SHI WILL ACCOMPLISH A SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN THE FOLLOWING FIELDS:

• Estimating water resources and water balance for different spatial-temporal scales.
• Estimating and forecasting anthropogenic changes in river runoff.
• Forecasting possible climate change, assessing ecological and economic aftereffects of expected climate change.
• Developing mathematical models of hydrological cycle including modeling of water exchange with man's impact.
• Physical and mathematical modeling of fluvial processes, calculating and forecasting sediment runoff and water erosion.
• Assessing the ecological state of water objects and water quality of water sources.

SHI WILL PROVIDE THE SCIENTIFIC-METHODOLOGICAL GUIDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING KINDS OF WORK:

• Optimizing hydrological network.
• Developing and exploitation of automated systems for collecting, processing, preserving and disseminating hydrological information.
• Applying the remote sensing methods for hydrology.
• Conducting metrological certification of hydrological instrumentation and equipment.

SHI WILL PROVIDE THE SCIENTIFIC HYDROLOGICAL GENERALIZATION OF:

• Reliable sources for water supply of populated areas, enterprises, farms.
• The most rational places for water intake and waste water discharge.
• Efficient projects for constructing and reconstructing cities, industrial enterprises, reservoirs, bridges, dams, dykes, dyking, navigation, irrigation, water-supply and drainage canals.
• The best variants of passages across water bodies of bridges, oil-and gas pipe lines, electricpower ines, etc.
• Assessing the resources and storage of ground waters.

AS WELL AS SHI WILL DO THE FOLLOWING JOBS:

• Organizing and conducting prototype expedition hydrological studies in the territories of Russia and other countries.
• Developing a complex of mathematical models to calculate the characteristics of hydrological regime with design work.
• Conducting trial and testing of the variants of engineering water management solutions by using physical and mathematical modeling.
• Conducting an ecological expertise of water management objects and hydraulic structures.
• producing hydrological instrumentation and fixing it as well as calibrating in a calibration basin.
• Organizing and conducting delicate physical experiments in the prototype and laboratory conditions on studying different hydrological processes by using unique instruments and installations.