VyatSUscientist wins one more grant of the RF President
VyatSU Department of Fundamental Chemistry and Methods of Teaching Chemistry has shared the latest achievements.
On December 26th, 2017 the results of competition projects - 2018 on scientific works publication, conducted by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), were summed up. The project titled "Microorganisms as agents of biomonitoring and bioremediation of contaminated soils" by the head of VyatSU Department of Fundamental Chemistry and Methods of Teaching Chemistry, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Professor Tamara Ashihmina was announced the winner.
This monograph will present original methods of bioindication, biotesting, and bioremediation developed by Vyatka State University and the biomonitoring laboratory of the Institute of Biology of the Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In addition, perennial results of natural objects’ studying, obtained by informative express methods of biological analysis will be included there, as well as methods of using biological objects in remediation of technogenic territories. The monograph is addressed to students, post-graduates and specialists in the field of microbiology, ecology and environmental protection.
On December 29, 2017 the results of the contest MK-2018 for receiving Presidential grants was summed up. The winner in the nomination "Earth Sciences, Ecology and Rational Nature Management" has become Eugenia Tovstik, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor from VyatSU Department of Fundamental Chemistry and Methods of Teaching Chemistry. A young scientist conducts an ecological and biological study of soils susceptible to invasion by Sosnovsky hogweed, using remote sensing data (RSD).
The main scientific tasks are:
- identification of long-term dynamics and localization of distribution areas for the Sosnovsky hogweed in Kirov region according to remote sensing data;
- study of chemical and microbiological composition of soils prone to short-term and long-term invasions by the hogweed in local areas, as well as soils free from hogweed;
- isolation of the hogweed into a pure culture of native microorganisms from the soil and rhizosphere in order to assess their inactivating and herbicidal ability related to the hogweed.
The Presidential grand for young scientists previously obtained by Tatyana Adamovich, associate professor from VyatSU Department of Fundamental Chemistry and Methods of Teaching Chemistry, Candidate of Geogr. Sciences, was prolonged for 2018. The grant’s topic is the development of assessment tools for forest and aquatic ecosystems based on remote sensing data of the Earth (on example of Nurgush Nature Reserve and Pizhemsky Reserve).
We congratulate Tamara Ashihmina, Eugenia Tovstik, Tatyana Adamovich and VyatSU Department of Fundamental Chemistry and Methods of Teaching Chemistry with this victory and wish them further success in their scientific research!
