Environmental Monitoring Laboratory. Part of the “NUK Environmental Laboratory” complex, established in 2010 and accredited for water quality assessment in 2013.

Main areas of focus:

• Determining the structure and typology of anthropogenic factors affecting the river basins of the Mykolaiv region; developing new methodological approaches to assessing the potential and degree of environmental risk posed by these factors; calculating the level of environmental safety of water bodies; assessing the condition of the region’s water bodies and atmospheric air; research on the degree of anthropogenic transformation and land use, river flow utilization, and water quality.

• Developing key strategies for addressing issues related to the protection of aquatic ecosystems, atmospheric air, and soil from pollution.

• Another area of scientific research involves studying the extent, patterns, and causes of anthropogenic transformation of the plant communities in the region’s protected areas, compiling a floristic inventory of the species and taxonomic richness of the plant communities in various ecosystems under study, and analyzing adventive species. The phytobiota is studied from various perspectives: systematic, geographical, biomorphological, and ecological.