The ARPEGEO project was designed to establish a tripartite institutional partnership between Institute for Environmental Sciences at the University of Geneva (ISE/UNIGE), the Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies (CENS) NAS RA, and the Institute fo...
GIS and Remote Sensing
EU cooperation capacity building of Center for Ecological Noosphere Studies of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia: towards Armenia’s integration into the ERA-ECOARM2ERA
The central goal of the proposed project was to reinforce the cooperation capacities of Armenia’s leading research institute in the field of environmental research and ecology – the Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies of NAS RA. This...
EC FP7 “Building Capacity for a Black Sea Catchment Observation and Assessment System supporting Sustainable Development” enviroGRIDs project
The EnviroGRIDS project was coordinated by UNIGE, and its 30-partner consortium was a very interesting network of scientific and professionals for CENS to interact with. In term of enhancing CENS scientific networking in Europe, a major activity lead...
Mapping and assessing the community grasslands and developing a grazing scheme (CARMAC CS-11/103)
The goal of the Program was providing services in assessment and mapping of community hayfields and development of grazing schemes. Works were implemented in more than 60 rural communities of six administrative regions (marzes) of the RA and covered...
Deployment of Armenian national grid infrastructure
Since 2009 CENS has been involved in the Armenian National Grid Initiative to build a sustainable grid infrastructure in Armenia which makes realistic her integration into the European Grid infrastructures. Presently, the establishment of ArmNG...
Assessment of ecological risk of Sotq ore and adjacent territories
The project goal was assessing ecological risk of the Sotk mining area from positions of arrangement of a full-scale mining production there. The research included a study and assessment of contents of harmful and toxic substances in the ore and a mi...
The development of a target tree planting program for the city of Yerevan
At the request of Yerevan Municipality a Yerevan Greening Program has been developed. In the frames of the Program; dominant soil, ambient air and vegetation pollutants in Yerevan area, were indicated, Maps were produced of functional division...
Identifying priority territories for the creation of biosphere reserves, creation of a databases, development of GIS and preparation of project documents for the countries of the Southern Caucasus
The project was aimed at selecting a priority territory for creating a Biosphere Reserve in each country of the South Caucasus and producing a GIS database.
GIS-modeling of dispersion of radioactive waste on the territory of Metsamor NPP in case of emergency
For safe exploitation of Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Authority the Government of the Republic of Armenia (ANRA) in partnership with WS Atkins Environment (UK) and the Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies NAS RA...