International camp "Bioterra"

Session for undergraduates, postgraduates and specialists engaged in different fields of biological scientific research

• Support of scientific research works, ecological education, and training.
• Joining of the youth to the World Wildlife Heritage, ways of its investigation and preservation.
• Experience with different cultures and languages, and with the conduct of scientific field work in a harsh environment*.
• Introduction to a wide range of biological phenomena and research opportunities in the Bering seaside.
• Discussion of current controversies and themes in biodiversity.

* Participants must be in good health, be capable undertaking long, strenuous hikes carrying substantial loads, and be willing to camp under primitive and remote conditions.

• Studying of the river salmon ecosystem, and biology of salmon.
• Goebotanical research of the north-western coast of the Bering Island.
• Species definition of the sea animals.
• Phenological research.
• Ornithological excursions in nature.

• Traditional ways of nature-use.
• Plants being eaten.
  

! Basic conversational ability in either English or Russian is required.

! The organization fee for participation is 20000 rub per person (travel cost Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky - the Bering Island – Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, living, meals)

Application form

Janna Tolstenko, the Assistant for Foreign Contacts, Scientific Research Department, Vitus Bering Kamchatka State University, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia;

tel./fax: (415-2)433743; e-mail: nio@kamgu.ru;