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Mr. Radu Gabriel Pirnau

Dr.

Researcher - ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI

Researcher

Web of Science ResearcherID: P-1719-2016

Curriculum Vitae (24/11/2021)

Expertise & keywords

Modelling current and future land suitability for crops in Romania under climate change scenarios Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de cercetare exploratorie - PCE-2021
PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-1350 2022 - 2024

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://rocrop.ro/

Abstract:

The research project aims to model the current and future terrain suitability for the main crops in Romania, considering both

current climate and its predicted future evolution under 2 greenhouse emission scenarios. For this purpose, the project will create a high resolution GIS database for the entire country, comprising the soil, relief and climate parameters which control land suitability for crops. The soil parameters will be mapped using various geomatic methods (statistical, machine-learning methods, fuzzy classifications) and the best spatial model will be selected for each parameters based on independent sample validation. Spatial modelling will start from a consistent point soil database and high resolution predictors. The climate parameters will be extracted from ROCADA database, for the current period, and from CHELSA database for the future period and they will be downscaled to a higher resolution by geostatistical techniques. For land suitability evolution, we will apply the current standard Romanian methodology (ICPA, 1987), using both current and predicted climate data, resulting the probable evolution of land suitability. We also will attempt to improve the current methodology by deepening the climate suitability evaluation and by testing alternative methods of suitability parameters' aggregation.

The Soil Science & Archaeo-Geophysics Alliance: going beyond prospection Call name:
CA17131 2018 - 2022

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Project partners: Norwegian University of Science and Technology ()

Affiliation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology ()

Project website: https://www.saga-cost.eu/

Abstract:

Open Source Spatial Data Infrastructure for Soil Mapping and Land Management Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - Proiect experimental - demonstrativ
PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2019-5436 2020 - 2022

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO)

Affiliation: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO)

Project website: http://www.osdisol.ro

Abstract:

The main purpose of this project is to provide an integrated platform for large scale soil mapping and land resources management designed specifically not only for soil surveyors, but also for agricultural stakeholders. Through this platform, the soil surveyors can easily access various spatial layers representing different soil forming factors (lithology, terrain features and properties, climate, land use/cover, vegetation, hydrology) and ancillary soil data (soil profile characteristics, chemical and physical analyses, soil units properties, etc.) to help them produce more accurate soil and land suitability maps. The resulting data and maps will automatically update the geodatabase so they will be available for future use. Also, through web mapping applications, the agricultural stakeholders can access valuable information regarding land characteristics in terms of soil properties and quality, which enables them to take better decisions and properly manage their farm.

Colonizing the periphery (Moesia Inferior and Scythia Minor - 1st-6th c.AD): a bioarchaeological approach of Romanization Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0852 2017 - 2019

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Project website: https://bioarheoroman.webnode.ro

Abstract:

Our archaeozoological research aims to contribute to the understanding of the development of animal husbandry and animal resources exploitation during Roman time in Moesia Inferior and Scythia Minor. The Roman settlements are characterized by the appearance of very large cattle and sheep-goat (in comparison with the indigenous ones). Our study will combine morphometric and archaeogenetic analysis to understand if this large species resulted from improvement of animal breeding or from the import of animal stock. The project will integrate archaeozoological, palinologic, archaeogenetic, GIS, pedologic and archaeological analyses in order to explore the history of human-animal-landscape interactions in the Roman Period; the data for this period will be placed in a synchronic and also diachronic context; one will be compared with the data for the Iron Age period and for Byzantine period in order to investigate the transition phenomena. The project will highlight the differences between military and civilian milieu, urban and rural settlements, differences on the diversity of the used animal resources and the exploitation strategies in Roman time in comparison with those of Iron Age and Byzantine period. This integrative approach provide a more holistic picture of animal use and changes in the diet during the Roman Empire by highlighting the efficiency, adaptability, and innovation of the Romans in term of animal husbandry and breeding tactics.

Non-destructive approaches to complex archaeological sites. An integrated applied research model for cultural heritage Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA 2013 - call
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-2234 2014 - 2017

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO); ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO); ARHEO MANAGEMENT SRL (RO)

Affiliation: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO)

Project website: http://arheoinvest.uaic.ro/research/prospect/

Abstract:

The assertion of the new paradigms in the archaeological research during the second half of the last century, paved way to new means of analysis of natural and anthropical inhabited in times past, on local or regional level. Their profound and inherently interdisciplinary nature was emphasized by numerous collaborations between archaeologists and scientists from other field of research, many of them designed to underline the interdependence relationship of mankind towards the environment.

Presently, within the scientific milieu dedicated to archaeology, it is universally accepted that the archaeological sites are more than ever being endangered by the natural factor, but, more importantly by the human factor. As a result of their activity, archaeologists are nowadays fully aware of this real problem, aknowledging the necessary use of new investigation methods borrowed from archeometry. A wise management of the national cultural patrimony aligned to the concept of CRM-cultural resources management, intensely used and applied worldwide, forces the scientific community to employ modern techniques of analyzing the archaeological sites, which can be a non-destructive pattern of research suited for all historical cycles.

