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Research fellow of the International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology Vadim Mamkin participated in working conference to unite existing Russian eddy covariance flux stations into a network.

The scientific seminar of the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technologies took place in May. This time, the topic of discussion was the socio-economic reactions of various regions of Russia to the shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mikhail Rogov, Research Fellow at the HSE Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology, and Celine Rosenblat, Professor at the University of Lausanne, published a study titled "Intercity economic networks under recession: Counterintuitive results on the evolution of Russian cities in multinational firm networks from 2010 to 2019" in the Journal of Urban affairs.

On March 12, the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technologies of the National Research University Higher School of Economics hosted an Open Day for the Master's Program in Low-Carbon Development. Academic supervisor of the program Evgeny Shvarts, supervisor of the track "Management of low-carbon development of companies and territories" Andrey Ptichnikov, supervisor of the track "Carbon cycle of companies and territories" Dmitry Zamolodchikov, Dean of the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technologies Nikolay Kurichev and Nazar Sotiriadi, Executive Director of the Integrated Risk Management Department, Sber Risks.

As part of the Oceanology course, 2nd year students of the bachelor's program "Geography of Global Changes and Geoinformation Technologies" have participated in a practical trip. Yulia Levkovskaya, a 2nd year student, wrote a blog about the trip.

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.

Anastasia Shinkarik, 2nd year student of the Geography of Global Changes and Geoinformation Technology program, won the nomination for a particularly relevant and significant project at the 27th Esri User Conference in Russia and the CIS. Anastasia has presented a geoinformation platform for the graves search at the Northern Cemetery in Perm.

The Higher School of Economics has summed up the results of the project competition "Launching International Laboratories at the National Research University Higher School of Economics for the period from 01.01.2022 to 31.12.2024". As a result of the competition, one of the four new international laboratories was the International Landscape Ecology Laboratory on the basis of the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technologies. Researches will create a set of methods for processing remote information aimed at using it as efficiently as possible as a source of data on the structure and organization of landscape cover.

Associate Professor of the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technologies Alexander Sheludkov and the leading researcher of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences Raisa Gracheva took part in the 1st International Joint Congress of the European Society for the Conservation of Soil (ESSC) and the European Society of Ecological Cycles (EURECYS) (November 10-14, Italy). The aim of the congress is to create a wide European network of interdisciplinary research on the interaction of man and nature.

Nikolay Kurichev spoke at the IV International Conference "Natural Tourism: Global Challenges and Prospects for Russia". Within the framework of the plenary session "Natural tourism - a driver of sustainable development", the participants discussed a model of introducing tourists to nature in accordance with the Strategy for the development of tourism in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2035 (approved by the Order of the Government of the Russian Federation of 20.09.2019 No. 2129-r ).