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.
Scientific Seminar "Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Trees in the City of Moscow According to the Register of Green Spaces"
From May 10 to May 24, 2023, the International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology is holding a series of seminars on the topic “Methods for assessing the climate-regulating functions of landscape cover”. On May 10, 2023, the first seminar of the series was held, at which Renata Zigangirova, an intern researcher of the laboratory, made a report
The Inter-Faculty Course for Mago-Lego Masters "Geography of Pandemics" Has Started
At the end of January 2023, the first lectures were held as part of the course. Natalia Shartova, a leading researcher of the International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology, spoke about the evolution of the concepts of morbidity and mortality, about modern global health threats and about the basic concepts of epidemiology. In practical classes, students tried their hand at analyzing the changes taking place using the international system for assessing the global burden on health.