Earth and related environmental sciences

The aim of the investment project is to design and implement a stationery geophysical observation station to study aquatic ecosystem. Observation station will be an autonomous operating system in water, which will enable to determine physical parameters of water (acid-alkaline balance (pH), specific resistance, temperature and turbidity) change, to fix seismic shocks and to transfer the information rapidly through wireless communications to the center located on the shore. The possibility of simultaneous measurement of such parameters by the observation station is an innovation and is not observed in the world practice. On the other hand, the comparison of such geophysical parameters will enable to consider fully the state of ecosystem change during time period, in the right place, which is an essential advantage. In its constructive solution the observation station is a flexible system and also will be provided for exploration activities.

Salary – USD 54.000
Necessary components, acquisition of equipment, field testing, design – USD 13.500
Overhead expenses - USD 2.500

Designed observation station can be of demand for the following organizations: State Committee for Water Management RA, Seismic protection services, practically all the foreign countries which have laws for water resources conservation and right use, manufacturers of water quality sampling devices of brand firms

Jon Karapetyan, Director of A.Nazarov Institute of Geophysics and Engineering Seismology of NAS RA
E-mail: jon_iges {[ at ]} mail.ru
Tel.: (+374 94) 798580