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Otto Kinne Foundation
The Otto Kinne Foundation (OKF) supports promising
young environmental scientists in eastern European countries, without
distinction of race, religion, nationality or sex.
Call for nominations.
Founded in 1992, the OKF is a not-for-profit
organization approved by the local government (Bezirksregierung
Lüneburg).
The OKF provides financial support to postgraduate
scientists who conduct
environmental research and who have demonstrated a high degree of
professional performance. Supportable research includes basic science
and investigations on the protection and management of species and natural
environments.
In particular, the OKF provides financial assistance for (1) research
projects, (2) educational
travel, e.g. visits to renowned research institutions; participation in
important scientific meetings; (3) purchase of scientific equipment
or published information.
The Eastern European countries covered are, in alphabetical order:
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary,
Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldavia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia,
Ukraine.
Organisation
The OKF is operated by a Board of Trustees ('Vorstand') consisting of 6
members: 5 Experts (among them the President and the Vice President) and
1 Administrator. All Trustees work in an honorary capacity. The
President of the OKF is Dr J. Lom, Institute of
Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branisovská 31,
370 05 Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic; Tel: +42-38-41158, Fax: +42-38-47743,
E-mail: jlom@paru.cas.cz.
OKF Board of Trustees
Dr. J. Lom (President), Czech Republic
Prof. V. Kasyanov (Vice President), Russia
Prof. F. Buchholz, Germany
Prof. J. Padisák, Hungary
Prof. M. Plinski, Poland
H. Witt-Thran (Administrator), Germany
OKF Fellows
Alexei (Yesenin) Essenin (1994)
Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Bioindication, 33 Leninsky prospekt,
Moscow 117071, Russia
Supported project: Metal accumulation patterns of terrestrial
invertebrates
Vojtech Novotny (1994)
Institute of Entomology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,
Branisovská 31, 370 05 Ceské Budejovice, Czech
Republic
Supported project: Ecological research on insect groups in a Papua
New Guinea rainforest
Inna M. Sokolova (1995)
White Sea Biological Station, Zoological Institute of the Academy of
Science of Russia, Universitetskaya nab., 1, St. Petersburg 199034,
Russia
Supported project: Influence of salinity on marine bivalve
populations
Andrej V. Grischenko (1995)
Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, St. Petersburg State University,
16 Linia, 29, St. Petersburg 199178, Russia
Supported project: Ecology of intertidal bryozoans of the Commodore
Islands shelf region
Ferenc Baska (1995)
Veterinary Medical Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
POB 18, 1581 Budapest, Hungary
Supported project: Identification of fish coccidia and myxosporea
using MAb and PCR techniques
Andrei A. Filippov (1997)
Laboratory of Brackishwater Biology, Zoological Institute of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya naberezhnaya 1, 1999034
St. Petersburg, Russia
Supported project: Benthic fauna of the Aral Lake under impact of
changed environment
Konstantin A. Lutaenko (1997)
Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy
of Sciences, Palchevsky Street 17, Vladivostok 690041, Russia
Supported project: Paleoclimatology as reflected by molluscan fauna
of Eurasian coastal regions
Sergey V. Dobretsov (1997)
Laboratory of Invertebrate Zoology, Biological Research Institute,
St. Petersburg University, Oranienbaumskoye sch. 2, Stary Peterhof
198904, Russia
Supported project: Successional community dynamics of hydrozoan and
mollusc larvae
Marina I. Orlova (1997)
Laboratory of Brackishwater Biology, Zoological Institute of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya naberezhnaya 1, 1999034
St. Petersburg, Russia
Supported project: Salinity responses and their molecular background
in euryhaline and stenohaline species of dreissenid bivalves
Marie Alexandrovna Saburova (1998)
Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, National Academy of the Ukraine, Prospekt Nakhimova 2,
Sevastopol 335001, Crimea, Ukraine
Supported project: Studies on the distribution, migration, cell cycle and nutrition of microalgae
in marine intertidal sediments and environmental factors which may affect them
Jan Zukal (1998)
Institute of Landscape Ecology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Kvetná 8, 60365 Brno,
Czech Republic
Supported project: Research on the ecology of bats, their foraging activity, changes in abundance and problems of bat conservation
András Báldi (1998)
Animal Ecology Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian
Natural History Museum, Baross u. 13, H-1088 Budapest, Hungary
Supported project: Testing of indicators of biodiversity in Hungarian nature reserves
Alexey Valerievich Smirnov (1999)
St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology, Department of
Invertebrate Zoology, St. Petersburg, Russia
Supported project: Elucidation of distribution and dynamics of abundance of gymnamoebae in
bottom sediments of a freshwater lake, using a newly developed original
method. (The results will also be published as an original homepage, making
systematical and ecological information on amoebae - a very important
component of freshwater biota - easily accessible.)
