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Note: Contents: Preface / Wolf Dieter Blümel, Jörn Thiede and Ruth Narmann. - Acknowledgements. - Aims of the Leopoldina Symposium on Russian-German Cooperation in the Scientific Exploration of Northeastern Eurasia: A Personal and Eclectic View / Jörn Thiede. - Welcome Speech / Nikolay M. Kropachev. - Welcome Address / Wolf Dieter Blümel. - LEOPOLDINA LECTURE. - From Lomonosov to Modern Times: Eclectic History of Russian-German Cooperation in the Scientific Exploration of High Northern Latitudes / Jörn Thiede. - EXTENDED CONTRIBUTIONS. - Research Infrastructure in Northern Sibiria. - The Zotino Tall Tower Observatory (ZOTTO): Quantifying Large Scale Biogeochemical Changes in Central Siberia / Martin Heimann, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Jan Winderlich, Meinrat O. Andreae, Xuguang Chi, Christoph Gerbig, Olaf Kolle, Karl Kubler, Jost Lavric, Eugene Mikhailov, Alexey Panov, Sungbin Park, Christian Rodenbeck and Andrej Skorochod. - The New Arctic Research Station "Samoylov Island" in the Lena Delta: Prospects of Joint Russian-German Studies / Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten and Mikhael N. Grigoriev. - Methods of Radiochronology of Quaternary Sediments: Modern Approaches and Results of Studies / Vladislav Y. Kuznetsov. - SESSION 1. - Summary. - Environmental Change in Northern Eurasia in Real Time / Session Chair: Jörn Thiede. - Sedimentation history in the Lena Delta, Northern Siberia / Georg Schwamborn, Volker Rachold, Mikhail Grigoriev and Matthias Krbetschek. - Hydrology of the Lena River Delta / Irina V. Fedorova, Antonia A. Chetverova, Dmitry Yu. Bolshiyanov, Aleksandr S. Makarov, Julia Boike, Anne Morgenstern and Birgit Heim. - Advanced process-based hydrological modelling as an effective tool for assessment of changes of the Arctic Environment in different temporal and spatial scales / Olga Semenova and Lyudmila S. Lebedeva. - Shelf-basin exchange in the Laptev Sea in the warming climate: the joint roles of atmospheric forcing and hydrography / Vladimir Ivanov, Ekaterina Chernyavskaya, Pavel Maslov, Yevgeny Aksenov and Beverly Cuevas. - Distribution of sea ice derived brine signals from the Siberian shelf area based on stable oxygen isotope and salinity data / Irina Semeryuk and Dorothea Bauch. - SESSION 2. - Summary. - Continental Siberia: dynamics of permafrost landscapes and carbon fluxes / Session Chair: Mikhael N. Grigoriev. - Genesis and age of pingo structures in the Lena Delta, Northeast Siberia / Anna A. Urban. - Content and distribution of trace metals in permafrost-affected soils of Northern Siberia, Russia / Iulia Antcibor, Annette Eschenbach, Lars Kutzbach, Dmitry Bolshiyanov and Eva-Maria Pfeiffer. - Carbon stocks in permafrost-affected soils in the Lena River Delta / Sebastian Zubrzycki, Alexey R. Desyatkin, Lars Kutzbach and Eva-Maria Pfeiffer. - Microbial methane driving processes in Siberian Arctic and Sub-Arctic cryosols / Svetlana Evgrafova and Dirk Wagner. - The latest tectonic movements in key areas on the coasts and islands of the Laptev Sea / Alisa V. Baranskaya. - Erosion rates and terrigenous sediment fluxes in the Lena Delta Region (East Siberian Arctic) / Mikhail N. Grigoriev. - Nitrogen availability, turnover and limitation in permafrost affected soils of Samoylov Island in the Lena Delta, Northeast Siberia / Tina Sanders, Claudia Fiencke and Eva-Maria Pfeiffer. - Sedimentological studies of high latitude