🔬🌱 Student science is a priority of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies! 🌍

Modern environmental challenges — heavy metal contamination, technogenic pressure, and the consequences of war — require innovative nature-based solutions ♻️

That is why students of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies at Dnipro University of Technology are actively involved in real scientific research aimed at ecological restoration of contaminated lands 🌿
👩‍🔬 Under the supervision of Professor Oleksandr Kovrov, biology students
🌱 Yuliia Ishchenko
🌱 Alina Bohun
study plant responses to heavy metals and their potential use in phytoremediation technologies.

📚 During the research, students:
• analyze seed germination and plant growth 🌾
• study root system development
• evaluate biomass formation
• conduct morphometric measurements 📏
• maintain experimental journals 📝

🔬 Another important research direction is the study of biocrust algae on contaminated soils.

Biocrusts help:
✨ stabilize soil surfaces
✨ reduce erosion
✨ accumulate organic matter
✨ create conditions for vegetation recovery

💡 Such research develops students’ practical skills and creates a scientific basis for modern nature-based technologies for land restoration after industrial impact and war-related damage

💚 We are proud of our students who are already contributing to solving real environmental problems!

🌍 Restoring the land — shaping the future!