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Main research directions:
- Seismic  regime  study  of  the  Carpathian-Balkan region,  seismic macrozoning of  the  territory of  the Republic of Moldova, seismic microzoning of urban areas, seismotectonics and geodynamics.
- Study of regional geology, lithology and stratigraphy of geological formations and minerals deposits tectonics and neotectonics;
- Hydrodynamics  and  regime  investigations  of ground water in the Republic of Moldova, the ground water reserves and quality, hydrologic prognosis and riverbed processes of small rivers;
- Study of  the geochemical anthropogenic processes on  the  territory of  the Republic of Moldova,  improvement of geochemical monitoring, quantitative prognosis of environmental pollution, elaboration of methods for pollution localization and reduction.
Main scientific achievements:
- Soil-structure  interaction efects were studied for the purpose of providing seismic security;
- Methodology of  interpretation  for seismic waves ields  on  the  basis  of  seismic  waves  polarization properties was created;
- Methodology  of  quantitative  interpretation  of macroseismic ields was elaborated;
- Seismic  intensity as  function of elastic  soil parameters was studied;
- Peculiarities of spectral content for the Carpathian earthquakes were studied;
- Methodology of seismic microzonation under specific regional conditions was created;
- Upgrade of the Building Code MD SNIP 2-7-82 for aseismic design of buildings on the territory of the Republic of Moldova;
- The consolidation age of the crystaline basement of Predobrodian depression was set up;
- The mapping of Paleozoic stratum and structural elements of the Aluat graben was done;
- Ground water  quality  study  of  the  Republic  of Moldova and Memphis, USA;
- A  new methodology  of  pollutants migration  in unsaturated  zone  (case  study  in  the  Republic  of Moldova and  the Karlsruhe  region, Germany) was proposed;
- Groundwater  low  modeling  of  Moldova  and Chisinau City was done.