Objectives of the Conference
provide the opportunity to the scientific community and policy makers to meet and discuss their experiences and achievements in order to improve the scientific basis for implementing the Strategic Action Plan for Rehabilitation and Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution
identify gaps in knowledge and emerging problems that will require in depth scientific studies and attention of the Commission on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution
identify priorities for the future scientific
research in support of environmental decision making in the
the Conference Program Was Structured As Follows:
1. General Oceanography and Climate Change: physical oceanography, chemical oceanography, coastal processes, biological oceanography, climate change (reference conditions, trends, future scenarios)
2. Geology and Geochemistry (reference conditions, trends, future scenarios)
3. Pollution (sources, distributions, special and temporal trends in water, bottom sediments and biota, impact on ecosystem functioning)
4.
Radioactivity (sources, distributions and time-trends of radionuclides in
the
5. Biodiversity (long-term changes as the result of anthropogenic impact, state of Black ecosystem biological components, reference conditions, indicators)
6.
Marine living resources (critical habitats, pelagic and benthic biomes,
impact of fisheries on
7. Pressures from human activities and scenarios of their evolution
8. Interdisciplinary Modeling and Prediction
9. Round table discussion: Black Sea Science Plan in Support to Policy Making
The Conference also included two by-side events
Working Group of Anchovies Stock Assessment Methodology
Round Table on Conservation of the
At the end of the Conference an award ceremony was held
recognizing efforts of Outstanding Achievements in the Black Sea Sciences of the
most prominent Black Sea scientists that dedicated their lives to the Black Sea
studies and whose works are cited literally by each
Prof. Yuri Ivanovich Sorokin - Doctor in Biological
Sciences, Full Member of the
Prof. Mikhail Yevgenievich Vinogradov, Doctor of Biological
Sciences, Full Member of the
Prof. Yuvenaly Petrovich Zaitsev, Professor, Doctor of
Biological Sciences, Full Member of
Also the Black Sea Commission recognized achievements of Dr. Erdogan Okus, Professor of Istanbul University, Turkey, post mortem.
Maria Panayotova,
The Conference Produced:
1.
Recommendations for scientific research priorities as they are perceived
by the
2.
Recommendation for
3. Draft Methodology for the Black Sea Anchovies Stock Assessment (attached to the Sectoral FOMLR Report)
4. Book of Abstracts
5. Proceedings
6. A Working Group for Drafting the Concept for the 2nd Biannual Black Sea Scientific Conference was established.
For the first Black Sea Scientific Conference all submitted
abstracts were accepted with the purpose to achieve greater outreach and
publicity of the interest of the Black Sea Commission in the scientific research
conducted in the
The Black Sea Commission expresses its gratitude for the generous and timely support in organization of the Conference to the Ministry of the Environment and Forestry of Turkey
