The Russian Association of Phytolith Researchers
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- October 21, 2024
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The Russian Association of Phytolith Researchers (RAP) was founded in 2014 by Alexandra Golyeva and Denis Gavrilov. At the same time, a regional community website was created: https://www.фитолит.рф/ru/.
The main goals of the RAP are:
1. Development of communication between phytolith researchers from various scientific organizations in Russia;
2. Sharing knowledge between individual scientific teams;
3. Development of a regional nomenclature for plant phytoliths that aligns with international recommendations (ICPN 2.0);
4. Organization of internships for young researchers;
5. Development of a community website that allows easier access to research articles by Russian scientists.
The current chairperson of the community is Alexandra Golyeva, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, Chief Scientist, Department of Soil Geography and Evolution, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Currently, the RAP unites scientists from the following scientific organizations: Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow); Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushchino); Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Atlantic Branch (Kaliningrad); Tomsk State University (Tomsk); Аltai State University (Barnaul); Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk); Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, (Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk).
Since its founding, the RAP has held three meetings:
1. The first meeting was held in 2016 at the Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry (Novosibirsk) as part of the All-Russian Youth School-Conference with International Participation in a session entitled “Biogenic Archives of Landscape Changes of the Past”.
2. The second meeting was held in 2018 on the campus of Altai State University (Barnaul, Artybash) as part of the International Conference on Problems of Botany of Southern Siberia and Mongolia. The meeting was dedicated to the memory of the outstanding Russian phytolith researcher Nina Kuzminichna Kisileva, who made great contributions to botany and paleoecology, including the study of secular variability in animal nutrition.
3. The third meeting of Russian phytolith researchers was held in 2022 at the Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry (Novosibirsk) as part of an all-Russian scientific conference “Soils and the Environment”. The meeting was dedicated to the memory of the outstanding young scientist Denis Gavrilov, who passed away during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was a unique scientist who used an integrated approach to study soil ecology and genesis. One of his final studies was devoted to phytolith transport in texturally differentiated soils (DOI: 10.9734/ARRB/2017/37227) https://journalarrb.com/index.php/ARRB/article/view/1017.