Mykola Gusti
Senior Research Scholar
Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
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Biography
Mykola Gusti is a Research Scholar with the Ecosystems Services and Management Program (ESM), having joined IIASA in 2005. He is currently involved in development of the Global Forest Model (G4M) used for analyzing climate mitigation options within land use change and forest management activities.Dr. Gusti graduated from the Lviv Franko State University in 1996, where he completed his diploma thesis on Macromodels with Chebyshev approximation in the field of radiophysics. Following his graduation, he worked as an engineer in the Department of Complex Dynamical Systems Modeling at the Research Institute of Information Infrastructure in Lviv, Ukraine. He defended his PhD dissertation on Modeling the Dynamics of the Carbon Budget of Ecosystems of the Carpathian Region in Ukraine, in 2002, and defended a habilitation thesis on Mathematical Models of Processes of Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Sinks in Forestry and Land Use Change, in 2018. From 2001 to 2002, he worked at LSCE, France where he dealt with modeling the transport of trace gases using GCM LMDZ3.3. From 2002 to 2005, he returned to the Research Institute of Information Infrastructure in Lviv, Ukraine to work on the development of geo-information technologies for greenhouse gas inventory and prognosis of the carbon budget in Ukraine.
Dr. Gusti's scientific interests are mathematical modeling and data processing applicable in environment research.
Last update: 09 MAY 2019
Publications
Gusti, M. & Jonas, M. (2010). Terrestrial full carbon account for Russia: Revised uncertainty estimates and their role in a bottom-up/top-down accounting exercise. Climatic Change 103 (1) 159-174. 10.1007/s10584-010-9911-9.
Gusti, M. (2010). Uncertainty of BAU emissions in LULUCF sector: Sensitivity analysis of the Global Forest Model. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories, 22-24 September 2010.
Obersteiner, M. , Rametsteiner, E., Kraxner, F., McCallum, I. , Aoki, K., Bottcher, H., Fritz, S. , Gusti, M., Havlik, P. , Kindermann, G. , & Reyers, B. (2010). Towards a sound REDD. In: Deforestation and Climate Change: Reducing Carbon Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. Eds. Bosetti, V. & Lubowski, R., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781848448247
Gusti, M. (2010). An algorithm for simulation of forest management decisions in the global forest model. Shtuchniy Intelekt 4 45-49.
Gusti, M. (2010). An algorithm for simulation of forest management response to carbon price incentive. In: Proceedings of the conference "Modern Information Technologies in Economy, Management and Education", 12 November 2010.