International Scientific Seminar
Organizer: Department of Landscape Design and Sustainable Ecosystems, Smart Urban Nature research center, Agrarian and Technological Institute of RUDN University
Area: Science, Education, International cooperation
Subarea: Ecology and nature management
Format: Seminar
Type: International
Title: «Urban soils – a challenge for geophysics: geophysical study on soils at the RUDN campus»
Date: June 4, 2024
Location: Microsoft Teams; RUDN Univerity
Contact person: Babich Gleb Olegovich, 1142230303@rudn.ru
About the event:
On June 4, 2024 the Research center «Smart technologies for sustainable development of the urban environment in the global change» Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN University organized an international scientific seminar «Urban soils – a challenge for geophysics: geophysical study on soils at the RUDN campus». The event was held on the Microsoft Teams platform and off-line in Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN. The working language was Russian.
Geophysical methods of studying soils are used to isolate soil horizons, trace them in space, and in monitoring mode allow us to conclude about the distribution of moisture in the soil. However, urban soils have a number of features that complicate the interpretation of geophysics data. These are the weak contrast of soil horizons in terms of physical properties, and specific man-made soils and the presence of engineering communications.
In 2023-2024, monitoring studies using electrotomography, georadiolocation and induction electrical profiling were conducted at the RUDN campus. Geophysics was accompanied by drilling wells with sampling for moisture analysis and granulometry. The results we have obtained allow us to carefully assume what is complicated and how the urban lawn functions, but at the same time they raise many questions.
Event program:
17.30 – 19.00
«Urban soils – a challenge for geophysics: geophysical study on soils at the RUDN campus»
Bricheva Svetlana, Ph.D, Moscow State University, department of geology; Matasov Victor, Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN; Yurchenko Alexander Ph.D student, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences.
19.00– 19.30
Discussion