Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies NAS RA (CENS) founded in 1989 through the merging of several core laboratories, CENS has grown into a comprehensive institution implementing a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied investigations in ecology, environmental protection and food safety. Interdisciplinary studies CENS has been dealing with include the assessment of ecological status of territories, development of scientific and methodological fundamentals of risk analysis, optimization of natural resource management processes, solution of problems in the area of human ecology.