Department of Biology, Ecology and Chemistry

Education

• 1979-1984 Rudny Industrial Institute, ore dressing engineer.
• 1998-1999 Kazakh State Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering (KazGASA), master of environmental protection.
• 2009 Kazakh National Technical University named after Satpaev (KazNTU), candidate of technical sciences, specialty 25.00.36 "Geoecology".

Subjects taught

• Industrial ecology
• Ecology and sustainable development
• Environmental monitoring
• Environmental expertise
• Environmental impact assessment
• Waste management
• Hazardous waste processing
• Geoecological monitoring and environmental quality
• Basics of scientific research
• Climate change and human health

Work experience

• 2009 – till now Head of Department of A.Baitursynov Kostanay Regional University.
• 2007-2009 Senior Lecturer of A. Baitursynov Kostanay State University.
• 1995-1997 Ecological Lyceum, Rudny town, teacher, part-time.
• 1984-2007 Rudny Industrial Institute, lecturer, senior lecturer.

Сertificates of professional development

• 2015, Seminar "Management in education", certificate
• 2016, Seminar "Production and consumption waste management", certificate of the IAC of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
• 2016, International Kazakh-British program "Newton - Al-Farabi": seminar "Research management and administration", certificate; seminar "Publishing with impact", certificate; Seminar "Academic Writing", certificate.
• 2016, Scientific and practical seminar with an introductory presentation of modern devices Distrilab LLP - supplier of laboratory equipment for quality control of raw materials and food industry, certificate.
• 2017, Training on economic and legal aspects "Integrated Water Resources Management" for teachers of universities in Kazakhstan, Kazakh-German University, Almaty, certificate.
• 2019, Seminar "IAAR Internal Quality System", certificate.
• 2020, Program of the webinar series "Introduction to Research" Nazarbayev University: "Qualitative Research Methods".
• 2021, Advanced training under the additional professional program "Crop and livestock production systems in the context of climate change", Institute of Continuing Education of FSBEI HE "Buryat State Agricultural Academy named after V.R. Filippov", certificate.
• 2021, "English Communication Course IELI", University of North Texas, USA, 80 hours, certificate.
• 2021, “Kazakhstan-Minnesota Academic Publishing Partnership (K-MAPP) Program”, University of Minnesota, USA, certificate.
• 2021, "Grazing land assessment for sustainability and carrying capacity", University of Michigan, USA and KazNAU, certificate.
• 2021, Training course “Improving quality assurance processes in education using new technologies”, certificate.
• 2021, International online Summer School "Sustainable Development of Rural Areas", Arctic Agrotechnical University, Yakutia, RF, certificate.
• 2021, Training seminar "Satellite precipitation estimation and applications for scientists and government officials in Central Asia", certificate.
• 2021, Online training course "Improving the capacity to protect and restore freshwater ecosystems in Kazakhstan".
• 2021, "Methods of conservation of biological diversity", Kuzbass Botanical Garden of the Institute of Human Ecology Federal Research Center for Coal and Coal Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, KRU im. A. Baitursynov, certificate.
• 2021, “Basic methods and principles for studying the animal population of Northern Eurasia”, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals SB RAS (Novosibirsk, Russia), KRU im. A. Baitursynov, certificate.
• 2021, STEM Workshop “Scientific Teaching”, University of North Texas, USA, certificate.
• 2022, Seminar "Basic skills of media and information literacy", Nazarbayev University, certificate.
• 2022, Distance course "Waste Management", Issyk-Kul State University, named after Tynystanov, Karakol, Kyrgyzstan, certificate.
• 2022, Training seminar "Transdisciplinary Research", Witzenhausen, German Institute for Tropical Agriculture (DITSL), Germany, certificate.
• 2022, Advanced training courses “Ecology. Rational nature management. Modern vision of the problem”, ISEPh SB RAS RF, certificate.
• 2022, Training "Sustainability and Waste Management", University of Economics and Culture, Riga, Latvia, certificate.
• 2022, Seminar "Professional Development On Project-Based Learning", Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Center For Project-Based Learning, certificate.
• 2022, Advanced training "Explanation of the norms of the new Environmental Code", IAC Environmental Protection Agency, Ministry of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan, certificate.
• 2022, Advanced training courses "Solving the problems of modern biology and ecology in a changing climate”, certificate.
• 2022, Advanced training courses "Protection of biological and landscape biodiversity", certificate.
• 2022, Training "Bioengineering methods of road infrastructure projects", certificate.
• 2023 Online course "Methane greenhouse gas emissions", certificate.

Membership in professional organizations

• Member of UMO-SUE in areas of training of personnel with higher and postgraduate education of JSC "Almaty Technological University" 2019-2020.
• Member of the RUMO on ecology 2021-2022.

Awards and prizes

• Honorary diploma of the Minister of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan,  2022.
• Letter of thanks from the Minister of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2021.
• Letter of thanks from the head of the State Institution "Department of Education of the Akimat of Kostanay region",  2021.
• Letter of thanks from the Chairman of the Board-Rector of the ENU named after L. Gumilyov,  2021.
• Letter of thanks from the Director of the Center for the Bologna Process and Academic Mobility of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan,  2021.
• Letter of thanks from the Vice-Rector for International Relations and Innovations of L. Gumilyov ENU, 2019.
• Diploma of the Rector of A. Baitursynov KSU,  2017.
• Diploma of Akim of Kostanay region,  2014.
• Letter of thanks from the rector of A. Baitursynov KSU, 2013.

