Digital laboratory of environmental and climate data opened in Ugra

TYUMEN, October 9 – RIA Novosti. Russia's first digital laboratory of environmental and climate data has opened in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug; it should become the main platform for carbon balance research, said the head of the okrug, Ruslan Kukharuk.

“Russia’s first digital laboratory of environmental and climate data was opened in Khanty-Mansiysk. The project was implemented by Gazprom Neft together with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and Yugra State University. The laboratory is intended to become the main platform for studying the carbon balance,” Kuharuk said in my channel on the Max platform.

The head of the district explained that this project is important for the Russian scientific community, since the ecosystems of Ugra are one of the world's largest carbon sinks, which allows them to curb global warming and serve as an indicator of climate change. The results of research conducted in the laboratory will help adapt key sectors of the economy to changing climatic conditions.

The digital laboratory of environmental and climatic data will accumulate information on the movement of greenhouse gases from a network of scientific sites in the district - from the Mukhrino station, the Kondinskie Lakes natural park, the complex at the Vadelypskoye field and from the station in the Numto natural park in the future. They also plan to train specialists in the field of ecology and climate.