Research Seminars

Urban soils – a challenge for geophysics: geophysical study on soils at the RUDN campus

International Scientific Seminar

Organizer: Department of Landscape Design and Sustainable Ecosystems, Smart Urban Nature research center, Agrarian and Technological Institute of RUDN University

Area: Science, Education, International cooperation

Subarea: Ecology and nature management

Format: Seminar

Type: International

Title: «Urban soils – a challenge for geophysics: geophysical study on soils at the RUDN campus»

Date: June 4, 2024 

Location: Microsoft Teams; RUDN Univerity 

Contact person:  Babich Gleb Olegovich, 1142230303@rudn.ru

The links to the Seminar: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OWFiM2E5NjQtNzlhYi00MTM0LTljOGUtMWUzMTM3NDJmMDJi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%222ae95c20-c675-4c48-88d3-f276b762bf52%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%227c0dd40f-506b-4145-9d05-c29980e024d0%22%7d 

 

About the event:

On June 4, 2024 the Research center «Smart technologies for sustainable development of the urban environment in the global change» Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN University organized an international scientific seminar «Urban soils – a challenge for geophysics: geophysical study on soils at the RUDN campus». The event was held on the Microsoft Teams platform and off-line in Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN. The working language was Russian.

Geophysical methods of studying soils are used to isolate soil horizons, trace them in space, and in monitoring mode allow us to conclude about the distribution of moisture in the soil. However, urban soils have a number of features that complicate the interpretation of geophysics data. These are the weak contrast of soil horizons in terms of physical properties, and specific man-made soils and the presence of engineering communications.

In 2023-2024, monitoring studies using electrotomography, georadiolocation and induction electrical profiling were conducted at the RUDN campus. Geophysics was accompanied by drilling wells with sampling for moisture analysis and granulometry. The results we have obtained allow us to carefully assume what is complicated and how the urban lawn functions, but at the same time they raise many questions.

 

Event program:

17.30 – 19.00

«Urban soils – a challenge for geophysics: geophysical study on soils at the RUDN campus»

Bricheva Svetlana, Ph.D, Moscow State University, department of geology; Matasov Victor, Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN; Yurchenko Alexander Ph.D student, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences.

 

19.00– 19.30

Discussion

Ecosystem Services Research Seminars

Ecosystem services of urban lawns

International Scientific Seminar

Organizer: Department of Landscape Design and Sustainable Ecosystems, Smart Urban Nature research center, Agrarian and Technological Institute of RUDN University

Area: Science, Education, International cooperation

Subarea: Ecology and nature management

Format: Seminar

Type: International

Title: «Ecosystem services of urban lawns»

Date: September 24, 2024

Location: Yandex Telemost; RUDN Univerity (hall 423)

Contact person:  Babich Gleb Olegovich, babich-go@pfur.ru

The links to the Seminar: https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/89720463157136

 

About the event:

On September 24, 2024 the Research center «Smart technologies for sustainable development of the urban environment in the global change» Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN University organizes an international scientific seminar «Ecosystem services of urban lawns». The event will be held on the Yandex Telemost platform and off-line in Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN. The working language is Russian.

Urban water-green infrastructure is a new but actively developing direction in ecology and urban planning around the World. Despite the popularity of the technology in the USA, Europe and China, the introduction of water-green technologies in Russia began in the last decade. One of the main limitations for the widespread dissemination of water-green solutions in Russian cities is the need to adapt technologies taking into account the climatic and regulatory conditions for the design, creation and maintenance of urban green infrastructure, as well as the lack of convincing evidence of their effectiveness in domestic practice.

 

Event program:

16.30 – 17.15

«Local solutions for urban water and green infrastructure for the removal and treatment of surface runoff»

Olga Romzaikina, Ph.D, head of the laboratory, head of the landscape planning department of SUNlab.

17.15 – 17.45

«Ecosystem services of urban lawns. Review of theory and practice»

Gleb Babich, 2nd-year PhD student, Agrarian and Technological Department RUDN

17.45– 18.00

Discussion