The 75th All-Russian (with international participation) scientific conference of students and young scientists "Earth sciences: Challenges for the Young" was organized and held by the Institute of Geology KarRC RAS with the support of the Council of Young Scientists IG KarRC RAS, the Department of Earth Sciences and Geotechnology of the Institute of Forestry, Mining and Construction Sciences of the Petrozavodsk State University, and the GeoKarelia project, implemented under a grant from the Federal Youth Agency Foundation.
At the opening session the participants were welcomed by the Director of the Institute, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences Sergey Svetov. He emphasized the importance of the conference for organizing the research activities of students and schoolchildren and drawing young people into science.
Two plenary talks were given at the conference. Olga Yakubovich, Researcher at the Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology RAS, Associate Professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences of the St. Petersburg State University, presented a method of dating low-temperature and ore-forming processes by radiogenic helium. Tatiana Shelekhova, Leading Specialist in Quaternary Deposits at the Institute of Geology KarRC RAS, talked about the role of the glacier in shaping the topography of Karelia.
During the conference undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students, young scientists, and schoolchildren made 19 oral presentations on the results of studies of Archean weathering crusts, Proterozoic pillow basalts, high-pressure complexes of the White Sea province, Onega granulites, gold mineralizations and methods of their prospecting, and other topics.
According to Svetlana Egorova, Secretary of the Organizing Committee and Researcher at the Precambrian Geology and Geodynamics Laboratory IG KarRC RAS, the geography of participants keeps expanding every year.
– This time, in addition to speakers from Petrozavodsk and St. Petersburg, a 10th grader from the Lyceum under the Tomsk Polytechnic University made a presentation at the conference, - Svetlana Egorova informed. - In general, the organizers acknowledged the high activity of the conference guests and participants and the high quality of the presentations, which covered various areas of research within the Earth Sciences knowledge domain.
Concluding the conference, the jury awarded diplomas and memorable gifts to the authors of the best papers.
Photos by Natalya Nesterova, Oleg Maksimov / Institute of Geology KarRC RAS
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More than 50 people took part in the All-Russian Scientific Conference "Earth Sciences: Challenges for the Young", which was held at the Institute of Geology KarRC RAS on April 12. Young scientists, doctoral students, university and school students from Petrozavodsk, St. Petersburg and Tomsk presented the results of their research in the field of geology.
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