Andrei Nikolaevich Ostrovsky (1999)
St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology, Department of
Invertebrate Zoology, St. Petersburg, Russia
Supported project: Reproductive patterns and life cycles of White Sea bryozoans, with
special emphasis on the structure and dynamics of populations of different
species. Studies on breeding seasons, larval release and colony growth and
its rates in different environments will also be performed
Alexey Vladimirovich Rybakov (1999)
Chorology Department, Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of
the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia
Supported project: Larval characters in the taxonomy of parasitic cirriped barnacles
(Rhizocephalid crustaceans). These parasites can severely affect
commercial crab fisheries. New features of larval morphology will greatly
improve methods of species identification and diagnostics of these
parasites and help to elucidate the evolutionary pathways of
different species
Vojtech Novotny (2001)
Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
Supported project: Beta diversity of herbivorous insects in lowland rainforests of Papua New Guinea. Development of conservation strategies for the lowland tropics. Training and education of local parataxonomists. The project strives to answer questions of major importance in biodiversity research and conservation emphasizing resource management
Yuri Kvach (2001)
Department of Zoology, Odessa University, 2 Shampansky Provulok, 65058 Odessa, Ukraine
Supported project: Biodiversity of helminths of gobiid fishes from the North-Western Black Sea region. Gobiid fishes in marine lagoons are an important part of the food chain and constitute significant resources of the fishing industry. Based on original data on biodiversity of helminths, their infection prevalence and intensity in goby species, the research focuses on parasite-induced changes of the population structure and reproductive capacity
Csaba Székely (2001)
Veterinary Medical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 21, Hungaria krt, Budapest, H-1142, Hungaria
Supported project: Parasitoses in fresh-water and pond-farm fisheries, including control measures. Research on biology, life cycles, pathogenicity and treatment of selected parasites in freshwater aquaculture, with emphasis on alternative hosts in the life cycle of Myxosporea
Alexander V. Kirdyanov (2003)
Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia
Supported project: Tree-ring growth - climate interactions along the longitudinal transect in Siberia in the context of global and regional climatic changes. Spatial-temporal dynamics of climate effect on conifer tree-ring growth along the regional temperature gradient in Siberia will be investigated. The results of the project will allow estimation of the effect of changing climate on forest vegetation growing on a territory of Central Siberia
Piotr Kuklinski (2003)
Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Science, ul. Powstancow Warszawy 55, Sopot 81-712, Poland
Supported project: Ecology of bryozoans from Svalbard waters. This study intends to address some of the major aspects of the ecology of bryozoan in Svalbard area. Research includes investigation of bryozoan diversity, distribution along various environmental gradients (sedimentation, salinity, temperature), colonization of different type of substrate
Kasia Salwicka-Ciaputa (2003)
Department of Antarctic Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Ustrzycka 10, 12, 02141 Warsaw, Poland
Supported project: Genetic study of Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) population in Admiralty Bay,
King George Island, Antarctica. This study aims to investigate the natural genetic variability
within the local population and evaluate the possible immigration from other sites
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