January 28 – February 1, 2025: The XIV Field School-Seminar “Research on Winter Landscape Conditions,” Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Anatolii Vasylovych Melnyk

From January 28 to February 1, 2025, the XIV Field School-Seminar “Research on Winter Landscape Conditions” was held at the Chornohora Geographical Station, dedicated to the memory of Professor Anatolii Vasylovych Melnyk.

The event was organized by the Departments of Geoecology, Physical Geography, and Rational Use of Natural Resources and Nature Protection, with the support of the Dean of the Faculty of Geography, Associate Professor Volodymyr Bilaniuk, and the University Administration.
Students, postgraduates, and staff from the Faculty of Geography of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and the Faculty of Geography of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University participated in the seminar. Additionally, discussions on the current state of nature conservation in the Carpathian region featured contributions from:
Oleksandr Kyselyuk, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Carpathian National Nature Park,
Zoriana Hostiuk, Senior Researcher of the Hutsulshchyna National Nature Park

A total of 17 participants attended the field school.
The seminar included:
Scientific meetings
Field training on snow measurement surveys
Introduction to the methodology of stationary landscape monitoring studies
A field route along the Prut River valley

Presentations were given by:

• Olesia Buryanyk (LNU) – “Field Schools-Seminars on Mountain Landscape Studies: History, Experience, and Prospects”
• Yevhen Tykhanovych (LNU) – “Research on Snow Avalanche Processes in the Ukrainian Carpathians”
• Sviatoslav Ziuziin (LNU) – “Organization of Winter Hiking Expeditions”
• Myroslav Proskurniak (CNU) – “Landscape Diversity of the Prut-Dniester Interfluve as a Tourist Resource”
• Vitalii Brusak (LNU) – “The Current State of Nature Conservation in Ukraine and Issues of Landscape Diversity Preservation”
• Oleksandr Kyselyuk & Yaroslav Tymchuk (Carpathian National Nature Park) – “Geographical Research in the Carpathian National Nature Park”
• Zoriana Hostiuk (Hutsulshchyna National Nature Park) – “Nature Protection in Action: Experience of the Hutsulshchyna National Nature Park”
• Ivanka Slobodyan (LNU) – “Rare Wetland Habitats of the Shatsk Lake District”
• Ivan Sukhan (UzhNU) – “Geological Foundation Formation of the Polonyna Krasna Mountain Massif”

The organizers of the seminar sincerely thank all participants for their support in organizing and actively participating in this traditional winter field school at the Chornohora Geographical Station.
See you next time in Chornohora!