Conference Organizing Committees

Co-chair
Academician Guodong Cheng, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute(CAREERI), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)
Dr.Jerry Brown, President, International Permafrost Association(IPA)

Honorary Co-Chairs
Academician Yafeng Shi, CAREERI, Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)
Academician Vladimir P. Melnikov, Chair, Scientific Council on Earth         
Cryology, Russian Academy of Sciences 
Professor Yongfu Sun,Vice-Minister, Ministry of Railway of China
Professor Hugh M.French, University of Ottawa, Past President of IPA 1998-2003 
Regional Members
Dr.Aldar P.Gorbunov,Institute of Geography, Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences 
Professor T.Koike, University of Tokyo
Dr.Valetin G.Kondratjev, Russia 
Professor Dr.Wei Ma,Vice-President,CAREERI,Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr.Sergey Marchenko,Institute of Geography, Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences
Professor Tetsuo Ohata,Program Director,Institute of Observational Research 
for Global Change,JAMESTEC,Japan
Dr.N.Sharkhuu, Geo-Ecology Institute,Mongolian Academy of Sciences
Dr.D.Tumurbaatar, Inst.of Geography & Geocryology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences 
Dr.Rudolf Zhang, Director, Permafrost Institute,Russian Academy of Sciences 
Professor Emeritus Yuanlin Zhu, CAREERI, Chinese Academy of Sciences

International Advisory Committee  

Co-Chair: 
Professor Hans-W.Hubberten, Director, Alfred Wegner Institute for Polar 
and Marine Research, Potsdam,Germany 
Professor Michael Davies,University of Dundee,Scotland,UK 

Members 
Professor Syun Akasofu,Director,International Arctic Research Center,University 
of Alaska, 
Dr.Kaare Flaate, Oslo, Norway 
Professor Douglas Goering, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alaska 
Mr.Don W.Hayley, EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd., Canada 
Professor Ole Humlum, Norway Professor 
Dr.Antoni Lewkowicz, University of Ottawa, Canada Professor 
Dr.F.E.Nelson , USPA (President 2006), University of Delaware 
Dr.Georgy Perlshtein, Institute of Geoenvironmental Science, RAS Professor 
Dr.Vladimir Romanovsky, President (2005), USPA, University of Alaska
Professor Sarah Springman, Institut f┨r Geotechnik, ETH, Switzerland
Professor Dr.Jef Vandenberghe, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands