BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY Prof
BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY “Prof. Fridtjof Nansen” 1973 – 2013 1
INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BAS MISSION: Marine science serving society GOAL: Modern European Marine Research Centre 2
INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BAS ACTIVITY • Physics, chemical and biological researches, including climatic changes • Ecological analysis of the Black Sea and sustainable ecosystem management • Assessment of living and nonliving marine resources • Sea bottom geology and geomorphology, bottom resources • Coastal zone dynamics and integrated coastal zone management • Ocean technologies, GIS, operational oceanography, underwater researches • Deep sea archeology • Modeling, forecasting and risk assessment 3
INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BAS STAFF Personnel - 119 49 scientists: (41%) - 18 professors and assistants professors (36%) - 27 with scientific degree (55%) • 26 doctors – Ph. D • 2 doctors of sciences - 18 Ph. D students 4
INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BAS The main building was opened in 1976, and the building housing 3 laboratories - in 1987 5
INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BAS Research base “Shkorpilovtsi” 1983 Pier for environmental measurements 6
INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BAS R/V AKADEMIK bought in 1984 (medium ocean trawler) and reconstructed in a research vessel in 1988 Displacement 1225 t; Length o. a. 55, 5 m; Breadth 9, 8 m; Draught 4, 8 m; Speed 10 kn; Unlimited region for sailing; Crew 18; Scientific staff 22; More than 200 research cruises have been carried out with the R/V AKADEMIK - the best ships for complex research in the Black Sea 7
INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BAS Since 1988 a regular seasonal complex monitoring on marine environment has carried out 8
INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BAS Mini-submersible PC-8 - bought in 1987 Crew – 3 persons Operation – up to 250 m depth 9
INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BAS INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION During the recent decade more than 45 international projects have been carried out with the support of : v v v European Union; Global Environment Fund (GEF) PHARE IOC - UNESCO NATO Ten international cruises were performed with RV “Akademik” 10
INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BAS EUROPEAN INTEGRATION 2000 - 2014 14 Programmes 65 Projects 11
INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BAS European Union (EU) 7 th FP projects : ü ü ü ü MICORE UG-BS SCENE Euro. Fleets My. Ocean Sea. Data. Net WISER GEOSEAS ODEMM Know. Seas MESMA THESEUS EDMONET-Chemistry RIFI ü ü ü ü Sea. Data. Net 2 JERICO My. Ocean 2 PERSEUS E-AIMS Euro. Fleets 2 EMODNET -Chemistry 2 MISIS EMODNET-Bathymetry EMODNET-Geology EMODNET-Seabed Habitats DEVOTES Co. CONet RISKIT 12
INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BAS HOSTING National Oceanographic Commission - UNESCO BGODC National Oceanographic Data Centre - IODE/IOC Black Sea Oceanographic Data and Information Network – ODINBLACKSEA 13
INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BAS Underwater photography by Lyubomir Klisurov FACING THE SEA 14
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