Participants: WCS Russia holds seminars for scientific specialists representing various academic institutes, federal universities, protected areas, and federal and provincial agencies see Map below for geographic distribution of recent attendees. Species distribution modeling.
March 22 — April 16, Modeling drivers affecting the distribution of species, creating habitat suitability maps. April , Making scientific information accessible for lay audience. Intro to GIS. March , a workshop on how to write scientific articles for the staff of Pechora-Ilychskii Nature Reserve. It is training on how to get the most popular skill. In contrast to several decades ago, biological studies today must be backed by rigorous statistical methods to be considered credible.
The statistical program known simply as R is currently being used in an overwhelming majority of biological studies being published today. With huge analytical advantages over Statistica, the statistics program most-used in Russia, R is actually much easier to use once an initial learning curve has been mastered.
Our goal with this workshop was to help participants overcome their fear of statistics in general, and of R in particular. This workshop targeted graduate students and early-career professionals.
Scientific methods of data collection and analysis are constantly evolving, but the ability to effectively convey complex ideas to different audiences remains foundationally important. The purpose of this week-long seminar was to learn how to communicate thoughts to a target audience, from structuring scientific manuscripts for publication to giving public presentations before scientific and lay audiences.
Participants, mostly graduate students and early-career wildlife conservationists and managers, wrote articles and prepared reports, and then discussed and edited them in a group setting.
We covered multiple topics including abundance assessment techniques like indices, estimates, capture-recapture methods, and transects, various models of survival estimation, population growth rate analysis, and design of monitoring programs. The audience of 25 individuals included graduate students from the Far Eastern Federal University and staff of regional protected areas. Every student practiced designing their own research program.
The workshop received high evaluations and many students said that it would be nice to have more time for exercises and practice. We covered grant writing e. Each day was filled with ample time for participants to work on drafts of their grant proposals or scientific manuscripts with trainers circulating throughout the room to answer questions and consult on a one-on-one basis.
We held regular, group feedback sessions, where participants volunteered to show their progress and receive critical feedback from the rest of the group. After dinner each night, workshop participants gave short Powerpoint presentations about their projects or regions of origin.
While not specifically related to writing, this was an important part of the daily routine as it allowed participants to learn about their colleagues and the unique locations where they live and work.
This section was very well received and helped build interest and comradery among participants. In our post-workshop follow ups, as a direct result of this training, we learned that nine participants of 17 total met their post-workshop goals of either submitting manuscripts for peer-review or proposals for grants. Advanced level seminar for dedicated professionals. In the early 19th—20th centuries the population of the region was formed by immigrants from different corners of the Great Russian Empire, as well as from Korea and China.
After the establishment of Soviet rule in Primorye in the s, demobilized soldiers from all parts of the Soviet Union settled down here as well. The coastal waters of the Russian Pacific region from the Sea of Japan to the Sea of Okhotsk are incredibly rich in all kinds of living organisms: bivalves scallops, mussels, oysters, anadara, corbicula, spizula , echinoderms sea urchins and sea cucumbers , crustaceans crabs, shrimp , cephalopods squid, octopus , and seaweed kelp.
The Taiga boreal forest provides the region with many wild plants, including Kish-mish Actinidia , Schisandra common name — five-flavor berry , pine nuts, ferns, wild garlic, mushrooms, and delicious berries. All of it is caught, hunted, picked, cooked, and served at the table, making the Far Eastern cuisine a true gastronomic phenomenon.
It is unlikely to find a cookbook from the Russian Far East. Locals will give dirty looks to chefs who attempt to fillet a fish before frying. At the same time, they know a thousand ways to prepare calamari, they can tell the difference in taste between a snow crab and a red king crab, and they believe that almost everything in the scallop shell is edible. Korean culinary tradition influenced our cuisine the most.
Unlike the Chinese, who were mostly seasonal workers before the Great October Revolution, Koreans have settled down and lived here till their deportation to Central Asia and Sakhalin at the end of the s.
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