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oa Developing the Ukrainian Hydrological Terminology as a Component of Water-Related Activity and its Integration with the International Professional Community
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 16th International Conference Monitoring of Geological Processes and Ecological Condition of the Environment, Nov 2022, Volume 2022, p.1 - 5
Abstract
The important factor that determines a level of professional training of specialists in various fields of activity is a mastery of scientific terminology. The formation of the Ukrainian scientific language took place under unfavorable conditions of statelessness, which for a long time made a formation of a national scientific terminology impossible. Since the period of the Ukrainian Independence significant works have been carried out in the country on the development of scientific terminology in the field of activities related to a study, use and protection of surface waters. However, providing scientists and practitioners with scientific and reference literature, which expand using boundaries of the Ukrainian language and contribute to an inclusion of international established terms in the national terminology system, lags behind today’s requirements. The article briefly describes the history of formation and work on developing the Ukrainian scientific terminology in hydrology and hydrochemistry, which has been carried out at the Department of Hydrology and Hydroecology of the Faculty of Geography of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University and at the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in particular, the publication of the Hydrological Dictionary (2022) and the Hydrochemical Dictionary (2022) and work on a new edition of the State Standard of Ukraine “Hydrology of the Land. Basic terms and definitions”.
