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Tel. +370 629 64 242
E-mail: valda.araminiene@lammc.lt
Liepų St. 1, Girionys, LT-53101 Kaunas dist., Lithuania
Education
2012–2016 PhD in the Biomedical sciences (Ecology and environmental sciences), Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Vytautas Magnus University (Aleksandras Stulginskis University).
2010–2012 MSc of Applied Ecology, Aleksandras Stulginskis University (since 2019 Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy).
2006–2010 BSc of Ecology, Lithuanian University of Agriculture.
Academic degree
2016 PhD degree in Biomedical sciences (Ecology and environmental sciences), doctoral dissertation “Birch sp. health and growth under current and simulated climate condition”.
Research fields
- Air pollution
- Urban trees
- Climate change
Position
Since 2019 Senior Researcher, Department of Silviculture and Ecology, Institute of Forestry, LAMMC.
Memberships and affiliations with professional organisations
- Since 2017 Member of IUFRO 8 division 04.05 unit Ground-level ozone
- Since 2017 Member of Pro Silva Europe
- Since 2020 Member of Lithuanian Society of Young Researchers
- 2021 Participation in the organising committee of the conference “Air Pollution threats to Plant Ecosystems”
- 2020–2021 Guest editor of the journal “Forests” special issue “Urban forests: Sinks or sources of air pollution and climate change”
- 2019 Participation in the organising committee of the 34th IUGB (International Union of Game Biologists) congress
Involvement in programmes and projects
- 2021–2022 Lithuanian-French programme “Žiliberas” project “Impact of urban trees on air pollution and human health”, supervisor.
- 2021 Study of the unified forest fire monitoring system, senior researcher.
- 2020 Inter-institutional project “Investigation of aerosol black carbon release from biofuel-burning facilities and deposition on tree foliage”, one of supervisors.
- 2015–2018 National Science Programme “Sustainability of Agro-, Forest and Water Ecosystems” project "Studies of the impact of clear cutting on the dynamics of biological diversity of forest ecosystems”, researcher.
- 2014–2020 Project “The services for level II forest monitoring”, researcher.
- 2016 Project “Development of the carbon stocks standards at national scale”, junior researcher.
- 2012–2013 Project “Prognosis of Lithuanian forest tree species and possibilities of alien forest trees immigration and growing in the context of climate change”, junior researcher.
Supervision of PhD studies
- 2021–2025 Scientific Supervisor of the PhD project, dissertation “Biomonitoring of air pollution in the context of climate change”.
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