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MSc. Ilia Kunchulia
Assistant lecturer at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Biosystems Engineering,
Georgian Technical University, Kostava str. 77 Tbilisi, Georgia
E-mail: iliakunchulia@gmail.com
I am an assistant lecturer and PhD student at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Biosystems Engineering, Georgian Technical University working on soil classification according to national and international (WRB) systems. In 2015-2019 I worked as a researcher at Michail Sabashvili Institute of Soil Science, Agrochemistry and Melioration, Agricultural University of Georgia (AUG). I have been participating and taking part in organisation in field school of soil science at AUG since 2014, as well as different soil educational activities including being member of organisational committee of national wide annual Olympiad in soil science among students and schoolchildren. I am one of the translators of 3rd edition of WRB from 2015 on Georgian language. I have been working for collecting soil profiles for the World Soil Museum (ISRIC) in 2015 in Georgia and since 2014 have significant experience in field work and classification of soils according to national and international systems. Paralelly, since 2016 I work on Sustainable Development Goals in NGO sector.
Recent research projects:
- Genetic peculiarities of soils of Trialeti Range and problems of their protection and use Shota Rustaveli National Scientific Foundation of Georgia (SRNSFG) , 2018-2021
- Creation and Publication of a Red Data Soil Book of Georgia, Shota Rustaveli National Scientific Foundation of Georgia (SRNSFG) , 2016-2018
- Creation of National Soil Atlas of Georgia, Shota Rustaveli National Scientific Foundation of Georgia (SRNSFG) , 2015-2018
- Examination of soil conditions and approaches to rational use of adjacent territories of Kojori-Samadlo motor road, Shota Rustaveli National Scientific Foundation of Georgia (SRNSFG), 2017-2018 (educational project with schoolchildren)
- Community Conservation Resilience Initiative assessment project in Georgia, Global Forest Coalition (GFC), 2015-2018
- Genesis and Classification of Brown Forest Soils of Trialeti Mountain Range, Shota Rustaveli National Scientific Foundation of Georgia (SRNSFG), 2016
- Agricultural extension research program in Georgia. United Nations Development Program (UNDP), 2015
Some of my Publications:
1. Gagelidze Nino, Zakariashvili Nino, Tkhelidze Amiran, Kakhadze Rusudan, Kunchulia Ilia, Sadunishvili Tinatin, Urushadze Teo, Kvrivishvili Tamar, Kutateladze Lali, Ghambashidze Giorgi, Tsereteli Giuli, Khomasuridze Diana, Jorbenadze Leo. Soil Atlas of Georgia. 2019. Georgian National Academy of Sciences publishing
2. Ilia Kunchulia, Rusudan Kakhadze, Giuli Tsereteli, Giorgi Ghambashidze, Teo Urushadze. Classification of shallow and skeletal mountain soils with the WRB system on the example of the Trialeti Range, Lesser Caucasus (Georgia). 2018. Bulletin of Geography. Physical Geography Series Volume 14: Issue 1
3. Tamar O. Kvrivishvili, Tengiz F. Urushadze, Winfried E.H. Blum, Leo T. Jorbenadze, Giuli V. Tsereteli, Mariam N. Merabishvili, Ketevan A. Gogidze, Rusudan G. Kakhadzeb, Ilia O. Kunchulia. The Red Book of the Soils of Georgia. 2018. Annals of Agrarian Science, Vol. 15, N3
4. Sisira S. Withanachchi, Giorgi Ghambashidze, Ilia Kunchulia, Teo Urushadze, Angelika Ploeger, A Paradigm Shift in Water Quality Governance in a Transitional Context: A Critical Study about the Empowerment of Local Governance in Georgia, Water 2018, 10(2), 98;
5. Rosa Lortkipanidze, Tamar Kvrivishvili, Giuli Tsereteli, Rusudan Kakhadze, Demetre Lipartia, Ilia Kunchulia, Peculiarities of red color soils introduced in the Red Book of the Soils of Georgia, Annals of Agrarian Science, Vol. 16, Issue 1, 2018
6. Ilia Kunchulia, Genesis and Classification of Brown Forest Soils of Trialeti Mountain Range, Biodiversity and Georgia III Scientific Conference, 19-22 May, 2017
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