Head of Laboratory – PhD (Agricultural Sciences)

Iryna Plisko

E-mail: irinachujan@gmail.com

Basic directions of research activities

• Geographic information technologies as means to identify patterns of change in the soil properties of Ukraine in time and space; soil monitoring.
• Spatial evaluation of physical parameters of the soil as a criterion of the ecosystem state in natural and anthropogenically transformed conditions.
• The relationship between technological measures and tools for soil tillage in agriculture and physical properties of soil and conditions of plant development.
• Methodology of agrophysical survey of lands to justify precision farming.
• Appraisal and monetary evaluation of soil with using the parameters of soil, climate and technological characteristics of the land.
• Definition of investment attractiveness of arable land of Ukraine.
• Harmonization of database “Soil Properties of Ukraine” with the construct specifics of the global soil-information systems.
• Improving the criteria and parameters of physical degradation of arable soils.
• Methodological and practical approaches to the spatially differentiated system of soil quality management

• The improved methodic of appraisal and monetary evaluation of arable soils of Ukraine.
• Database “Soil Properties of Ukraine”.
• The concept of organization and functioning of soil monitoring in Ukraine with European experience.
• Agronomically oriented land zoning by soil properties.
• Soil - technological zoning of agricultural lands.
• Method of complex evaluation of physical soil quality.
• Register of reference physical parameters for arable soils of Ukraine and recommendations for evaluation of soil physical quality.
• Method of determining the heterogeneity of soil properties on the land unit to justify the precise soil tillage.
• Agroecological valuation of land of Ukraine with the purpose of rational location of crops.

• Medvedev V.V., Laktionova T.N., Dontsova L.V. Soil water properties of Ukraine and agricultural crops water supply. Kharkiv: Apostrof, 2011.
• Medvedev V.V., Laktionova T.N. Texture of Ukrainian Soils (genetic, environmental and agronomical aspects). Kharkiv: Apostrof, 2011.
• Medvedev V.V. Soil monitoring in Ukraine. The Concept. Results. Tasks. (2ndedition). Kharkiv: City printing house, 2012.
• Medvedev V.V. Physical degradation of chernozems. Diagnostics. Reasons. Consequences. Prevention. Kharkiv: City printing house, 2013. 
• Medvedev V.V. Soil physical properties and tillage in Ukraine. Kharkiv: City printing house, 2013.
• Medvedev V.V., Plysko I.V., Bihun O.M. Invested attraction of arable lands for Ukraine (the method of determination and mappinganalytical estimation). Kharkiv: Smuhasta typohrafiya, 2014. 
• Medvedev V.V., Plysko I.V. Valuable, degraded and unproductive soils of Ukraine: actions on protection and increase of fertility. Kharkiv: Smuhasta typohrafiya, 2015. 
• Medvedev V.V. To Farmer about soil and resource saving innovations on tillage. –Kharkiv: Smuhasta typohrafiya, 2015. 
• Medvedev V.V. Soil agronomic and environmental physics. Kharkiv: Smuhasta typohrafi-ya, 2015. 
• Medvedev V.V., Plysko I.V., Bihun O.M.,Sheiko S.M., Nakisko S.G., Krylach S.I., Borodin A.L. Optimum physical properties of a sowing soil layer as agridemands to preseeding tillage (scientific edition). – Kharkiv: Smuhasta typohrafiya, 2016.

• Determination of basic soil physical properties:
  
  - structure composition;
  
  - penetration resistance; 
  
  - soil particle density (density of solid phase of soil);
  
  - soil bulk density;
  
  - soil moisture content;
  
  - water permeability of soil.
• Making a typical project of implementation of precise tillage and accurate applying fertilizers.
• Conducting scientific examination of soil (definition of agrogroup, ball bonitet and the category of especially valuable lands) on the basis of archival cartographic materials.
• Soil survey for making recommendations on the implementation of minimum and zero tillage.
• Field soil survey for making recommendations on the feasibility for cultivation of plough pan.
• Determination of soil physical properties (bulk density and penetration resistance) in arable and seed layers for making recommendations on loosening of underseed layer after sowing.
• Making of soil properties cartograms on the base of digital soil maps of different scales, including GIS- format.
• Lectures and consultations on appraisal and monetary valuation of land

Web-site of laboratory:

www.SoilGeoEcoPhyslab.yolasite.com