Field of interests

The Centre’s staff covers different fields of karst hydrogeology as indicated in their CVs. The experts were worked on different projects for karstic groundwater utilization for drinking or irrigation purposes, groundwater balancing and resources assessment, karstic thermal water tapping for balneology or heating, groundwater protection, karst aquifer engineering regulation, prevention of losses from reservoirs built in karst, speleology and speleo diving, GIS applications, establishment of monitoring network, cavities recording, etc.

The list of executed projects by CKH is very long. Some of them were purely scientific while some were commercial and considered application in water practice.

For some specific methods and obtained see Research

Since 2014, CKH Member have organised in cooperation with Geological Survey of the Republic of Srpska International Course and Field Seminar "Characterization and Engineering of Karst Aquifers" under the auspices of UNESCO, supported by Hydroeletrical Power Plant on Trebisnjica, Trebinje; IGRAC, the Netherlands; City of Trebinje, Regional Waterworks for the Montenegrin Coast; Edwards Aquifer Authority - Texas, Northern Arizona University – Flagstaf, Arizona.

CKH successfully organised in June 2018 in Trebinje International Symposium KARST 2018 "Expect the Unexpected" in honour of 80th anniversary of professor Dr. Petar Milanovic, an eminent karst researcher and friend of CKH. More than 100 researchers from large number of countries took part on this Symposium, held from 06 to 09 june 218 in Trebinje. Report from the Symposium can be found on Homepage, while Proceedings can be found in Library section.