It was sorrowful news for all worldwide scientific societies. The UBS is deeply saddened by this loss. A vice president of UBS, Dr. Sergei L. Mosyakin, shared his warm memories of Dr. Peter H. Raven in the obituary article:
https://t.co/Qn4YK0N6UH
On April 25, Dr. Peter H. Raven, an outstanding botanist, ecologist, and nature conservationist, passed away. He was a Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the US, a Foreign Member of the NAS of Ukraine, and an Honorary Member of UBS.
The second news is that the Ukrainian Botanical Society has its own official website!
Follow the link to get acquainted with our website and the new issue of the Bulletin.
https://t.co/QEHOlQfPYl
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We have two pieces of amazing news for you!
The first one is that the new issue of the Bulletin of UBT has been published!
The current issue contains interesting articles dedicated to:
• the state of the information sources on geobotany in Ukraine.
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• the main problems and challenges during extraction and work on the botanical data.
• memorial article dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Liudmyla Musatenko — an outstanding plant physiologist.
• review of the new books on botany and tangential fields.
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For the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, ‘Inscience’ public organisation together with @avrora_official launched a project inviting women scientists from all over Ukraine, working in various directions, to share their career paths and research.
Vice President of the Ukrainian Botanical Society, Doctor of Biological Sciences Anna Kuzemko, was invited to participate in the project. She spoke about her research on Velykyi Luh, which was formed on the site of the former Kakhovka Reservoir.
We’ve started a series of lectures by our members. And the first lecture was "New approaches to classification of dry grasslands and garrigues of Southern Europe using the Cocktail method" by @DenysVynokurov. The record of the lecture is available via the link in the comments.
Dear UBS members and our friends!
We wish you happy holidays! A lot of love, enjoyment, and wonderful moments these days! We want all your relatives to be close to you and celebrate these miraculous times together. I hope peace will come to all of us.
Best regards,
UBS. ✨
From October 23 to 25, a young scientists’ Conference ‘Advances in Botany and Ecology’ was held. This year, it took place in Kyiv and was organized by the Institute of Botany of the NAS of Ukraine, the National Botanical Garden of the NAS of Ukraine, and UBS.
During the Conference, the guests took a tour around the Botanical Garden. On the third day, the participants visited the Institute of Botany and had an excursion to the National Herbarium of Ukraine (KW). Further, they moved to Bila Tserkva to visit the ‘Olexandriya’ Arboretum.
A new issue of the UBS Bulletin has been published!
The articles of the new issue are dedicated to 100-anniversary of UBS, the role of the Ukrainian botanists in founding the first protected areas in Ukraine, the contribution of the Ukrainian scientists to phytohormonology, ...
Besides, the Ukrainian Botanical Initiative provides a contest for the best photos that appear on the cover of the Bulletin and its pages. The topic of the competition was fungy. Maria Zykova’s photo of Spinellus fusiger on Mycena sp. won and it is on the cover of the issue.