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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 ).

On August 30, the Higher School of Economics and Tyumen State University signed an agreement on cooperation in the implementation of master's programs on the carbon cycle and low-carbon development. These are the country's first educational programs in this area.

First year students of the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology completed a field trip to the Kursk Biosphere Station of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The study programme included modules on geomorphology, geochemistry and soil science, geobotany, hydrometeorology, cartography and social geography.

Interview with Igor Okunev, political geographer, lecturer and associate professor of the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology.

During an online meeting Dean of the faculty Nikolay Kurichev explained the applicants how to enter the program "Geography of global changes and geoinformation technology" and answered the questions.

On the birthday of the prominent Russian geographer Leonid Smirnyagin, his former students and colleagues discussed the topics of electoral geography, federalism in modern Russia and the role of metaphor in the study of the cultural landscape.

Yulia Kuznetsova, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology was recognized as the Science Journalist of the Year in the category 'Climate Change and Adaptation'.