Research topics for PhD students of Odessa State Environmental University, offered to members of the international consortium of ‘Integrated Doctoral Program for Environmental Policy, Management and Technology – INTENSE’ to establish scientific relations and cooperation in their implementation, including joint advisership for postgraduate students.

 

Speciality 103 ‘Earth Sciences’

 

Area: Agrometeorology and Agroecology

  1. Modelling of the plant production process
  2. Modelling the climate change impact on crop productivity
  3. Modelling of crop development and disease propagation under the climate change

 

Area: Meteorology and Climatology

  1. Physical-statistical modelling of the interaction processes in the atmosphere – underlying surface system
  2. Study of macroscale atmospheric processes in various regions of the Northern / Southern Hemisphere
  3. Risks for various economic sectors related to droughts in the near future.
  4. Physical-statistical methods for analysis and forecasting of severe and hazardous weather phenomena
  5. Mesoscale wind circulation in mountainous and coastal regions.

 

Area: Land Hydrology

  1. Maximum runoff of the rivers of diverse genetic origin under the climate change
  2. Regional and global climate change impact on the calculated parameters of a minimum river runoff
  3. Study of the relationship between extreme hydrological phenomena and aridity indices
  4. Assessment of hydrological risks from floods with various probability of excess
  5. Long-term spatial hydrological forecasting of the maximum runoff during spring floods on lowland rivers
  6. Water-balance studies of polder-type water bodies in the conditions of climate aridity

 

Area: Hydroecology and water studies

  1. Challenges of the Water Framework Directive implementation (water quality and management of water resources) in the post-Soviet countries
  2. River basin management in the context of climate change and water economic activity
  3. Impact of anthropogenic load on the hydrological and hydroecological status of surface waters

 

Area: Oceanography

  1. Coastal zone dynamics and engendering applications in the inner seas
  2. Current ecological status of the mouth area of the main European rivers
  3. Optimization of damping processes in the marine shelf
  4. Impact of pharmaceutical waste on the marine environment
  5. Application of the methods for numerical modelling of hydrodynamic and ecological processes in the offshore and coastal zones to solve the applied problems of marine nature management

 

Speciality 101 ‘Environmental Science’

 

  1. Systems analysis of environmental quality for particular areas.
  2. Integrated analysis of the environmental status of urban areas.
  3. Analysis of the technogenic load on the environmental components by means of GIS technologies.
  4. Assessment of the agro-ecological status of particular regions.
  5. Peculiarities of environmental pollution with persistent organic pollutants.
  6. Scientific substantiation of regional programs for production and consumption waste management.
  7. Status and quality of environmental components.
  8. Natural and recreational potential of particular territories and water areas.
  9. Greening of the recreational and tourist activity.
  10. The environment status of the coastal zone at the North-Western Black Sea region.
  11. Environmental assessment of surface water quality.
  12. Scientific substantiation of the methods for environmental assessment of the natural water quality.
  13. Assessment of the negative effects of dredging operations and soil dumping.

 

Speciality 183 ‘Environmental Safety Technologies’

 

  1. Technology of radiation shielding screens using micro-mechanical (granular), polydispersed materials instead of monolithic ones.
  2. Fine dust cleaning technology with the use of a manipulated inhomogeneous electric field in the levitation-electrophoretic mode under the conditions of low gravity.
  3. Technology of radiation deactivation by means of topological phases of graphene oxide.
  4. Graphene (graphene oxide) as a sensor for environmentally harmful impurities of heavy metals and radionuclides in the systems with complex morphology.