May 15, 2019 – Oikon has founded a new department focused primarily on legal consulting related to the environmental legislation. The Department of Environmental Law, Policy and Economics is Oikon’s fourth department and is headed by our experienced environmental legal expert Alida Ban Pavlović. The consulting services the Department offers are primarily in the form … Continued
May 13, 2019 – We have recently started working on a new and interesting project – Monitoring of urchins and sea cucumbers in the Adriatic. The research is conducted by scuba diving and includes 13 locations for sea cucumbers and 13 locations for sea urchins throughout the Adriatic, including the protected areas such as the … Continued
May 10, 2019 – today Laboratory for Fish and Aquatic Ecosystems started with its work at Oikon. This is already our third laboratory and it specializes in research in fisheries and in maintenance and restoration of aquatic ecosystems. The Laboratory’s most common activities are ecosystem assessments, monitoring of economic activities, restoration of degraded water ecosystems, … Continued
April 9, 2019 – At the ceremony celebrating the 50th anniversary of its continuous work, Croatian Ecological Society (HED) awarded two plaques as acknowledgement of significant contribution to the work of the Society. Both of them were given to two of our staff – Vladimir Kušan, PhD and prof. Milorad Mrakovčić, PhD. Photos by Croatian … Continued
Zagreb, 11th March 2019 – As part of today’s meeting of representatives of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Ministry of Science and Education on the occasion of Croatia’s membership negotiations in ESA, we held a presentation of Oikon and the activities of the Laboratory for Remote Sensing and GIS – LADIGIS. Oikon was … Continued
February 27, 2019 – The book “Renewable Energy and Landscape Quality” is the main product of the four-year project COST action TU1401, and our researcher Nela Jantol is among the contributors as an author of the preview chapter for Croatia. The objectives of the project were to analyze the effects of the development of renewable … Continued
February 15, 2018 – Our researchers Ana Ostojić, Vjera Pavić and Matija Kresonja participated in the 3rd Symposium on Freshwater Biology (SOBS). Matija held a presentation titled “Fountains – extreme habitats or source of biodiversity in urban areas?” The symposium was organized by Croatian association of freshwater ecologists (CAFE) in cooperation with the Department of … Continued
Brno, 5-8 February 2019 – Our researcher Nela Jantol participated at the 11th EARSeL Imaging Spectroscopy Workshop in Brno, a Czech town where Gregor Mendel performed his famous experiments with pea plan breading. Nela didn’t study peas, but learned how to record vegetation with different sensors. Organized by EARSeL and CzechGlobe, the workshop gathered 185 … Continued
December 28, 2018 − Ministry of Environment and Energy appointed Oikon’s Head of the Laboratory for Research and Monitoring of Large Carnivores, Goran Gužvica, PhD, as member of the wolf and lynx intervention team in the Republic of Croatia for the year 2019. The wolf and lynx intervention team in the Republic of Croatia acts on the … Continued