11 September 2018 − our environmental expert Božica Šorgić, PhD participated in a two-day workshop on air quality TAIEX-EIR P2P that took place in Graz, Austria. She was one of 85 experts from 13 EU countries who exchanged their experience and good practice on air pollution reduction. The main areas addressed were particulate matter and NO2, … Continued
10 September 2018 – Oikon Ltd. – Institute of Applied Ecology signed a contract with Ministry of Sea, Transport and Infrastructure for expert and coordination services for preparation of the Modernization and Restructuring of the Road Sector ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMPLIANCE REPORT of the “Implementing Agencies’” (HC, HAC and ARZ) management systems and operations. Oikon’s … Continued
10 August 2018, Frascati, Italy − How to monitor sea level rise, what are the dynamics of ice melting in Antartica, what makes sea color, carbon cycle on Earth, how to see stress in plants – these topics and many more were in focus at the European Space Agency Summer School 2018 (ESRIN) where our employee … Continued
27 July 2018 − As part of the project “Technical Assistance For Strengthening the National Nature Protection System for Implementation of Natura 2000 Requirements”, the Database Launch Event was held in Ankara, Turkey where we presented a database and applications developed for the establishment of the Natura 2000 ecological network in Turkey. Our experts Siniša Tkalčec … Continued
26th July 2018 − Here’s an interesting byproduct of the analysis we are doing. On the map you can see the result of a raster analysis showing how many minutes of walk it takes from the roads in the Velebit Nature Park (a part of it is in Zadar County) to a certain point. The analysis was … Continued
3-6 July 2018, Salzburg, Austria − Our team member Davor Korman, mag. oecol. participated in the Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg – GI_Forum, where he held a presentation titled “Handling and Extraction of Sentinel 2 Data for the Comparison of Seasonal and Monthly Biomass Assessment Models”. It is a case study about a project in Croatia lead … Continued
11th June 2018 − four of Oikon’s experts have just completed the five-day TAT 2018 international training “Integration of Radar and Optical Remote Sensing in Studying Land Cover/Land Use Change”, hosted by University of Zagreb. Ivona Žiža, Nela Jantol, Davor Korman and Alen Berta, PhD, attended the lectures and training activities of the Trans-Atlantic Training (TAT) … Continued
8th June 2018 − This week the 3rd International scientific and expert conference “Natural resources, green technology and sustainable development / 3-GREEN2018“ was held in Zagreb with the aim to bring together leading experts in the field from around the world to present recent achievements, share the latest developments and address the challenges. Oikon’s experts participated in … Continued
May 28, 2018 − Croatian Agency for Environment and Nature (CAEN) presented the results of the project “Carbon sink assessment in dead organic matter and average wood stock assessment in maquis, shrubbery and first age class stands in Croatian forests“, which was launched to meet the reporting obligations of the United Nations under the United Nations … Continued