Environmental Geochemistry

Program description 

Professional training is aimed at mastering the theoretical foundations and principles of environmental geochemistry, the methodology of complex ecological and geochemical studies, modern analytical and experimental methods for studying landscape components, modern concepts of the science of soils, their properties, genesis, evolution, geography, principles of systematics and classification of soils, main approaches to land valuation.

The content of the master's program pays special attention to modern methods of interpreting research results, their cartographic representation, geoinformation analysis and processing of remote sensing data for analysis and modeling of the state of environmental components, methodological approaches to assessing the state of the environment, the fundamentals of environmental management and audit, assessment and forecast the state of ecosystems under technogenic influence, assessing the impact of environmental quality on public health.

Benefits of the program   

Students enrolled in the master's program "Environmental Geochemistry" receive a broad ecological and geographical education, combined with special training in the field of environmental geochemistry. The Department of Landscape Geochemistry and Soil Geography has a wide range of chemical analytical equipment, which allows students to analyze the material composition and chemical properties of all landscape components. 

Students take part in research and applied projects of the department, carried out within the framework of such current areas as “Ecogeochemistry of cities”, “Ecological-geochemical microworld”, “Geochemistry of the environment and human health”, “Ecological-geochemical study of river basins”, “Oil and the Environment”, “Space Activities and the Environment”, etc., the results of which they use in their master’s theses.

Leading organizations where graduates work  

• Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Faculty of Soil Science

• JSC "Institute of Environmental Design and Survey"

• Ecoinstrument LLC

• Belgorod State University

• South Federal University

• St. Petersburg Mining University

• Soil Institute named after. V.V. Dokuchaeva

• Institute of Geography RAS

• Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry named after. IN AND. Vernadsky RAS

• Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science RAS

• Institute of Forestry RAS

Basic academic disciplines  

• Current problems of landscape geochemistry and soil geography (Lychagin M.Yu.)

• Environmental management and audit (Koroleva T.V.)

• Environmental quality and population health (Shartova N.V.)

• Land assessment and cadastre (Golovanov D.L.)

• Assessment of the state of the environment (in English) (Aseeva E.N.)

• Methods of experimental geochemistry (Krechetov P.P.)

• Geoinformation systems in environmental and geochemical research (Chernitsova O.V.)

• Space methods of geoecological research (Tutubalina O.V.)

• Landscape-geochemical mapping (Bogdanova M.D.)