Future predictions using MICOM model: Global Climate Change may turn Arctic Ocean into stagnant, polluted soup by 2070

WITHIN 60 years the Arctic Ocean could be a stagnant, polluted soup. Without drastic cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, the Transpolar Drift, one of the Arctic’s most powerful currents and a key disperser of pollutants, is likely to disappear because of global warming. These dramatic predictions have been made by Yongqi Read more…

IDB: the message from UN

In his IDB message of May 22, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon said: “… The most cost-effective and feasible method of control is prevention. To be successful, this strategy requires collaboration among Governments, economic sectors and non-governmental and international organizations. A country can only prevent invasions Read more…

BioModel: SDM-mammals for NASU Conference

April 8-9, 2009: The National Conference-2009 for Young Scientists took place in central office of the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NASU (Kyiv). Participants demostrated 61 scientific reports on fauna investigation and conservation, taxonomy, ecology, animal morphology, paleontology, zoogeography. BioModel Team has presented to the conference some previous results of SDM Read more…

Biodiversity mapping and multispectral RS

In corridors (SCARE IGS NASU publications): Kozlova A.A. Biodiversity estimation and mapping technique using multispectral space images. – Manuscript. Thesis for the scientific degree of candidate of technical sciences on 05.07.12 specialty – remote aerospace research – Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth, Institute of Geological Sciences, National Read more…