Coastal Zones

Biography

Head of the Laboratory of Geology and lithodynamics of the Southern Branch of the PP Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, professor, member of the Russian Ecological Academy, a member of the Krasnodar Regional Scientific and Technical Committee, member of the Russian National Oceanographic Committee, member of the EUCC, expert on the problems of the Black Sea for the IOC of UNESCO . Since 2010, a member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the International Center for Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal seas (Kobe, Japan). I supervised a number of Russian and international coastal and ocean expeditions, was a member of four crews underwater laboratory "Chernomor". In 1987 I directed the research of radionuclides in the rivers Pripyat and the Dnieper after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Research Interest

Prof.Kosyan Ruben Derenikovich known as the head of the 12 international and 40 Russian projects. One of the most significant is made under my leadership, the project Ministry of Economic Development of Russian Federation "Scientific support of a balanced business planning on the unique marine coastal landscape and suggestions on how to use them on the the example of the Azov-Black Sea coast." The author of 390 publications, including 11 monographs.