We invite school students, students of high school, PhD students and young scientists to exchange and communicate on geography and environmental science.

Following sessions are organized:

1. Hydrometeorology

·        Earth’s climate system changes and its impacts on processes in the hydrosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere and cryosphere.
·        Study and modeling of natural hazards: geomorphic and cryogenic processes, extreme hydro and meteorological events)
·        Dynamics of ice sheet, mountain glaciation and permafrost
·        Geomorphic processes and global environmental change
·        Geomorphic processes and long term landscape evolution

2. Environmental science and nature management

·   Environmental impact assessment
·        Environmental constraints and limits
·        Environmental impact statement and basis of human activities
·        Land use and industry adaptation to environment
·        Man induced and complex systems
·        Man made relief
·        Reclamation and restoration
·        Urban and rural ecological infrastructure
·        Environmental comfort and morbidity
·        Environmentally appropriate technologies
·        Ecological risks and safety
·        Processes of greening and humanization
·        Environmental policy
·        Climate change impact on human activity (i.e. heritage sites, food security, indigenous peoples, human health etc.)

3. Economic, social, political geography and tourism.
·        Spatial distribution of economic industries, geography of services sector
·       Production networks
·       Tourism and regional development
·       Economic sustainability of regions
·       Globalization and developing regions, emerging economies
·       Uneven of regional development
·       Resource management
·       Labor resources
·       Spatial division of labour
·       Population change
·       Settlements networks and systems
·       Urban studies
·       Environmental and economic aspects of environmental management
·       National inventories of natural resources
·       Technological change and innovation geography
·       Geography of investments 

 4. Physical geography, cartography and GIS-technologies

· The study of natural factors of development of the geographical environment
·  Study of landscapes and landscape components in protected natural areas
·   Biodiversity, soil and  landscape diversity
·   Supply of natural resources
·  The evolution of natural geosystems. Paleogeographic studies
·   Geochemistry of natural landscapes
·   Ecosystem characteristics
·   Environmental protection and conservation
·   Ecosystem services

·   Web cartography
·   Geographic Information System Mapping
·   Map design
·   GIS for natural and man-induced systems management
·   Аerospace methods in geography
·   Cartography and GIS education
·   Internet cartography and  electronic atlases ·   Remote sensing in environmental researches ·   Spatial analysis
·   Modeling in geography
·   Forecast methods
·   Statistics in geography
·   Dating methods 

5. Poster session

For masters, undergraduates, postgraduates and young scientists: a poster and a message up to 3 minutes (the format of the poster is A1 vertical).
The poster should reflect the results of the study.

Please, take notice:

1. Only INDIVIDUAL abstracts are permitted to submission.

    2. Organizing Team and Expert Committee will not consider abstracts submitted by the group of authors and sent by e-mail.     

                       Presentations of participants:

      1. bachelors -presentation and message (up to 7 minutes);
      2. masters, undergraduates, postgraduates and young scientists: a poster and a message up to 3 minutes (the format of the poster is A1 vertical). The poster should reflect the results of the study.

Requirements for abstracts - ABSTRACTS

Organizing Team:

Assistant Prof. Sergey Sokratov - Deputy Dean for Research of Faculty of Geography, Ph.D. in Geography (chair).

Assistant Prof. Andrey Ivanov - Deputy Dean for Students' Research of Faculty of Geography, Ph.D. in Geography (vice chair).

Svetlana Pligina  - Head of Department of Scientific and Research work management (coordinator).

Liudmila Zaytseva - Senior Specialist of Department of Scientific and Research work management.

Pavel Konstantinov - Head of The Council of Young Scientists, Faculty of Geography, Assistant Prof., Ph.D. in Geography

Valentina Toporina - Senior Research Scientist of Environmental Management Department, Ph.D. in Geography (secretary).