The XXI International Youth Environmental Conference-Competition “Human and the Biosphere”
The XXI International Youth Environmental Conference-Competition “Human and the Biosphere” was held at VVSU. The university has become a place for dialogue between leading experts and young researchers in the field of environmental protection, nature conservation, eco-tourism and education, and the promotion of public environmental initiatives.
Director of the International Institute of Environment and Tourism of VVSU, a member of the Russian Ecological Academy of Sciences, Galina Gomilevskaya, welcoming the participants, emphasized that the conference played a huge role in uniting schools, universities, the Academy of Sciences, and public organizations.
Participants from all over Russia, as well as from Japan and Canada made presentations. Young ecologists presented the results of their research activities, shared their achievements in improving living conditions in their villages and cities, improving sea coasts, and cleaning rivers and lakes.
On the second day of the conference, undergraduate and graduate students from various Russian universities presented their scientific research works. The reports were devoted to the content of available phosphates in soils from various producers, the dynamics of the development of basil with the use of fertilizers, the analysis of spatial and temporal variability in air temperature in urban and suburban areas, as well as the ecological state of soils.
Participants also clearly demonstrated their research at a poster session. Graphic presentations were devoted to the state of the forest, small rivers, and dragonfly fauna.
As Andrey Goncharov, director of the Federal Scientific Center for Biodiversity of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, noted, for more than 20 years, the country''s leading ecologists have been teaming up with young people and carrying out environmental projects, public environmental assessments, studying the natural world and society, developing and implementing plans to improve the environment.
