Program

Twenty-five minutes for presentation and five minutes for discussion.

AGENDA:

Sept 25, 2015
09.00 – 09.40	Registration
09.40 – 09.50	Welcome – V Aksenov, director of PNPI, NRC KI, academician
09.50 – 10.00	Welcome – A Bystramovitch, Roshydromet
	General questions, drilling, geophysics, glaciology, geology Moderator – V Aksenov
10.00 – 10.30	V Lukin (AARI) – Vostok station in Antarctica : establishment history, status quo and prospects for development
10.30 – 11.00	S Popov (PMGRE) – Remote sensing investigations of the Lake Vostok area
11.00 – 11.30	N Vasiliev (SPMI) – 5G borehole – drilling operations in ice deeper than 3000 m and Lake Vostok entries
11.30 – 12.00	Cofee
12.00 – 12.30	I Alekhina (AARI) - Lake Vostok studies: A review of recent results obtained in the frame of project supported by RSF
12.30 – 13.00	Philippe Jean-Baptiste (LSCE (CEA-CNRS) – Helium isotopes and neon in Vostok glacier and lake ice: 25 years of French-Russian collaboration
13.00 – 14.30	Lunch
	General questions, drilling, geophysics, glaciology, geology Moderator – S Popov
14.30 – 15.00	G Leitchenkov (VNIIOceanGeology) – Geology of the subglacial Lake Vostok region – lake sediments
15.00 – 15.20	A Ekaykin (AARI) - Stable water isotope studies in the subglacial Lake Vostok region
15.20 – 15.40	O Troshichev (AARI) – Magnetic field at Vostok station (RS-index) as a record for “cosmic weather”
15.40 – 16.00	Cofee
	Biophysical/Technical tools/means/approaches for Lake Vostok water body studies Moderator – S Bulat
16.00 – 16.30	V Ezhov (PNPI NRC KI), A Andreev, A Zakharov, V Solovei, Yu Chetverikov, A Bosak, V Lukin – Biophysical studies at the Vostok station and investigation of the subglacial Lake Vostok
16.30 – 16.50	A Bol’shunov (SPMI) – Technical approaches in delivering scientific devices to the Lake Vostok via 5G borehole
16.50 – 17.10	E Zagrivny (SPMI) – Technology and technical approaches in obtaining sediments of the subglacial Lake Vostok
17.10 – 17.30	V Solovei (PNPI NRC KI) – Technical support in performing biophysical experiments at the Vostok station (energy supply, Wi-Fi, electronics)

18.00	Depart to conference dinner by PNPI bus from Park-Inn hotel and back
19.00 – 23.00	Conference dinner at the Neva river cruiser
Sept 26, 2015
09.00 – 10.00	Registration
	Astronomy at Vostok station Moderator – V Ezhov
10.00 – 10.30	Yu Nagovichin (GAO RAS) – Astronomical investigations in Antarctica
	Astrobiology Moderator – V Ezhov
10.30 – 11.00	S Bulat (PNPI NRC KI) – Searching for life in the subglacial Lake Vostok
11.00 – 11.30	U. Böttger (DLR, Germany) - Identification of Inorganic and Organic Inclusions in the Vostok Lake Ice with Raman Spectroscopy
11.30 – 12.00	Cofee
12.00 – 12.30	V Galchenko (INMI RAS) – Life in the Universe and the Lake Vostok
12.30 – 13.00	L Ksanfomality (SRI RAS) – Pluto, the dwarf planet 134340
13.00 – 14.30	Lunch
14.30 – 15.00	N Demidov (IPBPSS, Pushchino) – Overview of conditions at the Vostok station and in the subglacial Lake Vostok as compared with those on Mars and Jovian Europa
	Cosmic dust and micrometeorites in Antarctica Moderator – V Grokhovsky
15.00 – 15.30	E Zubko (Institute of Astronomy, V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University, Ukraine) - Sampling interplanetary dust particles in Antarctica: Scientific goals and practical challenges
15.30 – 16.00	Cofee
16.00 – 16.30	S Bulat (PNPI NRC KI) – Antarctic micrometeorites and cosmic dust at the Vostok station
16.30 – 17.00	V Grokhovsky (UrFU) – Collecting extraterrestrial material nearby Russian Antarctic stations
17.00 – 17.20	D Kuzina (KazFU) – Investigation of magnetic properties of sedimentary rocks in terms of detection of cosmic dust and extant magnetotactic bacteria
17.20 – 17.40	Yu Chetverikov (PNPI NRC KI) – Hydrogen in accretion ice of the Lake Vostok: geothermal activity and bio-available energy in the lake
17.40 – 18.00	General discussion, outcome of the meeting, development of the ‘Vostok program’ investigations. Conference close.
Sept 27, 2015
10.00 – 11.00	Trip to Gatchina (by PNPI bus)
11.00 – 12.00	Visiting PNPI NRC KI (reactor PIK)
12.00 – 13.00	Return to St Petersburg (by PNPI bus)