Tsotne Mirtskhulava
6. Shio Mghvimeli St.
Tbilisi 380079, Georgia
Tel: +995.32.224094 (W).
Fax: +995.32.227401
E-Mail: Tsotne@usa.net

PROFILE
Well known scientist, academician, with excellent scientific and practical experience associated with river mechanics, environmental impact, stochastic and risk analysis, hydraulic engineering, reliability analysis of hydraulic design, study of erosion, river bed deformation, stochastic prediction of general local scour, coping with floods, environmental safety.

EDUCATION:
Georgian State Polytechnic Institute 1938-1942
Hydraulic engineer Ph.D. in Environmental Impact on Rivers 1960

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EMPLOYER: Environmental Geological Agency (EGA) 1999 - Present
Current position: QA/QC Manager
Quality insurance for any activities associated with river mechanics, environmental impact, stochastic and risk analysis, hydraulic engineering, reliability analysis of hydraulic design, study of erosion, river bed deformation, stochastic prediction of general local scour, etc.

Member:
Russian Agricultural Academy 1970-Present
Georgian Academy of Sciences 1993-Present

EMPLOYER: Water Management and Engineering Institute 1968-Present at Georgian Academy of Sciences

Position: Director

• General management of the Institute.
• Studies on environmental impact on rivers.
• Stochastic and risk analysis in hydraulic engineering.
• Protection of local scour.
• Environmental safety.
• Coping with floods.

EMPLOYER:
Engaged in various engineering activities 1942-1954.
Vice President of Georgian Trust Oil Company 1950-1954.
Engaged in scientific work since 1954.
Simultaneously being a university teacher at Georgian Technical University in the period of 1951-1998. Delivers lectures on oil and underground hydraulics, oil transportation and etc.

PUBLICATIONS
Articles
1. Erosion process in riverbeds of cohesive soil structure - model and prototype conformity. Centr. Wat. Res. Poona, 1966, 14-16 pp.
2. Studies on permissible velocities for soil and facing. Centr. Wat. Res. Poona, 1966, 333-341 pp.
3. Erosions' stability of cohesive soils, J. Hydr. Res. vol.
4. 1966 4. Time effects in erosion computations, Dokl. VASKhNIL, 1972
5. Prediction of erosion intensification by man. Symposium dedicated to the 300th Anniversary of Hydrology, Paris, 171-179 pp.
6. Variation of erosion capacity and temperature effects, DAN SSSR, vol. 25, 1980
7. Prediction of water pollution by runoff from farm-fields and other territories, J. Water Resources, 1990, 16(5) 472-478 pp.
8. Scouring by flowing water of cohesive and non-cohesive beds. Journal of Hyd. Res., vol. 29, 1991, No. 3, 341-354 pp.
9. On one approach to the Comparative Analysis of Disturbance in the Ecological Stability of Agroecosystems. Moscow, "Ecologia" 1992, No. 3, 19-28 pp.
10. Maximum Allowable Erosion Rate/Newsletter 1+2/1994, ESSC
11. Erosion of cohesive materials, International Hydrological Programme Study of Erosion, River bed deformation UNESCO, Paris. 1997, 111-115 pp.
12. New Potentialities in the Assessment of Soil Quality/Published in Eurasian Soil SCI 31/6(1998), 660-664 pp.
13. Assessment of the frequency of appearance of mudflows of catastrophic character. J. Gidrotechnicheskoe stroitelstvo No. 5, 19-26 pp.

Books
1. Erosion chanels and assessment of their stability, "Kolos", 1967, p 180
2. Injhenernie metodi raschota I prognoza vodnoi erozii (Engineering methods of water erosion design and forecast), M "Kolos" 1974, p. 272
3. Reliability of hydro-reclamation structures. Moscow, "Kolos", 1974, p. 272
4. Reliability of large channels, M. "Kolos", 1981, p. 318
5. Reliability of drainage systems, M. "Agropromizdat", 1985, p. 236
6. Osnovi phiziki mekhaniki erozii rusei (Principles of Physicas and mechanics of bed erosion) L. "Gidrometeoizdat", 1988, p. 304
7. Reliability of hydro-reclamation installations, A.A. Balkema Publishers, Brookfield, p. 297, Roterdam
8. Basic Physics and Mechanics of Channel Erosion. Netherlands. Delft, 1990, p. 261, Netherlands
9. Ecological safety Methodology of reliability estimation of water development projects, Tbilisi, 1993, p. 472
10. Ecological Safety, Tbilisi, 1992, p. 436
11. Risk How to Risk Wisely (Examples with Solutions), Tbilisi, 1998, p. 206
12. Soil Erosion (Mechanism Prognos), Tbilisi, Academy of Sciences, 2000, p. 454

Methodological Recommendations, Guidelines
1. Guidelines on permissible (non-eroding) velocity flow in cohesive soil and linings, MSKh SSSR, 1962, p. 52
2. Methodological recommendation on the rain soil erosion, M. VASKhNIL, 1978, p. 61
3. Determination of permissible non-eroding velocities in various soils for channel design, M. "Sousvodproekt", 1987, p. 114.