JOINTLY ORGANIZED BY
THE COMMISSION ON THE PROTECTION OF THE BLACK SEA AGAINST POLLUTION
&
BLACK SEA SCENE – EC 6th FRAMEWORK PROJECT
With the support of
INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY
GEF UNDP - BSERP
BALKAN ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION
TUDAV ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY
UNDER THE AUSPICE
Ministry of Environment and Water –
Bulgaria Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Conference venue: Park-Hotel Moskva, Sofia, Bulgaria
Conference Dates: 6-9 October 2008
To initiate a concerted effort to use science, information technology and policy measures to understand and deal with the consequences of global warming in the Black Sea towards better governance, sustainable exploitation of resources and conservation of the marine environment.
Ø synthesize regional and basin-wide studies and provide a forum for the integration of climate change -related results, data and hypotheses;
Ø discuss and evaluate climate forcing mechanisms of physical, biological and biogeochemical processes at various time-spatial scales
Ø formulate projections and future scenarios of economic and sociological impacts of a changing ecosystem on the coastal communities and resource users
Ø frame scientific, technological and policy measures against global warming towards sustainable ecosystem management
Day 1: Session 1. Climate forcing mechanisms in the Black Sea
Day 2: Session 2. Black Sea Ecosystem responses to climate change
Day 3: Session 3. Data availability and data base management – what data do we still need to find, digitize and make available
Day 3: Session 4. Economic and sociological impacts on the coastal Black Sea communities and resource users – management scenarios and measures
Session 1
ü Hydrometeorological and physical changes in the Black Sea,
ü Atmospheric pollution and biogeochemical cycles alterations
Session 2.
ü Coastal environment vulnerability to climate change ( natural hazards (flooding), sea level rise and coastal erosion)
ü Climate change and cumulative impacts of multiple drivers on biological diversity
ü Indicators of ecosystem changes (ecosystem biodiversity, productivity, structure, function, including measurable variables)
ü Trophodynamic and spatial transitions in size-spectra and food web structure – matches and mismatches
ü Processes controlling energy pathways changes: life-history strategies, turnover rates and physical habitat interactions
Session 3.
ü Black Sea Environmental Data Bases – projects output, (data bases, services , results implementation)
ü Data Quality Control and Data Quality Assessment
ü Black Sea virtual data & information infrastructure (DQC Content Mananagement System)
Session 4.
ü Climate change and Black Sea living resources – challenges for sustainable exploitation
ü Socio-economic impacts and policy scenarios
ü Our responsibility under Global Warming
All sessions
ü Information gaps – gaps in knowledge, data, policy and legislation
Deadline for registration and abstract submission - 31 March 2008 (EXTENDED TILL 15 APRIL 2008)
Notification of abstract acceptance – 30 April 2008
Second Conference circular and preliminary program - 30 June 2008
Full paper submission – 31 July 2008
Final Conference program – 15 September 2008
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Dr. Snejana MONCHEVA - IO-BAS Varna, Bulgaria
Prof. Ahmet KIDEYS - BSC, Istanbul, Turkey
Mr. Peter DAVIS – MARIS, The Netherlands
Dr.Vladimir MAMAEV, GEF Regional Technical Advisor UNDP, Slovak Republic
Prof. Fokion VOZNIAKOS – B.EN.A, Greece
Dr. Violeta VELIKOVA - BSC, Istanbul, Turkey
Ms. Anna Maria JOHANSSON - EC, RTD Research Infrastructures
Prof. Sukru BESIKTEPE- NATO, Italy
Dr. Efstathios BALOPOULOS – IOC/GMES, HCMR, Greece
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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
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
REGISTRATION FEE & Forms: 50 Euro
You may download the registation forms below:
Registration form; Instructions for presentation; Instructions for Manuscript;
PhD students will be charged 25 Euro, please bring document certifying that you are student.
The Registration Fee will be paid at the Registration Desk. It will cover:
Conference Materials
Book of Abstracts and full paper on CD
Access to the Conference Sessions and Exhibition
SPONSORSHIP: A number of young researchers/PhD students will be fully sponsored by the organizers. The selection will be based on the quality of the Abstract.
