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In 2003, supported by Trust for Mutual Understanding, five activists
from Russia were able to come to Southern California to participate in
SCGIS International Program. With other SCGIS scholars, they stayed for
one week at the James
San Jacinto Mountains Reserve where they received training in ArcGIS
and learned about the latest high-tech GIS approaches for studying
ecosystems in Southern California. Interns also received several days of
training at ESRI's headquarters in Redlands before heading to Monterey
for the SCGIS conference. Immediately following the SCGIS Conference,
everyone traveled down to San Diego for five days to attend the ESRI
User Conference, where over 10,000 GIS users congregated and shared
their work and ideas. After the conferences, with their brains full of
new information, they returned to Redlands for another week of GIS
training by ESRI instructors before going home.
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Yury Rozhkov
Olekminsky Nature Reserve, Olekminsk, Russia
Yury is the Deputy Director for Olekminsky Nature
Reserve. The Reserve occupies territory of about 120x80 kilometers in
Yakutia, one of the coldest sites in Siberia. Yury maintains GIS
databases on ecosystem conditions and habitat in the Reserve during long
winters with temperatures often reaching as low as -60C. You can email
to Yury at ecos@olekma.sakha.ru
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Alexandra Egorova
Siberian Ecological Center, Novosibirsk, Russia
Alexandra is a biologist and GIS Director for NGO
Siberian Ecological Center. She works on mapping the condition of the
forests around the city of Novosibirsk, as well as on the application of
GIS in preservation of steppe ecosystems in southwestern Siberia. Her
email address is esasha@ecoclub.nsu.ru
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Larisa Faleychik
Chita Institute of Natural Resources, Chita, Russia
Larisa uses GIS to identify high conservation
value forests in Transbaikal region. She was one of
the many attendees at our GIS training in Chita in
April 2003. Contact her at lmfaleychik@yandex.ru
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Elena Hristev
Biodiversity Office, Kishinev, Moldova
Originally from Saint Petersburg, Russia, Elena
lives in Moldova now and works with many local
groups on sustainable development and biodiversity
conservation. You can contact her at elena_hristev@mail.md
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Alexander Yumakaev
Russian Society for Conservation GIS, Barnaul,
Russia
Formerly with Fund for 21st Century Altai,
Alexander has years of experience in GIS
applications for conservation projects. Together
with Mikhail Paltsyn of the Altaisky Nature Reserve, Alexander has been
an instructor for our training seminars in Russia since 1999. As part of
an effort to create a Russian chapter of SCGIS, he participated in the
organization of Russian SCGIS Conferences in 2000 and 2002. Alexander's
email address is yumakaev@yahoo.com
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