19-23 September 2018 – 13th Croatian Biological Congress with International Participation, organized by Croatian Biological Society, took place in Poreč. It is a traditional congress that takes place every third year and has been gathering biologists from different fields of biological science for over 35 years now. Six of Oikon’s experts participated in the Congress, … Continued
21 September 2018 − two of our experts, Monika Petković and Marko Augustinović, participated in “Life with bears – 26th International Conference on Bear Research and Management” which took place from 16 to 21 September 2018 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The main theme of the conference, which gathered over 250 bear researchers and bear managers, was human-bear coexistence in human … Continued
14 September 2018 – Our expert Davor Korman spent five days at the University of Leicester participating at the 8th Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA). He learned about the application of radar and optical satellite sensors in the field of environmental science, land cover mapping, forest … Continued
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