lake sediments aimed at palaeoenvironmental reconstructions: an example from the Lena Delta Hinterland / Polina S. Vakhrameeva, Boris K. Biskaborn, Dmitry Yu. Bolshiyanov, Bernhard Diekmann, Larissa A. Savelieva and Dmitry A. Subetto. - Palynological characteristics of lower Yenisey quaternary deposits / Valentina A. Chetverova, Luda G. Derevyanko and Evgeny A. Gusev. - SESSION 3. - Summary. - The paleoenvironmental history of Siberian permafrost landscapes / Session Chair: Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten. - Vegetation history of the lower Lena River from pollen records of lake sediments / Larissa Savelieva, Dmitry Yu. Bolshiyanov, Ulrike Herzschuh, Polina S. Vakhrameeva, Boris Biskaborn and Bernhard Diekmann. - Climate and vegetation of late pleistocene in the east Siberian Arctic based on pollen data from Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky Island / Natalya A. Rudaya, Andrei Andreev, Sebastian Wetterich and Lutz Schirrmeister. - Evolution of thermokarst lakes and alasses in the ice-rich permafrost of the Lena River Delta / Anne Morgenstern, Frank Günther, Mathias Ulrich, Irina V. Fedorova, Natalya A. Rudaya, Julia Boike and Lutz Schirrmeister. - Late pleistocene and holocene vegetation history deduced from palynological investigations of the permafrost records of the El'gygytgyn impact crater / Elena Raschke, Andrei Andreev, Grigory Fedorov, Georg Schwamborn and Lutz Schirrmeister. - Tracking environmental change using invertebrate bioindicators from the lakes of Yakutia (Siberia, Russia) / Larisa B. Nazarova, Oleg N. Tumanov, Ulrike Herzschuh, Larisa A. Frolova and Lyudmila A. Pestryakova. - Palaeoenvironmental investigations and reconstructions in Northern Russia using subfossil Cladocera (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) / Larisa A. Frolova, Liliya I. Gafiatulina, Larissa B. Nazarova and Sebastian Wetterich. - SESSION 4. - Summary. - Siberian shelf seas and the adjacent Arctic Ocean / Session Chair: Heidemarie Kassens. - Oceanography of the Laptev Sea / Bennet Juhls, Sergey A. Kirillov, Jens Hölemann, Leonid A. Timokhov, Heidemarie Kassens, Birgit Heim, Andrey Novikhin and Markus Janout. - Summer sediment transport dynamics on the Laptev sea shelf (Siberian Arctic) / Carolyn Wegner, Kerstin Wittbrodt, Dorothea Bauch, Jens A. Hölemann, Markus Janout, Andrey Novikhin, Birgit Heim, Sergey Kirillov, Heidemarie Kassens and Leonid Timokhov. - Living and fossil microalgae from the Eurasian Arctic Seas as indicators of modern and past environmental changes / Yelena Polyakova, Irina Kryukova, Tatiana Klyuvitkina, Yekatherina Novichkova and Nataliya Manko. - Past environmental transformation of the Laptev Sea continental margin and water mass changes since last deglacial times / Ekaterina Taldenkova, Natalia Chistyakova, Henning A. Bauch, Anna Stepanova, Yaroslav Ovsepyan and Robert F. Spielhagen. - A multiproxy reconstruction of the last interglacial environmental conditions in northern Russia / Henning A. Bauch, Yaroslav Ovsepyan, Ekaterina Taldenkova, Anna Stepanova and Olga Rudenko. - Holocene variability of Atlantic water advection to the Arctic Ocean / Robert F. Spielhagen, Kirstin Werner, Natalia Chistyakova and Ekaterina Taldenkova. - Ecological and geographical characteristics of phytoplankton in the Eastern Laptev Sea (Autumnal Season 2008) / Irina Kryukova, Yelena Polyakova, Ekaterina Abramova, Fedor Martynov, Andrey Novikhin, Heidemarie Kassens and Jens Hölemann.