The IEE RAS team sincerely congratulates Lyudmila Borisovna on her 70th birthday! We wish her good health, success in scientific and educational activities!
The IEE RAS team wholeheartedly congratulates Sergei Valerievich on his 55th birthday, wishes him good health, success in scientific and administrative activities, happiness and harmony!
During the expedition, the staff collected soil samples in cracks on the slope of the southern exposure, where high humidity and abundant leaf litter create ideal conditions for soil fauna.
The monograph "Analytical Catalogue of Freshwater and Brackish-Water Mollusks of Russia and Adjacent Countries" is available for reading and downloading on the IEE RAS website.
One of the camera traps, installed in a typical leopard biotope - a broad-leaved forest of oak, hornbeam and other species with glades partially overgrown with rose hips, filmed Khosta at dusk, the usual time of predator activity.
Work on verifying habitat types in this region has been ongoing since 2023 and continues a series of studies previously conducted in the Lesser Khingan.
The task was not an easy one - to confirm the habitation (and, possibly, the origin) of a number of cryobiont (living in the cold) animal species, still considered Arctic, in the mountains of Southern Siberia.
The technique opens up new possibilities for monitoring the effects of climate change in the circumpolar region, combining high accuracy with unprecedented speed of analysis.
The monograph “Marine and Brackish-Water Gastropods of Russia and Adjacent Countries: Illustrated Catalog” is available for reading and downloading on the IEE RAS website.
A Jack Russell Terrier named Zhuzha was taught to search for whales by smell. This is the first time such an experiment has been conducted in our country.
Expedition to count birds listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation confirms the fears of specialists: the species is disappearing in the European part of Russia.
The visit of the Russian specialists attracted a lot of attention, a special report about the work of the delegation was aired on the Chinese Central Television CNR.
The Baikal seal species lives only in Lake Baikal. Due to the specifics of its habitat, this species differs from its relatives and requires separate study.
The Russian Science Foundation (RSF) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) are now accepting applications for the sixth joint competition for international research projects. Since 2021, 255 Russian-Chinese research teams have received support through this bilateral partnership.
We invite you to participate in an interdisciplinary symposium dedicated to the pressing issue of zoning the Himalayas and the Himalayan region. This event will be held in person and remotely on Thursday and Friday, November 19–20, 2026, in the heart of St. Petersburg, at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1 Universitetskaya Embankment, St. Petersburg).
We invite you to participate in the XV All-Russian Conference "The White Sea: On the Edge of the Arctic" (formerly "Study, Rational Use, and Protection of Natural Resources of the White Sea").
We invite you to participate in the III All-Russian Conference "Intracellular Signaling and Metabolism, Transport, and Cytoskeleton," which will be held April 22–24, 2026, in St. Petersburg. The conference is a continuation and development of the All-Russian Conference "Cell Biology in Culture," which has been regularly held at the Irkutsk Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences since the 1980s.
We invite you to participate in the International Conference "Diversity of Soils and Biota in Northern and Central Asia," dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the Institute of General and Experimental Biology (IGEB SB RAS), which will be held June 16–19, 2026, in Ulan-Ude, Russia.
The "Modern Problems of Geophysics" seminar resumes its Tuesday meetings at Moscow State University. The first meeting of the year and season will be held on January 27 at 5:00 PM, as a mobile event at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences.