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Andrei Kandaurov
Researcher
Laboratory of Vertebrate Animals Zoology
პროფილი
Ecology, distribution and taxonomy of mammals: rodents, insectivores and bats. Large experience in working on birds and reptiles.
Expertise in biodiversity conservation field for WWF and industrial projects.
Environmental Impact Assessment of projects in oil industry and transportation. Coordination of multinational groups of scientists.

Membership of professional societies: Member of Georgian Theriological Society,
Russian Theriological Society,
Bird Conservation Union of Georgia.
1999-2002 - Member of Advisory Committee of EUROBATS (CMS).

Education:
1974 - Tbilisi Pedagogical University, faculty of Natural Sciences - Biologist, Geographer
1986 - Muskhelishvili Institute of Computational Mathematics, Georgian Academy of Science - Problem Programmer
1978-1996 - head of retainer (vivarium) of the Institute
1986 - until present - Scientific researcher
პროექტები
totally 22 projects, most important:
  1. 1996 - Ministry of Environment of Georgia and Georgian Pipeline Company - GPC (UK), "Feasibility Study of the Environment on the Territory of Georgia along the Early Oil Transportation Pipeline Corridor and Adjacent Territories from Georgia-Azerbaijan Border to Supsa Terminal for GPC", expert-zoologist.
  2. 1997-1998 - Georgian Pipeline Company - GPC (UK), "Development of a monitoring program for the avifauna in the oil pipeline impact zone", Assistant of project director.
  3. 1998 - BEICIP-FRANLAB and GFINT, TACIS Project EGE 9603, "Support for Oil Transit and Transport Infrastructure and Institution Building for the Georgian International Oil Corporation (GIOC)", expert-zoologist.
  4. 1998 - NGO "CUNA GEORGICA" "Realization of Transportation Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Central Asia Project (Traceca) and the Supposed Important Bird Areas (IBA) within Georgia", team leader.
  5. 1999 - The Georgian Center for Conservation of Wildlife, the project granted by Research Support Scheme (RSS), "Land Use and Landscape Conservation in Southern Georgia", zoologist and cartographer.
  6. 2001 - PA Consulting Group, Client: US Agency for International Development, Project "Georgia Oil and Gas Sector Reform", section "Base line study and EIA: of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Major Export Pipeline Project", Leader of the Team of Zoologists, Theriologist.
  7. 2001-2003 - WWF Georgian PO, "The Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park
  8. Training and Communication Program", Project coordinator and Editor-in-Chief,.
  9. 2002 - WWF Georgian PO, J. and C. MacArtur Foundation, Russian branch (Grant #01-69702-GSS), "Ecoregion-Wide Strategy for Long-term Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Resources in Caucasus", coordinator.
  10. 2003 - WWF Caucasus PO, "Elaboration of a Vision of an Ecoregional Conservation Plan and Proposal of Nature and Biodiversity Programme in the Caucasus Region", consultant.
  11. 2003-2004 - WWF Caucasus PO, CI and CEPF (USA), "Caucasus Ecosystem Profile and Five-year Investment Strategy", consultant.
  12. 2005-2006 - ACTA Consultants, "Preparation of the compensation package for possible restriction of the boundaries of the Central Kolkheti Ramsar site due to the construction of oil-products terminal at the Khobistskali river estuary (Kulevi Terminal)", coordinator of the zoological team.
მნიშვნელოვანი პუბლიკაციები
46 publications in conservation biology, theriology, ornithology, herpetology, 16 unpublished reports of grants and EIA and 7 reports to the EUROBATS Advisors Committee. (See below)

ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS

  1. Orth A., Lyapunova E., Kandaurov A., Boissinot S., Boursot P., Vorontsov N., Bonhomme F., 1996, "L'espece polytypique Mus musculus en Transcaucasie" (Polytypic species Mus musculus in Transcaucasia) //Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, Sciences de la vie/ Life sciences, 319: 435-441 (Franc.)
  2. Vorontsov N.N., Boeskorov G.G., Mezhzherin S.V., Lyapunova E.A., Kandaurov A.S., 1992, "Systemaics of the Caucasian woodmice of the subgenus Sylvaemus (Mammalia,Rodentia,Apodemus)" //Zoologichesky zhurnal, March 1992, No3, vol.71: 119 - 131 (In Russian)
  3. Tarkhnishvili D., Kandaurov A., Bukhnikashvili A., 2002, "Declines of amphibians and reptiles in Georgia during the 20th century: virtual vs. actual problems" //Zeitschrift fur Feldherpetologie, 2002, № 9: 89-107
  4. Bukhnikashvili A., Kandaurov A., 2002, "The Annotated List of Mammals of Georgia" //Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology of Academy of Sciences of the Georgia, Metsniereba, Tbilisi, vol. XXI : 319 - 340
  5. Maarit Jaarolaa, Natalia Martinkova, Islam Gunduz, Cecilia Brunho, Jan Zima, Adam Nadachowski, Giovanni Amori, Nina S. Bulatova, Basil Chondropoulos, Stella Fraguedakis-Tsolis, Jorge Gonzalez-Esteban, Maria Jose Lopez-Fuster, Andrei S. Kandaurov, Haluk Kefelioglu, Maria da Luz Mathias, Idoia Villate, Jeremy B. Searle., 2004, "Molecular phylogeny of the speciose vole genus Microtus (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences"// Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 33 (2004): 647-663


