Name: Dr Mykola Kutia

Qualifications: Ph.D, FHEA

Position: Lecturer in Forestry

Email address: m.kutia@bangor.ac.uk

OVERVIEW

Mykola Kutia received his M.Sc. in Forestry with honours (2009) and PhD in Forestry (2014) at the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NULES of Ukraine), Kyiv.

His PhD thesis “Peculiarities of forest resources inventory and usage in Kyiv recreational forests” was devoted to the methodological aspects of remote sensing and GIS applications for the improvement of sampling forest inventory and management of urban and suburban forests. Recently, the research interests of Dr. Kutia are focused on the development of a system approach to the evaluation of the whole spectrum of suburban forest ecosystem services using sampling inventory data, GIS technologies, and remote sensing.

Dr. Kutia has published co-authored papers in professional peer-reviewed journals and presented his researches at the various international conferences and symposiums which were held in Ukraine, USA, Canada and China. Dr. Kutia, had improved his research and teaching skills during the WIRA Scholar Program at the Pennsylvania State University, USA (2015).

Dr Kutia started his teaching career at NULES of Ukraine in 2011. He was awarded by Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding performance and significant contribution to the training of forestry professionals (2015, Issued by State Forest Agency of Ukraine).

Since the start of his teaching at Bangor College China (2016), he constantly consolidates personal development and evidence of professional practice in his education career. In 2020 he successfully passed the Higher Education Academy Fellowship program and was awarded by FHEA Certificate.

TEACHING

Dr Kutia teaches various modules in Forestry and Environmental Management Programme at BCC:

· Ecosystem Function and Services

· Silviculture and Inventory

· Forest Ecology

· Forest Ecosystems and Services

· Advanced GIS and Remote Sensing

RESEARCH INTEREST

Dr Kutia’s research interests include

· Silviculture and forest management

· Sampling inventory of urban and peri-urban forests

· GIS and Remote Sensing applications in forest inventory

· Ecosystem services evaluation by using GIS and Remote Sensing data

· Forest Ecosystems disturbances monitoring using remotely sensed data

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in professional journals

Wang, Z., Liu, S., Wang, Y.-P., Valbuena, R., Wu, Y., Kutia, M.; Zheng, Y., Lu, W., Zhu, Y., Zhao, M., Peng, X., Gao, H., Feng, S., Shi, Y. (2021). Tighten the Bolts and Nuts on GPP Estimations from Sites to the Globe: An Assessment of Remote Sensing Based LUE Models and Supporting Data Fields. Remote Sens. 13(2), 168. Available at: doi:10.3390/rs13020168

Jiang, F., Kutia, M., Sarkissian, A.J., Lin, H., Long, J., Sun, H., Wang, G. (2020). Estimating the Growing Stem Volume of Coniferous Plantations Based on Random Forest Using an Optimized Variable Selection Method. Sensors, 20, 7248. Available at: doi:10.3390/s20247248

Liu, M., Liu, S., Ning, Y., Zhu, Y., Valbuena, R., Guo, R., Li, Y., Tang, W., Mo, D., Rosa, I.M., Kutia, M., Hu, W. (2020). Co-Evolution of Emerging Multi-Cities: Rates, Patterns and Driving Policies Revealed by Continuous Change Detection and Classification of Landsat Data. Remote Sens., 12(18), 2905. Available at: doi:10.3390/rs12182905

Jiang, F., Smith, A. R., Kutia, M., Wang, G., Liu, H. and Sun, H. (2020). A Modified KNN Method for Mapping the Leaf Area Index in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas of China. Remote Sens., 12 (11), 1884. Available at: doi:10.3390/rs12111884.

Myroniuk, V., Kutia, M., Sarkissian, J. A., Bilous, A., Liu, S. (2020). Regional-Scale Forest Mapping over Fragmented Landscapes Using Global Forest Products and Landsat Time Series Classification. Remote Sens., 12(1), 187. Available from: doi:10.3390/rs12010187

Kutia, M.M., Kutia, V.M. and Svynchuk, V.A. (2014). The analytic hierarchy process as a means of optimization of recreational forest resources usage. Scientific Bulletin of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, 198(2), 38-44. (In Ukrainian)

Girs, O.A.,  Myronyuk, V. M. and  Kutia, M.M. (2012)  Forest park identification of Kyiv green zone using remote sensing data, Scientific reports NUBiP, 7 (36), Available from: http://nd.nubip.edu.ua/2012_7/12goa.pdf  (In Ukrainian)

Kutia, M.M. and Girs, O.A. (2012). Characterization of recreational load and recreational capacity of Kyiv forest parks and landscapes. Scientific Bulletin of National Forestry University of Ukraine: Coll. scientific-technical works. 22.12, 86-91. (In Ukrainian)

Kutia, M.M. (2012). Determination of performance recreational evaluation of forest areas by sampling methods. Scientific Bulletin of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, 171(2), 239-244. (In Ukrainian)

Kutia, M.M. and Girs, O.A. (2012). Studying the spatial structure of recreational forests using simulation modelling. Scientific Bulletin of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, 171(3), 48-54. (In Ukrainian)

Kutia, M.M. (2011). Scientific and methodical aspects of sampling inventory of the recreational forests. Scientific Bulletin of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, 164(3), 38-43. (In Ukrainian)

Girs, O.A., Kutia, M.M., and Pasternak, V.P. (2011). Formation of optimal age structure of pine stands in the forest park facility in Kyiv. Forestry and agroforestry, 118, 33-38. (In Ukrainian)

Conference Proceedings

Kutia, M., Myroniuk, V. and Sarkissian, A. (2018). Evaluation of Sentinel-2 Composited Mosaics and Random Forest Method for Tree Species Distribution Mapping in Suburban Areas of Kyiv City, Ukraine. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Environmental Management, Science and Engineering - Volume 1: IWEMSE, ISBN 978-989-758-344-5, pages 597-604. Available from: doi:10.5220/0007563505970604

Kutia, M., Gautam, M., Myroniuk, V. (2017). The Use of Sentinel-2 Imagery and Random Forest Classifier for Kyiv City Suburban Forest Mapping. The 3^rd Global Forum of Ecological Economics in Forestry, 20-21 May, Nanchang, China, 27-39.

Monograph

Girs O., Kutia M. (2019) Recreational Forests of Kyiv City: Peculiarities of Inventory and Use: monograph. PPE Yamchinskiy O.V., 190 pages. ISBN 978-617-7804-48-1 (In Ukrainian)