| National activities: Linking integrated basic research and applied and deployment research, focusing on integrated assessment research for territorial planning; assessment of land potential, converting plant structure; adjustment of landuse planning; flood reduction, impacts of flooding, flash floods, landslides, land subsidence; earthquake; geological structure, constructional geology; hydrogeology; sediment structure, sediment deposition, surveying and explorating sand, soil ecology, wetlands; use of raised-bed soils; hydrogeochemistry, aquatic biology, shrimp aquaculture environment; biodiversity, salt intrusion, thunder and lightening; pollution of surface water and groundwater; geophysical technology; inorganic polymer, GIS and RS-based mapping, database construction…
International cooperation: Exchanging and cooperating regularly with the Institutes and Universities of Japan, France, Germany, America, England, Poland, Belgium, Taiwan…in the fields under research. |
- The largest achievement of the Institute in research activities is to establish a close link between basic research and the resolution of practical issues on physical and socio-economic aspects for provinces of the central coast, Southeastern area, Ho Chi Minh City, and those of the Mekong delta;
- The 1985 Award from VAST (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology) to the authors of “Oriented integrated basic research in the Plain of Reeds”;
- The 1995 Scientific Award by VAST to the authors of “Utilization of water resources and flood regulation in the Plain of Reeds”;
- A Certificate of merit by the chairman of Thua Thien-Hue People’ Committee to the authors of the work cluster “Oriented integrated basic research on resources of mounds, hills, and sandy soils in the coastal part of Thua Thien-Hue for agricultural development”: the A-prize of the Co Do on the 1st Science and Technology 2016.
- A Certificate of merit was awarded for the research: “Investigating the causes of thunder and lightening and proposing prevention measures to mitigate destructive impacts in the La Nga valley, Duc Linh-Tanh Linh, Binh Thuan province ” in 2017 by the Chairman of People’ Committee of Binh Thuan province.
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