Address:

1, Alexidze str.
Tbilisi 380093
Georgia
Tel: (995 32) 94-35-91, (995 32) 33-28-67
E-mail: [email protected] or  [email protected]

Date of foundation: 1933

General problems:

• 1. Earth's deep structure and evolution models of the Earth's crust and mantle.
• 2. Seismology, seismic hazard assessment and earthquake prediction.
• 3. Modeling of ecological systems and dynamics of atmosphere and sea.
• 4. Physics of clouds, aerosols and weather modification.
• 5. Solar - Terrestial Physics (cosmophysics, physics of magnetosphere and ionosphere)
• 6. Engineering, prospecting and environmental geophysics.

Director: Tamaz Chelidze, Professor, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Doctor of Chemistry, Corresponding Member of Georgian Academy of Sciences

Members of Georgian Academy of Sciences: Benedikte Balavadze
Number of Doctors: 10
Number of Candidates: 54

Contacts with Institutes abroad:

University of Rennes1 (France)
Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris)
University of Colorado at Boulder (USA)
University of Roma (Italy)
Institute of Physics of Earth (Moscow)
International Institute for Earthquake Prediction and Computing Geophysics (Moscow)
Institute of Geophysics (Kiev)

Joint projects: with University of Rennes1 on rock physics and seismohydraulics and with University of Roma on seismoprognosis.

Periodicals:

Journal of Georgian Geophysical Society (two issues per year).

Experimental Bases:
I. the geophysical monitoring network, consisting of 14 seismic, 3 hydro-radiochemical, 3 magnetic, 2 strainmeter , 4 electromagnetic stations;
II. Tbilisi Seismological Observatory;
III. Dushety Geophysical Observatory;
IV. Earth's Tides International Laboratory;
V. Thermobarochamber with volume 350 cubic m. , cloud chamber and wind tunnel;
VI. Cosmophysical complex for registration of cosmic rays variations with underground laboratory.

Databases:
I. The seismic catalogue of Caucasus , including parameters of 50 000 events from 550 B.C. till our time;
II. The data base of gravitational field of Caucasus in various reductions;
III. The aeromagnetic data base of territory of Georgia;
IV. The data base of geomagnetic observations of Dushety Geophysical Observatory from 1844 till our time.

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