On April 25, from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM, the Faculty of Biology, Geography and Ecology invites you to an open day

Ukrainians are invited to join the First All-Ukrainian Bioblitz

Don't miss: the Department of Botany begins updating educational programs of the second (master's) and third (educational and scientific) levels of higher educatоr

On April 12, as part of cooperation with the popular science lecture series Science Kids, Professor of the Department of Botany Oleksandr Khodosovtsev gave a lecture about the oldest forests of Ukraine to young residents of Kherson.

Dear colleagues, friends and concerned citizens! The first issue of the Black Sea Botanical Journal for 2025 has been published. The number is available at the link: https://cbj.kspu.edu/index.php/cbj

Last week, Professor Ivan Moysiyenko, Head of the Department of Botany at Kherson State University, Leading Researcher at the Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve, gave a lecture entitled “Steppe: An Ecosystem with a Choleric Character” for school geography and biology teachers.

Dear colleagues!

On April 10, 2025 at 10:00 a professional seminar (pre-defense) will be held at the Department of Botany, where the dissertation work of Ruslan Igorovich Mishustin "Entomophilous Laboulbeniomycetes of Ukraine", submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (specialty 091 Biology and Biochemistry), will be preliminarily reviewed.

We are pleased to congratulate our colleagues - Professor Ivan Moisienko and his graduate student Nadia Skobel - on the publication of the article "Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity" in the journal Nature, which is one of the most prestigious scientific publications in the world!

Open doors day 

Факультет біології, географії та екології чекає саме на Вас!  УВАГА! 28 березня на факультеті біології географії та екології Херсонського державного університету відбувся День відкритих дверей. Захід пройшов з метою ознайомлення майбутніх вступників з перевагами навчання, сучасними освітніми можливостями та переліком напрямів навчання, за якими здійснюється підготовка на факультеті. Заступниця декана з навчально-методичної роботи Анастасія Шкуропат зазначила: "Сьогодні ви дізнаєтеся чим живе наш факультет, як проходить навчання. Також завідувачі кафедр розкажуть про наші спеціальності та про можливості працевлаштування". Варто зазначити, що факультет біології географії та екології ХДУ має понад 100-річний досвід, оскільки підготовка фахівців здійснюється з часу створення освітнього закладу. Виступали також завідувачі кафедр: проф. Мойсієнко І.І., доцентка Гасюк О.М., доцент Давидов О.В.  На факультеті працюють фахівці у сфері біологічних, географічних та педагогічних наук. Під час викладання навчальних дисциплін кафедри використовуються знання з галузей біології, географії, економіки, екології, педагогіки, хімії, туристичної та заповідної справи. Викладачі застосовують сучасні дистанційні форми з залученням інтерактивних технологій, активно займаються науковою роботою. Спеціальним гостем заходу була представниця приймальної комісії ХДУ Надія Стародубець. Вона надала вичерпні відповіді на всі питання щодо особливостей вступу-2025. ДЕТАЛЬНІШЕ ПРО ВСТУП 2025 ТУТ МИ в Instagram     Facebook  TikTok

The procedure for updating the educational programs of the second and third levels of higher education has begun

PhD student of the Department of Botany Skobel Nadiia (supervisor Prof. Dr. I. Moisienko) took part in the international conference for young botanists CYBO 2023 on February 9-10 (Bolzano, Italy).

Participation in the conference was supported by the National Center of Science of Poland within the framework of the scholarship program for young scientists.

On December 1, after the de-occupation, Doctors of Biological Sciences Ivan Moisienko and Oleksandr Khodosovtsev visited the territory of the Kamianska Sich National Park.

Due to the fact that the front line passed through the territory of the national park, most of its territory was mined. Digging trenches, building dugouts, littering and the constant movement of heavy machinery caused no less damage.

All this causes a huge anthropogenic impact on the ecosystem.

It was also estimated from satellite imagery that almost 625 hectares of valuable land had burned down.

The entire area is almost covered with ammunition. Only on 5% of the territory that the scientists managed to inspect, hundreds or even thousands of munitions were found. There is currently no access to these areas.

