International Day for Biological Diversity

The United Nations proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues&#

World Migratory Bird Day 2011

World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) was initiated in 2006 and is a global awareness-raising campaign highlighting the need for the protection of migratory birds and their habitats&#

BioModel: Red squirrel SDM (improved) for NASU Conference

The Conference-2011 for Young Scientists took place in central office of the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NASU (Kyiv). BioModel team presented to it improved SDM of Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) in Eastern Europe. The species distribution model was based on

Japan Quake Map

There is example of modern modelling visualisation resource i.e. GIS on earthquakes near Japan: http://www.japanquakemap.com/today

World Wetlands Day (2011)

2 February each year is World Wetlands Day. It marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Each year since

UN: 2011 is the International Year of Forests

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests to raise awareness on sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests. Forests are cover 31% of terrestrial surface, 13% of the forest are

Merry Christmas… 2011

About Ukraine Page at European Biomass Datasets WA

This December CEUBIOM Project developed additional page at the ‘European Biomass Datasets’ Working Area entirely dedicated to Ukraine. It included links to three useful regional map-based resources of 2007-2010 i.e. EEBIO and BINU searchable web-systems with IFS-pages as well as

From indicators-and-indexes to real models…

Students write about… Starushik N.S. Modelling Stages Research for Indicative-indices Approach Based on NUBIP Agricultural Network.  The Master’s Work for the specialty 6.070800 ‘Ecology and the Environmental Conservation’. Kyiv: NUBiP, 2010.–120 p. (see ukr)

BioModel and NASC

November 20, 2010: ULRMC office held an ad-hock meeting on information exchange and web-resources. Participants:  BioModel expert (Vasyl Prydatko, right) and NASC representatives (National Antarctic Scientific Center, State Committee of Ukraine on Science, Innovation and Informatization – Kyiv) – Stanislav