Activities in the service sector

• Since 2003 Member of the jury of city and regional competitions of scientific projects of students on ecology, local history, ecological tourism.
• 2012, 2014, 2017-2019 expert of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
• 2017-2019, expert of the Center for the Bologna Process and Academic Mobility of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
• 2021-2023 Regional Ecological Council of Kostanay region.

Training manuals

Yunussova G.B., Zhokusheva Z.G. Ecological monitoring - Kostanay: KSU, 2018. - 96 p.

Publications

• Kokanov S.K., Yunussova G.B., Beishova I.S., Poddudinskaya T.V., Beishov R.S., Aitkeldieva S.A., Faizulina E.R., Tatarkina L.G. Studying oil products’ degradation in soil by consortia autochthonous strains from the black soils of Northern Kazakhstan // Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, Vol 10(2), 2018 – Pp. 352-356.
• Pichugin V.S., Yunussova G.B. Analysis of the efficiency of collecting E-waste // Scientific support of agro-industrial production: Intern. scientific-practical. conf. February 20-21, 2018 - Kursk: KGSHA, 2018. - Рр. 170-175.
• Dyusyumbaev R., Yunussova G.B. Green University: potential for Baitursynov KSU// Youth and science in the context of new industrial modernization and updating the content of education: materials of the international. scientific-practical. conf. of master and bachelor stud.  - Kostanay: KGU, 2019. - Рр. 208-212.
• Kazhagalieva D.G., Yunussova G.B. Influence of boiler houses as sources of greenhouse gases and benz(a)pyrene in the city of Kostanay // Methodology, theory and practice of modern biology: III Intern. scientific-practical. conf. students and youth scientists March 13, 2018. - Kostanay: KSU, 2018. - Рр. 244-250.
• Yunussova G., Mosiej J. Transboundary water management priorities in Central Asia countries– Tobol River case study in Kazakhstan - DOI: 10.1515/jwld-2016-0047.
• Mikhailov Y., Simanchuk E., Yunussova G., Kazkenova G. A new subspecies of Сryptocephalus ergenensis Morawitz, 1863 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from Kazakhstan and significance of colour pattern polymorphism examination - DOI: 10.37828/em.2021.49.7

Patents 

• Consortium of aboriginal hydrocarbon-oxidizing microorganisms for the purification of chernozem soils of northern Kazakhstan from oil products. Utility Model Patent. RSE "NIIS", No. 3608, 2018.
• A method for intensifying the biooxidation of gold-bearing sulfide concentrates. Utility Model Patent. 2019.
• Method for leaching uranium from ores. Utility Model Patent. 2019.

International projects

• UniCEN / U.S.-Kazakhstan Universities Partnership Program, “Partnership to Develop the Capacity to Apply Project-Based Learning for Teaching and Research in Renewable Energy”, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, January-September 2022.
• UnWaste Erasmus+ Advancing circular economy in partner countries by development and implementation of Master program "Waste management".
• SAGRIS Erasmus+ Enhancement of Postgraduate Studies on Sustainable Agriculture and Future Farming Systems.
• SUSDEV Erasmus+ Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Development, Local Coordinator, 2017-2020.
• ECAP Erasmus+ Enhancing the competencies of the universities of Central Asia in the field of agricultural policy for environmental protection and land management.

National projects

• Grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Study of a consortium of hydrocarbon-oxidizing microorganisms of the Northern region of Kazakhstan with the determination of genetic characteristics and the creation of a biodestructor drug based on them", project manager, 2015-2017.

Regional projects

• 2017 Open research and social competition "Eco-challenge" 20 days of green "April 1-20, American Embassy in Kazakhstan.
• 2017 project "Promotion of separate collection of solid household waste", April-May 2017 Public Fund "Civil Alliance of Kostanay region" Grin ", Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management of the akimat of the Kostanay region.
• 2015 Eurasian Transport Forum April 22-24, UGLTU, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
• 2015 project “Promotion of separate collection of solid waste”, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management of the Akimat of Kostanay region, Public Foundation “Center for Promotion of Sustainable Development”, Almaty.

Prize-winners

• 2015 Regional competition of student research work "Waste - into income", Chuvakova D., Urungulov K., 1st place, diploma, scientific supervisor Yunussova G.B.
• 2019 2nd place, Diploma, International Student Online Olympiad in Ecology and Environmental Protection, L. Gumilyov ENU, Dyusyumbaev R., Dostanova R., scientific supervisor Yunussovaa G.B.
• 2021 2nd place, diploma, international competition of student research and online olympiad, L. Gumilyov ENU, Krivopusk K., Akhmetshina A., scientific supervisor Yunussova G.B.
• 2022 3rd place, diploma, X international scientific-practical conf. "Safety of the urban environment", November 16-18, OmSTU - Soloviev S.A., Issakaev E.M., Zhetpisbay G.A., Yunussova G.B., Tabunkin V.V., Shcherban A.V., Kazkenova G.T.