    6. PUBLICATIONS IN NON-PERIODIC ISSUES

  6. Kandaurov A.S., 1985, "Development of new ecological consciousness and conservation of animal gene pool" //Studies and reservation of rare and disappearing species of the USSR fauna, A series "Problems of biosphere", Moscow, "Nauka": 48 - 51 (In Russian)
  7. Kandaurov A.S., Bukhnikashvili A.K., Morgilevskaya I.E., 1994, "The status of the systematic study of small mammals (Insectivora, Rodentia) in Georgia" //Biological diversity: the level of taxonomic study, Moscow, "Nauka Press", 1994: 126-141 [1995-02 BI10 VINITI (ISSN 1561-7858)] (In Russian)
  8. Bukhnikashvili A., Kandaurov A., 1997, "Small mammals (Insectivora, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, Rodentia)" //In Chatwin, M.E., Kikodze, D., Svanidze, T., Chikvaidze, J., Gvritishvili, M., and Tarkhnishvili, D. (Eds.), 1997. Georgian Biodiversity Country Study Report, 1996, Programme "Assistance for preparation of Biodiversity Country Study in the Republic of Georgia", UNEP, Ministry of Environment of Georgia, Noah's Ark Centre for Recovery of Endangered Species; 1997, Tbilisi, Georgia: 74-82. (3.7 Mammals), (English and Georgian)
  9. Zazanashvili, N., Sanadiradze, G., Bukhnikashvili, A., Kandaurov, A., Tarkhnishvili, D., 2004, "Caucasus"// In: "Hotspots Revisited: Earth's biologically richest and most endangered terrestrial ecoregions", by R.A. Mittermaier, P.G. Gil, M. Hoffmann, J. Pilgrim, T. Brooks, C. G. Mittermaier, J. Lamoreux, G. A. B. da Fonseca, CEMEX/Agrupacion Sierra Madre, Mexico City. Printed in Japan by Toppan Printing Co (total 392 pages) : 148-153


    10. ABSTRACTS OF WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES

  10. Kandaurov A.S., 1985, "Experience of breeding the wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus L., 1758.) in captivity" //The 7-th Conference of the young scientist and specialist (7.6.1985). The brief contents of the reports. Tbilisi (1986):23-26 (In Russian)
  11. Abuladze A.V., Kandaurov A.S., Eligulashvili V.E., Edisherashvili G.V., 1986, "Status of the Ciconidae in Georgia" //Study of Birds of the USSR, Abstracts of 1st Congress of Ornithological Society of the USSR and 9-th All-Union Ornithological Conference, Part 1: 19-20 (In Russian)
  12. Kandaurov A., Zaslavsky A., 1986, "Interactive Inverted List Oriented Database with Collected Data on Small Mammals" //Principles and methods of ecological informatics, Proceedings of National Symposium, Moscow: 80 (In Russian)
  13. Abuladze A.V., Kandaurov A.S., Eligulashvili V.E., 1988, "White-tailed Sea Eagle in Central Transcaucasia" //The II All-Union Conference of Ecology and Protection of Birds of Prey, Abstracts, Kiev (In Russian)
  14. Kandaurov A.S., Bukhnikashvili A.K., 1988, "Experience of the formation breeding family-groups of social vole (Microtus socialis Pall. 1773) in vivarium" //The 8-th Conference of the young scientist and specialist (7.III.1988), The brief contents of the reports, Tbilisi: 56-58 (In Russian)
  15. Kandaurov A.S., Bukhnikashvili A.K., 1989, "Approach to the organization of small mammal cadastre in GSSR" //The II All-Union Conference on problems of cadastre and calculation of animals, Upha: 165 - 166 (In Russian)
  16. Kandaurov A.S., 1992, "Morphometric characteristics of the shrew Sorex volnuchini Ognev, 1920 in Georgia." //1st All-Union Conference on biology of Insectivore, The Thesis of the reports, Novosibirsk: 80 (In Russian)
  17. Eriashvili Sh.G., Kandaurov A.S., 1992, "On the status of Radde's shrew (Sorex raddei) in Georgia" //1st All-Union conference on biology of Insectivore, The Thesis of the reports, Novosibirsk: 21 (In Russian)
  18. Kandaurov A.S., 1995, "Two species of the genus Mus in Georgia" //International Conference "State of fauna of mammalian in Russia and FSU", poster (thesis of poster), Moscow, on February 3-5, 1995, "RAT - Info", March No1 (13) 1995: 8 [1997-08 B147, VINITI (ISSN 1561-7858)] (In Russian)
  19. Kandaurov A., 1997, "Rare species of insectivorous of Georgia" //Rare mammal species of Russia and adjacent territory, Proceedings of the International Conference, 9-11 Apr. 1997, Moscow: 44 [1998-11 BI47, VINITI (ISSN 1561-7858)] (In Russian)
  20. Kandaurov A., 1999, "Experience of large-scale mapping of complexes of mammals of Ajaria." //The VI Congress of Theriological society, Moscow, 1999, 13-16 April: 110 (In Russian)
  21. Kandaurov A., Chelidze M., 2002, "Integration of the Requirement of Animal Biodiversity Conservation in the EIA Process."// Proceedings of the CENN Regional Seminar: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Legislation and Practices in the Caucasus Countries, Georgia, Kobuleti, September 18-22, 2002, CENN, Tbilisi, p 44. (Russian and English)
  22. Bukhnikashvili A., Natradze J., & Kandaurov A., 2002, Bats of Natural and Artificial Caves of Georgia. // IX-th European Bat Research Symposium, Le Havre, 26-30 August 2002: 38


    23. OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  23. Bukhnikashvili A., Kandaurov A., 1998, "Threatened and insufficiently studied species (Insectivora, Rodentia)", Tbilisi, pp 91.
  24. Williams L., Sanadiradze, G., Zazanashvili, N., Kandaurov, A. (Editors), 2006, "An Ecoregional Conservation Plan for the Caucasus", Second Edition, May 2006, Tbilisi, Countur Ltd. , pp. 222. (ISBN: 99940-58-55-X)
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