70th BIRTHDAY OF GEOBOTANIST ALEXEI NIKOLAEVICH POLEZHAEV

Alexei Nikolaevich devoted all his scientific activity to the study of the Far Eastern North, having arrived in Magadan in 1973 after graduating from the Ural State University. For 23 years he perfected his skills at the Magadan Agricultural Research Institute. There he went through all the stages of career growth: from a junior researcher to a deputy director for science. In 1979, he defended his PhD thesis “Changes in the vegetation of winter deer pastures of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug under the influence of grazing,” and in 1994, his doctoral thesis “Vegetation of the north of the Far East and its Use in Reindeer Herding”. In 1996, Aleksey Nikolaevich joined the Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences as a leading researcher at the Laboratory of Vegetation Cover Structure. Since 2015, he has been the head of the Laboratory of Botany.

Alexey Nikolaevich is a developer of the use of GIS technologies for mapping vegetation in the north of the Far East. He is the author and co-author of more than 300 works, including 14 monographs, digital maps of vegetation in the north of the Far East, the Circumpolar Arctic, and the Arctic territories of Yakutia. He compiled maps of vegetation and deer pastures of the Magadan Region, as well as the Chukotka and Koryak Autonomous Districts. He is the head and executor of FEB and RFBR grants, co-author and editor of the Red Books, and a participant in many international, inter-institute and other innovative projects of information systems.

The IBPN FEB RAS heartily congratulates Alexei Nikolaevich on his jubilee birthday! We wish you success, interesting projects, health and longevity! Let the burning interest in life not fade away, and positive emotions inspire new scientific achievements! Pass on your spiritual wisdom and experience to the younger generation of researchers!

On February 13, an open discussion was held on the Cherskiy National Park Project

On February 13 an open discussion "National Park - an element of development of the Magadan region" was held in the large hall of the Magadan Regional Universal Scientific Library named after A.S. Pushkin

The event was attended by representatives of IBPN FEB RAS, NECRI FEB RAS, Rosprirodnadzor, Magadan City Hall, the City Duma and caring residents of Magadan and the Magadan region.

As part of the discussion, scientists made reports on the history of industrial development in the Upper Kolyma region, on the ancient cultures that inhabited the territory designed for the National Park 4-10 thousand years ago and on the project for creating the National Park and its prospects, obvious from the standpoint of scientists.

Photography exhibition "Parallel Worlds" authored by Sleptsov Yu.A.

In the Magadan Regional Youth Library there is the photography exhibition "Parallel Worlds" authored by Sleptsov Yu.A., the researcher from the Laboratory of Ornithology, IBPN FEB RAS.

The purpose of the exhibition is to acquaint the visitors with the diversity and uniqueness of the animal world of the Magadan region. The exposition is divided into two parts, one of which represents the inhabitants of the islands and the Sea of ​​Okhotsk (Okhotsk Territory), and the other - representatives of the continental regions of the region (Kolyma Territory). Among the works proposed for viewing, one can observe both well-known species (for example, brown bear, ermine, and rock capercaillie), as well as rare species possessing conservation status and included in the Red Books of Russia and the Magadan Region (for example, great gray owl, sea lion, and the Far-Eastern curlew) .

The exhibition will be available from February 3 to March 3, 2020.

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