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
December 12-13, 2018 − two of our employees participated in the European Network for Rural Development (ENRD) workshop/capacity building in Bratislava, Slovakia. The two-day workshop was organised by the European Evaluation Helpdesk for Rural Development with the aims to: show and discuss practical examples of evaluation approaches for assessing the environmental related CAP Pillar II impact indicators and … Continued
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December 3, 2018 − Oikon (and LADIGIS) have strengthened forces with one more scientist – dr. sc. Ivan Tomljenović, Master of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, who received his PhD in Natural Sciences in 2016 from the Doctoral College GIScience at the Department of Geoinformatics at the University of Salzburg in the field of remote sensing, namely forming transferable … Continued