Packing, moving, and organizing the collection to the new city is the result of the joint efforts of many people. We are grateful to GBIF Norway for financial support, as well as to Ivan Moisienko, Natalia Zahorodniuk, Maryna Zakharova, Maksym Vynnyk, Alexei Zakharov and others for their personal participation.

Special thanks to Ihor Tsependa, Rector of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, for his cooperation.

In Ivano-Frankivsk, the herbarium will be stored in a room with special conditions and will be available for a wide range of scientists.

Congratulations to Ivan Ivanovych Moisienko, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Professor of the Department of Botany, on receiving the Certificate of Honor from the Directorate of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine.

We wish you new achievements for the development of Ukrainian science!

The third issue of the 18th volume of the Black Sea Botanical Journal is already available on the website at the link:

 http://cbj.kspu.edu/index.php/uk/arkhiv-statej/2022-05-20-07-04-58/tom-18-3

Despite the difficult times, the Scientific Library of Kherson State University replenishes its fund. The library is grateful to these respected Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor I. I. Moisienko and the teacher of the Department of Botany M. Y. Zakharova!

On Nvember 23, at 17:00, another charity online tour organized by the Ukrainian Nature Protection Group (UPG) together with Kherson State University will be held. The tour will be conducted by the member of the UPG Board, Head of the Department of Botany of KSU, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Ivan Moisienko.

An article on twenty-four species of Laboulbeniales, which were described for the first time for Ukraine, was published. The authors of this article are Ruslan Mishustin and Oleksandr Holosovtsev

https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/FCE/article/view/19329

We invite you to the online tour "Kardashynske bog - the only peat bog in the extreme South of Ukraine" for a donation to support conservationists at war!

ZOOM

REGIONAL LANDSCAPE PARK "KINBURN SPIT" CELEBRATES ITS 30TH ANNIVERSARY

https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?

A new species for science Salvia revelata Mátis & A.Z.Szabó was found in the south of Ukraine with the participation of Professor Moisienko I.I.

This species was overlooked for centuries, mistakenly identified as S. austriaca, a closely related taxon.

The new species differs from S. austriaca in key features of floristic structure, range and distribution

More detailed information is available at the link: https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?

The second day of the workshop was no less intense. Dedicated to excursions to the natural Looda and Sooma National Nature Park. Time in the workshop is already coming to an end

The first day of the DarkDivNet workshop at the University of Tartu (Estonia), which takes place from September 29 to October 2, 2022. The workshop is held in a hybrid format. 

DarkDivNet is coordinated by a committee of researchers at the University of Tartu: Meelis Pärtel, Carlos P. Carmona, Martin Zobel, Mari Moora, Kersti Riibak, Riin Tamme.

The main goal is to present semi-final results of the main works and discuss possible interpretations. In particular, the discussion of the DarkDivNet sites (the last of which D154 was investigated in the Kherson region by Moisienko I.I., Vinokurov D.V., with the participation of Dengler U., Dembich I., Shiryaeva D.V., Zakharova M.Y., Daineko P.M., Skobel N.O., Kalashnik K.S.

In total, 134 participants from different countries, most of whom participate online. From the Department of Botany, the workshop participants are Professor Ivan Moisienko and Nadiia Skobel.

The Department of Botany together with the University of Warsaw prepared a dataset in GBIF, which includes 28456 plant finds from the mounds. The research of the mounds lasted from 2004 to 2009 with the support of joint Polish-Ukrainian projects (more details in the dataset)

Citation

Moysiyenko I, Sudnik-Wójcikowska B, Dembicz I, Zachwatowicz M, Skobel N (2022). Flora of kurgans in the "Wild Fields" (Ukraine). Version 1.1. Kherson State University. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/x4drnu accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-09-19.

This is one of the first datasets published by Kherson State University since the beginning of the war. We continue to prepare the next datasets, which will include finds from old parks of Kherson region, old settlements and from the 15th EDGG Field Workshop.

Also now the datapaper of this dataset is being prepared in BDJ (Impact Factor 1.225) Scopus (CiteScore: 2.0). 

We are grateful to everyone involved in the creation of the dataset!

The new issue of of the Black Sea Botanical Journal is already available for review