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With continued support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding, three
Russians working in conservation traveled to Washington D.C. to acquire
GIS training before participating at the Society for Conservation GIS
2004 Conference in Sheperdstown, West Virginia. In Washington D.C. they
were joined by Prashant Hedao and Rankin Holmes of BSCI, as well as
another 18 or so interns from the Society for Conservation GIS. Here
they received two weeks of GIS training in a variety of areas such as
Geodatabase design and management, ArcGIS Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst
and Internet Map Services. After the GIS trainings, everyone traveled
to Sheperdstown for the SCGIS Conference interns were able to present
and share to individuals from all around the globe, the GIS conservation
work they are conducting at their homes in Russia. After the Conference
the interns traveled back to D.C. for another week of GIS training
before flying home.
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Anna Kvashnina
Denezhkin Kamen Nature Preserve
Severouralsk, Sverdlovskaya Oblast
With Anna’s guidance the Denezhkin Kamen Preserve
have started to develop a spatial database of species distribution
within the context of landscape structure, as defined by vegetation,
topography and land-use patterns. With this data they hope to post a
public web page that can be accessed by all interested parties to help
in education and awareness of the management issues in the preserve.
Also, in the spring of 2005, our BSCI staff will travel to Severouralsk
to conduct a GIS training for the Denezhkin Kamen staff and other Nature
Reserves throughout the Ural region. With Anna’s training and
experience we believe it shall just be a matter of time before they
succeed in their largest GIS endeavors. Anna’s email address is zap_dk@hotbox.ru
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Aleksander Arbachakov
Taiga Research and Protection Agency (AIST)
Kemerovo Oblast
Aleksander is the director of Siberia's
Taiga Research and Protection Agency (AIST). AIST promotes conservation
and public participation in natural resource decisions, and operates a
monitoring program that tracks mining and forest development activity in
the region. Aleksander took part in a BSCI GIS training in Abakan,
Russia in the spring of 2003 when we decided he would be a great
individual to invest in. Since attending the SCGIS Conference and
trainings this past September/October, BSCI has also sent staff to work
at Aleksanders office’s in Kemerovo as well as trained other AIST staff
at a GIS training we conducted in Gorno-Altaisk, Altai Republic in
November of 2004. You can email Aleksander at belsu@rikt.ru
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Vadim Kirichenko
Kamchatka League of Independent Experts
Petropavlosk, Kamchatka
Vadim is the GIS Specialist with the Kamchatka
League of Independent Experts (KLIE). KLIE is active in a variety of
conservation issues surrounding and on the Kamchatka peninsula. KLIE
works closely with organizations such as Pacific Environment, ISAR FE,
Wild Salmon Center and us here at BSCI. Although, Vadim is a very
advanced GIS Specialist, KLIE is hoping to launch an Internet Map
Service, which provides GIS mapping via the internet making for a great
educational and informational tool. Vadim traveled to the U.S.
specifically to obtain these skills and share his work with other folks
working in GIS Conservation around the globe. Email vadim@klie.ru
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