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A series of research seminars for FEFU researchers were held under the direction of an eminent Italian ecologist and FEFU Professor Riccardo Valentini in the Far Eastern Climate Smart Lab, the international scientific laboratory. Biologists have got acquainted with the latest methods of the climate research and ecological monitoring data retrieval, and the FEFU economists presented the research project on the assessment of the Far East environmental capital. The researchers have identified joint work plans for the development of a new field in modern science—Climate Impact Science.
"Modern environmental science requires new approaches. We are creating a new scientific field—Climate Impact Science—that is a study of the impact of climate change on people's lives," says Riccardo Valentini. "It is not Physics, Chemistry, Ecology or Economics, but an interdisciplinary field of knowledge. We intend to create a large community of scientists in FEFU that will conduct multilateral research in this field."
Italian scientists became the panelists of the classes. Simon Castaldi, Professor of Ecology, Naples University, spoke about the chemical processes that occur in soils due to the modern environmental change. Ecologist Tommaso Chiti, post-doc at the University of Tuscia (Italy), and Luca Belelli Marchesini, researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, reported on new technologies and methods for environmental studies.
FEFU researchers also presented their ideas. Elena Tyurina, PhD Econ., Deputy Director for Research and Innovation, FEFU School of Economics and Management (SEM), presented the economic group of FEFU researchers: the group consultant, Professor Valentina Sokolenko, SEM Associate Professors Victor Stetsyuk, Anastasia Topchiy, Julia Dyachenko, and Stanislav Podolsky, Senior Lecturers Dmitry Verkhoturov and Snezhanna Frolova. The economists reported that the environmental capital of the Russian Far East is shaping up with taking into account the value of resources, as well as the knowledge of and attitude to them. Riccardo Valentini gave the researchers valuable pieces of advice and comments to draw attention to carbon dioxide market, to its rules and features. In addition, the Associate Professor of the Department of Soil Science, FEFU School of Natural Sciences, Victoria Semal told the colleagues about the soils of the Primorsky Krai as an important economic and ecological resource.
Scientific session was attended not only by the experienced researchers, but also students and post-graduate students.
"I got to know about the research project by Riccardo Valentini during his first visit to FEFU, at the beginning of the year. And it seemed interesting for me, as the mathematician and software developer, whether the methods of mathematical modeling could be involved in this project," says Konstantin Petrov, the post-graduate student specializing in Mathematical Modeling, Numerical Methods and Software Systems, FEFU School of Natural Sciences. "I think that mathematics and software developers would be able to take a noticeable part in this research program."
It should be reminded that the Far Eastern Climate Smart Lab, the international interdisciplinary research project, was created in March 2016. It is one of the FEFU leading research projects, which aim to put the University research on the international level. The leadership by the scientist with an international reputation, the Nobel Laureate Riccardo Valentini, the cross-border topics relating to global environmental problems, and modern concepts of the Climate Impact Science, would be instrumental in achieving the goal.