Subject: Russian botany fieldcamp for university students

From: [email-masked] (Liza Hollingshead)
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 12:56:25 GMT

ECOLOGY 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

Ecology Students' Field Research Work Camp     18July-12August 1996*
4 weeks with scientists from the Institute of Ecology, Ekaterinburg. For the
past 6 years students from several British and American Universities have
taken part in the field research projects of Russian Ecology scientists from
the Urals Institute of Ecology of Plants & Animals. They 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) Forest Vegetative Communities:
Ecology of Plants: Geo-botany and Lichenology - Dr Margarita Magomedova,
Senior Research Scientist, Dept of Botany 

2) General Ecology Education: 
To address issues of Human Ecology, Nature Protection and the relationship
between green activism and scientific research: Sergei Krinitsyn. 

Cost: L865 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. 
* Optional extra 3 days in St Petersburg 13-16 August: L125 / $200

For the past 6 years students from several British and American Universities
have taken part in field research projects of Russian Ecology scientists from
the Urals Institute of Ecology of Plants & Animals. They live with the
scientists and their teams in a camp in a beautiful, remote area of the South
Taiga Forest,  mid-Urals. The closest city is Ekaterinburg. Maximum 10
students

Credit for US Universities is possible - ask for information. 

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