KarRC RAS Director General speaks at a conference on BRICS development and cooperation

The Second International Conference “BRICS Countries: development strategies and cooperation mechanisms in a changing world” was held in Moscow. KarRC RAS Director General Olga Bakhmet delivered a plenary talk about the main spheres and prospects on scientific cooperation within the BRICS Green Agenda. The Centre’s leader also advertised the regional BRICS Conference to take place in Petrozavodsk in September.

Prospects of using mustard grown on zinc-enriched substrate studied by scientists at KarRC RAS

Soil contamination with metal ions is a pressing issue in agriculture. One of the options for environmentally safe removal of these chemical elements from contaminated soils is the phytoremediation technique, which involves planting species resistant to high concentrations of metals and capable of absorbing fairly large amounts of ions and accumulating them in above-ground parts. However, the plants to be used for soil purification should be selected with regard to the climatic conditions of the given region. Plant physiologists at the Karelian Research Center RAS have been searching for species suitable for phytoremediation of zinc-contaminated soils in northern regions, as well as for options for their subsequent processing. They evaluated the possibility of using two species of mustard for cleaning soils from zinc contamination.

Karelia among the five regions in the country developing techniques for quantifying carbon pools and fluxes in aquatic ecosystems

Our region became one of the quintet of regions where unified methodological approaches to quantifying greenhouse gas emission and sequestration by aquatic ecosystems will be worked out. The work is carried out by researchers from the Northern Water Problems Institute KarRC RAS in the Kivach Nature Reserve. The first results were obtained, which indicate that waters of Karelia contain relatively high amounts of all forms of carbon. Our colleagues told about their activities to SAMPO TV 360 crew.

On May 27-31, Karelian Research Centre RAS hosted the 11th International Conference “Probability Methods in Discrete Mathematics”. The event commemorated the 90th anniversary of birth of the Soviet and Russian scholar V.F. Kolchin.

The unreal is real

The latest session of the Learned Council of the Karelian Research Center RAS was dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Director of the RAS Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (“Kunstkammer”), Corresponding Academician, Doctor of History Andrey Golovnev told about the role of Peter the Great in the establishment of Russian science. The lecture by Senior Researcher at the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS, Cand. Sci. in History Nadezhda Lobanova was devoted to the study and preservation of unique ancient rock art.

Conservation of forest and aquatic ecosystem discussed at the Karelian government

The first meeting of the Environmental Council took place at the Government of Karelia. One of the council members is Director General of the Karelian Research Center RAS. Together with regional authorities, representatives of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Karelia, relevant institutions and businesses, Olga Bakhmet discussed the conservation of forests, water bodies and the implementation of the Ecology National Project in Karelia.

Role of science in regional development discussed at RAS Regional Policy Council meeting

RAS Council on Regional Policy had a session in Moscow. The participants discussed issues related to the opening and operation of RAS regional offices, the activities of national academies and science towns. KarRC RAS Director General Olga Bakhmet took part in the talks.