» Soil Geoecophysics Laboratory named after Academician of NAAS V.V. Medvedev

Soil Geoecophysics Laboratory named after Academician of NAAS V.V. Medvedev

Head of Laboratory
Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Senior Researcher

Plisko Iryna Vladlenivna

+38(097)933-55-60

Leading scientists

Senior Research Fellow
PhD in Agricultural Sciences
Coordinator for International Cooperation

Bigun Oksana Mykolayivna

+38(097)496-28-63
Senior Research Fellow
PhD in Agricultural Sciences
Coordinator for International Cooperation

Romanchuk Kateryna Yuriivna

+38(098)851-56-49

Main areas of scientific activity

  • Geographical information technology as a means of identifying patterns of changes in soil properties of Ukraine in time and space; soil monitoring.
  • Spatial assessment of the physical parameters of the soil as a criterion of the state of the ecosystem in natural and anthropogenically transformed conditions.
  • Relationship between agrotechnological measures and tillage tools in agriculture and the physical characteristics of the soil.
  • Methodology of agrophysical survey of land plots for substantiation of precision farming.
  • Valuation and monetary assessment of soils according to soil parameters, climate and technological characteristics of the land plot.
  • Determining the investment attractiveness of arable lands of Ukraine.
  • Harmonization of the "Soil Properties of Ukraine" database with the structural features of global soil information systems.
  • Improvement of criteria and parameters for assessment of physical degradation of arable soils.
  • Methodological and practical approaches to the spatially differentiated system of soil quality regulation

The most important research results

  • Improved method of valuation and monetary evaluation of arable soils of Ukraine.
  • Database "Soil Properties of Ukraine".
  • Concept of the organization and functioning of soil monitoring in Ukraine, taking into account the European experience.
  • Soil-technological zoning of agricultural lands.
  • Agronomically oriented land zoning based on soil properties.
  • Method of determining especially valuable soils.
  • Register of reference physical parameters of arable soils of Ukraine and recommendations for assessing the physical quality of arable soils.
  • Method of comprehensive evaluation of the physical quality of the soil.
  • Methodology of determining the heterogeneity of soil properties on a plot of land for the substantiation of precise tillage.
  • Methodology for building electronic maps of soil properties using databases and GIS
  • Method of agro-ecological assessment of lands of Ukraine for the purpose of rational placement of agricultural crops.

Main achievements in international activities

  • Implementation of an international project ordered by FAO: “Reconciliation the national system of soil classifiers with WRB 2014” (2020-2022), as well as the continuation of the project for 2023. Within the framework of the projects, the following was created: a database of soil profiles for the National System monitoring of the neutral level of land degradation; digital soil maps on a scale of 1:200,000 for the Kharkiv, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.
  • Participation in the FAO training workshop on soil nutrient mapping and related soil properties organized by the FAO Global Soil Partnership (GSP) (April 8-12, 2023).
  • Creation of a digital network map of black soils of Ukraine, as a component of the FAO GBSmap - Global Black Soil Distribution Map (2022);
  • Creation of a database of soil profiles for the Ukrainian part of the Danube basin according to the e-SOTER methodology (EU project, 2019-2021).
  • Creation of a digital network map of organic carbon stocks in the soils of Ukraine, as a component of the FAO GSOCMap (2017).
  • Creation of the European Hydropedological Data Inventory (EU-HYDI) within the framework of cooperation with the Joint Research Center of the European Commission (2013).
  • Implementation of the international project Sustainable waste water recycling technologies for irrigated land in NIS and Southern European States (WATER REUSE) within the European program FP6-INCO (2005-2010).
  • Implementation of the international project Modeling Studies of Preferential Flow in Irrigated Soils within the framework of the European INTAS program (2001-2004).

Oksana BIGUN - is an expert in soil databases.

 

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