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Science, scientists and the Black Sea

Your tips with more Black Sea science are very welcome!

Conference
MEDCOAST INSTITUTE 2006 - Integrated Coastal Management in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, The Eighth International Training Programme - will took place in Dalyan, Turkey from 29 August to 13 September 2006.

New ways of dealing with wastewater possibly part of a solution?
Dr. Ir. Zeeman at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, started a joint research project called DESAH in 2001. It ran until 2007. Dr. Zeeman's aim was to design and develop an alternative to traditional sewer systems. Western sewer systems are huge, mix all wastewater streams and treat them centrally. This is not necessarily the best possible method.

DESAH envisaged much smaller local systems that would work much more efficiently (think of biogas, for instance). A prior study found that a DESAH system would already break even at 1200 people, based on the situation in The Netherlands. In areas with no sewer systems, the advantages would be much greater.

Europe's troubled seas
RTD Info - Magazine on European Research - dedicated an article in its July 2003 issue to the problems in the Mediterranean and Black Sea and another one on IASON (International Conference on the Sustainable Development of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Environment). For more information, contact Dr. Elisabeth Lipiatou, Research DG, EC.

5th Framework Programme
'Nutrient Management in the Danube Basin and its impact on the Black Sea' ('daNUbs' EVK 1 - CT-2000-00051) at the Institute of Water Quality and Waste management of the Vienna University of Technology.

Black Sea Red Data Book site (biology - biodiversity - ecology).

Science, August 30, 2002: page 1482.

Workshop on the Black Sea environment and oil spill response, Constanta, Romania, 25 - 27 July 2000.

Black Sea sediments, Holger Lueschen, Institut für Chemie und Biologie des Meeres, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany. 1999. Includes link to downloadable introduction and summary of thesis (pdf).

Black Sea Barrel Pollution, TED Case Study (1988 case).

George Luther, Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies, University of Delaware.

Laurence Mee, Professor of Marine and Coastal Policy at the University of Plymouth.

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Constanta-Mamaia, Romania, 6-10 October 1997, edited by Erol Izdar and ames W. Murray (Kluwer Academic Publishers). For your library?

Workshop Report - Physical and Ecological Data and Models of the Black Sea - 11-13 October 1998 (Pages of James Murray, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.)

Historical data set (chemical and physical), at United Nations Environmental Programme.

On Mnemiopsis leidyi: Dumont H. (1995), Ecocide in the Caspian, Nature, 377, 673.

Schijf, Johan (1992) Aqueous geochemistry of the rare earth elements in marine anoxic basins. PhD Thesis, University of Utrecht, Mededelingen van de Faculteit Aardwetenschappen der Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, No. 85.

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Çesme, Izmir, Turkey, October 23-27, 1989, edited by edited by Sükrü T. Besiktepe, Ümit vnlüata and Alexandru S. Bologa (Kluwer Academic Publishers).