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Note: CONTENTS: Resolution. - Summary and resolutions. Joint Russian-American Seminar on Cryopedology and Global Change. - I. GEOGRAPHY, GENESIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF FROSTGENIC SOILS. - The placement of Cryosols in soil taxonomy / R. W. Arnold, H. Eswaran, E. Van den Berg, and P. Reich. - Principles of the Canadian Cryosols classification / C. Tarnocai. - Correlation of Russian, US, and Canadian classification systems for selected tundra and taiga soils (in N-E Russia) / G. Mazhitova, C. L. Ping, J. Moore, S. Gubin, S. Smith. - Classification of seasonally freezing soils by their thermal regime / D. A. Gilichinsky. - Development condition of Cryosols in alpine and ~la teau regions of Western China / Qiu Guoqing and Chen Guodong. - Cryogenesis and paleocryogenesis in soils of Mongolia / S. V. Maximovich. - Factoral-genetic systematization of Middle Siberia subarctics soils / Yu. I. Yershov. - Problems of genesis and classification of north taiga soils of the European Russia / G. M. Vtiurin. - Soils of Casey Station (Wilkes Land, Antarctica) / H.-P. Blume, M. Bölter. - Warm permafrost soils of Interior Alaska / J. P. Moore, D. K. Swanson, C. L. Ping. - Soil cover of river valleys of the Yamal Peninsula / F. G. Gafurov. - Soil-geobotanical characteristics of flood plains in the Eastern sector of the Arctics / S. V. Maximovich, A. N. Butsenko. - II. EVOLUTION OF FROSTGENIC SOILS. - Soil formation and cryogenesis on the Russian Plain during the last 125000 years / A. A. Velichko, T. D. Morozova, V. P. Nechayev. - Global change and soil formation in the Antarctic Region / J. G. Bockheim. - Micromorphology for diagnostics of the modern and paleocryosoils features / T. V. Tursina. - Design of an experiment to detect the effects of global change on soil development in the Southern Circumpolar Region / J. G. Bockheim, M. Bölter, I. B. Campbell. - Pyrogenesis and evolution of cryogenic soils / A. P. Chevychelov. - Evolution of soil and ground thermal state in permafrost in connection with contemporary global changes of climate / A. V. Pavlov. - Ill. PROPERTIES, PROCESSES AND REGIMES OF FREEZING SOILS. - Seasonal characteristics of thermal processes in tundra soils / B. E. Rydén. - Influence of winter freezing on the organic profile structure of Middle Sikhote-Alm soils / G. M. Minkowsky, S. A. Shoba. - Structure formation dynamics in tundra cryogenic non-gleyed soils (tundra cryozems) / S. V. Gubin. - Development of granular structure in surface horizons of strongly cryoturbated soils / C. A. S. Smith, C. A. Fox. - Seasonal soil freezing and hydrological processes on slopes / V. V. Demidov, V. E. Ostroumov, A. N. Butsenko, J. A. Nikitishena. - Redoximorphic features in permafrost soils / C. L. Ping, W. Lynn, C. A. S. Smith. - Hydrotermic regime of longseasonally freezing soils (exemplifered by irrigated leached chernozems) / I. V. Slesarev, N. A. Shaporina. - Unfrozen water types in frozen soils / V. E.Ostroumov. - Chemical and physical features of the active layer as related to landslides on Yamal Peninsula / M. Leibman, F. Rivkin, I. Streletskaya. - Specificity of the phase transformations in the cryogenic saline sandy soils / A. D. Frolov, I. V. Fediukin, A. S. Pavlov. - IV. MICROORGANISMS, ORGANIC MATTER, BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY AND GAS FUNCTION OF FREEZING SOILS. - Microflora of acid organogenic soils in the mountainous subarctic region of North-Eastern Asia / I. B. Grishkan, D. I. Berman. - Determination of the amount of carbon in highly cryoturbated soils / J. M. Kimble, C. Tarnocai, C. L. Ping, R. Ahrens, C. A. S. Smith, J. Moore, W. Lynn. - Humus accumulation and soil formation in Svalbard / J. Lag. - δ13C-Analysis of permafrost soil samples of NE-Siberia / E.-M. Pfeiffer, H. Janssen. - New techniques in stadying humic substances in permafrost soils / C. L. Ping, R. L. Malcolm, G. J. Michaelson. - The pool and renovation time of soil carbon in northern taiga and tundra of European Russia / A. E. Cherkinskiy, S. V. Goryachkin. - Soil biological activity and transformation of organic matter during winter / B. Zolotareva, T. Demkina. - Seasonal emission of methane from the active layer of organic tundra soils-scale and controlling factors / T. Christensen. - Carbon dioxide behaviour in cryogenic soils of North-Eastern Asia / D. G. Fedorov-Davydov. - The CO2 monitored fluxes from northern terrestrial ecosystems / S. A. Zimov, S. P. Davydov, Yu. V. Voropayev, S. F. Prosyannikov, I. P. Semiletov.