MAIN TOPICS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
SPECIALIZATION OF THE TEACHING STAFF IN THE FIELD OF RESEARCH
Subjects (key words) within the framework of which field research has been carried out, data on soil properties have been collected, databases have been created and processed, papers on experimental research have been published, reports, projects etc. have been drawn up.
OLAV ELLERMÄE, M.Sc., Ph.D. student; Researcher: soil erosion;
eroded soils properties and classification; soil protection; soil taxonomy.
ARNO KANAL, Ph.D., Docent: organic matter of arable soils, its supplies
and decomposition; soil fertility; soil biota and biological activity;
organic fertilizers.
ENDEL KITSE, D.Sc., Prof.-emer.: physical and hydrophysical properties
of soils; recultivation of exhausted oil-shale quarries for arable lands;
influence of the capacity of available soil water, humus supply and specific
surface area on the efficiency of commercial fertilizers.
PAUL KULDKEPP, Cand. Sc., Prof.-emer.: investigations into ecologically
sound application of the organic and nitrogen fertilizers in long-term
crop rotation.
RAIMO KÕLLI, D.Sc., Prof., Head of the Department: biological
productivity of soils; biogeochemical turnover of nitrogen and ash elements;
soil organic matter and its flow through the soil humus cover; humus status
of arable soils; environmental soil science; soil taxonomy and classification;
soil monitoring and conservation; soil mapping and soil maps.
TIINA KÖSTER, Assistant: phytoproductivity and cycling of nutrition
elements in grassland ecosystems.
ENN LEEDU, D.Agr., Docent: agricultural and biological recultivation
of oil-shale quarries; peeling, use and conservation of humus soil; influence
of the collapse of underground mines on the productivity of agricultural
crops and soil properties; pedotechnology and technogenesis of soils.
ILLAR LEMETTI, M.Sc., Lecturer, Ph.D student: soil humus cover; humus
status of soils; monitoring of soils; soil maps.
PRIIT PENU, M.Sc., Researcher, Ph.D student: organic matter of arable
soils; biological cycling of nutrition elements; nutrient content of organic
matter in agroecosystems.
ENDLA REINTAM, Assistant, Researcher, M.Sc. student: weeds of agroecosystems
depending on soils and soil management.
LOIT REINTAM, D.Sc., Prof.-emer., Academician of EAS: soil ecology
and genesis; interaction and transformation activities between organic
and mineral constituents of soils; soil composition and characteristics,
their changes in time and space; plant-soil systems; functions and protection
of soils and plant-soil systems (ecosystems).
HUGO ROOSTALU, Cand.Sc., Prof., Vice-Dean: moisture, air and temperature
conditions of soil and their influence on phytoproductivity; pedoclimatic
conditions and their influence on the yield of agricultural crops; fertilization
of agricultural crops depending on pedoclimatic conditions.
TIINA LAIDVEE, Laboratory assistant: macroelements content in spring
wheat at various stages of development depending on the application of
fertilizers.
TRIIN TEESALU, M.Sc., Researcher, Ph.D. student: influence of the application
of fertilizers on potato quality.
AVO TOOMSOO, M.Sc., Lecturer, Ph.D. student: influence of the application
of organic and mineral fertilizer on the yield and quality of potato and
its economic efficiency
September 27, 1999.
COMPETENCE OF THE TEACHING STAFF IN TEACHING AND SUPERVISING STUDENTS
Subjects (key words) in which staff members have profound basic knowledge, willingness to deliver lectures, carry out seminars and practical training for students, ability to supervise students. Within this framework collaboration with other research institutions is suggested.
OLAV ELLERMÄE, M.Sc., Researcher: basic soil science; soil erosion;
soil protection; soils of Estonia.
ARNO KANAL, Ph.D, Docent: circulation of organic matter in agroecosystems;
soil biota; carbon and nitrogen turnover between soil and plant cover;
soil taxonomy; ecology and environmental protection.
ENDEL KITSE, D.Sc., Prof.-emer.: soil science with economic aspects
of soil management; properties and fertility of Estonian soils; soil fertility
and efficiency of mineral fertilizers; capacity of available water in Estonian
arable soils; effective utilization of available soil water; specific surface
area of soil and its index.
PAUL KULDKEPP, Cand. Sc., Prof.-emer.: general and basic course of
agrochemistry; plant nutrition and transformation of nutrition elements
in soil; application of fertilizers.
RAIMO KÕLLI, D.Sc., Prof.: basic soil science; agronomical and
environmental soil science; Estonian soils and their properties; pedoecology;
use of ordination systems in the presentation of soil characteristics;
humus status of arable soils; formation, composition and properties of
forest litter; phytoproductivity of soils; biogeochemical turnover of substances;
management and protection of soil cover; soil classification and evaluation;
ecology and environmental protection; soil monitoring.
ENN LEEDU, D. Agr., Docent: Northeast Estonian soils and their pollution;
agricultural recultivation of oil-shale quarries; storing, conservation
and utilization of humus soil; collapses of underground oil-shale mines
and their influence on the properties of soil cover.
ILLAR LEMETTI, M.Sc., Lecturer: Estonian soils and their properties;
humus status of soils; soil conservation and taxonomy; soil monitoring;
ecology and environmental protection.
PRIIT PENU, M.Sc., Researcher: Estonian soils and their properties;
circulation of organic matter in agroecosystems; basic soil science.
ENDLA REINTAM, Assistant: ecology and environmental protection; basic
soil science.
LOIT REINTAM, D.Sc., Prof.-emer.: forest and agronomical soil science;
soil genesis, diagnostics, classification, geography, cartography; ecology;
nature and environmental protection; causal, functional and consequential
changes and interactions in plant-soil systems; content, composition, characteristics,
interrelations and changes of soil organic and mineral constituents.
HUGO ROOSTALU, Cand. Sc., Prof.: soil science in the aspect of land
amelioration; soil science with elementary geobotany; physical and hydrophysical
properties of soil; properties and fertility of Estonian soils; soil fertilizer
requirements and fundamentals of their management.
AVO TOOMSOO, M.Sc., Lecturer: general and basic course of agrochemistry;
application of fertilizers; laboratory works in basic soil science.
TÕNU TÕNUTARE, Laboratory assistant: methods of soil
analysis.
September 27, 1999.
STAFF OF THE DEPARTMENT
Teaching staff: Prof. R.Kôlli, D.Sc., (Chair); Acad. of EAS, Prof.-emer.
L. Reintam, D.Sc.; Prof.-emer. E. Kitse, D.Sc.; Prof. H.Roostalu, Cand.
Sc., Vice-Dean; Prof.-emer P. Kuldkepp, Cand. Sc.; Docent A. Kanal, Ph.D.;
Docent E. Leedu, D.Agr; Lecturer I. Lemetti, M.Sc.; Lecturer A. Toomsoo,
M.Sc.; Assistant T. Köster; Assistant E. Reintam.
Researches: T. Teesalu, M.Sc.; P. Penu, M.Sc.; O. Ellermäe, M.
Sc.; E. Reintam.
Ph.D. students: I. Lemetti, P. Penu, A. Toomsoo, V. Loide, O. Ellermäe,
T. Teesalu.
M.Sc. students: E. Reintam, A. Aruksaar, M. Kukin, K. Soosaar, T. Tõrra
Laboratory assistants: T. Tõnutare, R. Kährik, I. Albre,
T. Laidvee, K. Soosaar, T. Tõrra, P. Kõlli, A. Varbhein,
U. Roostalu.