December
18, 2002 |
ULRMC Launches the Project “Integrated Area Assessment in Southwestern Crimea to Support Natural Resources Conservation Using Remote Sensing and GIS”. The project will apply remote sensing and GIS technologies to the integrated assessment of natural and land resources of the area
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December
12, 2002 |
The Ministry of Environment and Nature Resources of Ukraine and ULRMC signed an Agreement on Scientific and Technical Cooperation, demonstrating their will to expand and foster their partnership in the application of information technologies to the protection and sustainable use of natural resources
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December
2, 2002 |
Altarum and ULRMC have teamed up to provide much-needed assistance to Ukrainian orphanages in the Kyiv region, as well as in the Zakarpattia region. Exceeding the collective generosity of 900 in 2000 and 1,300 in 2001, Altarum and ULRMC have already pledged and extended approximately 1,500 in 2002 support over the past two months
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November
19, 2002 |
David Schaub has joined the staff of Altarum Institute to serve as Technical Advisor to ULRMC in Kyiv. Schaub is a specialist in Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing. Schaub previously worked as a Research Specialist at the University of Arizona (UA) where he validated image data for NASA's Earth Observation Science program
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November
19, 2002 |
ULRMC hosted an Open Door Day as part of the Program initiated by MyLand Association to strengthen the network of partner and member organizations and to make them accessible to all interested parties
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November
15, 2002 |
ULRMC participated in the Award Ceremony of the Ford Motor Company Conservation & Environmental Grants Competition, established to support projects on environmental and cultural protection in Ukraine
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September
30, 2002 |
ULRMC hosted natural reserve experts, who came from the six oblasts of Ukraine and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, to participate in the next session in a series of workshops on the practical use of remote sensing and GIS tools in reserve management
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September
8, 2002 |
ULRMC presented information supporting projects in urban planning at the 8th International Architecture Exhibition - NEXT, in Venice, Italy, one of the world's major events in art and architecture, exposing the Center's activities to more than 13,000 visitors in the first two weeks after its opening
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August
15, 2002 |
ULRMC hosted the seminar "Remote Sensing of Fire's Role in Carbon Exchange (Using the Example of Northern Forests in North America)" that discussed direct and indirect effects of fire on land/atmosphere carbon exchange
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Spring - Summer
2002 |
ULRMC initiated a series of round table discussions entitled "Environment. Resources. Security", in partnership with the Environmental and Resources Research Institute of Ukraine, aiming to draw wide public attention to critical environmental issues in Ukraine
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| July 2002 |
ULRMC launched a project jointly with the Local Ecological Actions Program (LEAP) aimed to study capabilities for IT application to support the operation of the local environmental committees in Crimea, and Eastern and Western Ukraine
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June
21, 2002 |
LRMC Participated in the Environmental Expedition to the Dnipro River Source. A public group trip under the UNDP/GEF Dnipro Basin Environmental Program symbolized the beginning of the Dnipro River rehabilitation. The key objective of this expedition was to attract the attention of all levels of the public in the Dnipro Basin countries to the problems of the Dnipro
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June
19, 2002 |
Second academic year of Altarum/Nansen University Fellowship Program was sucessfully completed with the three UFP Student Fellows (two master's students and one second-year Ph.D. candidate) defending their work before the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv
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May
30, 2002 |
ULRMC/ECOMM and Altarum hosted American Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual for discussions and dinner at the Fifth International Conference on the Use of Geoinformation Technologies for Territorial Development Management, held in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine
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May
24, 2002 |
ULRMC presented its information projects on environmental management and monitoring of hazardous situations at the Fifth All-Ukrainian Exhibition "Environment 2002", held at the National Exhibition Center, along with other Ukrainian companies and organizations dealing with environmental protection issues
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April
18, 2002 |
GPS Tools Used in Mapping Tulip Areas in Crimea.
A joint field expedition by ULRMC and Vernadsky Tavria National University in Simferopol confirmed the existence of areas of Tulipa schrenkii Regel, a Red Book species, in the lands surrounding Crimean Sivash
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March
26, 2002 |
ULRMC organized a training entitled "Systematization of Spatial Data and its Processing for Biodiversity Protection, with Application of GIS Tools."
The training became the first of its kind in Ukraine for natural reserve experts in the design of spatial databases and the application of GIS and remote sensing data
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March
1, 2002 |
ULRMC hosted a seminar entitled "Mathematical Modeling in Environmental Management," the first in a series of seminars to be held by ULRMC.
This seminar series seeks to bring together mathematical model users and developers in Ukraine with ULRMC to review the existing modeling market in environmental management, emergency planning and health protection
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| February 16, 2002 |
Dr. Vasyl Prydatko, ULRMC Specialist for Biodiversity and Ecology, was named as one of the ten regional members of the Regional Ornithological Monitoring (ROM) Executive Board, operating under the auspices of the newly established Sea of Azov-Black Sea Ornithological Union
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