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Two EMU PhD students get a 4800 EUR scholarship from the State Forest Management Centre (RMK)
In order to support forest education and research the State Forest Management Centre launched Endel Laas Scholarship and awarded two 4800- euro yearly grants to two PhD students of the Estonian University of Life Sciences — PhD students Argo Strantsov and Ando Lilleleht.
The aim of Argo Strantsov’s doctoral thesis is to work out stand growth models that take into account the changes in growing environment. His paper focuses, first and foremost, on the studies of forest drainage impacts. Ando Lilleleht concentrates on the individual tree and stand level growth analysis and modeling in mixed forests. He studies the competition between different tree species in mixed forests from the yield point-of-view.
Member of the RMK Management Board Tiit Timberg said that the launch of such a scholarship aims at supporting forest research and recognizes the PhD students for their good results in studies and active specialty research. «We based our decision on the practical value of the present papers as well as on the high level of the students’ earlier work», said Timberg.
The scholarship was named after a long-term dean of the Faculty of Forestry, the teacher of several generations of forester, Professor Endel Laas (1915- 2009).