Participants of the Winter Hands-on School in Limnology to assess water quality in lakes of the Kosmuksha area

Northern Water Problems Institute KarRC RAS is holding a Winter Hand-on School in Limnology. From April 6 to 11, lake-science beginners from Petrozavodsk and St. Petersburg and school teachers study the theoretical basics and get practical skills of research on the ice of lakes Kamennoye and Kontokki in the Kostomuksha Nature Reserve.

Marathon of Letters from the Frontlines written in Karelian and Vepsian continues

The Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS continues collecting letters from/to the frontlines written in Karelian and Vepsian, stored in family archives, within the Marathon “Hengen vägi muaman kieles” - “Fortitude in the Native Tongue”. The campaign is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland and the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. Contributors are welcome to share their archival letters until April 15.

This April 9 is the anniversary of Nikolai Filatov, Corresponding Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Geography. We congratulate Nikolai Nikolaevich on his 80th anniversary and wish him vigor, sound health and new achievements in science!

“Karelia: History in Stone” exhibition opened by the Institute of Geology KarRC RAS in the National Library of Karelia

The Institute of Geology KarRC RAS presented an exposition on the formation history of the subsoil of modern Karelia. The exhibition opening was timed to the Geologist's Day, celebrated on the first Sunday of April. Visitors will be guided through the genesis of Karelia's minerals, time-traveling billions and hundreds of millions of years back.

Projects of Karelian scientists win grant competitions of the Russian Science Foundation

The Russian Science Foundation has just published the results its competition for individual research teams. The project “Prospects of using bottom sediments from fish farms in northern regions of Russia to enhance soil fertility and crop yields”, in which KarRC RAS Director General, Corresponding Academician Olga Bakhmet is the Leader, received grant support. Congratulations!

Scholarly geologists to give a series of lectures and master classes within the “Karelia. History in Stone” exhibition

The exhibition “Karelia. History in Stone” prepared by the Institute of Geology KarRC RAS is set to open at the National Library of the Republic of Karelia on April 6. It will introduce visitors to natural features found around Petrozavodsk: traces of volcanic eruptions, marine sediments and evidence of the origin of early life forms. During the month, scientists will be giving lectures and master classes at the library.

KarRC RAS signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Bundelkhand University, India

Karelian Research Center is furthering its cooperation with Indian colleagues. On March 18, a Memorandum of Understanding between KarRC RAS and Bundelkhand University was signed in the city of Jhansi. KarRC RAS was represented at the ceremony by Deputy Director General Alexander Slabunov, who has been cooperating with scientists from India in the field of geology for many years. The new agreement is designed to scale this experience to other fields as well: water and climate change research, biology, mathematics, economics.

Hydrologists study the estuaries of rivers emptying into the White Sea to assess the ecological situation in its drainage basin

Specialists from the Northern Water Problems Institute KarRC RAS went on an expedition to the Belomorsk District of Karelia. Scientists took measurements of the physical and chemical parameters of under-ice water and ice in the mouth of the Nizhny Vyg River. This area is under pressure from the White Sea-Baltic Canal, and the observations are needed to assess the ecological situation and predict how it will change as shipping traffic increases.