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The International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology Held a Field School for Young Scientists in the Field of Landscape Science

Participants of the school
From 2 to 7 September in the Central Forest Reserve (Tver region) a school for young researchers “Actual methods of landscape structure analysis based on remote sensing data, digital elevation models and field data” organized by the International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology was held. The School was attended by 24 students from 10 regions of the country, including three students from Belarus. The speakers of the School were the staff of the Laboratory, the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems (A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems, Moscow). A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution (IPEE RAS), Institute of Geography RAS (IG RAS), Central Forest Reserve.

The experts highlighted the importance of introducing digital technologies in school geography education

Sergey Barinov
The annual conference for geography teachers “Geoslet 2024” was held on April 20. It was timed to coincide with International Earth Day, which is celebrated all over the world annually on April 22. It was established to draw people's attention to environmental problems and encourage them to take care of nature.

Student Research Paper Competition 2023 Begins

Awarding of the SRPC competition laureates, February 2023
On September 1st, a new season of the open Student Research Paper Competition (SRPC) started. This competition is aimed at developing the potential of university students who are interested in academic activities. Students, as well as 2023 graduates of Russian and foreign universities, can submit their papers for the competition until October 15th, 2023. This year SRPC turns 20 years old, throughout the competition’s history, Vadim Radaev, HSE University’s First Vice Rector, has been the chair of the organising committee. In today’s interview, he talks about the history of the competition and the key stages in its development.

Team “GeoHSE” Took the Second Prize at the All-Russian Competition of IT Solutions in the Section of Arctic Urbanization

The HSE team at the final of the competition
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.

A Scientific Supervisor Has Appeared in the Laboratory of Landscape Ecology

A Scientific Supervisor Has Appeared in the Laboratory of Landscape Ecology
Russian-Israeli scientist Fyodor Tatarinov joined the laboratory.

International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology Opens at HSE University

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.

'It Turns Out That We Can Measure the Degree of Influence of Space – That Space Is a Probabilistic Quantity'

'It Turns Out That We Can Measure the Degree of Influence of Space – That Space Is a Probabilistic Quantity'
Interview with Igor Okunev, political geographer, lecturer and associate professor of the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology.

Smirnyagin Readings at the Higher School of Economics

Smirnyagin Readings at the Higher School of Economics
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.