The Autumn Series of Seminars with the Participation of a Leading Foreign Specialist, Academic Supervisor of the Laboratory F.A. Tatarinov Has Started
The International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology in the period from October 31 to December 05, 2023 conducts the series of seminars on the topic "Current methods and approaches in landscape and environmental research". On October 31, the first seminar of the series was held on the topic "The impact of precipitation reduction on the water balance and ecosystem sustainability according to FLUXNET data"
Team “GeoHSE” Took the Second Prize at the All-Russian Competition of IT Solutions in the Section of Arctic Urbanization
An offline final of the IT solutions competition for the development of the Arctic, named Arktek Data, was held on August 11. The GeoHSE team, consisting of two laboratory employees - Anna Derkacheva and Natalia Shartova, and faculty student Inna Panafidina, took second prize in the Urbanization track with a system prototype for analyzing the accessibility of health care in regions.
The Laboratory Researchers Took Part in the 11th World Congress of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE), held from July 10 to 15 in Nairobi, Kenya.
The IALE World Congresses are held every four years and are the largest international scientific event in the field of landscape ecology. Representatives of 63 countries took part in the last congress.
The Representativeness of the Existing Network of Ecological and Climatic Stations Eddy Covariance for the Territory of Russia was analyzed
Within the framework of the May series of scientific seminars of the laboratory, the report of researchers Anna Derkacheva and Robert Sandlerskiy "Results of the analysis of the representativeness of the existing network of ecological and climatic stations (EX) for the territory of Russia" was presented. The primary assessment of geographical representativeness of 29 ecological and climatic stations for climate, relief, soils and vegetation is given. Based on the Random forest method, both for all stations and for each one separately, territories with similar environmental parameters and territories whose physical and geographical conditions are not covered by observations in any way were identified.
The Laboratory's Application Received the Support of the HSE Competition Commission
The application of the Laboratory "Biophysical functions of South Taiga landscapes based on experimental and remote measurements" was supported by the competition commission of the program to attract Russian postdocs for the 2023/2024 academic year.
The Laboratory Staff Took Part in the Expedition on the Territory of Mongolia
In July-August of the current year, Laboratory employees Anna Derkacheva and Robert Sandlersky took part in field studies of forest geosystems in Northwestern Mongolia as part of the Joint Russian-Mongolian Complex Biological Expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of the MPR under the IPEE RAS.
International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology Opens at HSE University
The laboratory will be led by Robert Sandlersky, a specialist in energy and mass transfer and the study of other properties of landscapes via satellite imagery and Senior Research Fellow at the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The HSE News Service spoke to Robert about the laboratory’s future activities.