The Department ofšEnvironmental Monitoring and Management founded inš2007 provides training inšBS programs inšthe majors: Ecology, Environmental Protection and Balanced Environment Management, and Labor Protection, and inšMS andšSS programs inšthe speciality: Ecology and Environmental Protection.

The Department faculty comprises one doctor ofšsciences, ašfull professor, and five PhDs, associate professors.

Disciplines taught atšthe Department:

• Meteorology and climatology
• General Hydrology
• Landscape study
• Ecology of Production and Non-Production spheres
• Soil Monitoring
• Ecolaw
• Setting of Norms for Anthropogenic Load on Natural Environment
• Management Organization inšEcological Activities
• Nature Protection Inspection
• Cartographic Method in Ecology
• Environmental Forecasting and Modeling
• Environmental Safety
• Environmental Safety Management
• Environmental Meteorology and Climatology
• Landscape Ecology
• Environmental Demography
• Geographic Information Systems
• Foundations of Ecological Risk
• Modern Methods ofšEcological Risk Definition
• Theory of Catastrophes
• Experimental Research Planning
• Balanced Agrosphere Management Techniques
• Workshop 1

Faculty members ofšthe Department supervise internships.

Organizations and institutions ofšUkraine serve asšbases for students? internships. These are mostly state boards/departments onšnatural environmental management and state environmental inspections inšoblasts ofšUkraine, the Research Institute ?O.šN.šSokolovsky Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry?, the Ukrainian Research Institute ofšEnvironmental Problems, etc.

Research conducted atšthe Department covers the following areas:

• environmental monitoring ofšenvironment components and complexes;
• analysis ofšenvironment fractal properties;
• agroecology;
• environmental meteorology and ecology ofšatmospheric air.

The Department organizes anšannual conference All-Ukrainian Scientific Taliev Readings atšV.šN.šKarazin Kharkiv National University. The materials ofšthe conference are published inšthe Environment Protection compendium ofšarticles.

Faculty members ofšthe Department are actively engaged inšcareer-oriented activities suchšas:

• preparing Open House Days, Alumni Day,
• work inšthe Minor Academy ofšSciences with gifted schoolchildren,
• acting asšthe jury members inšschool contests ofšscientific works and competitions,
• giving lectures atšthe ?School ofšašYoung Environmentalist?.