Dr. Gintautas Stankūnavičius
Associate Professor
Scientific Interests, Keywords
Synoptic meteorology, climate and weather extremes, remote sensing, climate change
Links to External Profile
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gintautas-Stankunavicius
Project and/or Grant leadership
VU R&D project "Development of an automated bioaerosol sample collection module (LIRGIA)" Project manager, 2021 - 2022.
2021 call HORIZON project (HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01-02) "The Human-Tech Nexus - Building a Safe Haven to cope with Climate Extremes" (abbr. The HuT). Project partner. 2022 - 2026.
Supervision of Doctoral Students and/or Postdoc Students
2018 - 2022 Supervision of the PhD thesis "Influence of large-scale atmospheric circulation anomalies on extreme weather conditions in Lithuania"; PhD student I. Marcinonienė, start
Teaching Courses
"Urban Climate" (1996 - 2006), "Fundamentals of Synoptic Meteorology" (since 2001), "Remote Sensing in Hydrometeorology" (2001 - 2009), "Basics of Dynamic Meteorology and Weather Forecasting" (since 2001), "Techniques of Long-Term Weather Forecasts" (2001 - 2018), "Global Circulation Modeling" (since 2004)
Supervision of Students' Thesis
Supervise the topics of research and final theses of students of bachelor's and master's study programs.
Participation in the national/international governing bodies, commissions, committees, boards etc.
Member of the Election Commission of the Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences of VU and Member of the VU Central Election Commission
Expertise
The European Flood Awareness System (EFAS). National technical expert, 2006-2014
Integrated Drought Management Program (IDMP) of the Global Water Partnership in the Central and Eastern Europe (GWP CEE) within the framework of the joint WMO/GWP Integrated Drought Management Programme. Program manager for Lithuania and expert, 2012-2015
Expert of Project "Innovative services <Soil />",2018-2021.
Awards
The Lithuanian Language Commission awarded an award for fostering the Lithuanian language for the preparation of the "Explanatory Dictionary of Geographical Terms" (collective of authors), 2022
VU Rector's letter of thanks for the work done, initiatives and public activities, 2021
Science popularization
Multiple interviews (also articles) on TV, radio, online newspapers (state and commercial) about weather forecasts, climate and weather extremes, climate change