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Environmental Sciences Board of Study
Division Of Natural Sciences
SUNY, Purchase College
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Yuri Gorokhovich, Ph.D.

OFFICE ADDRESS:

Division of Environmental Sciences
SUNY, Purchase College
Purchase, New York, 10577-1400
Office: (914)251-6738
E-mail: yuri.gorokhovich@purchase.edu

NAME: Yuri Gorokhovich
PLACE OF BIRTH: Odessa, Ukraine
CITIZENSHIP: US

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Geologic and other spatial data integration, interpolation, surveying and mapping. Coastal studies. Geographic Information System (GIS) applications for the watershed management, hydrologic modeling.

EDUCATION:

1992 - 1998  Ph.D. M.A. City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York, USA
     Earth and Environmental Sciences Program. Specialization in GIS and Hydrological Modeling
1978 - 1983  M.S. Cum Laude, Odessa State University, Odessa, Ukraine.
     Specialization in Engineering/Marine Geology.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

2003   Project Safe Neighborhoods Research Partner/Crime Analyst Grant For The

            Decrease Of Gun Violence And Enhanced Prosecution Of Firearms Crimes

2003   Storm Drain Mapping, Town of Norwalk , CT

2002-2003   Faculty Development Award

2002   Tibor Polgar Fellowship (Hudson River Foundation)

1997   Society of Indo-American Engineers & Architects Inc. Certificate of Appreciation.

1990 - 1992  University Tuition Fellowship, City University of New York

1991    Academy of Sciences (New York) Award for the participation in program "Scientists in Schools"

1991    Geological Society of America Student Travel Grant

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

American Geophysical Union

Geological Society of America

THESES:

Gorokhovich Y. 1998. Spatially Distributed Hydrological Modeling of Storm Events Using A Geographic Information System (GIS) with Insight Into Turbidity. Doctoral Dissertation, City University of New York, Graduate Center, pp. 357.

Gorokhovich Y. 1988. Engineering Geological Processes and their Influence on the Erosion and Accretion along the North-Western Coast of the Black Sea. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Odessa University, Ukraine.

Gorokhovich Y. 1983. The Study of Physical and Mechanical Properties of the Bottom Sediments in Relation to their Depths.
Master Thesis, Odessa State University,Ukraine, pp.120


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