News
January 24, 2018
The facility is established by merging the three core facilities that had formerly operated under reorganized legal entities:
1. Core Facility of the Institute of Biology KarRC RAS “Multidisciplinary basic and applied research on the functioning of living systems in the North”;
2. Core Facility of the Institute of Geology KarRC RAS;
3. Core Facility “Analytical Laboratory” of the Forest Research Institute KarRC RAS.
The newly established CF also comprises structural units of the Northern Water Problems Institute KarRC RAS: Laboratory of Hydrochemistry and Hydrogeology, and Laboratory of Palaeolimnology.
CF Director is Olga N. Bakhmet, DSc, RAS Corr. Fellow. CF will work in the following areas:

  • “Biological studies of living systems in the North” (area leader: Nina N. Nemova, DSc, RAS Corr. Fellow (IB KarRC RAS));

  • “Physico-chemical studies of rocks and minerals” (area leader: Anzhela I. Mikhailova, PhD (IG KarRC RAS));

  • “Physico-chemical methods for the study of forest biogeocoenoses” (area leader: Natalia A. Galibina, PhD (FRI KarRC RAS));

  • “Hydrochemical, hydrogeochemical, geochemical studies of bottom sediments” (area leader: Alexander V. Ryzhakov, PhD (NWPI KarRC RAS)).

  • Kindly include the following reference in your publications: “The study was carried out with equipment of the Core Facility of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences”.

    CF page on the web portal “Contemporary research infrastructure of the Russian Federation”

    CF page on KarRC RAS website

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