Data and Software Ecosystem Services Events Research Seminars

Monitoring, modeling and managing of urban soil and green infrastructure (3MUGIS)

02/10/2024 No Comments

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: July 1-6, 2024 

Location: RUDN Univerity 

About the event:
From July 1 to July 6, 2024, the scientific center “ Smart Urban Nature research center” ATI RUDN University organized an international scientific seminar “Monitoring, modeling and management of urban soils and green
infrastructure.”. The event was held in a mixed format. Working language – Russian, English.

The international scientific seminar was devoted to the study of environmental, anthropogenic, social and other processes of urbanization and their impact on soil functions. Participants learned about new approaches in environmental monitoring and modeling of urban ecosystems, studied the biochemistry of urban soils and plantings, examined issues of ecosystem services and urban climate, and also became acquainted with technical innovations in studying the urban soundscape.

Event program:
July 1, 2024
16.00 – 16.30
Gorbov Sergey, SFU
«Sustainable development and functionality of urban lawns»

16.30 – 17.00
Klimanova Oksana, MSU
«Green-blue infrastructures in urban planning: a landscape scientist perspective»
Discussion
July 2, 2024

16.00 – 16.30
Zarov Evgeniy, Yugra State University
«Monitoring and modeling C balance in natural and anthropogenic ecosystems»

16.30 – 17.00
Ushakova Natalia, Department of Regional Development of the Russian Ecological Society
«Soil quality standardization»
Discussion

July 3, 2024 16.00 – 16.30
Zenkova Irina, Institute of Problems of Industrial Ecology of the North of the Russian Academy of Sciences
«Soil macrofauna of urban ecosystems»

16.30 – 17.00
Valentini Riccardo (UNITUS, RUDN)
«Real-time monitoring of ecosystem services provided by urban green infrastructure»
Discussion July 4, 2024 16.00 – 16.30
Kapelkina Ludmila, St. Petersburg Center for Environmental Safety of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
«Ecological and geochemical assessment of gardens and parks of St. Petersburg»

16.30 – 17.00
Сhernokulsky Aleksander, Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics «Climate change risks, mitigation and adaptation in urban perspective»
Discussion

July 5, 2024
16.00 – 16.30
Ignatieva Maria, The University of Western Australia «Low impact design and biodiversity»

16.30 – 17.00
Dushkova Diana, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
«Not simply green: nature-based solutions as a concept and practical approach to building resilient and sustainable future»

Discussion

July 6, 2024

16.00 – 16.30
Kuzyakov Yakov, Georg-August University Goettingen/ RUDN «Soil capacity for C sequestration»

Discussion

 

Ecosystem Services Research Seminars

Ecosystem services of urban lawns

20/09/2024 No Comments

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

Climate Ecosystem Services Science

SUN Researchers have found that transport pollution increases the number of microorganisms potentially dangerous to humans on plant leaves

21/03/2022 No Comments

Scientists from the Smart Urban Nature laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues from the Netherlands and Italy, have shown that microbial communities living on the surface of leaves are sensitive to transport pollution. With the approach to highways, the activity of microorganisms increases, their species diversity decreases, and the proportion of conditionally pathogenic forms increases. These changes are associated with an increased concentration of pollutants (mainly Zinc) and microclimatic conditions near the roads: low humidity, high temperature and ultraviolet radiation. It is important to note that the study of plant microorganisms will help assess the ecological state of nature in the city and their possible impact on human health. Article published in Plants (Q1) journal. The research was partly supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and Russian Science Foundation (RSF).

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SUN Lab presented the results of the third year of the SUN project

25/12/2021 No Comments

SUN Lab presented the results of the third year of the project “Smart technologies to monitor, model and evaluate ecosystem services provided by urban green infrastructure and soils to support decision making in sustainable city development under global changes”, supported by a Russian Science Foundation (RSF).

Research in the third year of the project was focused on 3 main objectives:

  1. monitoring of ecosystem services of urban green infrastructure based on the Smart Urban Nature network;
  2. interpretation of monitoring data for ecosystem services for various target groups and practical tasks;
  3. application of the results of monitoring and modeling ecosystem services to support decision-making in the field of sustainable development of the urban environment.
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Ecosystem Services Science

SUN lab experts estimated pets’ significance within ecosystem services classification

25/10/2021 No Comments

Ongoing urbanization has led to a significant increase in the number of pets and has altered the relationships between pets and owners from primarily utilitarian to cultural. Today existing classifications of ecosystem services and nature’s contributions to people explicitly consider only the ES provided by livestock and wild animals. Despite this, scientists from Smart Urban Nature laboratory tried to give it a fresh view and attempted to translate perceived benefits and costs from owning dogs or cats in a megapolis into ecosystem services and disservices frameworks considering such pets as natural biotic elements of a megapolis and thus, essential parts of urban ecosystems.

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Climate Ecosystem Services Ecosystems Green Infrastructure

SUN lab experts made a plan on development of green infrastructure of Cherepovets

05/10/2021 No Comments

The laboratory Smart Urban Nature worked as a consultant to the “Yauza project” bureau, which developed a project for the spatial development of the city of Cherepovets striving for a reasonable balance between the purpose of the object, the needs of people and the environment. Thus, the main goal in developing the concept was to bring nature to the city to create a comfortable living environment. With the proximity of major roads, the impact of the urban heat island, and the increasing number of extreme weather events associated with climate change, the regulatory functions of green infrastructure seem to be the most significant to assess and implement in the city development.

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Ecosystem Services Soils

The Soil Basis of Smart and Sustainable Cities: How Scientists from SUN Lab expand knowledge about the functions of urban soils

10/09/2021 No Comments

It is a well-known fact that soil is the main component of a terrestrial ecosystem, the balanced functioning of which largely depends on the soil microbiome. Today, in the urban environment, there is an unprecedented anthropogenic impact on the soil, its microbiome and the ecosystem as a whole, which can lead to disruption of their functioning. Researchers from all countries are trying to develop knowledge about the peculiarities of the functioning of the soil microbiome in urban conditions, in particular by studying its various microbial indicators. However, there is no answer to the question of which microbial indicators can most informatively reflect the functioning of urban soils and be useful in planning and improving urban areas.

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Collaboration Ecosystem Services Ecosystems

SUN Lab researchers participated in the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) Conference

12/07/2021 No Comments

After the 1st ESP Europe in Antwerp (2016) and the 2nd in San Sebastian (2018), the upcoming Ecosystem Services Partnership Conference took place in Tartu (Estonia) from 7-10 June 2021. The conference turned out to be a special event in a hybrid format – both online and offline participation – which gathered near 460 participants from 51 countries from all parts of the world.

The Ecosystem Services Partnership aims to enhance communication, coordination and cooperation, and to build a strong network of individuals and organizations by connecting over 3000 ecosystem services scientists, policy makers and practitioners who work together in more than 40 Working Groups and a growing number of National Networks on all continents. Among hundreds of participants Anastasia Konstantinova and Viktor Matasov are two researchers who represented Smart Urban Nature lab in the event.

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Collaboration Ecosystem Services Green Infrastructure Science

SUN Lab leaders were presented at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

06/06/2021 No Comments

On June 2-5, 2021, St. Petersburg hosted the XXIV St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-21), a leading global platform for communication between business representatives and discussion of key economic issues facing Russia, emerging markets and the world in general. The forum, which brings together tens of thousands of participants from more than 140 countries, is traditionally focused on issues of the global and Russian economy, social matters and technology development.

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