{"id":3223,"date":"2026-02-09T11:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soilecology.ut.ee\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:46:18","slug":"prof-maarja-opik-awarded-national-order-of-the-white-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soilecology.ut.ee\/?p=3223","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Maarja \u00d6pik awarded national Order of the White Star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ahead of the anniversary of the Republic of Estonia, President Alar Karis recognized 203 outstanding people with national decorations, including Academician, Director of \u00d6MI and Professor in Molecular Ecology Maarja \u00d6pik. Prof. Maarja \u00d6pik was awarded the Order of the White Star of the Republic of Estonia, 3rd Class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. \u00d6pik focuses her research on soil ecosystems, studying the biodiversity of soil fungi that form arbuscular mycorrhiza and their connections with plant diversity. In addition to basic research, she leads applied projects that support the sustainable use of agricultural soils and the restoration of soil ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maarja \u00d6pik has been a member of the Estonian Research and Development Council and in 2016, she and her colleagues received the National Science Prize in the field of geo- and life sciences. We are very happy about this recognition!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the anniversary of the Republic of Estonia, President Alar Karis recognized 203 outstanding people with national decorations, including Academician, Director of \u00d6MI and Professor in Molecular Ecology Maarja \u00d6pik. Prof. Maarja \u00d6pik was awarded the Order of the White Star of the Republic of Estonia, 3rd Class. Prof. \u00d6pik focuses her research on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/soilecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-06-at-2.23.06-PM.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"tanel","author_link":"https:\/\/soilecology.ut.ee\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soilecology.ut.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soilecology.ut.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soilecology.ut.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soilecology.ut.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soilecology.ut.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/soilecology.ut.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3225,"href":"https:\/\/soilecology.ut.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/3225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soilecology.ut.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soilecology.ut.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soilecology.ut.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soilecology.ut.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}