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E-mail: kestutis.armolaitis@lammc.lt
Liepų St. 1, Girionys, LT-53101 Kaunas dist., Lithuania
Education
1977 M.Sc. Engineer in Forestry, Lithuanian University of Agriculture (since 2019 Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy).
Academic degree
1984 doctor of Agricultural sciences, Belorussian University of Technology in Minsk.
Research fields
- Forestry science
- Ecology and environmental science
Position
Since 2014 Chief Researcher, Department of Silviculture and Ecology, Institute of Forestry, LAMMC.
Memberships and affiliations with professional organisations
Involvement in programmes and projects
International projects
- 2021–2025 HORIZON 2020 project “Forest soils research and innovation action – holistic management practices, modelling and monitoring for European forest soils” (HoliSoils).
- 2020–2024 HORIZON 2020 project “Towards climate-smart sustainable management of agricultural soils” (EJP SOIL).
- 2020–2023 Baltic Research Programme “Sustainable use of soil resources in the changing climate” (SUCC), coordinator in Lithuania.
- 2019–2023 LIFE programme project “Demonstration of climate change mitigation potential of nutrients rich organic soils in Baltic States and Finland” (Life OrgBalt), coordinator in LAMMC.
- 2019–2021 Interreg Baltic Sea Region project “WAMBAF tool box”.
- 2016–2020 SNS project “Centre of advanced research on environmental services from Nordic forest ecosystems” (CAR-ES).
- 2016–2019 Interreg Baltic Sea Region project “Water management in Baltic forests” (WAMBAF).
- 2016–2017 SNS project “Effects of bioenergy production from forests and agriculture on ecosystem services in Nordic and Baltic landscape”, coordinator in LAMMC.
- 2016 SNS project “Ecotoxic components in wood”.
- 2016 SNS project “The Northern European Network connecting forests, forestry and water issues”, coordinator in LAMMC.
- 2013–2015 SNS project “Ecological effects of intensive biomass harvesting in the Nordic and Baltic countries”, coordinator in LAMMC.
- 2012–2014 Latvia-Lithuania cross-border cooperation programme project “Truffle Research and Introduction Network for farmer start-ups and universities”, coordinator in LAMMC.
- 2011–2015 SNS project “Centre of advanced research on environmental services from Nordic forest ecosystems” (CAR-ES).
- 2011–2014 SNS project “Leaching of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus from forest land in the Nordic and Baltic countries”, coordinator in Lithuania.
- 2009–2013 COST FP0803: COST Action FP0803 “Belowground carbon turnover in European forests”, member of Management Committee.
- 2009–2011 SNS project “Ash recycling – long-term effects on tree growth”.
- 2007–2009 EU project EEC 2152/2003 “Forest focus regulation on developing harmonized methods for assessing carbon sequestration in European forests” (MASCAREF), coordinator in Lithuania.
- 2004–2007 SNS project “Estimation of carbon storage in forest biomass in the Nordic and Baltic countries – common methods, protocols and tools for obtaining comparable biomass expansion functions” (BEF), coordinator in Lithuania.
- 2002–2005 EU 5 framework programme “Wood-En-Man (QLK-CT-2001-00527) – WOOD FOR ENERGY – a contribution to the development of sustainable management”.
- 1999–2004 COST Action E22 “Environmental optimization of wood protection”, member of Management Committee.
- Since 1989 Project “ICP-Forests”.
National and state authority projects
Supervision of PhD studies
- Scientific advisor of Gediminas Survila phD project “Peculiarities of growth of forest plantations planted on agricultural land using deep plowing” (in preparation).
- Scientific supervisor of Paulius Garbaravičius phD project “Soil organic carbon stability in forest and agro ecosystems” (in preparation).
- Scientific supervisor of Aušra Gudauskienė phD project “Luvisols nitrogen stability in forest and agro ecosystems” (in preparation).
- Scientific supervisor of Milda Muraškienė phD project “Soil microbiota carbon and nitrogen in Lithuanian forest mineral soils” (in preparation).
- 2017 Scientific supervisor of Dovilė Čiuldienė phD project “Soil sustainability in the forest stands of alien species”.
- 2014 Scientific advisor of Girmantė Jurkšienė phD project “Pedunculate (Quercus robur L.) and sessile oak (Q. petraea [Matt.] Liebl.) hybridization, regeneration and effects on soil microbiota”.
- 2009 Scientific supervisor of Jūratė Aleinikovienė (Zenkovaitė) phD project “Renaturalization of arable Arenosols in the South of Lithuania: changes in chemical properties and microflora”.
- 2008 Scientific advisor of Ričardas Beniušis phD project “Lithuanian forest Arenosols: genesis and properties”.
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