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Otar Natishvili
T.Tabidze, apt. 45
Tbilisi, 380062, Georgia
Tel: (995-32) 99-65-26, 93-87-07
Fax: (995-32) 998823
E-mail:root@presid.acnet.ge

PROFILE.
Well known hydraulic engineering scientist, Academician, Professor, with excellent experience with the scientific and practical issues associated with mountain reclamation and agricultural problems particularly in relation to the applied hydraulic engineering, soil engineering and environmental sciences.

EDUCATION:
Hydraulic Engineering and Amelioration Research Institute 1956 - 1959 Ph.D. in Erosion and Mudflows, Land Reclamation
Georgian State Polytechnic Institute 1948 - 1952 Faculty of Engineering Hydraulics Hydraulics Engineer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
EMPLOYER:

Environmental Geological Agency (EGA) 1999-present

Current position: Coordinator of Agricultural and Environmental Department

Coordinate the Department's activities in terms of research, investigation, preparation and implementation of various projects associated with following disciplines: Land Reclamation, Erosion Control, Amelioration, Bioengineering, Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Sensitivities.

MEMBER: Georgian Academy of Sciences 1990 - Present
Position: Head of Agricultural Problems Department.

  • General management of the department
  • Research of hydraulics of debris flows and anti-debris flow structures
  • Assessment of regularities of structural debris motion

EMPLOYER: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Products 1983 - 1990 Position: Head (Rector) of the Agricultural University

PUBLICATIONS

1. Bed-well type vertical outlet for canals with high slopes. Journal "Hydraulic Engineering and Reclamation"("Hidroteknika i Melioratsia") No 7, 1957, Moscow
2. On motion stability of sediment bearing turbulent flow with high velocities in beds with large slopes. Proceedings of the Research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Reclamation (Trudi Grus. N||G.M) 22, 1963, Tbilisi
3. On transport of suspended solid particles by turbulent bed flows. Proc. of Coordinating Conference of Hydraulic Engineering (Trudi Grus N||G.M) 23,1965, Tbilisi
4. On some properties of sediment bearing flow motions in open channels. Proc. of Coordinating Conference of Hydraulic Engineering (Trudi Koord. Soveshch. po Gidrotekh.) No 36, 1967, Leningrad
5. Sediment bearing flow hydraulic equation and their solutions. Proc. of Brno (Czechoslovakia) Politecnical Institute, 1969
6. Some engineering problems of debris flow design. Proc. of the Georgian Research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Land-reclamation (Trudi Grus. N||G.M) 25, 1967, Tbilisi
7. On changes of suppression concentration along the flow in irrigation channel. Proc. Coord. Conf. of Hydraulic Eng. No 39, 1968, Leningrad (Tr. Koord. Konf. Gidrotekh.)
8. On some particular cases of solution of sediment bearing flow hydraulic equation. Proceedings of Co-ordination conference of Hydraulic Engineering No 57, 1970, Leningrad
9.
On Alma-Ata debris flow of nature. "Journal of Hydraulic Engineering and Reclamation" (Jhurnal Gidrotekhnika i Melioratsia) No 9, 1974, Moscow
10.
Design of debris flow protecting throng-structures. Scientific Works (Sbornik Nauchikh Trudov):"Erosion and Debris flow processes and their Control" No 3, 1974, Moscow.
11. Particular cases of design of structural debris flow. Reports of Academy of Sciences (Academiis Moambe) 147, No 2, 1993, Tbilisi Calculation and design of fish protection structure (Grus. SKHI) 1977, Tbilisi
12.
Hydlaulics (part 1) - Text-book 1981, Tbilisi
13.
Hydraulics (part 2) - Text-book 1982, Tbilisi
14.
Hydraulics (part 3) - Text-book 1983, Tbilisi
15.
Ameliorated reference book, 1986, Tbilisi
16. Hydraulics of gravity sediment bearing flow - 1988, Tbilisi
17. Hydraulics - 1993, Tbilisi
18.
Hydraulics of debris flow and anti-debris flow structures - 1995, Tbilisi
19.
Regularities of structural debris motion - 1996, Tbilisi