The name of laboratory:

The  laboratory of glaciology

  

 

Head of the laboratory:

Gobejishvili  Ramin G.

 

 

 

 The name of  thesis for master's degree:  «The study of current relief forming processes in mountain regions by stereo-photogrammetric methods»

Date of defend : December 5, 1978

 

The name of doctorate thesis: «The present day glaciers of Georgia  and evolution of glaciation in Eurasia mountains in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene»

Date of defend: October 27, 1995

 

Academic rank: Professor

 

The major scientific trends of the laboratory:

1. Recent glaciation in  Georgia: dynamics, regime, morphology

2. The genesis, age and  morphology  of  rock glaciers in the Caucasus and Georgia  and their  evolution  in the Holocene.

3. Paleo-glaciological , paleo-climatic, paleo-hydrological reconstructions of the natural resources  in the Caucasus and Georgia   in the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene.

 

The major scientific staff:

1. Shengelia Revazi G,. Geogr. Sc.D.

2. Karashvili Tamazi ,  Geogr. Sc.D.

3. Samadbegishvili Otari A., Geogr. Sc.D.

 

 

Major  publications:

Monographs:

1.      Gobejishvili R.G. The study of present day relief forming processes in mountain regions  by stereo-photo-grammetric methods. Tbilisi, Metsniereba, 1981, 140p.

2.      Gobejishvili R.G. Glaciers of Georgia. Tbilisi, Metsniereba, 1989, 128p.

3.      The Tbilisa glacier ( joint work) Tbilisi, Metsniereba, 1986,  116p.

Articles:

1.      Gobejishvili R.G. Morphology and dynamics of the glaciers in the  Tviberi river basin (the Central Caucasus). Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR. v.13, No3, Tbilisi, 1990, pp.573-579

2.      Gobejishvili R.G. Regularities in dynamics and evolution of recent glaciation in the Caucasus. The problems of geomorphology and geology in the Caucasus. Krasnodar, 2001,  pp.111-120

3.      Gobejishvili R.G., Shengelia R.G.  Reconstruction of glaciers and water balance in the Inguri and Rioni river basins for the last 20 thousand years. M., MGI,  v.87, 1999. pp.36-41

4.      Gobejishvili R.G. Evolution of glaciation in the Central Caucasus in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. M, MGI  , v.89, 2000, pp.36-42

5.      Gobejishvili R.G.  The  evolution of  Tien-Shan glaciers in the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene. Geomorphology of  Central Asia. Barnaul. 2001, pp. 70-73

6.      Gobejishvili R.G. Rock glaciers in Georgia . Bulletin of the  Academy of Sciences of the  Georgian SSR. v. 98, No1, Tbilisi, 1978, pp.93-96

7.      Rekhviashvili O.V., Gobejishvili R.G.  Present day and old rock glaciers of Svaneti. M., MGI, v. 69, 1990, pp. 117-120

8.      Gobejishvili R.G. Paleoglaciology of Spitsbergen in Holocene. Polar Geology and  Geography, 1986  (co-author)

9.      Gobejishvili R.G. Fluctuation of local glaciers  in the Southern Ranges of the former USSR. Quaternary International, 1997, v.38/39, pp.103-108 (Co-authors L.G.Bon­darev, O.N. Solomina)