Subject: ECOLOGY RESEARCH CAMPS in RUSSIA for STUDENTS-Lats Applications!

From: Liza Hollingshead <[email-masked]>
Date: 2 May 1996 13:15:06 GMT

LAST OPPORTUNITY to APPLY! DON¹T MISS IT! 

 ECOLOGY RESEARCH CAMPS  in the URALS, RUSSIA
sponsored for the 6th year by:
Ecologia Foundation, Scotland; Centre for Human Ecology, Edinburgh ; 
Institute of Ecology, Ekaterinburg,Russia; EcoInfo Ecological Education, 
Russia

MAMMALS<BOTANY<FISH & WATER POLLUTION<ECOLOGY<PALEONTOLOGY

1- ECOLOGY STUDENTS¹ FIELD RESEARCH Camp 18July-12August 1996
2-HISTORICAL ECOLOGY STUDENTS¹ RESEARCH Camp: 8July-12August 1996  
3- INTERNATIONAL FIELD CONFERENCE for ECOLOGISTS & POST GRADUATES 13-25 
August 96 

ECOLOGY STUDENTS¹ FIELD RESEARCH Camp 18July-12August 1996*
4 weeks with scientists from the Institute of Ecology, Ekaterinburg. 
Students live with the scientists and their teams in a camp with simple 
field accommodation equipped with a field laboratory situated on a lake 
in a beautiful, remote area of the South Taiga Forest,  mid-Urals. The 
closest city is Ekaterinburg. The scientists include lectures and 
practical teaching for special interest subjects: 
1) Population Ecology of Mammals (rhodents, moose, elk, beaver, 
buzzard), animal censusing, trapping, population dynamics, game 
management, in Taiga forest of the Mid Urals
Senior Research Scientist: Dr Fedor Kryazhimsky
Fish and Water Pollution:  Dr Alexander Lugaskov; 
Amphibians-urban ecology: Dr Vladimir Vershinin. 
2) Ecology of Plants: Geo-botany and Lichenology - Dr Margarita 
Magomedova
3) General Ecology Education: Sergei Krinitsyn. 
Cost: £865 incl return airfares London-Moscow; $1025 excluding airfares 
>from  USA to Moscow. 
HISTORICAL ECOLOGY STUDENTS¹ RESEARCH Camp 8 July-12 August 96*  
ARCHAEOLOGY & PALEONTOLOGY With Dr Alexander Borodin, Senior Research 
Scientist, Dept of Paleontology, Urals Institute of Ecology at a cave 
excavation in the South Urals, with lectures and practical teaching 
programme. 
Cost: £970 incl return airfares London-Moscow; $2000 excl airfares from 
USA to Moscow. Both prices include Ecology programs,accommodation,food 
and internal travel in Russia. Travel Insurance & Visas extra. 
* Optional extra 3 days in St Petersburg 13-16 August: £125 / $200

reply to: Ecologia Foundation:  [email-masked]	
The Park, Forres, Moray IV37OTZ Scotland tel/FAX: +44-(0)1309-690995

INTERNATIONAL FIELD CONFERENCE for ECOLOGISTS & POST GRADUATES 13-25 
August 96 
The main purpose of this meeting is to explore the creation of a concept 
of human ecology derived from a knowledge of classical ecology. The 
question: "How to disseminate scientific ecological knowledge within the 
social ecological movement". Ecology researchers, teachers of Higher 
Education and post-graduates with a serious interest in this subject are 
invited to take part in a the first of a series of meetings or field 
conferences at Centre for Ecological Education in the Ural mountains, 
not far from Ekaterinburg with an international group of scientific 
colleagues including scientists from the Urals Insititute of Ecology and 
Urals University. The content of the programme will be designed 
according to the interests of all the participants. Working languages 
are English and Russian. 

Cost: £860 incl return airfares London-Moscow; $1025 excluding airfares 
>from  USA to Moscow. Both include accommodation, food and internal travel 
in Russia. Travel Insurance & Visas extra. 

Ecologia Foundation is registered as a Scottish Charity whose aim is to 
promote ecological education for all ages, with a particular interest in 
connecting Russian ecologists with those in the rest of the world. 

Please write or e-mail to indicate your interest and for more details.