In other words, the main objective of this project aims at developing and implementing a functional model of applied research based on integrating and improving of non-destructive techniques, while understanding and valuing the complexity of prehistoric archaeological sites.

The choice in limiting the research area at the eastern part of Romania, the Moldavian Plateau, lies in the incredibly rich archaeological potential, which was, until now, rather unequally and insufficiently investigated. This territory, marked by a complex landscape, with diverse forms of relief arranged into a natural and organic geographical unit, represented an auspicious frame for the presence and development of human communities; as a result there is an uninterrupted habitation starting with the dawn of human civilization, from early paleolithic (approximately 700.000 BC – 120.000 BC) until present time.

We consider that deciphering and analytical interpretation of the geo-systemic balance from the area through a careful selection of a few prehistoric sites, that are going to be attentively researched using topographic and archaeological cartography, aerial photography, the analysis of spectral images, terrestrial tridimensional scanning and geo-physics prospections (magnetometry with cesium steams and fluxgate, GPR-ground penetrating radar technology, soil resistivity and electrical tomography) is essential. The unified interpretation of results obtained through GIS, using specific analysis, will decisively contribute to the perception of settlements landscape, as well as to understanding the mechanisms of occupying the land in Prehistory, and obviously offer precious data regarding the relantion between human-environment, inherently to any appropriate interdisciplinary archaeological study.

In direct connection with the ideas mentioned above, we will consider the identification, evaluation and monitoring the endangered sites, either by natural or human factors, based on the same unified research model, made up of methods and principles also mentioned above. Moreover, a careful examination of the geomorphological and morphometric features and especially of the dynamics of the erosive processes only completes the obtained information body, which will represent the basis of a predictive model based on coherent and relevant information for this type of research. During the final stage of the project, we will focus on developing a strategy of revaluation and tourism management, mainly in the virtual medium for the prehistoric archaeological sites.

INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL, PEDOLOGICAL, PALYNOLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOZOOLOGICAL DATA FROM NEO-ENEOLITHIC SITES FROM EASTERN ROMANIA Call name: Projects for Young Research Teams - TE-2010 call
PN-II-RU-TE-2010-0172 2010 - 2013

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA DIN IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA DIN IASI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA DIN IASI (RO)

Project website: https://sites.google.com/site/tecod172/home

Abstract:

THE PROJECT AIMS TO CONDUCT COMPLEX INTERDISCIPLINARY INVESTIGATIONS ON NEOLITIHIC AND CALCHOLITHIC COMMUNITIES FROM THE EAST OF ROMANIA. FOR EACH SITE, OUR TEAM WILL INTEGRATE THE RESULTS OF PEDOLOGICAL, PALYNOLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOZOOLOGICAL ANALYSES WITHIN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA. THE GOAL OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS IS TO ATTAIN A MULTIFACETED CHARACTERISATION OF THE PREHISTORIC COMMUNITIES, THROUGH THE UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR INTERACTION WITH THE ENVIRONMENT, AS WELL AS THEIR RELIGIOUS AND ECONOMICAL PRACTICES. OBJECTIVES SUCH AS ESTABLISHING THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT AND THE EDAPHIC FACTORS, THE CHARACTERISATION OF ANCIENT CLIMATIC CONDITIONS AND SOILS, THE IDENTIFICATION OF VEGETAL TAXONS AND THEIR EVOLUTION WITHIN THE GIVEN TIMEFRAME, THE ANATOMICAL, TAXONOMICAL AND TAPHONOMIC CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARCHAEOZOOLOGICAL REMAINS, DEFINING THE ANTHROPIC IMPACT ON THE PALAEOENVIRONMENT, WILL ALLOW TO OBTAIN AN INTRICATE PICTURE ON THE PREHISTORIC PEOPLE FROM THE PROJECTS TARGET AREA. THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT WILL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH THE USE OF MODERN TECHNIQUES AND METHODS OF INVESTIGATION, PEDOLOGICAL, PALYNOLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOZOOLOGICAL ANLYSES, WHILE THE INTEGRATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE RESULTS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE USE OF GIS TECHNIQUES. THE PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BIO-ARCHAEOLOGY UNIT WITHIN THE INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PLATFORM IN THE FIELD OF ARCHEOLOGY (ARHEOINVEST), HOSTED BY THE ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI, WHICH SPECIALIZES IN THE INVESTIGATION OF ANCIENT HUMAN COMMUNITIES AS SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL MODELS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH HAS AN INNOVATIVE CHARACTER AND WILL LEAD TO THE ALIGNMENT OF THE SPECIFIC ROMANIAN RESEARCH TO AN EUROPEAN LEVEL.

Archaeozoological researches for the communities of the first millenium A.D. from the territory between the Danube and the Black Sea and the connections with the central and south-east European space Call name:
CNCSIS PN-II-Idei-2116, code 156 2007 - 2008

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Project website:

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