Turak Oleh Yuriiovych (candidate of agricultural sciences, associate professor) head of the department))

TURAK OLEH YURIIOVYCH

Associate Professor of the Department of Forestry and Agrarian Management

Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor

oleg.turak@pnu.edu.ua

 

EDUCATION AND CAREER

In 1995, graduated from the Novgorod State Agricultural Academy and was qualified as a scientist agronomist;

During 1995-1998 he worked as the Chief of the Laboratory of Vermiculture Products at Biohumus Ukrainian Research Center. He supervised the Influence of Vermicompost on the Fertility Indices of Eroded Soils of Prykarpattia project.

From 1998 to 2002 he worked as a chief engineer at Taras Shevchenko City Recreation Park.

During 2002-2005 he was a full-time postgraduate student at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University;

In 2010 he defended his Candidate’s dissertation in specialty 06.01.01 – General Agriculture;

In 2010, he became a senior lecturer at the Department of Agrochemistry and Soil Science at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University;

From 2006 to 2010 he was a part-time researcher at the Institute of Agroindustrial Production, executive in charge involved into the Agriculture scientific and technical program. Task 02.01.01-079 – To investigate the agroecological efficiency of agrobiocenoses functioning on eroded slope lands of the western Peredkarpattia (Forecarpatian).

In 2010 he defended his Candidate’s dissertation;

In 2015, he was awarded the academic title of associate professor at the Department of Agrochemistry and Soil Science.

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

He teaches courses in Adaptive Technologies for Managing Agricultural Landscape Productivity, Designing Erosion Resistant Agricultural Landscapes, Herbology, Crop Production, Soil Erosion, Partial Soil Science, Soil Cartography, and Innovative Technologies in Crop Production.

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Candidate’s dissertation topic: Influence of Legume-Cereal Grass Mixtures on Fertility and Erosion Resistance of Sod-Podzolic Eroded Soil of the Western Peredkarpattia (Forecarpatian).

Executive in charge involved into the Agriculture scientific and technical program. Task 02.01.01-079 – To investigate the agroecological efficiency of agrobiocenoses functioning on eroded slope lands of the western Forecarpatian (2006–2010);

Executive in charge involved into the Development of a System of Measures to Prevent the Negative Impact of Extreme Environmental Situations on the Natural Resource Potential of the Western region of Ukraine scientific project of the Department of Forestry and Agricultural Management of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (state registration number 0113U006317) (2013–2023);

International scientific and pedagogical internship in the period from September 4 to October 15, 2023 at Cuiavian University in Włocławek (Poland) on the topic Trends in modern agricultural education in Ukraine and the European Union in the field of knowledge Agricultural Sciences and Food in the amount of 6 credits (180 hours).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Agricultural sciences, soil science, agriculture, crop production, soil mapping.

PUBLIC ACTIVITIES

Member of the Ukrainian Society of Soil Scientists and Agrochemists;

Member of the jury of the final stage of the All-Ukrainian gathering of student production teams, labor agricultural associations (2023).

PUBLICATIONS

He has 65 publications, including 38 scientific, 17 educational and methodological.