

The Conference is jointly organized by the Commission on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution and BLACK SEA SCENE – EC 6th FRAMEWORK PROJECT, with the support of the INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY, GEF/UNDP/BSERP, BALKAN ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION (B.E.N.A), TIRKISH MARINE RESEARCH FOUNDADTION (TUDAV – TURKEY) and ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY, UNDER THE AUSPICE of the Ministry of Environment and Water – Bulgaria and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
The Commission on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution |
Black Sea Scene Project |
Institute of Oceanology - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
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European Commission |
The Global Environment Facility |
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Balkan Environmental Association |
Turkish Marine Research Foundation |
Istanbul University, Faculty of Water |
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Dr. Snejana MONCHEVA - IO-BAS Varna, Bulgaria
Prof. Ahmet KIDEYS - BSC PS, Istanbul, Turkey
Mr. Peter DAVIS – MARIS, The Netherlands
Dr.Vladimir MAMAEV, GEF Regional Technical Advisor UNDP, Slovak Republic
Prof. Fokion VOZNIAKOS – B.E.N.A, Greece
Dr. Violeta VELIKOVA - BSC PS, Istanbul, Turkey
Ms. Anna Maria JOHANSSON - EC, RTD Research Infrastructures
Prof. Sukru BESIKTEPE- NATO, Italy
Dr. Efstathios BALOPOULOS – IOC/GMES, HCMR, Greece
Prof. Laurence Mee – PML, UK
Prof . Temel Oguz – METU, Turkey
Dr. Evangelos Papathanassiou – HCMR, Greece
Prof. Alenka Malej – MBS, Piran, Slovenia
Prof. Alice Newton – University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal
Prof. Serena Fonda –Umani – Trieste University, Italy
Dr. Frederic Melin – JRC, Ispra
Prof. Carlos Duarte – CSIC, IMEDEA, Spain
Prof. Catherine Maillard – IFREMER, Brest, France
Prof. Alex Polonsky –IBSS, Ukraine
Prof. Bayram Ozturk - Turkey
Dr. Andrei Zatsepin – P.P. Shirshov IO, Moscow, Russia
Prof. Georgy Shulman – IBSS, Sebastopol, Ukraine
Dr. Radu Mihnea – NIMRD, Constanta, Romania
Prof. Kakha Bilashvili – TSU, Tbilisi, Georgia
Prof. Galina Minicheva – IBSS, Odessa, Ukraine
Mr. Dick Schaap – MARIS, the Netherlands
Prof. Shela Gorinshtein- Jerusalem University, Israel
Prof. Christiane Lancelot – ESA-ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Prof. Emil Stanev – GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany
Dr. Atanas Palazov – IO-BAS, Varna, Bulgaria
Maria Teohareva – TUV, Varna, Bulgaria
Eleonora Racheva – IO-BAS, Varna, Bulgaria
Kiril Iliev, Black Sea Commission Permanent Secretariat
Sabina Salpagarova, Black Sea Commission Permanent Secretariat