BioModel will serve initiatively the Wrangel Island GIS. There is the new category ‘GIS-data’ at ArcArt web. GIS and maps are also the arts! It would be based on a pilot-GIS ‘The Western Arctic Islands’, which the BioModel author has been developing in 2007 . Other new prospectives will include Read more…
(русский) UNEP-WCMC продолжает разрабатывать индикаторы, связанные с биоразнообразием, главным образом с 2010 Товариществом Индикаторов Биологической вариативности (см. www.twentyten.net). Как часть этого они производят документ руководства относительно развития и использования индикаторов биологической вариативности на национальном уровне. UNEP-WCMC сообщал нам о возможном включении примера фактических данных индикатора (Ukraine) BINU к приложению к документу руководства.
Coming soon: new bioodiversity modelling (training) meeting in Dakar, Senegal (Decemebr 11-13, 2009). BioModel team is invited to take part in the event with presentation of its activity results.
October 28-29, 2009: The Young Scientists National Conference-2009 took place in biology faculty of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University. Participants presented scientific reports within following sections: botany, environmental protection, ecology, microbiology, virology, plant physiology cytology and histology, developmental biology, zoology, human and animal physiology, pharmacology, biophysics, radiobiology biochemistry, molecular biology, Read more…
The ArcArt-web (Arctic-in-Art) readers have use now kmz-files for quick visiting of GoogleEarth globe to look over some points, which were the key places for production of concrete drawings or poems of the ArArc-web. It is new modelling also… More details. Illustration: V.Prydatko-Dolin, Beregovoy Peak in Wrangel Island (watercolor, 22*30)
The summit took place just under 80 days before the start of the UN Copenhagen conference. The Secretary-General of the United Nations Mr. Ban Ki-moon stressed: “Climate change is the pre-eminent geopolitical and economic issue of the 21st century” and “We will pay an unacceptable price if we do not Read more…
BioModel administrates ArcArt web-page as a contribution to its cultural activity mission. ArcArt is the author’s web about Arctic regions with warm feelings! Poems, songs, prose, painting (sketches, water color, ink, pencil, oil), rare documentary and art photos (TBD) – an integral part of what only looks like ‘white silence’. Read more…
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…
Newest investigation of relationship between past warming and sea-level rise confirms that sea-level rise is imminent even in case of stabilization at today’s CO2 levels. Moreover, new conclusion is that rise level will be much higher than it was predicted by long-term projections from the Fourth Assessment Report of the Read more…
