body in extreme climatic conditions.
• Analysis of the reserve capabilities of the body at high latitudes and the development of methods for correcting physiological functions.
• Monitoring of human adaptation to special climatic conditions, immune responses to extreme climate and environmental conditions.
• Identification of the reserve capabilities of the physiological and adaptive functions of the body in changing conditions of the internal and external environment.
• Expertise and services in social sphere and humanities
• Sociological, architectural and ethnographic studies (field and desk).
• Identification and examination of cultural heritage sites, places of interest.
• Scientific and expert justifications for the preservation, museumfication, revaluation of monuments of traditional architecture and objects of ethno-cultural heritage for historical settlements, national parks, museums.
• Ethno-ecological examination.
• Research, expert and consulting services in political science, history, sociology and culture for public authorities, local self-government and economic entities.
• Applied economic analysis and historical-cultural evaluations.
• Archaeological research.

Contacts:

Galina ANTONOVSKAYA

Deputy director on Research

+ 7 8182 215 617

Andrey PODOPLEKIN

Deputy director on International Cooperation

+ 7 8182 287 636