Dr. habilitated Algimantas Česnulevičius
Phone: +370 239 82 96
Head of Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics
Scientific Interests, Keywords
Historical Cartography, Geomorphological Mapping, Methods of Cartographical Visualization
Links to External Profile
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Algimantas-Cesnulevicius-2
Project and/or Grant leadership
1. Member of the council of the state science program LITOSFERA, head and executor of the topic of the program (1998 – 2003).
2. Council member and executor of the "Urbanized Environment" science program (2001-2003).
3. Member of the pre-project environmental assessment group of the international project "Construction of the Cellulose Factory". (2003).
4. Head and executor of the science program "Reflection of Climate Change in the Sediments of the Last Ice Age - Interglacial Cycle (PALEOCLIMATE)" (2007 - 2009).
5. Project manager of the scientific project "Compilation of Lithuanian National Atlas Volume I" (2014). National Land Service.
6. Project manager of the scientific project "Compilation of the Lithuanian national atlas volume II" (2014-2015). National Land Service.
7. Project manager of the scientific project "Compilation of Volume III of the Lithuanian National Atlas" (2017). National Land Service.
8. Development of the methodology of the scientific project "Using drone aerial photographs for the assessment of the condition of forest vegetation and the amount of wood" (2019 - 2020). Vilnius University Science Promotion Fund.
Invited Talks
1. Geomorphological structure of relief of Lithuania. 2019. Warsaw University.
2. Development of Lithuania cartography: methods, personalities, creations. 2020 Cracow University..
3. Contemporary research and forecasts of the development of active aeolian forms on the Curonian Spit. 2019. Warsaw University..
4. Cartographic structure and visualization of the social - economic part of the National Atlas of Lithuania. 2018. Lublin University.
Supervision of Doctoral Students and/or Postdoc Students
1. Artūras Bautrėnas – The optimization of the cartographical image in thematic cartography. Dissertation defended in 2002.
2. Jelena Vaitkevičienė – Employment of geographic information systems for optimization of the methodology of special purpose mapping and analysis (by the example of nautical charts). Dissertation defended in 2005.
3. Linas Bevainis – The analysis and evaluation of cartographical images of educational digital and paper maps (On the basis of graphic information load). Dissertation defended in 2011.
4. Donatas Ovodas – Optimization of military air navigation charts. Dissertation defended in 2012.
5. Danguolė Karmazienė – The morphogenesis and spatial spread of the kame terraces of the Late Nemunas Glaciation. Dissertation defended in 2014.
6. Violeta Pukelytė – Baltrūnienė – The influence of geological structure on the development of geomorphological regions (a case study of South Lithuania). Dissertation defended in 2014.
7. Neringa Mačiulevičiūtė – Turlirnė - Application of remote sensing methods to assessment of unstable eolian relief degradation under the influence of climate change and anthropogenic load. Doctoral studies will end in 2023.
8. Loreta Šutinienė - Optimization of content information of educational cartographic creations. Doctoral studies will end in 2023.
9. Andrius Litvinaitis. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Postdoc students. 2018.
10. Lina Bagdžiūnaitė – Litvinaitienė. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Postdoc students. 2019.
Teaching Courses
1. Introduction to Cartography and Geographic Information Systems.
2. Basics of Cartography.
3. Geomorphology.
4. Thematic Cartography.
5. Cartology.
6. Mathematical Cartography.
7. Master's seminar.
Supervision of Students' Thesis
1. Augtumas Šidiškis. Content and preparation methodology of “Nature tourism objects of Lithuania” map (scale 1:500 000). Master thesis. 2012.
2. Eglė Lizdenytė. The influence of geomorphological processes on populated areas in Venta Regional Park. Bachelor thesis. 2013.
3. Vaida Totorytė. Land use changes in the Lėvuo River basin during 1950 – 2010. Bachelor thesis. 2014.
4. Salomėja Lukaitė. Epigenetic transformation of the relief of the Western Curland Upland and Western Žemaičiai Plateau (for example river valleys). Master thesis. 2015.
5. Vėjas Pinkevičius. Assesment of the transformation of the relevance of Nemunas River valley to the bottom of the Kaunas Reservoir. Master thesis. 2015.
6. Agnė Damaševičiūtė. Methodology of landform generalization based on LIDAR data. Master thesis. 2015.
7. Edvinas Simonavičius. Cartographic evaluation of landscape facies spread and the possibility of their visualization in Elektrėnai County. Bachelor thesis. 2016.
8. Rasa Janušaitė. Change of landscape components structure in Šešuvis River catchment from 1950 to 2015. Bachelor thesis. 2016.
9. Julius Pašukonis. The information structure of electronic water tourism maps. Master thesis. 2017.
10. Bartas Sabaliauskas. Development of a methodology for mapping areas of potentially abundant fishing catches in Kaunas Reservoir. Master thesis. 2018.
11. Evaldas Kazlauskas. Analysis and optimization of hydrographic maps fonts. Master thesis.
2019.
12. Kamilė Alijošaitytė. Development of Vilnius City slopes urbanization. Bachelor thesis. 2021.
Participation in the national/international governing bodies, commissions, committees, boards etc.
Member of the Cartography bachelor and master study program committee.
Chair of the program committee for the Geography subject module of the non-formal studies.
Expertise
1. Expert on the project-study “Analysis of Baltic Sea shores erosion problems and ways of them solving”. 2015. The customer of expertise is the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.
2. Expert on the project “Compliance of TOP50LKS to requirements of M 1:50,000 topographic map. 2017. The customer of expertise is the Joint-stock company “Hnit-Baltic” and National Land Service.
3. Expert on the project “Integrated activity program of bilateral cooperation between Lithuania and France in the field of scientific research and experimental development (Gilibert)”. 2022. The customer of expertise is the Lithuanian Science Council.
4. Expert of competition “The best dissertations of 2021”. 2022. The customer of expertise Lithuanian Union of Young Scientists.
Awards
In 2015, he was awarded the Medal of Honor of the National Land Service under the Ministry of Agriculture.
Science popularization
Vilnius University geography lecture series for pupils.
Lecture topics:
1. Earth’s shape, size, and geographic coordinate systems.
2. Conventional signs of maps.
Other activities related to the development of the country's economy, culture and society
1. Scientific journal “The Geography Yearbook” Member of the editorial board (1991 - 2006).
2. Scientific journal “Lithosphere”. Member of the editorial board (1998-2003).
3. Science journal “Geology. Geography”. Member of the editorial board. Since 2015.
4. Scientific journal “Geodesy and Cartography”. Member of the editorial board. (2005 – 2021). 5. International scientific journal “Polish Cartographical Review”. Member of the editorial board. Since 2012.
6. International scientific journal “Baltica”. Member of the editorial board. Since 2018.
7. Chair of Lithuanian Cartography Society (2003-2018).