Lecturers of the Department of Meteorology and Climatology

Vasyl Zatula

Ph.D., Associate professor, geographer-meteorologist

Scientific profiles:

Education and grades:

  • 1993 – Defended PhD Dissertation titled “Meteorological Regime and Air Pollution in Cities of Ukraine (on pattern of Kyiv)” (Specialty – Meteorology, Climatology, Agrometeorology; Scientific Advisor – Prof. M. Shcherban).
  • 1988–1991 – Postgraduate studies at the Department of Meteorology and Climatology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (TSNUK) (Qualification – Geographer-Scientific Researcher).
  • 1983–1988 – Department of Meteorology and Climatology, TSNUK (Qualification – geographer-meteorologist).

Work Experience:

  • Since 09/2003 – Associate Professor, Department of Meteorology and Climatology, Faculty of Geography, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
  • 08/1995–08/2003 – Head of Geography and Ecology Department, Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University.
  • 06/1993–08/2003 – Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor of Geography and Ecology Department, Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University.
  • 10/1991–11/1992 – Scientific Researcher, Faculty of Geography, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
  • 10/1988–10/1991 – Ph.D. Candidate in Meteorology, Climatology, Agricultural meteorology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev, Faculty of Geography, Meteorology and Climatology Department.
  • 08/1988–10/1988 – Forecaster engineer of Ukrainian aviation meteorological center (airport “Boryspil”).
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Languages:

  • Ukrainian – native
  • English

Publications:

Author and co-author of more than 150 scientific and educational works, including 8 books.

Main publications include:

  • Vodchyts O.G., Zatula V.I. (2017), Fundamentals of meteorology and climatology (textbook, in Ukrainian);
  • Zatula V.I. (2016), Optical phenomena in the atmosphere (textbook, in Ukrainian);
  • Snizhko S.I., Palamarchuk L.V., Zatula V.I. (2010), Meteorology (textbook, in Ukrainian);
  • Zatula V.I., Tytarenko L.M. (2009), Explanatory dictionary of meteorology and climatology (textbook, in Ukrainian);
  • Environment protection (2006) – (collective monography, in Ukrainian);
  • Geographical basis of environment protection (2006) – (collective monography, in Ukrainian);
  • Polovyna I.P., Zatula V.I. (2003), General geographical regularities of Earth (textbook, in Ukrainian);
  • Zatula V.I. (2002), Practical book of social-economical geography of Ukraine (textbook, in Ukrainian).

Scientific Supervision:

Under the scientific supervision of Vasyl Zatula, two PhD thesis on specialty Meteorology, climatology and agrometeorology has been completed and successfully defended:

  • 2016 – Inna Oleksienko: Spatial and temporal distribution of frost in Ukraine and their impact on fruit crops.
  • 2012 – Alina Sidorenko: Features of saturation deficit fields in modern climate of Ukraine.

Research interests:

  • meteorological aspects of air pollution;
  • methods of mathematical statistics in climatology;
  • climate of Ukraine.

Teaching courses:

  • Meteorology;
  • Climatology;
  • General circulation of atmosphere;
  • Climate of Europe and Ukraine;
  • Microclimatology;
  • Atmospheric optics, electricity and acoustics.