Department

Sea coastal zone studies laboratory

 Head of the Department 

Archil Kiknadze

'Kandidat' dissertation title: “Dynamics of Georgian Black Sea beaches from the viewpoint of coast protection”

Presentation date: November 4, 1970

Doctoral dissertation title: Coastal zone morphodynamics and its optimization (on the example of the Black Sea coast of Georgia)

Presentation date: October 4, 1991

Title: Professor

Main scientific directions of the department:

1.      Coastal zone morphodynamics and prognozing its evolution in conjunction with anthropological factors.

2.      Recovering-optimization of natural beachforming processes and their management.

3.      Search for suitable scientific-organizational model for harmonization of studying, protecting and optimizing nature on the example of coastal zone.

Executive Staff

1.        George Lominadze, Ph.D

2.        Dzidzikashvili Nodar

Main Publications

1.      About investigation of town and resourt building/development at Balck Sea coast. In the book 'Black Sea coast protection and rational utilization of coastal zone, Edited by 'Buduvelnik', Kiev, Ukraine, 1968 (in Russian);

2.      Using lythological method in sea coast studies (on the example of Black Sea Caucasian coast). Edited by Moscow University, Geographycal Series #6, Moscow, 1970 (in Russian);

3.      Results of studies of Black Sea coastal sediment migration by lythological methods. Publication of USSR Academy of Sci. 'New studies of coastal processes', 'Nauka', Moscow, 1971 (in Russian);

4.      Dynamical systems and sediment budget in long-shore drifts at the Georgian Black Sea coasts. In "Proc. of XXVII International Geographic Congress 'Dynamic of Sea Coast', Tbilisi, "Metsniereba", 1976. (pp. 192-194)

5.      About sea coast protection agency in Georgia. Publication of USSR Academy of Sci. 'Sea coastal zone', 'Nauka', Moscow, 1971 (in Russian);

6.      Considerations about the current state and possibilities of improvement of the Black Sea coastal zone of Bulgaria; 'USSR experience of dealing with coast erosion', Edited by "Geozashchita", Varna, Bulgaria, 1985 (in Bulgarian);

7.      Coasts in Cuba and problems of their protection. Published by Georgian Information-Technical Scientific-Research Institute, Tbilisi, 1989 (book with attached photodocuments) (in Georgian and Spanish);

8.      From reinforcing coasts to regulation of natural beachforming processes, Edited by Oceanological Institute of Acad. of Sci. of USSR in "Problems of Sea Coast", 1989 (in Russian);

9.      Technologies of coastal restoration in the Eastern Black Sea //Bulletin de L’Institute Oceanographique Monaco, no special 15, 1995 (pp. 433-53);

10.  Expected erosion of Achara Black Sea coast in connection with planned construction of hydro powerplants on the river Chorokhi and its international legislative aspects, 'News of Council of Independent Experts of Parliament of Georgia' #2, Tbilisi 1997, with R. Dekanozov (in Russian);

11.  Estimates of potential of ports in Georgian Black Sea zone. In the book "Menkind and World Ocean Coastal Zone in XXI Century" (materials of XX-th internation conference organized by Oceanological Institute of Acad. of Sci. of Russian devoted to 90-th anniversary from the birth of Prof. V.P. Zenkovich), Edited by "Geo", Moscow, 2001 (in Russian);

12.  Ajara-Kolkhida shoreline in the light of conception of sustainable development – Materials of the International Conference Dedicated to the International Year of Mountains (2002) – "Problems of Sustainable Development of the Mountain Regions", Organizators: Georgian Academy of Sciences Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography. Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; Georgian Academy Scientific-Publishing Center "Metsniereba", 2002, (pp. 115-116, coauthor – G. Lominadze)