PUBLICATION: All authors (oral and poster presentations) will have an equal opportunity to publish the conference contributions in the B.EN.A International Journal on Environmental Protection and Ecology (JEPE). The selection will be based on peer-review of the manuscript by the members of the International Scientific Committee and an external expert. The manuscripts should be prepared according to the JEPE Author Guidelines.
"BS-HOT’2008” - Conference Secretariat
Attention: Dr. Snejana MONCHEVA,
Institute of Oceanology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
P.O.Box 152, 9000 Varna, BULGARIA.
Phone: +359-52-370485 Fax: +359-52-370485
Home page: www.blacksea-commission.org/bs-hot/
E-mail: bs-hot@io-bas.bg
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
ABSTRACT. Please, prepare the Abstract according to the format bellow
Title Your Paper's Title Starts Here: Please Center
use Helvetica (Arial) 14pt
First Author1, a, Second Author2,b and Others3,c [please write full names e.g. John Brown and not J. Brown or Brown, J. ]
1Full address of first author, including country
2Full address of second author, including country
3List all distinct addresses in the same way
aemail, bemail, cemail
Keywords: List the keywords covered in your paper. These keywords will also be used by the publisher to produce a keyword index (Arial 11pt).
For the rest of the abstract, please use Times Roman (Times New Roman) 12pt. The text area for your abstract must be 17 cm wide and 25 cm high and centered in the sheet of A4 paper. Do not place any text outside this area. The paper size should be 21 x 29.7 cm (please do not change the document setting from A4 to letter). Your abstract will be reduced by approximately 20% by the publisher. Please keep this in mind when designing your figures and tables etc.
The abstracts should fit into one page.
There should be no section headings in the abstract, but the following information is mandatory: aim/hypothesis, materials and methods, major findings relevant to the topic of the session. Abstracts that do not conform to this format will not be considered.
Use italic for emphasizing a word or phrase. Do not use boldface typing or capital letters. Do not print page numbers.
Tables (Only 1) Table is allowed, presented as part of the text. The caption should be self-contained and placed above or beside the table. Units in tables should be given in square brackets [meV].
Figures (Only 1) also should be presented as part of the text, leaving enough space so that the caption will not be confused with the text. The caption should be self-contained and placed below or beside the figure. Generally, only original drawings or photographic reproductions are acceptable. Half-tone pictures should be in the form of glossy prints. If possible, please include your figures as graphic images in the electronic version. For best quality the pictures should have a resolution of 300 dpi (dots per inch).
Avoid equations in the abstract, but if crucial the Equations (refer with: Eq. 1, Eq. 2, ...) should be indented 5 mm (0.2"). There should be one line of space above the equation and one line of space below it before the text continues. The equations have to be numbered sequentially, and the number put in parentheses at the right-hand edge of the text. Equations should be punctuated as if they were an ordinary part of the text. Punctuation appears after the equation but before the equation number, e.g.
c2 = a2 + b2. (1)
Literature references (if necessary) are cited in the text just by square brackets [1]. Two or more references at a time may be put in one set of brackets [3,4]. The references are to be numbered in the order in which they are cited in the text and are to be listed at the end of the contribution under a heading References (Not more that 4 references in the Abstract).
Only electronically submitted abstracts will be accepted, inserted as attachment in the Registration form. The abstract should be submitted in MS Word format (*.doc) where the file name should be as follows: Lastname_Firstname_x.doc
where
Lastname and Firstname should be the lastname and the firstname of the first author
x - should be Number of the session
The Registration Form (together with the Abstract, if any) should be sent electronically to the address of the BS-HOT’2008 Conference secretariat: bs-hot@io-bas.bg not later than 31 March 2008. Or you may alternatively use the on-line Registration and Abstract submission on the WEB page of the Conference: www.blacksea-commission.org/bs-hot/
SAMPLE REGISTRATION FORM FOR EMAIL REGISTRATION
this is a sample regristation form only to register click here
2nd Biannual and Black Sea SCENE EC Project Joint Conference
Black Sea – HOT’2008
6-9 October 2008, Park Hotel Moskva, Sofia, Bulgaria
Title First name Last name
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