Ph.D.
Study of protected areas of Ukraine in the context of increasing anthropogenic pressure.
Using information, analytical tools, and technologies, identify features and common factors of anthropogenic impact on the ecological state of protected areas.
Creating a cartographic model of anthropogenic and anthropogenic load on the local natural system using contact and remote methods.
For more than ten years, Snizhana has been researching the state of the nature reserve fund of Ukraine. Her research interests include environmental safety, nature management systems, nature reserve funds, geoinformation, and information-analytical systems, as well as the implementation of a scientifically based approach to the development and implementation of an information-analytical system for the management of protected areas as an integral part of the environmental safety system using information technology.
From 2007 to 2009, Snizhana worked as a chief specialist in the monitoring department of the State Environmental Protection Administration in the Kyiv region. From 2009 to 2014, she worked as a junior researcher at the Environmental Research Department at the Institute of Telecommunications and Global Information Space of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. From 2014 to 2018, she worked in the same department as a researcher, and from 2018 to the present, she has been a senior researcher. In addition, Snizhana is currently undergoing an internship as a visiting scholar at the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Also, since 2021, scientists have been experts in the “Green Zones and Biodiversity” group in developing the Kyiv Environmental Strategy until 2030.
Yue Zheng, Junhong Wu, Natalia Sheviakina, Snizhana Zahorodnia, Tomchenko Olha, Kreta Dmytro & OleksandrTrofymchuk (2024) Using remote-sensing data to study the rapid growth of wind farms and their impact on bird habitat in Yellow Sea Wetland, China, Remote Sensing Letters, 15:3, 245-257
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Tomchenko, O. V., Khyzhniak, A. V., Sheviakina, N. A., Zahorodnia, S. A., Yelistratova, L. A., Yakovenko, M. I., & Stakhiv, I. R. (2023). Assessment and monitoring of fires caused by the War in Ukraine on Landscape scale. Journal of Landscape Ecology, 16(2), 76-97. Q3
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Trofymchuk O., Vishnyakov V., Sheviakina N., Klymenko V., Zahorodnia S., (2023). Detection of surface soil disturbance areas as a result of military actions in Ukraine by remote sensing methods. 153-162. International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference: SGEM, 23(2.1), 153-161.
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